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Paul F. Tompkins@pftompkins.bsky.social |
The ultimate tragedy of Born In The USA is not only was it co-opted by dummies who embraced it because they didn’t catch any words past the title but that it has no barrier for entry for singers. No peaks, no valleys. It starts in the middle & stays there. Happy Birthday is more challenging.
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Waffle Cut
@wafflecut.bsky.social
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The fun thing about happy birthday is it has that high note in the middle where everyone suddenly realizes that they should have started the song lower but it’s too late now
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Charles McPherson
@varitel.bsky.social
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It's the same bar of music over and over again like a chant.
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Rex, on the Radio
@rexontheradio.bsky.social
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You can't get three people to sing Happy Birthday in fewer than five keys. It's a nightmare melody created by a tone deaf sadist.
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Fernando López
@tocuen.bsky.social
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if you karaoke Born to run you gotta put passion. If you karaoke Streets of Philadelphia you don't need much effort and a tisk of sadness. If you karaoke Born in the USA you need zero effort.
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Eelaware
@eelaware.bsky.social
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Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground End up like a dog that's been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up 🇺🇸 U-S-A! U-S-A!
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brightshadow is living más 🔔
@brightshadow.bsky.social
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gonna sing happy birthday to people to the tune of born in the usa now because less effort
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Argle-Bargler
@argle-bargler.bsky.social
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My wife always starts happy birthday in a key that I cannot find so I just loudly start singing it in the one key that's comfortable for my tiny register and then she's forced to change keys which wouldn't happen if she'd let me lip sync. I'm tired of watching birthday videos and cringing at ME.
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<Jordan /> 🇵🇸
@jordanneil.bsky.social
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People can put on their best Eddie Vedder impression and let ‘er rip.
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Rackle P. Tang 🦇 (she/her)
@rackletang.bsky.social
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I see you on my feed so infrequently, but every time I do, I know it's gold.
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peej
@katabasis.bsky.social
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And that’s why Springsteen is The People’s Champ
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Don Quixote Kong Country
@pork.bsky.social
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You can get away with that when you wear a denim jacket over a leather jacket, and a headband + scarf
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Zᴀᴄ ʙᴇɴᴛZ
@zacbentz.com
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the middle middle boss tones
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Nobody Ever
@frambley1.bsky.social
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Shiny Happy People has a similar issue (everybody neglects the rest of the lyrics).
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~Swinton
@basicchunnel.bsky.social
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Sinatra did the same thing. And, if you believe Sting, so does Shaggy
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Josh Dobbin
@joshdobbin.bsky.social
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I have an entire Darlington County head-canon where Wayne is, unbeknownst to the narrator, a twisted serial killer who had planned on using him as an alibi & setting him up as a patsy.
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Manolo Martínez
@manolomartinez.bsky.social
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HB is very challenging! Octave jumps are no joke.
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Self-deprecating ghost
@soundwave187.bsky.social
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It's a song you sing proudly but with a dram of pain on your face.
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long cool woman in a white coat
@pyslexicdharmacist.bsky.social
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I'd rather hear someone sing something unchallenging than sing something badly, but that's just me.
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@karen122.bsky.social
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They kicked off the 4th parade in Philly yesterday with this song. I don't think the Philly cops at the front of the parade thought it was ironic
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Larry
@misterkojak.bsky.social
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Hey, it's the only song the right wing has ever since Rage Against The Machine got all political super recently!
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beacon sighted through fog
@kaesmis.bsky.social
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Also, the drum part is... nothing. The lyrics are some of the most brutal and bleak to ever crack the top forty though
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Jeremy Pierce
@jkpierce.bsky.social
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There's a pharmacist that can sing that, then, I think. Famously terrible range.
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tomstpatrick
@tomstpatrick.bsky.social
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“Born in the USA” is more “Rich Men North of Richmond” than “Okie from Muskogee.”
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@bstriggo.bsky.social
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Michael Stipe dropped into a music store here in Athens to talk to a friend. A kid was ripping away on a rem song in a corner of the store. After a minute he nods toward the kid and sez 'I wrote that song so any frat boy could play it, and now look what I've done'.
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Schroedingercat
@schroedingercat.bsky.social
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I guess it makes Born in the USA the tonal opposite of the Star Spangled Banner and I kinda hope he meant to do that
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Ethan “κακοθερής” Harfenist
@harfenist.bsky.social
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love it when you come on here.
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John Whalen
@whalen.bsky.social
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Well, you just nailed all Springsteen songs. Verse-Verse-Verse. Where my chorus?
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Fustbariclation
@fustbariclation.bsky.social
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I think it's quite funny that patriotic, nationalist, far-right fascisti like the song 'Born in the USA'. It's an expected, but still pleasant, irony that reveals not only their inability to read, or listen, or understand, but their susceptibility to revealing their idiocy & petty exceptionalism.
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Mummified Tony
@mummifiedtony.bsky.social
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GET EM MR PEANUT BUTTER! Magila Gorilla gonna drag their ass! (huge fan of PFT just incase anyone needed that clarification)
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Rage Against The Miami Sound Machine
@randymiller.bsky.social
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Harvest Moon and Harvest by Neil Young are also great one-note karaoke jams
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Chris, Mr. KaBoomBOX if you’re nasty…🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🏴☠️
@kaboombox.bsky.social
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They only hear the chorus. The same people only see the pew-pew-splosions in Star Trek.
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John C Wheeler
@barleyscotch.bsky.social
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Springsteen only has about an 8-note effective vocal range. Believe me, the simplicity of the melody ain't the problem. Every Brit football fan bellows much more complicated "Sweet Caroline" whenever they win - because what's more British than singing Neil Diamond!?!
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Kragar
@kragar.bsky.social
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bXz...
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Andrew Panariello
@andrewyakgator.bsky.social
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Maybe that’s his point? It’s totally neutral, in a very working man’s voice and range. Like guys who just came off the line would sing.
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Morgan Davie
@fromthemorgue.bsky.social
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Burnt tune
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Chris Burdick
@chrisburdick.bsky.social
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I feel like he places too many conditions on us being born.
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BrassCastle MA $47/$700
@brasscastle.bsky.social
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It's a song full of pain. There's no subtlety to the suffering. 🤷♂️
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