Bruce Springsteen: Poptimist?

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

From an interview with A.O. Scott in the New York Times that dances around Bruuuuuce's feelings about pop without really saying very much about them:

“Pop is funny. It’s a tease. It’s an important one, but it’s a tease, and therein resides its beauty and its joke.”

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well the fantasy world thing reminds me most of his own pop - that amazing bit in "Jungleland" for instance where he's singing so intensely about this completely fabricated romanticised rock'n'roll street world and is just desperately trying to will it into existence even for just that one verse!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also, steel mill closed down.

also:

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

fuelie heads and a hurst on the floor