[CanYoAssDigIt] RE: Springsteen takes political tone on tour

Dear Tamera Conniff:

I read this quote from you in Reuters:

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"People will sort of endure Bruce's politics because they just love
the music," said Tamara Conniff, executive editor and associate
publisher of Billboard magazine, in a telephone interview before the
concert.
***

I really have to disagree with you on this point. People love
Springsteen's politics, and they hate the politics of the people and
institutions he opposes. The president's approval has sunk into the
20s, providing confirmation that Springsteen is on the right track.

I wonder if you might be sort of mentally stuck in the time when your
father's group, the Ray Conniff Singers, offered the musical of bland
comfort food while war was waged on the population of another hapless
country. Ray may have left performing and recording radical tunes
like Guantanamera to firebrands like The Sandpipers, but it's a new
era and everybody's getting political: Springsteen, Neil Young, REM,
Bruce Cockburn, Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow , Radiohead, Dave Matthews
Band.... it goes on and on, and people respond to the polical message
because they are starved for truth... but things have changed; it's a
new era so get with the countdown, shake this square world and blast
off for kicksville!

Matt Love
www.soundclick.com/bloodparadise

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