do you even realize what Bruce's lytrics were actually stating ? or did you just learn the words to 'born in the usa' so you could sing that over and over getting your chest all puffed up. LOL.
educate your self if you think the song is about how great america is. its the opposite,..a broken defunct system.
Bruce saw that clearly and placed it in a song for people to eventually get.
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Are Politicians Too Dumb to Understand the Lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’?
dailybeast.com
Parker Molloy
Updated Apr. 14, 2017
Springsteen’s ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ is an indictment of the government, the military-industrial complex, and the way we treat soldiers. Not exactly an election night anthem.
The song—quite obviously the tale of a broken system and of a government that sees its citizens as disposable cogs in a war machine—is by no means is a pro-America anthem .
On Tuesday night—widely considered a sweeping victory for Republican political candidates—I sat in my apartment, huddled around my TV, watching as election results rolled in. From my couch, as the local NBC affiliate called the Illinois gubernatorial race for GOP candidate Bruce Rauner, I noticed something. As the local news team cut to Rauner campaign headquarters, I heard something in the background: the familiar drum beat and synth lead of one of 1984's most popular tunes, "Born in the U.S.A."
In 1984, Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A. The album became an immediate success, and it eventually became one of the most successful recordings of all time, selling more than 10 million copies. This success of both the album and its eponymous single is frequently attributed to a belief that the song is a pro-American anthem. In reality, it's anything but.
Despite what many have inferred from the title of both the album and its titular track, it is not a celebration of American Exceptionalism, but rather, an indictment of the government, the military-industrial-complex, and the way in which we treat those who have risked their lives in battle.
As a result of this misunderstanding, the song has become the de facto feel-good election season anthem for politicians nationwide.
"Born down in a dead man's town," the song begins. "The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much; [until] you spend half your life just covering up," Springsteen growls in the first verse.
"Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A.," he continues into the chorus.
From there, Springsteen continues his narrative of a man sent to fight a war he didn't believe in—Vietnam—and about the conflict involved with being sent "off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man." That line, focused on "the yellow man," is almost certainly meant as a reference to the oft-nebulous enemy U.S. soldiers were being sent off to fight, and the typically racist nature of the conflict, itself.
The character, broke and desperate after being turned away from hiring managers at the local refinery, reaches to his local V.A. branch, only to be turned away yet again.
Later, the song paints a portrait of the protagonist's post-war, post-job future, similar to that faced by so many other veterans of the Vietnam war, finding himself "Down in the shadow of penitentiary, out by the gas fires of the refinery" a decade after returning from service
"Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go," Springsteen sings before launching into the "Born in the U.S.A." chorus in repetition.
The song—quite obviously the tale of a broken system and of a government that sees its citizens as disposable cogs in a war machine—is by no means is a pro-America anthem .
In the wake of the album's release, Conservative columnists Bernie Goldberg and George Will began touting the New Jersey singer-songwriter as savior to the Republican Party.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/are-politicians...in-the-usa
educate your self if you think the song is about how great america is. its the opposite,..a broken defunct system.
Bruce saw that clearly and placed it in a song for people to eventually get.
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Are Politicians Too Dumb to Understand the Lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’?
dailybeast.com
Parker Molloy
Updated Apr. 14, 2017
Springsteen’s ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ is an indictment of the government, the military-industrial complex, and the way we treat soldiers. Not exactly an election night anthem.
The song—quite obviously the tale of a broken system and of a government that sees its citizens as disposable cogs in a war machine—is by no means is a pro-America anthem .
On Tuesday night—widely considered a sweeping victory for Republican political candidates—I sat in my apartment, huddled around my TV, watching as election results rolled in. From my couch, as the local NBC affiliate called the Illinois gubernatorial race for GOP candidate Bruce Rauner, I noticed something. As the local news team cut to Rauner campaign headquarters, I heard something in the background: the familiar drum beat and synth lead of one of 1984's most popular tunes, "Born in the U.S.A."
In 1984, Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A. The album became an immediate success, and it eventually became one of the most successful recordings of all time, selling more than 10 million copies. This success of both the album and its eponymous single is frequently attributed to a belief that the song is a pro-American anthem. In reality, it's anything but.
Despite what many have inferred from the title of both the album and its titular track, it is not a celebration of American Exceptionalism, but rather, an indictment of the government, the military-industrial-complex, and the way in which we treat those who have risked their lives in battle.
As a result of this misunderstanding, the song has become the de facto feel-good election season anthem for politicians nationwide.
"Born down in a dead man's town," the song begins. "The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much; [until] you spend half your life just covering up," Springsteen growls in the first verse.
"Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A.," he continues into the chorus.
From there, Springsteen continues his narrative of a man sent to fight a war he didn't believe in—Vietnam—and about the conflict involved with being sent "off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man." That line, focused on "the yellow man," is almost certainly meant as a reference to the oft-nebulous enemy U.S. soldiers were being sent off to fight, and the typically racist nature of the conflict, itself.
The character, broke and desperate after being turned away from hiring managers at the local refinery, reaches to his local V.A. branch, only to be turned away yet again.
Later, the song paints a portrait of the protagonist's post-war, post-job future, similar to that faced by so many other veterans of the Vietnam war, finding himself "Down in the shadow of penitentiary, out by the gas fires of the refinery" a decade after returning from service
"Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go," Springsteen sings before launching into the "Born in the U.S.A." chorus in repetition.
The song—quite obviously the tale of a broken system and of a government that sees its citizens as disposable cogs in a war machine—is by no means is a pro-America anthem .
In the wake of the album's release, Conservative columnists Bernie Goldberg and George Will began touting the New Jersey singer-songwriter as savior to the Republican Party.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/are-politicians...in-the-usa
