Born To Run
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If anyone is fit to sing this redemptive song of life’s rocky roads, it’s Melissa Etheridge. Having overcome cancer, persecution as both a closeted and then out gay woman, and a longtime target of the conservative mental minority, she not only persevered, but excelled. Her performance at Live Earth in 2007 was a highlight of the day, and that was not long after she won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “I Need To Wake Up” for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
Having already been lauded for her channeling of Janis Joplin at the Grammies in 2005, this time she’s tapped to deliver one of the ballsyest songs in the history of rock — another one of those unexpected yet effective gender reversals, a la Christina Aguilera channeling James Brown at the Grammies in 2007.
Too bad she’s wearing those ghoulish lashes and mascara lathered on to reach the back of the balcony, but this song ain’t pretty anyway. When she sings, “Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run,” her face reflects all the years of scenes she’s caused and had to high-tail it outta there to fight another day.
And dig her wonderful road-weary rasp, like an old fold-out map that’s weathered many long strange trips but always gets you home again.
She’s Woody, she’s Kerouac, she’s timeless, and she’s Bruce.
1 Comment So Far
This song is the greatest
rock and roll youth anthem of all time!
It's an important song
from an important album
Not only because I'm a Springsteen fan but
because I'm an enormous fan of great music.
And although Ethridge does a pretty good job of it, I'm not entirely sure I like a woman singing it.
Having said that,
I was still moved to tears
But I think my emotion had more to do with
watching Bruce watch someone else
cover his material.
L in Toronto
1 Comment So Far
This song is the greatest
rock and roll youth anthem of all time!
It's an important song
from an important album
Not only because I'm a Springsteen fan but
because I'm an enormous fan of great music.
And although Ethridge does a pretty good job of it, I'm not entirely sure I like a woman singing it.
Having said that,
I was still moved to tears
But I think my emotion had more to do with
watching Bruce watch someone else
cover his material.
L in Toronto