Bruce Springsteen is reportedly self-critical of his work.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the legendary musician commented on his mainstream-crushing 1984 album Born In The USA.
In doing so, he made a shock admission and acknowledged that while this album proved to be a game-changer for him, he was unable to connect with it.
“It was a record I put out. It became the record I made, not necessarily the record that I was interested in making,” he began.
He went on to explain, “I was interested in taking Nebraska and making a full record that had somewhat that same feeling.”
“If you hear My Hometown and you hear Born in the USA, they were sort of the bookends I intended. And the rest of the stuff was … just what I had at the time. Those were the songs I wrote. Those were the songs I recorded,” he continued.
Bruce went on to address that the album digressed from what he had initially planned by saying, “From conception to execution, it was not necessarily the record that in my mind I had planned on, but that’s the way creativity works. You go in the studio, you have an idea. It’s not necessarily what you come out with.”
“So that was just the situation of that record for me personally,” he remarked in conclusion.
