Staind’s Aaron Lewis: Bruce Springsteen “Duped Us All with One of the Most Anti-American Songs Ever”
Staind frontman and outspoken conservative Aaron Lewis recently made an appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show, during which he was asked about his thoughts on Bruce Springsteen, whose political beliefs are in strong opposition to those of the post-grunge rocker.
Not surprisingly, Lewis proceeded to go on a tirade, accusing The Boss of being unpatriotic and fooling everyone with one of the most “anti-American songs ever.”
“I think that he is a disgusting display of not appreciating what was handed to him, in this country as being an American, the success that he has had,” Lewis told Carlson (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “The fact that he duped us all with one of the most anti-American songs ever and called it ‘Born in the USA’ as some sort of celebration of how great it is to be born in the USA. I’m angry at myself for not seeing it for so long and actually giving him, in my mind, the credit of being a representation of blue-collar America.”
Springsteen wrote “Born in the USA” from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran who was disillusioned with the way the country treated him upon his return home, but the song has often been misinterpreted as a patriotic anthem.
Aaron Lewis has apparently only just discovered the concept of irony. Meanwhile, I suspect most music fans who care about this sort of thing have been aware for decades that “Born in the USA” was celebrating piss all and was far more about standing up for the blue-collar Americans drafted into that shitty war who then got ignored when they returned home having lost it. I suspect, mind you, that brother Aaron should be less angry that he was too stupid to realise what a certain song was well known to actually be about and more that Springsteen looks better at 76 than he does at 53…
