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Title: Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A.
Year/Genre/City: 1984, Rock, New Jersey, USA
Matrix #: qc 38653
Condition: EX

Cultural Facts:

1. Political Science: The title was widely misread as flag-waving; the lyric is about Vietnam fallout and working-class abandonment, not triumph.

2. Media Narrative: The red-cap/flag photo became a culture-war symbol—campaigns tried to claim it while Springsteen kept pointing back to the story.

3. Studio Lore: Several core tracks began as stark Nebraska-era demos; polished versions carried that same bleak core into pop-scale packaging.