Just heard (half of) the new Bruce song as I entered the parking lot—“we take care of our own/wherever our flag is flown,” or something like that anyway. Huh? Mr. Question Authority? Now sounds as reflexively patriotic as the most predictable country songwriter. Have you heard it?
[Me: Yes, equal parts boring and vaguely jingoistic. But I dunno—hasn’t that been his thing for a while? He is deep in his mindless heartland phase…]
Well, I thought he just had a passing fancy thing with all those “heroic” police and firefighters on 9/11. And they were brave … . I wonder if Bruce is burning his bridges with the boomer generation that made him famous. We can be sentimental for bravery, but we (I) have mixed feelings about chest-thumping and flag-flying. We protest wars, don’t celebrate them. Who will buy these songs?
” My mother is (still) a better music critic than I am.Notes
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That last line is Guthrie all over.
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am.” — —Almost thirty years after “Born In The USA” became one of the most misappropriated songs in pop history, some...
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