Springsteen Talks Politics: “Occupy Wall Street Has Changed the Conversation” Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Wrecking Ball, was written “out of patriotism, a patriotism traduced,” the Boss told reporters last night. Springsteen explained that his album channels the anger ordinary people feel about income inequality and the economic collapse, an anger he describes as “patriotic”: What was done to our country was wrong and unpatriotic and un-American and nobody has been held to account.  Occupy Wall Street changed the national conversation… Previous to Occupy Wall Street, there was no push back at all saying this was outrageous – a basic theft that struck at the heart of what America was about, a complete disregard for the American sense of history and community. … Nobody had talked about income inequality in America for decades. … But now you have Newt Gingrich talking about ‘vulture capitalism’ – Newt Gingrich! – that would not have happened without Occupy Wall Street. The anger and pain in the album’s lyrics are fueled by Springsteen’s early experience of unemployment and hard times. Speaking to the Guardian’s Fiachra Gibbons, Springsteen talked movingly about his father, who’d been “emasculated by losing his job” in the 70s: Unemployment is a really devastating thing. I know the damage it does to families. Growing up in that house there were things you couldn’t say. It was a minefield. My mother was the breadwinner. She was steadfast and relentless and I took that from her.
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Springsteen Talks Politics: “Occupy Wall Street Has Changed the Conversation”

Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Wrecking Ball, was written “out of patriotism, a patriotism traduced,” the Boss told reporters last night.

Springsteen explained that his album channels the anger ordinary people feel about income inequality and the economic collapse, an anger he describes as “patriotic”:

What was done to our country was wrong and unpatriotic and un-American and nobody has been held to account. 
Occupy Wall Street changed the national conversation… Previous to Occupy Wall Street, there was no push back at all saying this was outrageous – a basic theft that struck at the heart of what America was about, a complete disregard for the American sense of history and community. … Nobody had talked about income inequality in America for decades. … But now you have Newt Gingrich talking about ‘vulture capitalism’ – Newt Gingrich! – that would not have happened without Occupy Wall Street.

The anger and pain in the album’s lyrics are fueled by Springsteen’s early experience of unemployment and hard times. Speaking to the Guardian’s Fiachra Gibbons, Springsteen talked movingly about his father, who’d been “emasculated by losing his job” in the 70s:

Unemployment is a really devastating thing. I know the damage it does to families. Growing up in that house there were things you couldn’t say. It was a minefield. My mother was the breadwinner. She was steadfast and relentless and I took that from her.

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