Born in the USA
 

when I was a pre-teen back in the UK, this was the dogs bollocks, the epitome of all that is America and therefore cool...



Now I'm an immigrant here -staying through choice, with one kid who was born here...but I'd be ashamed if he assumed this arrogance ...

Was it just an 80s thing? Or am i just way old? This was so cool when i was a kid in the UK. The music's still cool now, but the "message" sucks

The message isn't meant to be arrogant at all...it's working class blues.

It really speaks to and about Jersey and Philly folks, as does most of Springsteen's stuff. Pride eked out of one's shitty, stuck situation....

yeah, I guess so... but couldn't he just be proud of his talent?

meh, it was a random youtube last night and i was just diasappointed that it didn't seem so awesome as it used to....

Very 80's... high unemployment and interest rates, cold war, Rocky movies...

Yes, but I doubt millions of people would pay him to sing about it.
It hasn't changed, maybe you have?

exactly... I'm all old and shit.... :(

Older, but not old yet and definitely not shit.:headshake

aw thanks. that's probably the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Although I really meant ...and the shit that goes with it like grey hair and deteriorating eyesight.... *sigh* When I started to dye my hair purple 10 years ago, they was no grey. My roots are a little long right now and I see strands that glint in the sunlight rather than being mouse and lack-lustre..... who'dever have thunk I'd recall the mouse color fondly

yes, I know I'm being inconsistent by using US "color" and UK "grey", but I figured I might as well get a jump on the incontinent thing too.... ;)

as an american, i think he sucks.

Deadheads don't count.:haha:

I'm still trying to figure out wtf he's saying. And what I can understand makes absolutely no sense. Reminds me of how a passed out drunk would sound when you woke him up and asked him how he got here. Sounds kinda like Buckwheat, amplified, actually.

Thanks for the laugh.

"unce tice fee tines a mady..."

FIRE the boss!

No. Don't fire him. Somebody's gotta be the boss. The boss of what?

Shit.

You're not the boss of me