3. Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iir_xAbt-ak Nebraska is the song from which Bruce Springsteen's 1982 solo album takes its name. The song is dark and cold in atmosphere, and sets the tone for the vast majority of the LP. Despite the fact that the whole record deals with similarly desperate people, few songs that feature are as rooted in stark, depressing reality. The lyrics of Nebraska are sung from the perspective of Charles Starkweather, an American teenager who along with his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killed eleven people over an eight-day period in 1958. During the song Springsteen details the meeting of Charles and his girlfriend, as well as singing of the victims' murders. It's believed that Springsteen was inspired by an image from the Terrence Malick movie Badland's, specifically of a girl standing on her lawn twirling a baton. This led the musician to research the case and write the morbid song.
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