{"id":353964,"date":"2026-03-29T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353964\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:34:07","slug":"angrier-than-the-springsteen-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353964\/","title":{"rendered":"Angrier than the Springsteen song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, Bruce is God, but still. This record grabbed me much more, with its melody and power and absolute fury.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me more than anyone of Billy Bragg. I just played it ten times in a row. I would SO love to hear\u00a0thousands of people singing\/shouting it as they marched through Minneapolis or New York or Chicago or L.A. or Your Town USA.<\/p>\n<p>Enormous thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/comments\/2375186\/92929065#comment_92929065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GDbot, who posted this music in their comment <\/a>in crystalline\u2019s Bluesky gems on the 28th.<\/p>\n<p>If you click through to YouTube, you\u2019ll discover that the poster scaredketchup says their YouTube channel has been demonetized. I sent them a thank-you for raising my heart rate and letting me feel the power of the people in song.<\/p>\n<p>NSFW, in case that was not screamingly obvious&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>** One commenter below says \u201cthe song\u201d is AI. I have no idea, I just love it. Wouldn\u2019t surprise me if parts of the video were AI. What do people think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OK, Bruce is God, but still. This record grabbed me much more, with its melody and power and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-353964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}