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Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

To those who do not practice Christianity, you may not know the verse Exodus 20:12 “Honor thy mother and father”, but many of Christians have translated this to “never speak badly with your parents”. Because of this I think that Dennis has a very hard time opening up about what he went through in his childhood. I have no doubt that poor kid went through some kind of abuse (whether he even realizes it or not is another big question but we’ll get to that) and if he was raised in a strictly religious environment this was probably shoved down his throat. Also, if it was a tightly knit community/ cult like environment like I’ve seen some people theorize I have no doubt kids who talked bad about their parents were snitched on (by adults and other kids). Even now, as an adult, it’s highly likely Dennis is highly hesitant to talk about his parents at all because he doesn’t have many good things to say about them.

Now onto the not knowing it was abuse… there is an unfortunately high number of people who use The Bible and twist it to excuse abuse, which will ingrain itself into the brain of the abused as not just excusable but expected, good and just (Proverbs 13:24: "Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him" which does NOT mean beat your kids but GUIDE them. Shepard use a rod to guide their sheep not hit them)

That Catholic guilt (though I don’t think he was raised Catholic) of believing you’re deserving of repentance though pain goes deep. I find it hard to believe that even after escaping the punishments Dennis didn’t punish himself (with fasting, or on a darker note, potentially self harm)

So put those two together and you get borrowing up all your trauma then occasionally trauma dumping things you don’t know are super fucked up and then repenting for it out of guilt.

Is this making sense? I can in another post and answer questions if needed.

On a more positive note, I believe that over the years Dennis is has escaped the toxic weaponized Christianity used against him. I like to think he has found true faith in a healthy environment, where he learns the gospel instead of just bits and pieces and discovers that he is loved and that forgiveness is not conditional.

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