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Re: babel-digest V2 #291
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- Subject: Re: babel-digest V2 #291
- From: "Fiona Webster" <fi>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 16:48:35 +0000
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> "mass media and irony seldom mix well together - ask Bruce
> Springsteen who had rather different intentions behind Born in the USA
> than another redneck anthem."
>
> If you really believe this, you need to read John Goodman's Mansion on the Hill,
> which reveals Bruce Springsteen has no ideas that are not those of his producer
> and Svengali, Jon Landau. Goodman says the simple singer-songwriter from
> New Jersey, is, indeed, simple.
I don't get your point, Mike. What if (theoretically) Jon Landau
gave Bruce Springsteen the idea of writing "Born in the USA"
as an embittered song about the experiences of Nam vets?
What if Jon Landau (for that matter) even *wrote* the song?
It's still an embittered song about Nam vets, so Springsteen's
intentions (original or otherwise) were not that it be taken as
a redneck anthem.
--Fiona