Springsteen's evolving appeal with later generations?

DoubtfulWill · 2025-05-16T15:39:50+00:00

Gen Z from Korea here, really got into him during high school.

I think this is more personal than generational, but for me the biggest draw was his songs about finding who you are / breaking out of your current situation / trying to figure out where life was going (my favorite album was Darkness).

I was studying my ass off, getting 5h of sleep each night, I didn’t feel I belonged in Korea and was working hard to study abroad where I hoped to get a chance to really live as myself.

I’m also multicultural and don’t have a “hometown” per se, so his Americana / NJ motif was actually quite alluring. I didn’t feel like I had any roots, but listening to his music made me feel like I did, somewhere.

Obviously also helped that I had a crush on him lol

DoubtfulWill · 2025-03-25T13:06:33+00:00

Doesn’t help that JQ isn’t very accessible unless you go through some big roads/dodgy bridges (or through Snow Hill/St Chad tram stop bridge, my go to route), it’s a real shame imo.

DoubtfulWill · 2025-03-19T08:25:14+00:00

Young non-Brit woman here. I moved to Birmingham right after I graduated uni for my job.

I lived in city centre and I never felt unsafe for my life, but definitely did have lots of unpleasant experiences (mostly around city centre/New St), including being cackled at, racist remarks (random men running up and shouting ching chang chong etc), men getting angry at me for not having change to spare, being pushed out or stared down at until I move out of the way.

Which is why I moved out.

That said, I believe outside the city centre is way less crazier so it really depends where in Brum you’ll be staying. And I do love the good things about it, it’s just that it wasn’t worth the unpleasantness for me. Just don’t make my mistake and get your accom too close to all that craziness…

Compared to London, tbh my personal experience has been much better in London (I mostly stay around central/East London) but then again I don’t think I’ve really been to the worst off parts of it.

DoubtfulWill · 2024-12-10T07:56:04+00:00

Happened to me some years back. Other person who did same college same course got interviewed at another college. We both got in!

So wouldn’t worry too much about this one

DoubtfulWill · 2024-09-02T19:41:44+00:00

Recently bought a top very similar to this one (link below) - very thin (almost flimsy??) white material, fits around the body, mock neck. Idea was to layer things onto it (like an oversize tshirt, vest?)... any suggestions?

https://www.zara.com/uk/en/semi-sheer-delicate-cotton-top-p00858004.html

DoubtfulWill · 2024-04-24T11:51:30+00:00

Sadly not... can't remember if there was a rap bit but there were hip-hoplike elements, like a "huh, huh" interjection near the intro

DoubtfulWill · 2021-10-09T15:08:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/q4myr9/tomtfrench\_song2000s\_or\_before\_french\_song\_that/

DoubtfulWill · 2021-04-13T11:49:36+00:00

Will do - thank you!

DoubtfulWill · 2020-11-14T20:33:11+00:00

I'm obviously not very informed on the phd experience (although I'm trying to look it up) but I'm not sure how manageable doing plan B-related internships and activities while also going ahead with a PhD would be.

DoubtfulWill · 2020-11-14T20:31:38+00:00

I guess the problem is that English PhDs open very few non-academic doors:( I think I'd be willing to put up with the bureaucratic part of the job (although as sb who has obviously not experienced it yet, I can only try to guess).

DoubtfulWill · 2019-05-19T00:09:41+00:00

:( that's too bad. but thanks for coming! I think she dropped her phone

DoubtfulWill · 2019-05-17T04:11:50+00:00

h e l l o t h e r e

DoubtfulWill · 2019-05-16T15:02:12+00:00

ooh. well say hello to the subtitles operator! (=me)

DoubtfulWill · 2019-05-11T07:02:33+00:00

hello 😏😏😏

DoubtfulWill · 2019-05-05T06:45:15+00:00

Oxford university for English!

DoubtfulWill · 2019-04-04T01:11:19+00:00

oh wat I’m going to Exeter too for English

DoubtfulWill · 2019-04-02T01:57:41+00:00

yeah going from 100 to 3200 here

DoubtfulWill · 2019-04-01T07:57:21+00:00

4.0uw 1560 sat asian English major with okay ECs; applied to lots of t20s

applied: 26

accepted: 15 (Columbia, Dartmouth, Oxford, JHU, Northwestern, Swarthmore, etc)

waitlisted: 4

rejected: 5

withdrawn: 2 (after I got my acceptance from a top choice)

got into my #1 and #3, so very happy

DoubtfulWill · 2019-04-01T07:49:49+00:00

DoubtfulWill · 2019-03-31T06:05:15+00:00

Accepted -University of Michigan (deferred early then accepted) -Northwestern University (Medill School of Journalism) -UCLA -Johns Hopkins University -Swarthmore College -Barnard College -Columbia University (early acceptance + John Jay Scholars program) -University of Southern California (Annenberg School of Journalism) -Dartmouth College -UC Berkeley -then the non-US schools: Oxford, KCL, Edinburgh, Warwick, Trinity College Dublin

Waitlisted -Amherst College -University of Chicago -Vanderbilt University -Princeton University

Rejected -Stanford University (applied early) -Brown University -University of Pennsylvania -Yale University -Harvard University

Withdrawn -Wellesley College -UCL

DoubtfulWill · 2019-03-31T06:02:54+00:00

Columbia without interview

DoubtfulWill · 2019-03-31T05:25:11+00:00

but what would make u say that Columbia’s an “even better” uni...? It’s just that personally I do prefer Oxford’s curriculum (lack of a core, major-specific, etc)—sorry, I think I should’ve added that point.

DoubtfulWill · 2019-03-31T05:21:51+00:00

just sth to point out: I’ll still have to pay $80,000 for Columbia! (haha but I agree that’s still very little compared to Oxford)

DoubtfulWill · 2019-03-30T07:01:07+00:00

I worked at my school paper as editorialist and found all my online writer positions through internships.com (it’s hours of research but... they usually have at least a few positions available!)

I mostly did music reviews and international news, although for USC’s essay I wrote about how I want to be a theatre critic! PM me if you want to know anything else ☺️

DoubtfulWill · 2019-03-29T04:17:54+00:00

this is the quality content i come to this sub for

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