This week, Bruce Springsteen claimed that he was standing amount “embarrassed Americans”.
This coming from the man who sings “Born in the USA,” but the signs were there all along. Springsteen’s hit may sound like a patriotic jam, but its intention is often misheard or misunderstood. With lyrics like “So they put a rifle in my hand / Sent me off to a foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man,” the song was a political statement from the very beginning.
The anti-war/anti-America message may have been subtle then, but now Springsteen is making his displeasure with the United States known across the world. His most overt criticism of his home country came this week during a concert in Melbourne, Australia.
See Bruce Springsteen’s full statement on the next page:
Brucie has never made a penny of of me.
Give up your freedoms & perks of being a US citizen & don’t return to the States.
The Loss
Your the embarrassment jackwaggon
Speak for yourself Jack a–.
Your music sucked anyway….
I change the station anytime they play his music.
Traitor. Irrelevant.
Then stay the hell over Bruce
Me either he made a comment back in the 80 about playing columbus wouldn’t come because it was to small o a town never listened to his music after that