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:
Those drugs finally melted this POS brains!! You are such an embarrassment to the majority of America people!
That’d because your an idiot.
Got close but couldn’t get to him! He’s a POS!
Go sell your soul elsewhere
A real traitor!
“Small minds do small things.
Not listening to the Springsteen. Disgusting display.
Over the hill and washed up
He sucks..and always has.
Hey$#%&!@*clown you don’t speak for this American. Stay over there.