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The Boss is Back
Posted by: graylocks
Date: February 07, 2021 10:56AM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: $tevie
Date: February 07, 2021 06:00PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: vision63
Date: February 07, 2021 07:11PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: rjmacs
Date: February 07, 2021 09:14PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: vision63
Date: February 07, 2021 09:45PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: rjmacs
Date: February 07, 2021 10:07PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: vision63
Date: February 07, 2021 10:15PM
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As long as you’re a Christian, rural person.
Yes. That's what Bruce Springsteen would believe. Exactly that.
I’m sure he didn’t direct the ad. Jeep commercial <> Bruce Springsteen.
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: rjmacs
Date: February 07, 2021 10:25PM
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As long as you’re a Christian, rural person.
Yes. That's what Bruce Springsteen would believe. Exactly that.
I’m sure he didn’t direct the ad. Jeep commercial <> Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce is far from being a dummy. We've seen him operate politically for decades now. He's always been on point with his time and his money. Nobody is tricking him into anything.
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: February 07, 2021 10:38PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: vision63
Date: February 07, 2021 10:41PM
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As long as you’re a Christian, rural person.
Yes. That's what Bruce Springsteen would believe. Exactly that.
I’m sure he didn’t direct the ad. Jeep commercial <> Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce is far from being a dummy. We've seen him operate politically for decades now. He's always been on point with his time and his money. Nobody is tricking him into anything.
Well, not everyone saw the ad the same way you did. Love you, vision63.
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: $tevie
Date: February 07, 2021 11:10PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: samintx
Date: February 08, 2021 06:21AM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: Janit
Date: February 08, 2021 07:20AM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: rjmacs
Date: February 08, 2021 11:26AM
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As long as you’re a Christian, rural person.
I noticed that too, but that's the choir he's preaching to. If this ad brings the right-leaning demographic closer into the middle, is that a bad thing?
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: Lemon Drop
Date: February 08, 2021 12:13PM
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As long as you’re a Christian, rural person.
I noticed that too, but that's the choir he's preaching to. If this ad brings the right-leaning demographic closer into the middle, is that a bad thing?
Nope - what bugged me much more than the ad was the pretense from lots of commentators that it was aimed at all of America, and that it represented the idea of a united country.
Also, if a Jeep ad can bring right-leaning people closer to the middle, can we please hire that ad agency to work for the government?
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: vision63
Date: February 08, 2021 01:00PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: February 08, 2021 02:09PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: $tevie
Date: February 08, 2021 02:16PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: deckeda
Date: February 08, 2021 02:37PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: graylocks
Date: February 08, 2021 02:48PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: rjmacs
Date: February 08, 2021 02:51PM
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For me, it’s Rodney King’s famous lament about getting along. That’s not acquiescence but it’s not forgiveness, either.
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: Acer
Date: February 08, 2021 04:03PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: AllGold
Date: February 08, 2021 08:36PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: deckeda
Date: February 08, 2021 08:51PM
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For me, it’s Rodney King’s famous lament about getting along. That’s not acquiescence but it’s not forgiveness, either.
People often forget that Rodney King's plea wasn't a lament, but an urgent entreaty to the people of Los Angeles, in the midst of intense violence and ongoing physical destruction of his community, not to continue causing damage on his behalf. He wanted to stop seeing his world burn before his eyes.
It was not a reflective, considered statement about what happened to him, nor a representation of his eventual thoughts and feelings on the subject. It became a catch-phrase and, sadly, a caricature of a complicated man who had complex feelings about his plight and the subsequent results for his community.
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: Ted King
Date: February 08, 2021 09:16PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: RgrF
Date: February 08, 2021 11:18PM
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Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: Lemon Drop
Date: February 09, 2021 07:59AM
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Springsteen is way too identified as a supporter of Democrats to be seen as a unifier by anyone that commercial might hope to reach.
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: vision63
Date: February 09, 2021 11:17AM
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Springsteen is way too identified as a supporter of Democrats to be seen as a unifier by anyone that commercial might hope to reach.
I think the ad agency that made this was thinking
1. Bruce represents the Left. And all who know the man and his music know he's left.
2. Small town rural Kansas is RIght, especially the Evangelicals
3. So put them together and suggest they both need to move to the center. Feel all cozy amd American and go buy a jeep.
Its oversimplified and either oblivious to Christian nationalist symbolism, or promoting it. I suspect the former. I doubt anyone involved in making this ad has spent much time in Kansas.
This ad was made before Jan. 6. They should have pulled it or revised it. And I'm sorry that Bruce let his celebrity amd cultural significance get weakened like this. He's lost some fans and a lot of respect.
Re: The Boss is Back
Posted by: Yoyodyne ArtWorks
Date: February 09, 2021 01:25PM
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I get the general sentiment he is trying to evoke - let's get away from the extremes - but I don't like that the imagery used paints the middle as being a chapel. As he intones the words "come meet here in the middle" the imagery is focused on a Christian cross with an American flag in the shape of the country as a backdrop to the cross. To me, all that does is reinforce the idea that the "real" America is a Christian America. Blech.