Bruce Springsteen released a new album on Wednesday, recorded live during his concert on May 14 in Manchester, with which he opened his tour Land of Hope and Dreams (The land of hope and dreams), and in which he strongly attacked Donald Trump, warning of the dangers of authoritarianism. “The United States is in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and traitorous administration,” he said The Boss so.
The new album collects that and other direct criticisms to the president of his native country, and accompanies them with four songs, “the highlight of that first night,” according to the artist’s website: Land of Hope and Dream“With which the concert begins,” Long Walk Home, My City of Ruins y Chimes of Freedom The last bis of the show.
It is a clear act of political protest, such as the concert itself, populated by beginning to end explicit criticism to the US president and the authoritarian drift of his policy: “tonight, we ask all those who believe in democracy and in the best of our American experience to lift themselves with us, they raise their voices against authoritarianism and let freedom sound.”
The short album, which can already be heard on digital platforms, begins as the concert in the United Kingdom began, with the singer’s words: “The E Street Band is here to invoke the power of art, music and rock and roll, in dangerous times.” Beyond the musical themes, the introductions to the songs – two of them occupy a track full sound on the disc – focus attention. “This is a prayer for my country,” he says when introducing Long Walk Home. “There is a very rare and dangerous shit occurring right now. In the United States, people are chasing their right to freedom of expression. It is happening now. In the US, the richest ones get satisfaction in abandon solemn – for three and a half minutes – to give way to My City of Ruins.
A day after the concert last week, viralized on social networks, Trump responded to the singer, ensuring that it is an “overvalued”, “darker than a stone”, “arrogant arrogant” and “dry as a pass”, in a long message posted on its social truth platform. “I never liked it, I never liked his music or his radical left policy and, more importantly, he is not a talent guy. Only a arrogant and unpleasant fool who fervently supported the corrupt Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent idiot and our worst president in history, who was about to destroy our country,” the president wrote. Then, this Monday, again with his social network as a vehicle, he said he would ask for “a thorough investigation” by Springsteen and other singers who supported Harris in his campaign: “How much did Kamala Harris pay Bruce Springsteen for his bad performance during his presidential campaign? Why did he accept that money if he is so fan of her? Isn’t it an important and illegal campaign contribution?
The enmity between The Boss And Trump comes from afar. Springsteen is a declared Democratic voter, he has a good relationship with Barack Obama, he sang Land of Hope and Dreams (The name with which he baptized his tour, an elegy to the values of American democracy) in the investiture of Joe Biden as president, and openly supported Kamala Harris in the last electoral campaign. In addition, he had already demanded in 2016 to stop sounding his subject Born in the U.S.A. In the Magnate rallies, and during his first term he launched That’s What Makes Us Greatin which he referred to him as a “scammer.” The album published this Wednesday is another blow to the continuous exchange between artist and magnate.