Zach Bryan has already made headlines with his new song “Bad News” before its full release. A snippet of the song includes lyrics that appear to be critical of ICE, which has divided country fans who support Donald Trump’s stance on immigration and those against it.
Lost in the controversy over the lyrics that also include a line about “the fading of the red, white and blue,” is a slight dis of Bruce Springsteen with the lyrics, “The Boss stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling,” which could be interpreted as a critique of Springsteen’s recent recorded output.
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However, it’s likely that Bryan isn’t sharing his own feelings in the song but is writing in character as the singer-guitarist has said in the past that Springsteen is one of his musical heroes and the two have performed together and have also sat for a joint interview.
Interestingly, the song that Bryan performed with Springsteen and Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill is “Atlantic City,” the stark classic from Springsteen’s downbeat 1982 album Nebraska, which disappointed some fans at the time of its release coming after the high-energy of his previous album, The River. Indeed, some Springsteen fans likely felt like “the Boss stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling” when Springsteen released Nebraska.
While introducing Springsteen during his July 20 performance at MetLife Stadium, Bryan called the Boss “one of the greatest men to ever exist.”
Bryan and Springsteen also sat down together for a video interview with Rolling Stone that was published in October 2024.
“How have you stayed in love with music after being Bruce Springsteen all these years?” Bryan asked his hero at one point.
“Music is not hard to love. You gotta contextualize and keep the rest of the things that come with it in the right perspective,” Springsteen responded.
Later in the interview, Bryan revealed that Nebraska is his favorite Springsteen album.
“There was a quote somewhere about the writing on Nebraska that really resonated with me a lot: ‘I know with Nebraska, I was interested in making myself as invisible as possible.’ That’s my favorite record ever written,” Bryan said.
“Nebraska happened as an accident. I was just trying to save money in the studio. I had the biggest success I’d ever had in 1981. We had a hit single, ‘Hungry Heart.’ But I was already wondering — there’s an element of what we do that can feel hazardous to your inner life. My idea was ‘I’m gonna take this a little slower, I’m gonna slow this down a little bit,’” Springsteen explained.
The explanation resonated with Bryan. “I’m in the exact place right now in my writing and career,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Oh, wow, I really came out of the gate fast.’”
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