In a move sure to make hipsters confused and anixious (well, more so than usual) and baby-boomers rushing to find the nearest copy of Funeral, stereogum via The AV club reported that Bruce Springsteen covered an Arcade Fire song on the weekend.
I’m not sure what song it was, and to be blatantly honest I don’t care to find out. I guess it makes sense that it makes that Springsteen would choose to continue his gradual descent into mediocrity by covering a song by the most mind numbingly overrated band this side of anywhere.
Sure, the man has stayed current for god knows how long, but I imagine that much of that is due to fans willing to irrationally ham over anything he releases, and they seem to be dying at a pretty alarming rate. Thus, a problem emerges, once people new to Springsteen realize that nothing he’s released in the last 20 years has peeked its ugly
Still if he wants to appeal to a younger, mopeier fan base I want to give him suggestions, along with a copy of Darkness for him to sign
-Steal a fan’s basketball, then act like an ass about it. Fan’s love musicians who don’t respect or like them, hell, look at Bob Dylan.
-Get Kirsten Dunst to say concise, non hyperbolic statements about your music. This will get your name known to the three remaining people who can stand the fucking sight of her.
-Dude, do a concept album that’s not all that conceptual, that’d be deep.
Note: I don’t even really hate either of the artists mentioned, I just felt like being an asshole and writing something other then shitty TV pseudo reviews. Oh, and I don’t still don’t like Kristen Dunst, but The Rising was pretty awesome.
Original Story: http://www.stereogum.com/archives/video/bruce-springsteen-covers-arcade-fire-joined-by-win.html#more
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