Aaron Lewis isn’t very happy with Bruce Springsteen. Start with the fact that they are pretty far apart politically, the Staind singer claims that The Boss duped most of America (himself included) with one of his biggest hits.
On “The Tucker Carlson Show,” the singer explained. “I think that he is a disgusting display of not appreciating what was handed to him, in this country as being an American, the success that he has had,” Lewis said. “The fact that he duped us all with one of the most anti-American songs ever and called it ‘Born in the USA’ as some sort of celebration of how great it is to be born in the USA. I’m angry at myself for not seeing it for so long and actually giving him, in my mind, the credit of being a representation of blue-collar America.”
The song is actually about the problems that Vietnam veterans faced when they returned to the United States and was created after The Boss met with a veteran.
