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im so tired of being in pain and also working.

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

nickyandmikey

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

irrelevantlyvalid

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

chokolattejedi

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

executeness

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

ramshacklefey

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

jbbartram-illu

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

eregyrn-falls

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

my weed got lost in the mail... it's so jover

#weed #right before my birthday too #why me #why now

my hottest stranger things take is that i think it should have been a horror anthology like it was intended.

#stranger things #i know people love the main cast but it would have been so good to end it season 1 #and you can tell they really truly wanted a horror anthology with the amount of subplots and extra cast members they added #everything about season 3 would have been good if it had a completely different cast

i-am-a-fish

there is nothing badass about not taking an ibuprofen when you need it

moth-requiem

i would like to add to this by saying there is also nothing badass about taking pills dry. please. please drink water.

#used to take pills dry when i was in middle school and it gave me heartburn so bad i unironically thought i was having a heart attack.

i-am-a-fish

there is nothing badass about not taking an ibuprofen when you need it

i-am-a-fish

I want everyone to have universal basic income please

meme i made that only i understand, but it makes me laugh.

#nanny posting #tma #the magnus archives #i hate you vtech sit to stand learning walker #why does it keep playing even when the baby is done with it #i bump into that thing once and it plays for like five minutes

ive been so fucked up and depressed today and not once have i considered it might be because im wearing the gay dog shirt of despair

#car seat headrest #it's not because of my car seat headrest shirt but i can pretend

big day for the people who like my tma miis!

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #tomodachi life #tomodachi life living the dream

some highlights from the last few days lol

#tma #the magnus archives #death note #jonathan sims #melanie king #basira hussain #lawlight #l lawliet #light yagami #tomodachi life #tomodachi living the dream #tma podcast

neat-username

"I asked ChatGPT--"

Yeah well, I asked the wasps nest in my attic. It sang its answer so beautifully to me, but I am so very afraid of it. Perhaps it will soothe my itching soul...

i could be at home playing tomodachi life, but alas i have to work my 9-5

#tomodachi living the dream #tomodachi life #i like my job well enough but that doesn't mean it doesn't suck the life out of me

lesbian lawlight in the mediterranean! also jonathan sims, but don't worry about him