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:
We don’t hear you anyway
He needs to just play music because politics is not what people came to hear
He definitely doesn’t speak for me!!!!!!!
Stay there don’t come back
You were good in your day but now you are POS.
Your washed up Bruce go back to the rat hole you crawled out of
The boss my butt the$#%&!@*is more like it.
Snowflake piece of s**t
Yeah Bruce go$#%&!@*yourself
We are embarrassed for your vanity to think that you speak for Americans.
Music fans are embarrassed for your inability to sing.
Guitarists are embarrassed by your marginal fretboard fumbling.
Fender is embarrassed that you play their Telecaster.
Don’t Tread on Us.