I could care less whether Springsteen "cares about his fans." Stone says, " They still see the version of Trump the Left’s media invented, not the one who existed." Actually, the left wing media shows clips and has direct quotes of trump's words which are NOT "inventions."
Examples: In his State of the Union address last month, that Trump had bragged about gas prices at $2.30 a gallon, a figure that has since soared to a national average of $3.98 a gallon. Trump is claiming it is a positive, saying, “"The US is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.”
With the Iran war set to enter its fourth week, Trump was asked he plans to send U.S. ground troops to Iran. “No, I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you, but I’m not putting troops.” It comes even as the United States is deploying thousands of U.S. Marines to the region.
The right continues to be blind to Trump who doesn't "care about his fans" either because he cares ONLY about himself.
The left wing media shows selected clips taken out of context. Then turns them into lies. Much like your comment about gas prices that were at $2.30 (and lower). Just because gas prices rose after that time doesn’t make his statement untrue.
And how does he only care about himself? His net worth went down after his first term (Forbes) and he donates his salary back to the government unlike the Biden crime family or Obama who became quite wealthy after their presidency…..
His comments are often so nasty and mean, it is hard to understand them any other way than what he intended. For example: Trump’s use of Hitler rhetoric from a Veteran’s Day speech, 2023 saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like VERMIN within the confines of our country.” He's always calling them "radical leftwing lunatics", "sick", "deranged" , the "enemy within", etc. When Democratic members of Congress (many of whom are veterans) advised service members that they could refuse unlawful orders (which is in the military code of conduct) Trump posted on Truth Social that their actions were "seditious behavior, punishable by death". He also reshared posts from supporters, one of which called for the lawmakers to be hanged. Was the meaning of those posts unclear?
Trump's presidential salary , $400K /yr, is chicken feed to him. In his 2nd term, Trump & his family are focused on self-enrichment and "grifting," including a mix of cryptocurrency ventures, luxury merchandise sales, and foreign payments that have significantly increased his net worth.
Trump and his family launched a crypto business, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), in late 2024. Analysis by the House Oversight Committee Democrats estimated that this venture has contributed to a potential $2.25 billion in realized profits from foreign interests and other sources by January 2026.
Reports indicate that foreign actors, particularly from the Middle East, have funneled money into Trump's crypto ventures and businesses, raising ethical concerns over about conflict of interest in his dealings with foreign nations. In May 2025, Qatar offered a $400 million luxury jet to Trump.
Remember when Jared Kushner, after negotiating in Saudi Arabia during Trump's first term, got the MSB of Saudia Arabia to invest $2B in his private equity firm?
BTW, I didn't say Trump lied about gas prices, I'm saying he's a hypocrite because during his campaign he criticized Biden ad nauseum for high gas prices and ran on his claim that they would go down during his term but his aimless war in Iran has caused them to increase dramatically.
Trump is not stately and presidential but leftism is an intrinsically evil ideology. It’s predicted on the idea that only intellectuals know “the general will” and those who refuse to submit to it can be “ forced to be free “ (that’s from Rousseau). The French Revolution turned violent and authoritarian when leftists launched an insurrection (a real one) to arrest and later execute the liberal ( not leftist) Girondin. This led to the Reign of Terror.
Leftism then gave us communism, fascism*, Nazism, and today’s Neo-Marxism. All authoritarian. All failures. When we close the leftist chapter of history for good, it will have the high score - by two orders of magnitude - for both genocide and absurd anti-scientific beliefs (Lysenkoism and women have penises).
* if you’re inclined to argue that that fascism and Nazism aren’t leftist, realize I’m using the term for secular ideologies that inherit from Rousseau. Within leftism, fascism may seem like a highly divergent branch from the leftist tree, but it’s still in the same tree.
Maybe you would call people lunatics if you had to deal with a press that constantly lies about you and democrats that takes the opposite view of yours no matter what you say. It’s called TDS and you might want to get some professional help.
So his salary is chicken feed? Then why does he put himself through the stress and challenges of a presidency. A man worth $4 billion doesn’t need it. There are easier ways to make money. But let’s look at what you write:
Trump and his family launched a crypto business, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), in late 2024. Analysis by the House Oversight Committee Democrats estimated that this venture has contributed to a potential $2.25 billion in realized profits from foreign interests and other sources by January 2026.
Notice the words WLFI, democrats and potential. Which really means the entire statement is speculation from people who hate him. Even so.
Its chicken feed as you say to someone like bill gates with over $100 billion
The Qatari government donated a Boeing 747-8 aircraft valued at $400 million as an "unconditional" gift to the United States. That’s not the same as Donald Trump. It is part of Air Force One
Finally, the NYT can’t be trusted. They are just a propaganda machine….
OMG! It is SO obvious why the narcissist puts himself "through the stress and challenges of a presidency." He CRAVES being the center of attention and getting all the publicity, negative and positive! He LOVES to rile people up and have people worship him. He puts his name and huge banners with his portrait on govt buildings (just like Kim J'ung Un) and wants to build monuments to himself like the monstrous ball room and the Arc de Trumph. He has portraits of himself all over the WH.
From May 13-16, 2025, Trump, took his first major international trip of his second term, visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. Right before his trip, Trump’s two older sons pursued a multitude of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s name and power.
A luxury hotel in Dubai. A second high-end residential tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Two cryptocurrency ventures based in the United States. A new golf course and villa complex in Qatar. In many cases these new deals will personally benefit not only Eric and Don,Jr., but also Trump himself. Wonder what Trump promised in return?
As of early 2026, the plan is for Trump to use a luxury Boeing 747-8 jet gifted by Qatar as Air Force One during his term, and for the aircraft to be transferred to his presidential library foundation after he leaves office in January 2029.
Both the left and right are biased, but as I point out, the left reports his direct quotes and actions. The right omits anything that shows him in a bad light which is obvious from reading your comment since you don't seem to know what is going on. Trump family certainly has a crypto business.
While Trump may be reckless with his rhetoric -- like everyone else apparently -- it is silly to claim that he only cares about himself. He's clearly hell bent on leaving a legacy -- that's for sure. But is it about himself? Or what he did for the country? One thing Trump knows: in order to make money, you have to spend money.
This is not an endorsement of war on Iran. It's just a nudge towards some semblance of objectivity.
It is "silly" to claim that Trump cares about anything but himself. The narcissist CRAVES being the center of attention and generating publicity, positive & negative. He LOVES to rile people up and have people worship him. He puts his name and huge banners with his portrait on govt buildings (just like Kim J'ung Un) and wants to build monuments to himself like the monstrous ball room and the Arc de Trumph. He has portraits of himself all over the WH.
He is certainly a grandiose narcissist but he enjoys inflicting cruelty so he has characteristics of a malignant narcissist also. I think his extreme case of narcissm clouds his judgement and makes him unfit to be president.
"The proposed 90,000-square-foot East Wing ballroom project is designed to be significantly larger than the existing White House structure. The new construction is projected to be nearly double the size of the 55,000-square-foot executive residence, leading critics to argue it will overwhelm and dwarf the historic mansion."
So you think that a dumb woman who can't string words into a coherent sentence, who slept and dark-skinned her way into politics, would be a better judge of world affairs. This after the previous president slurred his way through four years of cognitive decline.
Perhaps you're unfit to decide which is the lesser of two evils...?
I'm not worried about the ballroom. There's a solid rationale for it, although it is arguable what the taste level will be.
I’m sorry to bring this up, but in addition to being a fraud and hypocrite, he is a traitor and his music has always sucked. I’ve been around music all my life. I said it sucked when I first heard him and I’m saying it now.
As a musician, I never use the word "sucked", since it's clear he had and has a lot of fans and that the members of his bands are all talented players. Bruce can clearly write a decent tune. That said, I've never cared for him or his music. The main thing for me is I still wonder to this day who thought he could actually sing? His singing has turned me off from a very young age as I just don't think it's any good at all. His progressive liberalism is bad enough, but to have to listen to him sing, is just a bridge too far for me.
I have a confession. When I was a teen I could play and sing. I could handle singing like Mr Young at his prime. Sadly, at 18-19 my voice changed drastically. I could still play. But I knew my voice sucked and guitarists were a dime a dozen. I wound up a lawyer and later in life a political satire artist. I’ll share my political views with those who are interested. But promise not to sing them to my audience. My guitar playing is still good enough to play in bar bands. But my wife would never allow it, LOL!
You are right, he is surrounded by great musicians. All collecting fat pay checks.
Sasha - You are being nice regarding Springsteen's net worth. Google lists it at $1.2B. I grew up in NJ and saw Springsteen a half a dozen times in the 70s. He started taking on a Jesus like persona in the early 80s, where he thought he was the savior of rock and roll and mankind. He has continued to devolve since then. I find him insufferable.
It’s close…but I have to go with Bono. Bono is definitely a Marxist and a hypocrite. He has been politicking for decades to get politicians in America to take American taxpayer money to fund all of his international (meaning non-American) causes. He thinks he’s better than us but is not bothered by wanting our money. Also, he’s a hypocrite because he was paying high taxes in Ireland and to escape this he moved to Spain where he pays little to no taxes. He’s not donating his own money to his pet causes. And he has over the years gone around to all the award shows like the MTV Awards shows and others to push his causes. He does this for the publicity and the adoration. Springsteen too is a big time hypocrite. He is definitely a part of the wealthy leftist elite and these people give him the adoration and worshipping he craves. But he has gotten his real money from the fans who are low middle class working people and later on additionally the college grad professional upper middle class. They made him filthy rich, but his fellow wealthy leftist elite give him the kind of attention and worshipping he only cares about. A great many people were used by Springsteen and his ego. I would also today put in Taylor Swift. She got her start in country music. Her fans were Christians and they got Taylor her country music awards early in her career. But Taylor jettisoned this demographic to go for the really big money. Notice that Taylor has a lot of songs about young female angst and the usual feminist problems about guys. A new generation of women being properly influenced to hold grudges against guys or to at least look at guys as lessers to females. Another new generation of Karen’s about to be unleashed on us guys. Her life story is held up as a model for young girls. Hollywood and the music industry have a way of corrupting people. But some people already started out as hypocrites and these industries simply exploited that.
With regard to Taylor Swift, I know nothing about her origins or her music. Only that she appears to have singular influence over young girls just entering teens and young adulthood. (When I was that age I had Mick Jagger and Keith Richards posters in my room….)
Dark Side of the Moon came out in my teens. I went to 4 Pink Floyd concerts. They did them in baseball stadiums back then. Never liked Roger Waters. Great time to be young. In the 80s there was Punk and the 90s everything was great including Country music. Great times too. I now have a coffee mug with Clint Eastwood’s picture as The Man With No Name on it along with the words: “Yeah I’m old, but I got to see this country before it went to shit”.
Springsteen was vital for those of us coming of age in the 1970s, growing up in nondescript hometowns, with no idea what we were doing or where we were going. He wrote and sang urgently into that void. Springsteen, a decade or so older than me, was my rebellious "older brother." He drove up one day, opened the passenger door and said jump in. I did and it was a loud, glorious ride. Legendary concerts, pilgrimages to Asbury Park, accumulating a stack of bootlegs while eagerly waiting for the next album to drop; copies of Thunder Road magazine, Newsweek and Time stored somewhere in a box. Every fan, even this one from Canada, knows these myth making moments. But here's the rub, Springsteen was never the thoughtful wiser brother, just the rebellious one and as I grew older, he had less and less to offer - musically, lyrically, spiritually. I tried to find connection, but as the years progressed all Springsteen offered was middle age posturing. And now it's a lecture. I've worked hard, made sacrifices. I got married, got unmarried, moved on, fell in love, got married again. Now in my late 60s, I help raise my teenage kids. I make repairs on a house that the bank still owns half. I continue to go to work everyday. Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man, but I find honest ways to pay my debts. Springsteen's right, he can choose to do what he wants. I've chosen to switch him off, leave him in the dust and drive on down the road in glorious silence.
Springsteen has always been a marginal talent. I've never understood his appeal. Lately he's become insufferable and repugnant. He seems to be going for that "Megan Rapinoe left under a heat lamp too long" look.
They now call themselves “The Chicks.” They’re so popular they’re playing at a local Indian casino here in SoCal. Can’t wait to not see them. Talk about insufferable.
i think Bruce is doing too many facial treatments. He's like a waxwork figure now ready for Madama Toussaud's. Plus his music is really a one trick pony.
Springsteen epitomizes what I’ve surmised from listening to those on the Left (especially celebrities) as they demonize and dismiss those who were responsible for making them a celebrity — they do not feel gratitude. They don’t even know how to feel it, much less express it. And they can’t because it’s all about the “self” and therefore, nobody else matters. Especially, gratitude to the “unwashed masses” who propelled his career to the point he now enjoys riches beyond anything his fans could ever know. Dismissing a large part of his fan base so he can play “his game” is the best example I’ve seen of the ingratitude that has infected a large part of our culture. He really has no idea how irrelevant he is.
I pretty much enjoy everything you write, so keep it coming. Also, Don Siegel, who directed many of Eastwood's early (non Sergio Leone) films and taught Eastwood a lot about directing, is given a cameo role as the bartender Murphy.
Great comment. Don Siegel directed some great movies, including quite a few Clint Eastwood movies, most notably, Dirty Harry. One of my all time favorite Don Siegel movies is Hell is For Heroes, a WWII movie with Steve McQueen.
Play Misty for Me…that long, uncut take from a helicopter along the coast. It’s a much slower pace. It unfolds in human time.
More recent films use quick cuts and overbearing music to create “excitement” or emotion, rather than good writing, cinematography, and plotting. It’s a cheap trick. It’s like eating donuts for dinner and wondering why you’re unsatisfied and hungry an hour later.
Alice, my idea is that there are so many hundreds of great ones, including many which almost certainly you have not seen, that the dearth of new ideas is overwhelmed by the bounty of the past. I have the same view of what passes for music today. As for books, five lifetimes wouldn't give me time enough to exhaust the ones I know about but haven't gotten to.
I’ve seen an awful lot of movies! Growing up we went to everything that came out and I’m married to an absolutely crazy movie lover, so I’ve really only missed the ones that I was not remotely interested in, and in the last 10 years, that’s a lot of them. But I agree, I’ve missed a lot of movies because there are just so many old ones that were so great. Books too, how could you possibly keep up? Maybe 20% of music today is acceptable, but that’s it. I don’t know how the arts have been so degraded, but they have been.
My mother, who died in 2001, was well aware of how denatured musical innovation had become. She thought God had removed the gift of melody from the Earth. It makes sense to me.
Springsteen is a fraud and a hypocrite. He can pound sand.
Mellonhead (Cougar) same thing; a total phony.
Absolutely!
Two or three phrases:
1) "Elevated into the nobility"
2) "Kick down, kiss up"
I could care less whether Springsteen "cares about his fans." Stone says, " They still see the version of Trump the Left’s media invented, not the one who existed." Actually, the left wing media shows clips and has direct quotes of trump's words which are NOT "inventions."
Examples: In his State of the Union address last month, that Trump had bragged about gas prices at $2.30 a gallon, a figure that has since soared to a national average of $3.98 a gallon. Trump is claiming it is a positive, saying, “"The US is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.”
With the Iran war set to enter its fourth week, Trump was asked he plans to send U.S. ground troops to Iran. “No, I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you, but I’m not putting troops.” It comes even as the United States is deploying thousands of U.S. Marines to the region.
The right continues to be blind to Trump who doesn't "care about his fans" either because he cares ONLY about himself.
The left wing media shows selected clips taken out of context. Then turns them into lies. Much like your comment about gas prices that were at $2.30 (and lower). Just because gas prices rose after that time doesn’t make his statement untrue.
And how does he only care about himself? His net worth went down after his first term (Forbes) and he donates his salary back to the government unlike the Biden crime family or Obama who became quite wealthy after their presidency…..
His comments are often so nasty and mean, it is hard to understand them any other way than what he intended. For example: Trump’s use of Hitler rhetoric from a Veteran’s Day speech, 2023 saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like VERMIN within the confines of our country.” He's always calling them "radical leftwing lunatics", "sick", "deranged" , the "enemy within", etc. When Democratic members of Congress (many of whom are veterans) advised service members that they could refuse unlawful orders (which is in the military code of conduct) Trump posted on Truth Social that their actions were "seditious behavior, punishable by death". He also reshared posts from supporters, one of which called for the lawmakers to be hanged. Was the meaning of those posts unclear?
Trump's presidential salary , $400K /yr, is chicken feed to him. In his 2nd term, Trump & his family are focused on self-enrichment and "grifting," including a mix of cryptocurrency ventures, luxury merchandise sales, and foreign payments that have significantly increased his net worth.
Trump and his family launched a crypto business, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), in late 2024. Analysis by the House Oversight Committee Democrats estimated that this venture has contributed to a potential $2.25 billion in realized profits from foreign interests and other sources by January 2026.
Reports indicate that foreign actors, particularly from the Middle East, have funneled money into Trump's crypto ventures and businesses, raising ethical concerns over about conflict of interest in his dealings with foreign nations. In May 2025, Qatar offered a $400 million luxury jet to Trump.
Remember when Jared Kushner, after negotiating in Saudi Arabia during Trump's first term, got the MSB of Saudia Arabia to invest $2B in his private equity firm?
https://time.com/7383185/profits-took-over-american-politics/
BTW, I didn't say Trump lied about gas prices, I'm saying he's a hypocrite because during his campaign he criticized Biden ad nauseum for high gas prices and ran on his claim that they would go down during his term but his aimless war in Iran has caused them to increase dramatically.
Trump is not stately and presidential but leftism is an intrinsically evil ideology. It’s predicted on the idea that only intellectuals know “the general will” and those who refuse to submit to it can be “ forced to be free “ (that’s from Rousseau). The French Revolution turned violent and authoritarian when leftists launched an insurrection (a real one) to arrest and later execute the liberal ( not leftist) Girondin. This led to the Reign of Terror.
Leftism then gave us communism, fascism*, Nazism, and today’s Neo-Marxism. All authoritarian. All failures. When we close the leftist chapter of history for good, it will have the high score - by two orders of magnitude - for both genocide and absurd anti-scientific beliefs (Lysenkoism and women have penises).
* if you’re inclined to argue that that fascism and Nazism aren’t leftist, realize I’m using the term for secular ideologies that inherit from Rousseau. Within leftism, fascism may seem like a highly divergent branch from the leftist tree, but it’s still in the same tree.
Maybe you would call people lunatics if you had to deal with a press that constantly lies about you and democrats that takes the opposite view of yours no matter what you say. It’s called TDS and you might want to get some professional help.
So his salary is chicken feed? Then why does he put himself through the stress and challenges of a presidency. A man worth $4 billion doesn’t need it. There are easier ways to make money. But let’s look at what you write:
Trump and his family launched a crypto business, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), in late 2024. Analysis by the House Oversight Committee Democrats estimated that this venture has contributed to a potential $2.25 billion in realized profits from foreign interests and other sources by January 2026.
Notice the words WLFI, democrats and potential. Which really means the entire statement is speculation from people who hate him. Even so.
Its chicken feed as you say to someone like bill gates with over $100 billion
The Qatari government donated a Boeing 747-8 aircraft valued at $400 million as an "unconditional" gift to the United States. That’s not the same as Donald Trump. It is part of Air Force One
Finally, the NYT can’t be trusted. They are just a propaganda machine….
OMG! It is SO obvious why the narcissist puts himself "through the stress and challenges of a presidency." He CRAVES being the center of attention and getting all the publicity, negative and positive! He LOVES to rile people up and have people worship him. He puts his name and huge banners with his portrait on govt buildings (just like Kim J'ung Un) and wants to build monuments to himself like the monstrous ball room and the Arc de Trumph. He has portraits of himself all over the WH.
https://time.com/article/2026/03/27/trump-name-face-signature-currency-government-buildings-programs/
From May 13-16, 2025, Trump, took his first major international trip of his second term, visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. Right before his trip, Trump’s two older sons pursued a multitude of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s name and power.
A luxury hotel in Dubai. A second high-end residential tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Two cryptocurrency ventures based in the United States. A new golf course and villa complex in Qatar. In many cases these new deals will personally benefit not only Eric and Don,Jr., but also Trump himself. Wonder what Trump promised in return?
As of early 2026, the plan is for Trump to use a luxury Boeing 747-8 jet gifted by Qatar as Air Force One during his term, and for the aircraft to be transferred to his presidential library foundation after he leaves office in January 2029.
Both the left and right are biased, but as I point out, the left reports his direct quotes and actions. The right omits anything that shows him in a bad light which is obvious from reading your comment since you don't seem to know what is going on. Trump family certainly has a crypto business.
https://www.wired.com/story/as-trumps-family-crypto-business-gains-steam-ethical-concerns-mount/
https://www.wired.com/story/as-trumps-family-crypto-business-gains-steam-ethical-concerns-mount/
While Trump may be reckless with his rhetoric -- like everyone else apparently -- it is silly to claim that he only cares about himself. He's clearly hell bent on leaving a legacy -- that's for sure. But is it about himself? Or what he did for the country? One thing Trump knows: in order to make money, you have to spend money.
This is not an endorsement of war on Iran. It's just a nudge towards some semblance of objectivity.
It is "silly" to claim that Trump cares about anything but himself. The narcissist CRAVES being the center of attention and generating publicity, positive & negative. He LOVES to rile people up and have people worship him. He puts his name and huge banners with his portrait on govt buildings (just like Kim J'ung Un) and wants to build monuments to himself like the monstrous ball room and the Arc de Trumph. He has portraits of himself all over the WH.
https://time.com/article/2026/03/27/trump-name-face-signature-currency-government-buildings-programs/
He's a grandiose narcissist. Not a malignant narcissist.
I see that you are cleaved to your perspective and will gladly leave you to it.
The ballroom is a particularly hysterical example.
He is certainly a grandiose narcissist but he enjoys inflicting cruelty so he has characteristics of a malignant narcissist also. I think his extreme case of narcissm clouds his judgement and makes him unfit to be president.
"The proposed 90,000-square-foot East Wing ballroom project is designed to be significantly larger than the existing White House structure. The new construction is projected to be nearly double the size of the 55,000-square-foot executive residence, leading critics to argue it will overwhelm and dwarf the historic mansion."
So you think that a dumb woman who can't string words into a coherent sentence, who slept and dark-skinned her way into politics, would be a better judge of world affairs. This after the previous president slurred his way through four years of cognitive decline.
Perhaps you're unfit to decide which is the lesser of two evils...?
I'm not worried about the ballroom. There's a solid rationale for it, although it is arguable what the taste level will be.
I’m sorry to bring this up, but in addition to being a fraud and hypocrite, he is a traitor and his music has always sucked. I’ve been around music all my life. I said it sucked when I first heard him and I’m saying it now.
As a musician, I never use the word "sucked", since it's clear he had and has a lot of fans and that the members of his bands are all talented players. Bruce can clearly write a decent tune. That said, I've never cared for him or his music. The main thing for me is I still wonder to this day who thought he could actually sing? His singing has turned me off from a very young age as I just don't think it's any good at all. His progressive liberalism is bad enough, but to have to listen to him sing, is just a bridge too far for me.
Thank you
He cannot sing
There is nothing about his singing that is enjoyable
I feel bad for the people have to back him up
It’s just horrid
Can’t sing cause he got no voice; the people listen cause they got no choice…
I have a confession. When I was a teen I could play and sing. I could handle singing like Mr Young at his prime. Sadly, at 18-19 my voice changed drastically. I could still play. But I knew my voice sucked and guitarists were a dime a dozen. I wound up a lawyer and later in life a political satire artist. I’ll share my political views with those who are interested. But promise not to sing them to my audience. My guitar playing is still good enough to play in bar bands. But my wife would never allow it, LOL!
You are right, he is surrounded by great musicians. All collecting fat pay checks.
I’m on Fire
Candy’s Room
It’s Hard to Be A Saint in the City
These are great songs. I don’t like Springsteen as a person, but these tunes are rock solid.
This version from The Summit, Houston TX 12/8/78 I listen to it every now and again, because it’s raw and powerful.
https://youtu.be/_xNmLBwPwxw?si=r9I2H2DVaSKcBehQ
I don’t like Neil Young as a person anymore either. But he also has some really powerful and great songs, especially from the 1970’s.
But...
He introduced us to Clarence Clemons.
Never liked Bruce, but Clarence....
All hype. No soul.
He has a soul, it’s just broken.
Sasha - You are being nice regarding Springsteen's net worth. Google lists it at $1.2B. I grew up in NJ and saw Springsteen a half a dozen times in the 70s. He started taking on a Jesus like persona in the early 80s, where he thought he was the savior of rock and roll and mankind. He has continued to devolve since then. I find him insufferable.
Who's more insufferable, Bono or Springsteen? Springsteen probably to Americans, Bono globally?
It’s close…but I have to go with Bono. Bono is definitely a Marxist and a hypocrite. He has been politicking for decades to get politicians in America to take American taxpayer money to fund all of his international (meaning non-American) causes. He thinks he’s better than us but is not bothered by wanting our money. Also, he’s a hypocrite because he was paying high taxes in Ireland and to escape this he moved to Spain where he pays little to no taxes. He’s not donating his own money to his pet causes. And he has over the years gone around to all the award shows like the MTV Awards shows and others to push his causes. He does this for the publicity and the adoration. Springsteen too is a big time hypocrite. He is definitely a part of the wealthy leftist elite and these people give him the adoration and worshipping he craves. But he has gotten his real money from the fans who are low middle class working people and later on additionally the college grad professional upper middle class. They made him filthy rich, but his fellow wealthy leftist elite give him the kind of attention and worshipping he only cares about. A great many people were used by Springsteen and his ego. I would also today put in Taylor Swift. She got her start in country music. Her fans were Christians and they got Taylor her country music awards early in her career. But Taylor jettisoned this demographic to go for the really big money. Notice that Taylor has a lot of songs about young female angst and the usual feminist problems about guys. A new generation of women being properly influenced to hold grudges against guys or to at least look at guys as lessers to females. Another new generation of Karen’s about to be unleashed on us guys. Her life story is held up as a model for young girls. Hollywood and the music industry have a way of corrupting people. But some people already started out as hypocrites and these industries simply exploited that.
Alright, persuasive! Bono wins.
With regard to Taylor Swift, I know nothing about her origins or her music. Only that she appears to have singular influence over young girls just entering teens and young adulthood. (When I was that age I had Mick Jagger and Keith Richards posters in my room….)
Dark Side of the Moon came out in my teens. I went to 4 Pink Floyd concerts. They did them in baseball stadiums back then. Never liked Roger Waters. Great time to be young. In the 80s there was Punk and the 90s everything was great including Country music. Great times too. I now have a coffee mug with Clint Eastwood’s picture as The Man With No Name on it along with the words: “Yeah I’m old, but I got to see this country before it went to shit”.
Bono weighs over 80 courics, how much would Springsteen weigh?
Springsteen was vital for those of us coming of age in the 1970s, growing up in nondescript hometowns, with no idea what we were doing or where we were going. He wrote and sang urgently into that void. Springsteen, a decade or so older than me, was my rebellious "older brother." He drove up one day, opened the passenger door and said jump in. I did and it was a loud, glorious ride. Legendary concerts, pilgrimages to Asbury Park, accumulating a stack of bootlegs while eagerly waiting for the next album to drop; copies of Thunder Road magazine, Newsweek and Time stored somewhere in a box. Every fan, even this one from Canada, knows these myth making moments. But here's the rub, Springsteen was never the thoughtful wiser brother, just the rebellious one and as I grew older, he had less and less to offer - musically, lyrically, spiritually. I tried to find connection, but as the years progressed all Springsteen offered was middle age posturing. And now it's a lecture. I've worked hard, made sacrifices. I got married, got unmarried, moved on, fell in love, got married again. Now in my late 60s, I help raise my teenage kids. I make repairs on a house that the bank still owns half. I continue to go to work everyday. Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man, but I find honest ways to pay my debts. Springsteen's right, he can choose to do what he wants. I've chosen to switch him off, leave him in the dust and drive on down the road in glorious silence.
As I replied to your post on X:
"Every night, Bruce Springsteen lies in bed wishing he was Bob Seeger."
—David van Camp
Love it!😊
I care what honest people think about the world, not what people like Springsteen think.
Never cared much for Mr anthem. Hasn’t made a decent record since 1980. He’s just another libtard douchebag like Colbert or Kimmel
Fuck him. His tour will suck and it will flop. 700- 800 tiks for this asshole?
Springsteen has always been a marginal talent. I've never understood his appeal. Lately he's become insufferable and repugnant. He seems to be going for that "Megan Rapinoe left under a heat lamp too long" look.
He revealed himself many years ago, Sasha:
"So when you look at me
You better look hard and look twice
Is that me, baby
Or just a brilliant disguise?"
How did Taylor Swift's endorsement of Joe Biden work out?
...how 'bout the DixieChicks, over 20yrs ago, all over niceguy G.W.Bush. They weren't even as rich as they were gonna be, until....
What a pre-mature orgasm on their part.
They now call themselves “The Chicks.” They’re so popular they’re playing at a local Indian casino here in SoCal. Can’t wait to not see them. Talk about insufferable.
i think Bruce is doing too many facial treatments. He's like a waxwork figure now ready for Madama Toussaud's. Plus his music is really a one trick pony.
That’s all I can see when I look at him. His face lift is so tight - his looks reflect exactly who he is. A narcissistic phony.
What I want to know is, when did he become Asian?
Springsteen epitomizes what I’ve surmised from listening to those on the Left (especially celebrities) as they demonize and dismiss those who were responsible for making them a celebrity — they do not feel gratitude. They don’t even know how to feel it, much less express it. And they can’t because it’s all about the “self” and therefore, nobody else matters. Especially, gratitude to the “unwashed masses” who propelled his career to the point he now enjoys riches beyond anything his fans could ever know. Dismissing a large part of his fan base so he can play “his game” is the best example I’ve seen of the ingratitude that has infected a large part of our culture. He really has no idea how irrelevant he is.
I've noticed that humility is largely absent from artists, celebrities. Their ego is All.
It's classic narcissism
I pretty much enjoy everything you write, so keep it coming. Also, Don Siegel, who directed many of Eastwood's early (non Sergio Leone) films and taught Eastwood a lot about directing, is given a cameo role as the bartender Murphy.
Great comment. Don Siegel directed some great movies, including quite a few Clint Eastwood movies, most notably, Dirty Harry. One of my all time favorite Don Siegel movies is Hell is For Heroes, a WWII movie with Steve McQueen.
Born to kiss Obamas ass. And baby he’ll never look back.
Moral of the story: don't give your hard earned money to "artists" who hate you.
Assume they hate you until they prove otherwise.
Play Misty for Me…that long, uncut take from a helicopter along the coast. It’s a much slower pace. It unfolds in human time.
More recent films use quick cuts and overbearing music to create “excitement” or emotion, rather than good writing, cinematography, and plotting. It’s a cheap trick. It’s like eating donuts for dinner and wondering why you’re unsatisfied and hungry an hour later.
I miss good writing in movies the most.
Could not agree more Orwell. I really miss good movies.
Alice, my idea is that there are so many hundreds of great ones, including many which almost certainly you have not seen, that the dearth of new ideas is overwhelmed by the bounty of the past. I have the same view of what passes for music today. As for books, five lifetimes wouldn't give me time enough to exhaust the ones I know about but haven't gotten to.
I’ve seen an awful lot of movies! Growing up we went to everything that came out and I’m married to an absolutely crazy movie lover, so I’ve really only missed the ones that I was not remotely interested in, and in the last 10 years, that’s a lot of them. But I agree, I’ve missed a lot of movies because there are just so many old ones that were so great. Books too, how could you possibly keep up? Maybe 20% of music today is acceptable, but that’s it. I don’t know how the arts have been so degraded, but they have been.
My mother, who died in 2001, was well aware of how denatured musical innovation had become. She thought God had removed the gift of melody from the Earth. It makes sense to me.
Melody was certainly buried for all of the years of heavy rap music.
Another oldie and goodie NorCal chopper shot is the opening to The Towering Inferno (1974).