Bruce Springsteen on rock music
"The subtext of all rock songs is 'Will you pull your pants down?'"
"Any pop song or rock song worth its salt--[frustration's] gotta be in there. . . . It is music made by frustrated people. . . . It's in everything, everything. that was one of the fundamental elements--the tools, the stones that you worked with--came out of your personal life and it also came out of the form."
So says Bruce Springsteen. But, of course, you really didn't need him to tell you this.
"Any pop song or rock song worth its salt--[frustration's] gotta be in there. . . . It is music made by frustrated people. . . . It's in everything, everything. that was one of the fundamental elements--the tools, the stones that you worked with--came out of your personal life and it also came out of the form."
So says Bruce Springsteen. But, of course, you really didn't need him to tell you this.
posted by Ryan Martin at 1/03/2006 12:33:00 PM
5 Comments:
Todd, your words are deep and merit no little amount of contemplation. A just warning, my friend! We need to wade carefully through these kinds of thorny issues in today's worship environment.
Paul, I do plenty of blabbing myself. Your company is welcome.
Sexual frustration? So they wrote Rock music because they couldn't get laid? That's not very cool. Maybe they should have started buying the right kind of t-shirts instead - take care of their frustration and the great commission in one fell (very fell) swoop.
The two comments I posted were made several minutes apart from each other. I noted them because Springsteen makes observations on the nature of rock and pop. But your suggestion should be followed, nonetheless.
Thanks for the expose. Now we know.
But can we really trust the judgement of the artist? What does a Rock and Roll "musician" know. Leave interpretation and criticism to the experts.
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