Revisão da matéria dada (I)

"He’s writing about the middle of the night, and he’s singing about it in the middle of the night. All by himself. He’s not evaluating his performances, he’s just blowing it out. That’s 'Nebraska'."

"The thing about Springsteen for me, though, is that he’s really good at everything musical he does: great writer, great singer, and great performer. Arguably, he’s one of the greatest performers of the rock era. Being successful at that, going from clubs to arenas to stadiums, the music gets bigger. The music gets more bombastic. It has to, really. But because of this, I think you can lose sight of Springsteen. Seeing him in a big, over-the-top place, an arena or stadium, doing these big performances, his virtues can be missed. You can lose sight of him as the great songwriter he is. So in that way, 'Nebraska' stands as his best record."

"In order to write about other people’s isolation, Springsteen had gone all the way into his own. And then, having created the document of his isolation in the form of an album called 'Nebraska', for the first time he was cut off from the audience that had always been there to provide the energy and life he fed on. The critic and writer Robert Palmer remarked of 'Nebraska', 'It’s been a long time since a mainstream rock star made an album that asks such tough questions and refuses to settle for easy answers—let alone an album suggesting that perhaps there are no answers.'"