Thread 127536580

have you ever misunderstood the meaning of a song?

>>127536580 (OP)
I'm tired of leftists re-writing history about a song they don't even like. Born in the USA is a patriotic song about hippies disrespecting our veterans. Bruce is a blue dog democrat, not a leftist, and is on record as voting for Bush.

>>127536609
"Re-writing" only works if people are open to the original idea being wrong. Nobody who likes this song cares what leftists think about it.

>>127536580 (OP)
Why does a Jew care about American patriotism?

i misheard the chorus to nobody by hozier as “i wouldn’t fall for someone i thought couldn’t miss me” instead of “i wouldn’t fall for someone i thought couldn’t misbehave”, which fucked with my entire perception of the song

>>127536609
>Born in the USA is a patriotic song about hippies disrespecting our veterans.
OK, here are the lyrics, point out the parts about
>hippies disrespecting vets:

[Verse 1]
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up, now

[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A. now

[Verse 2]
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.

[Verse 3]
Come back home to the refinery
Hirin' man says, "Son, if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said, "Son, don't you understand now?"

[Interlude]
Oh, yeah
No, no
No, no, no

[Verse 4]
I had a brother at Khe Sanh
Fightin' off them Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms, now

[Verse 5]
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burnin' down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. now

>>127536926
>Hirin' man says, "Son, if it was up to me"
Alludes to the pressure protestors put on businesses not to hire returning veterans. There were blacklists against stores that hired "babykillers."
>Went down to see my V.A. man
>He said, "Son, don't you understand now?"
The VA had been hijacked by leftists at this point who were known to shame and lecture veterans for their supposed misdeeds instead of helping them.
>They're still there, he's all gone
Critique of peaceniks sabotaging the war effort, leaving the murderous Viet Cong intact.
>He had a woman he loved in Saigon
He pointedly refuses to call it by the Communist name of "Ho Chi Mihn City"'
>Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Leftists threatened to imprison veterans.

>being angry and embarrassed because you only ever listened to the chorus of a song thats been well known for decades yet somehow remaining oblivious to how stupid this makes you look and getting all outraged because of your own ignorance and best of all failing to grasp that its precisely this kind of braindead fucktwattery that made Springsteen write the fucking thing in the first place
americans

It took a few listens before I paid attention to the lyrics and caught on to the fact that its unbelievably fucked up and just gets worse and worse as the song goes on. Love the album tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQOR7Jrv3I

>>127537274
Do they not teach you how to use punctuation in Shitholistan?

>>127536580 (OP)
Summer of 69 is his only good song.

>>127536926
Who wore the headband first, him or Rambo?

>>127536580 (OP)
Aaron Lewis has like 80 IQ

>>127537320
>waaaaah
>waaaaaahhhhh
lmao triggered little snowflake

>>127536609
Source for him voting bush? He raised money to get bush out in 2004

>>127537390
You got mad because other people enjoy a fun song...

>>127536973
This is such a reach. The guy would have had problems with the system if he hadn’t gone to war because he got in a hometown jam, probably meaning he did crime and maybe a convict.

It’s very well written actually as a lot of his songs are. It’s obvious the line born in the USA is not something the narrator is proud of and is ironic

>>127537443
In the shadow of the penitentiary - he’s one wrong move from ending up inside, that’s how fucked up he is

There's somethIng fundamentally third world-coded about the term "anti-American". You rule the planet; why so fragile?

>>127537461
He's so fucked up that the only time he found purpose and brotherhood was when he was over in 'Nam fighting the man in the black pajamas.

>>127536580 (OP)
Once you release a song to the public, that song and the interpretation doesn't belong to you anymore, so it doesn't matter if you as a consumer "misunderstood the meaning" because it can mean a billion different things to a billion different individuals.

>chud
>[spoiler]media[/spoiler] illiteracy
iconic duo

>>127536973
naw, you don't believe that interpretation.
you made it up as you wrote it.
you did not believe that's what those words meant prior to tonight

>>127537503
so "misunderstood the intention of the songwriter" is a better thread title, then

>>127536926
It's clearly anti-America but pro-Americans
Republicans wouldn't understand

Republicans are media illiterate. It's why they've tried to ban Doom, Night Trap and all other kinds of stuff over the last several decades.

>>127537573
Republicans pride themselves on the fact that they're less educated

>>127536580 (OP)
holy fuck what a moron
I bet he shat his diaper at Cracker Barrel changing their logo

>>127537503
So, death of the author?

>>127536580 (OP)
Daily reminder that Mr. Outspoken, Anti-War, Anti-Imperialism Bruce Springsteen hasn't said squat about USA's funding of Israel's war on Gaza.

Dude has always been a yes-man for the Jews who run his industry.

>>127536580 (OP)
I'm mostly confused as to how "the Staind guy" is somehow still relevant enough for anyone to give a fuck what he thinks about anything. I'm guessing he just jumped on the MAGA grift badwagon and they toddled along behind him?

>>127537503
There's a difference between having your own interpretation and just not listening to the lyrics

>>127537857
MAGA is so desperate for celeb endorsements that they'll take anyone. It's a sure sign of someone being completely spent, both creatively and commercially (and probably morally as well).

>Aaron Lewis
this is a music board go back

>>127537931
um excuse me but we have Ted Nugent

>>127538366
aren't his most famous songs about degeneracy and child fucking?

>>127536580 (OP)
I simply cannot believe the man who had a podcast with Obama is a liberal pussy. On the other hand, Aaron Lewis has subterranean IQ.

>>127536973
This is actually true

>>127536973
>Leftists threatened to imprison veterans.
Holy based

MGMT would like to remind you that "Little Dark Age" is a progressive anti-Trump song and that they DO NOT consent to it being used in Hyperborea edits.

>>127536609
>Bruce is a blue dog democrat, not a leftist, and is on record as voting for Bush.

Lmao

>>127538406
yes, that makes him the perfect Trumpist

>>127538366
You can keep him

I don't know who that bearded soi boi is but you deserve to feel angry about yourself if you take Springsteen that seriously, the guy sucks

>>127538547
Shit, is that John Kerry? I honestly don't remember what was so bad about him other than the way his wife the ketchup lady pronounced her first name. The Howard Dean scream was cute too, and it killed his candidacy. I know we're living in the stupidest times but I can't believe this is what we were willing to dismiss candidates for.

He didn't write BITUSA everything after album #2 was ghostwritten by Jon Landau (cf. his early life section on Wikipedia)

>>127538972
>I honestly don't remember what was so bad about him other than the way his wife the ketchup lady pronounced her first name
Establishment D.C. swamp creature of the worst kind.

>>127539029
>Establishment D.C. swamp creature of the worst kind.
As opposed to what we have now. I miss "the swamp"

>>127536580 (OP)
"Had me circumcised. Telling me no lies.
Knocking me out with those American thighs."

leader singer of staind is a huge retard (lol)
big news

>>127538406
You only hate him singing about those things because he's right wing. If he was one of those fags in Coil you'd be all over it.

>>127539078
You're going to jail, John Bolton. Accept it.

>>127536828
Lewis is a Jew?

>>127536580 (OP)
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
I interpreted that as being about a necromancer even that was almost certainly not Bob’s intention, but listening again it’s pretty hard to support it

Paint It Black I thought was about being a fundamentally blackened person with a bleak soul but I think it’s just about being dumped by some bitch. Worst thing is it’s the Stones so they’re probably comforting themselves by screwing three other women-cunts

>>127539304
early life

>>127539335
>Jewish mother and a Catholic father of Italian, English and Welsh descent
Damn, why couldn't he be based like Chef John instead of a retarded buttrocker

>>127538547
Today you learned that George W Bush is not the only Bush

>>127538366
>>127538406
>aren't his most famous songs about degeneracy and child fucking?
Stranglehold and Great White Buffalo aren't about those. I think.

>>127537461
The refinery is beside the prison, whatever building he’s in everyday is the same in the US

>>127536580 (OP)
I am shocked to discover that some guy in Staind is a bozo