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Springsteen Movie is About Selling Out

Springsteen Movie is About Selling Out The consensus take on Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is that it’s a brave, intimate portrait of an artist choosing authenticity over commerce. If that’s what they set out to do, it failed. The film opens with Bruce Springsteen already successful. He just came off The River tour, his first true taste of mass popularity, and he’s staring down the possibility of becoming enormous. He is afraid of losing himself, losing his blue-collar roots, becoming a superstar. In short, he is afraid of going LA. He records the song Born in the USA that everyone knows this will be a hit. But he selves it. He wants to be true to his true self, or what he thinks it is. Instead, retreats to a rented house in his hometown. He records alone in his bedroom on a four-track tape machine. No band. No studio. No audience. This becomes Nebraska, the album that isn’t supposed to sell. He dates a waitress in his hometown, despite being in a relationship with supermodel. He is going native all the way. So far, so good, no? The fits the theme perfectly. The problem is the waitress. She represents his authenticity. He is dating her, a common plebe, instead of the supermodel shows he hasn’t gone Hollywood. He is looking at her a person instead of her pedigree. But, once Nebraska is done, he dumps her. He leaves New Jersey and goes to Los Angeles. He begins work that will lead directly to Born in the U.S.A., one of the most polished, and commercially dominant albums in American history. The movie treats this not as contradiction, but as inevitability. As growth. But it’s not: once authenticity is demonstrated, he throws her away. He goes back his supermodel girlfriend, becomes a superstar, and embraces his superficial life. When his dumps his girlfriend, she accuses him of “not facing his fears.” She leaves us with the impression that all of this, recording Nebraska, reconciling with his father, but most of all, dating her, was for nothing. He hasn’t faced anything. And she’s right. He throws her away, and his authenticity with. But there is a point where he almost has a revelation. He puts his head is his hands mutters, “She’s right. She’s right.” So, what does he do? Does he go back to her? No. He does the most LA thing possible: he goes into therapy. He deals with his man pain, woop, throws her over his shoulder and lives his LA life. And as with her, he leaves his blue-collar roots behind. He needed her to feel good about selling out, when it was a brief foray in his stardom.