There is, at least so far, no official video for the new Bruce Springsteen single "Radio Nowhere," but here's some fan's version and you can judge the song yourself.
I think it's an (almost) great piece of work, partly because it's a total break with the overheated street romanticism of his 70s stuff (compared to, say, "Badlands," this is a haiku), and partly because it's such a nice depiction of a post-Bush apocalyptic landscape via the metaphor of a late night disc jockey wondering if anybody's listening.
But what really struck me is the fact that there's a bit of a sexual subtext. Interesting in that Springsteen has never really been comfortable writing about the pleasures of the flesh. Love, sure -- boinking, no. I wonder why that is....
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First time I've heard the song. Nice.
Also some thematic relation to Human Touch.
Bruce is just a big ol' squishy soft liberal humanist and as such, has no place in the hard masculine world of Hitler's Germany... er, I mean, Bush's America.
Sorry, Godwin.
Gummo -- sending you the MP3...
?MP3 of what?
Duh, never mind, just got it!
Thanks.
(And to quote Rebecca Howe, "I am too stupid to live!")
I dunno... "Spirit in the Night" was pretty much all about boinking!
"Spirit in the Night" for sure, but that's kind of the exception that proves the rule.
Huh? Sexual subtext?
You mean: "I just want to feel your rhythm"?
Hmmm...could be, I guess, but to paraphrase Groucho, sometimes a drum is just a drum.
What about 'Prove it all night?'
Isn't that about sex? (it sure was when I sang it as a teen...)
But seriously, I think it's low self-esteem that keeps him from being able to admit that he enjoys things that he doesn't think he deserves...
steves said...
Huh? Sexual subtext?
You mean: "I just want to feel your rhythm"?
Yep.
And then he sez "I just want to feel your blues"..
Trust me -- the subtext of this song is boinking
:-)
How about "Dancing in the Dark"? Always struck me as a euphemism.
I agree with you about this song ... lonely guy, late at night, longing for companionship ...
But generally, yeah, that's not his thing. I don't see him as a sexual performer. (Oh wait, that didn't come out quite right, did it?)
Anyway, maybe it's because he has a very public, and, by all appearances, very happy marriage. Maybe he feels respectful of Patty's privacy. And a lot of his songs about women seem sweet and protective.
"The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves ... "
the boss sings about doin' the nasty-
pink cadillac (one long double entendre - 'honey i just wonder what it feels like in the back of your pink cadillac')
leap of faith ('your legs were heaven, your --- were the altar')
all that heaven will allow ('i've got something in my mind that sets me straight and walking proud')
reno (tho reasonable people may differ on the comfort level of those lyrics)
... and about doin' the nasty, solo-
blinded by the light ('as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat')
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