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Trump’s relationship with classic rock is really interesting. He’s obviously a big fan of Sixties and Seventies rock music, but he feels more like a political figure than any other rock star

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58% Informative

Steven Hyden's new book, There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. and the End of the Heartland , traces the pop-cultural and political impact of that album.

Hyden: Springsteen carries some sort of American weight that other rock stars do n’t .

Tim Walz's music taste has been one of the ways in which he’s presented himself as a normal guy, which becomes a big part of this campaign stigmatizing Republicans as the weird ones.

I think that also just speaks to Springsteen 's place in the culture.

He is part of that all- American package, but also progressive at the same time.

There’s a lot of things in his music that if you are conservative, you can relate to. And it just requires the mental jujitsu to block out the other stuff, which people do with songs all the time. We always disregard things that don’t align with our own experiences. I think that was easier to say, frankly, pre-MAGA. I feel like it's hard to be like, I’m a MAGA Republican and these are the five things I hear in Bruce .

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54

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51

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46

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informal

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English

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32

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