https://rollingstone.com.br/musica/bruce-springsteen-se-manifesta-contra-a-censura-governamental-no-kimmel/

Bruce Springsteen passed through Jimmy Kimmel Live! On Thursday night to offer some very necessary words of hope, and also talk about the only time you tried to make karaoke.

Near the end of the interview, which was conducted next to Jeremy Allen White, star of Springsteen, Kimmel asked Springsteen If he would mind sharing some thoughts about the state of the country and the world. Springsteen He answered the request with a statement at the same time concise and powerful.

“For fifty years, I’ve been a kind of musical ambassador from America around the world,” he said. “I have this song, ‘Land of Hope and Dreams’which is like a prayer to the country, and we touch it every night. I really know that this is how many people around the world still see our country. Not as a land of fear, not divisions, not government censorship, not hatred. And I basically believe this is a America that it is worth fighting. ”

The rest of the interview, of course, was not so heavy. Springsteen and White They talked a lot about Deliver me from now, Springsteen remembered the story of how it stole the title of “Born in the USA” of a script sent to him by the filmmaker Paul Schraderand talked about the next box set Nebraska ’82which will contain the legendary electric version of the album recorded by And street band.

In the midst of all this, Springsteen It also shared another great story: about the first and only time it made Karaoke. “I was in London in a bar, they were making karaoke, and I said, ‘I’ll go up and make this cum from karaoke!” Springsteen With a smile.

For your music, you chose “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” of the Temptations. Being he Bruce Springsteenhe imagined he would take the stage, “would sing some notes”, and the bar “would go crazy.” Instead, he joked, “I went up there, I started singing, and they thought I was just another idiot who had taken on stage and was trying to make karaoke! It was really disappointing; I never did that.”

This article was originally published by Rolling Stone by Jon Blistein on October 3, 2025, and can be seen here.

+++ Read more: the surprising reason that led Bruce Springsteen to accept a movie about his life
+++ Read more: The story of the Jersey Shore bar that Bruce Springsteen made famous
+++ Read more: Bruce Springsteen Detona Trump in an interview and asks for a new impeachment

• Bruce Springsteen

• Deliver me from now

• Jeremy Allen White

• Jimmy Kimmel

• Jimmy Kimmel Live!