American Conservative

Last month it was reported that Bruce Springsteen had sold his song catalogue to Sony for $500 million, the biggest deal of its kind in music history. Springsteen has thrown most of the principles propounded in his songwriting out the window. His music gave voice to America’s blue-collar workers, and chronicled the struggles of protagonists such as “tramps like us” on “a last chance power drive” in “Born to Run.”