Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to immobilize telephone lines three times--once in New Jersey (of course), once in Pennsylvania, and once in Washington, D.C. Whenever and wherever a Springsteen concert was announced, pandemonium erupted. When the D.C. date became public, even the White House had trouble communicating whatever it had to communicate all day long. Bruce was even banned from playing in Fox-borough, Mass., an honor previously accorded to Michael Jackson. That means he's really...
...concerts are just one barometer of the Springsteen-New Jersey movement. Sales of his 1984 album, "Born in the U.S.A.," have reached 5 million. Singles from that album still dominate both AM and FM. Even The New York Times loves him: "Like every rock megastar, he has crystallized something millions of people are thinking about...He has clearly struck a nerve...
...only OK to come from the Garden State, it's admirable. People are not just turning on to Springsteen when they buy his records or go to a concert--they're turning on to New Jersey. Springsteen and Jersey are one and the same, swirled together and inseparable...
...course, Bruce doesn't just go around and promote New Jersey blatantly. That just wouldn't work, for obvious reasons. No, what Bruce has done is nothing short of genius. He has turned people on to Jersey without them even knowing it. He has made the unglamourous and uninteresting into something, well, glamourous and interesting. With his bulging biceps, faded jeans, 48-hour shadow, and gravelly voice he has conned the American public into liking something they thought they'd never like--the armpit of the country...
...longer have to grit our teeth anymore when some wise guy asks us what exit we live off. Just think of Bruce and his odes to Jersey highways. Look them straight in the eye and say, "Exit 38 off Route 287. It's really a great exit. Bruce even has a reference to it in one of his songs...