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Originally Posted by Rickenbacker
It's just a little hard to understand, all of it, so I'd like to talk here about why people dislike the idea of Bruce Springsteen, not why people dislike his music.
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It's really pretty simple - it's what he represents to a generation who grew up during the Cold War hearing Born in the USA and looking at the guy's arrogantly positioned ass at every turn.
Bruce Springsteen was not cool in the 80s if you were a kid who listened to any kind of non-mainstream music. Not only was his music throwaway Billboard Top 40 fare (as you asked I'm not giving you my opinion of his music here - just an impression of the man himself -- of course, that impression is inevitably tied to his music in some ways) but it was a representation of what was hideous about the Reagan years: arrogance, indulgence, greed and a general my-d
ick-is-bigger-than-yours mentality.