They're singing the songs, but is anybody listening?

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 12/30/07 | George Varga

[originalbuckeye]

'The bad news is that the era when a song - any song - helps unite large numbers of people to rally on behalf of a common cause seems to have passed.'

Maybe he should listen to and observe the crowd when "Proud To Be An American" is played/sung, before he writes this stuff. To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy- we're Conservatives...we get up for work, we get up for church and we get up for war when necessary. The author is obviously referring to HIS compatriots with this drivel.

[UpStateNY]

The last song that brought large numbers of like minds together was aptly titled “We are the Weird”... right?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Did Bruce “vividly chronicle” the war in Iraq like he did the battle of Khe Sahn,
where his “brother” fought not the NVA but the Viet Cong?

[nckerr]

Maybe we want entertainers to be entertainers instead of political hacks for the left.

[originalbuckeye]

Poor Bruce has hit the skids. Just don’t tell him or the music reviewers that still find him relevant. I, too, used to enjoy his work. No more.

[originalbuckeye]

Agree. I’m totally fed up with all the politics infiltrating everything. I find that celebrities who endorse Dems are no longer desirable watching/listening for me. Few celebrities endorse Conservatives so that’s not usually a problem for me.

[NativeNewYorker]

The group's music was virtually banished overnight from country radio and its album sales plunged. In 2006, the same year the Dixie Chicks released an album that won multiple Grammy Awards despite being almost uniformly ignored...

...meaning the awards charade is transparently political and not artistic. shocking. not.

[Barnyard]

Great point!

[digger48]

But there’s nothing like a rousing rendition of Springsteens “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” , to press that one little nerve that so few can reach.

Whitney Houston
Maria Carey
Celine Dion

I’d rather be waterboarded

[Huck]

I don’t get it. I just looked up Viet Cong. Weren’t those the commies?

[Huck]

to press that one little nerve that so few can reach.

The sciatic nerve maybe. What an awful screetchfest. And the tone on the sax is equally screetchy and bad. You want to hear real talent, listen to Ray Charles' "Santa Clause is coming to town."

[Luke21]

Too bad. So sad.

[HIDEK6]

The bad news is that the era when a song – any song – helps unite large numbers of people to rally on behalf of a common cause seems to have passed.

This guy has his good news and his bad news mixed up.

[RichInOC]

I like the E Street Band’s version of that song, because it’s a rare reminder of the days when Bruce and the gang were listenable, before some dirty lying so-and-so told him he could be the Woody Guthrie of our era.

[sauropod]

*yawn*

[originalbuckeye]

My thoughts exactly. The Nobel Peace Prize can be added to that list. Several years ago I started boycotting the awards shows (after I watch the red-carpet walk. I do love to see the dresses!). After all, all the celebrity awards shows are just them giving awards to themselves.

[originalbuckeye]

Bruce should listen to “Glory Days” more often these days!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The battle of Khe S involved NVA Regulars. The VC were not in the same league. For Springsteen to have misunderstood this shows he is not the chronicler of history that he thinks he is.

[PrincessB]

I think it is telling that if Josh Groban had one of the best selling album for 2007, Noel. A CHRISTMAS album. They are all songs I have heard before, but I have the CD in my car and bought a copy for my housebound Aunt. Interstingly, this is music that “helps unite large numbers of people to rally on behalf of a common cause.” It’s just not a cause the MSM likes to rally around.

[skeeter]

VC were local commie guerillas who operated in the south. Khe sahn, near the border with North VN, was attacked by the NVA.