![]() After all, if your first exposure to “Dancing in the Dark” was watching Bruce dance with Courtney Cox, I imagine it was kind of hard to take the whole thing seriously. ![]() I’m kind of glad I wasn’t alive in 1984 to have my opinion of Born in the USA tainted by the gargantuan pop hype machine that misinterpreted and underestimated so much of what this incredible album has to offer. It is a record of our sins, angst, fears, and silence, a portrait that will stand the test of time to impart feelings and lessons from our lives onto the next generation. The result is a gripping rocker – the best modern studio recreation of the classic E-Street sound – that paints a vivid picture of what it felt like to be an American during a sad, tumultuous period. If you were alive and aware in 2007, all the concepts of Magic were swimming around in your head Bruce just put them to music. It begins with a musical thesis, as Bruce’s works always do – “Is there anybody alive out there?” – and continues through ten more tracks exploring various aspects, concerns, and quandaries of contemporary America: Power Greed Death Deceit Ignorance Morals Love. I say ‘portrait,’ because unlike some of Bruce’s other classics, the album isn’t structured to tell a linear, emotional story. That didn’t happen, and thus in 2007 we got Magic, an epic, furious portrait of one of the darkest times in American history (with more than a few tracks aimed directly at then-President George W. In 2002, Bruce Springsteen asked Americans to tap into the unity caused by 9/11 and rise up above their anger and grief.
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