What’s with Bruce Springsteen partnering with indie pop/alt rock bands lately? He’s added a rich, melancholy grit to this song.
Bruce has also partnered up to great effect with The Killers. It’s keeping great company, given that the Killers are enduringly astronomically popular. Just look at the astronomic success of their debut album alone.
Like Springsteen, Brandon Flowers is a storyteller who aptly sing the tune of broke-down but somehow still noble America. Like Springsteen, who nearly moves me to tears with his haunting “The River,” Flowers knows how to lead listeners down a path that leads to an inevitable pathos.
For an example,listen to the KIllers “This Quiet Town. This an elegy to the young people dying with grandfather-clock regularity due to opiod overdose. It’s a dirge for all the bereft family members who lost sons and daughters to drugs. Set in Eveywhere, USA, it’s a fricking weeper.
Back to Bruce Springsteen. If he becomes known for his collaborations, it’s the end of his reign as the King of Pain, i.e. The Boss, and the beginning of an unexpected second act.
As for Bleachers, I’m going to give them a closer listen. They’ve already charmed me with three songs, most recently “Chinatown.”
It may be time for me to knock down my protective walls, overcome my natural fear of music created past the early ’90s, and risk slipping–sliding really, as on a water slide, into an unexpected fandom.
–Sarah Torribio
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