recently saw in my feed on goodreads and i remembered it now. "it's difficult to tell if bruce was always a fraud with a finger on the pulse of americana, or if a few decades of extreme wealth and privilege just rendered the musician tone deaf to the reality lived by his fans. regardless, it's difficult to listen to his best work now without a twinge of resentment as the icon who built his fame and fortune singing the anthems of disenfranchised heartland american blue collar workers when this coring out of the american dream had just begun now stands as defender of the very globalization that stole these people's livelihoods, shipped them overseas, flooded their communities with opiates, sent their sons to die in pointless (fake) foreign wars, and then imported new foreign workers to take their jobs, homes, and communities. it's almost as if his life story is the inverse of the heroes journey, where at the end our character ends up the villain. or at least some pathetic creature who was compromised in a vital way to become the mouth piece for everything he stood against. luckily his generation are coming to a fast close and we won't have to hear much more from this imposter."
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