{"id":69572,"date":"2018-12-27T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69572"},"modified":"2018-12-26T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:40:41","slug":"fakes-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69572","title":{"rendered":"Fakes Like Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Springsteen\u00a0on\u00a0Broadway\u00a0<\/em>– the Broadway hit just released on Netflix – is, as Kyle Smith describes it in <\/a>National\u00a0Review<\/a><\/em>, <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…a luminous performance, an unexpected new late-career peak. His persona may be fake but his artistry is sublime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Let’s back up a moment and talk about that “fake persona” bit. It stems from the show’s big opening admission – in Bruce’s words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI made it all up,\u201d he tells the audience in his new Netflix special\u00a0Springsteen on Broadway<\/em>. \u201cBruce Springsteen\u201d the persona \u2014 all gritty working-class authenticity \u2014 is a creation. \u201cI\u2019ve never held an honest job in my entire life!\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve never done any hard labor. I\u2019ve never worked 9 to 5. I\u2019ve never worked five days a week. Until right now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To be fair, this surprises nobody who’s followed Bruuuuuce this past, um (counts quickly) 40 years or so – as Dave Marsh showed in his classic bio “Born to Run” back in the early ’80s, he pretty much eschewed everything but playing in bands and building a following. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

News flash – to succeed at something, you gotta live it every day, as someone once said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s one of the lines about the whole evening that resonated with me the most – because there are times I feel like I “made it all up” too; I’ve never had any formal training for any of the careers I’ve had – or even for any of the things I do for fun. My UX career? Tech writing before it? Music? Blogging and talk radio (OK, I had some OJT when I was a kid, but beyond being a DJ, nothing)? I decided I was gonna do them, and started doing them. After 20 years as a UXer, I still feel like someone’s going to bust me as a fraud someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway – it’s a great show, and I hope you get a chance to see it on Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And for those whose response is “I won’t listen to Bruce, since he’s teh liberal” – well, yeah, but in his prime he was also America’s best *conservative* songwriter<\/a>, which makes some peoples’ heads melt, but I’m right and they’re wrong)
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Springsteen\u00a0on\u00a0Broadway\u00a0– the Broadway hit just released on Netflix – is, as Kyle Smith describes it in National\u00a0Review, …a luminous performance, an unexpected new late-career peak. His persona may be fake but his artistry is sublime. Let’s back up a moment and talk about that “fake persona” bit. It stems from the show’s big opening admission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-69572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-springsteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69582,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69572\/revisions\/69582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}