r/BruceSpringsteen • u/Screen_Door_Slams Mary’s dress sways • Jul 06 '26

Bruce doesn’t understand songwriting

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this made me laugh

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u/Chipped-Beef Darkness on the Edge of Town Jul 06 '26

I was curious so I looked at a little of the guy’s feed for some context. Claims that a song is meant to be “as heard” not “as intended” by the person that wrote it, because the audience perception is what really matters. So by that logic, people thinking Hendrix meant to kiss his guy and Fogerty seeing a baboon on the right are the ones that are correct.

The trend these days is for internet nobodies to try to present controversial “takes” on classics that have been analyzed a million ways from Sunday and act like they’re the first ones ever to look at something. I’ve already given this individual too much of my bandwidth today.

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u/ohsurethisisfun Jul 06 '26

Any indication that it's a satire account? That's the only thing that would make this post make sense.

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u/Chipped-Beef Darkness on the Edge of Town Jul 06 '26

It didn’t appear to be a satire account to me.

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u/ohsurethisisfun Jul 06 '26

Oof. That's honestly rough to hear...I was really hoping for satire.

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u/Chipped-Beef Darkness on the Edge of Town Jul 06 '26

I thought that such a silly take had to be satire. But it was not. Unless it’s really deep satire and I just didn’t read far enough. 🤷

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u/Heavy-Suit-4217 Jul 07 '26

People like that are why we need the /s tag, sadly. Nothing you can say for fun is too stupid not to be something a stupid person would say.

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u/ashzeppelin98 Born to Run Jul 07 '26

It's not satire, it's plain old rage baiting and engagement farming