{"id":64699,"date":"2017-10-04T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64699"},"modified":"2017-10-04T08:37:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:37:35","slug":"retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64699","title":{"rendered":"Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Variety\u00a0<\/em>does a two-part cover story on Bruce Springsteen.\u00a0 And it’s worth a read, if you’re an uberfan.<\/p>\n

And I guess I am.<\/p>\n

Others are not – and among this blog’s audience, that’s in large part due to Springsteen’s limo-left politics.\u00a0 I’ve always figured I care as much about musicians’ politics as I do about politicians’ iTunes playlists; I’ve also noted that if I limited my music by politics, I’d be listening to nothing but country-western and Ted Nugent.<\/p>\n

But on the subject of politics<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m ambivalent about \u2026 sort of getting on a soapbox. I still believe people fundamentally come to music to be entertained \u2014 yes, to address their daily concerns, and yes, also to address political topics, I believe music can do that well. But I still believe fundamentally it\u2019s an affair of the heart. People want you to go deeper than politics, they want you to reach inside to their most personal selves and their deepest struggles with their daily lives and reach that place; that\u2019s the place I\u2019m always trying to reach. I\u2019d never make a record that\u2019s just polemical, I wouldn\u2019t release it if I did. To me, that\u2019s just an abuse of your audience\u2019s good graces. But if I\u2019m moved, I\u2019ll write, say, something like \u201cAmerican Skin\u201d [inspired by the 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo by New York City Police officers \u2014 who were later acquitted]. That just rolled very naturally for me, and that\u2019s as good a topical song as I\u2019ve ever written. And when it comes up, I write \u2019em. If I felt that strongly, I\u2019d do it now. But I watch myself, because I think you can weigh upon your audience\u2019s indulgence in the wrong way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone tell Katy Perry<\/a>.\u00a0 mu<\/p>\n

Anyway – worth a read, if you’re a fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Variety\u00a0does a two-part cover story on Bruce Springsteen.\u00a0 And it’s worth a read, if you’re an uberfan. And I guess I am. Others are not – and among this blog’s audience, that’s in large part due to Springsteen’s limo-left politics.\u00a0 I’ve always figured I care as much about musicians’ politics as I do about politicians’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-64699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-music","tag-springsteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64700,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64699\/revisions\/64700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}