Talk:Born in the U.S.A.

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Article requirements:
YesY All the start class criteria
YesY A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details
YesY At least one section of prose (excluding the lead section)
YesY A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs
YesY A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians
YesY Categorisation at least by artist and year
YesY A casual reader should learn something about the album. Andrzejbanas (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Set Album to Class B & Top Importance Megamanic 09:05, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

How many versions of the song exist? --Venkatesh 17:43, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

A bunch. See the new Born in the U.S.A. (song) article. Wasted Time R 03:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

"...and during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq many counterdemonstrators played the song opposite peace protests, which is a gross misrepresentation of the song itself." Now I happen to agree with this assessment, but it's hardly NPOV. Any way to keep the information but remove the POV? 208.59.171.97 01:27, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I already have tried. (see edit history) I explained why it is a gross misinterpretation by objectively (I think) analyzing the lyrics. War counterdemonstrators would be jusified in adopting the song if Springsteen had mentioned anything negative about Vietnam protests in (or maybe outside) his song. --Cjackb 00:00, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I've moved this material to the new Born in the U.S.A. (song) article, which explores at length the folklore around the song. Wasted Time R 03:37, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The song is about a vietnam vet who got screwed over by his country. What's not to get?

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 05:24, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flag controversy

When the album came out, I remember some controversy, probably minor, which erupted because some people thought the cover of the album depicted Bruce urinating on the flag. Anybody remember this? If you have sources and it seems significant enough, it could be added to this article. --Kevin