The Boss revealed that he first heard the No. 1 album when his daughter played it in the car.
“My daughter, a Taylor Swift fan to the max, the other day ago I pick her up at the airport,” the 74-year-old said. “She says, ‘Dad, Taylor Swift has got a banging new record!’ I was like, ‘So we got a banging new record? Alright.’ And plays it for me, top volume, all the way from Newark to Colts Neck, dancing in her seat. I said, ‘That’s what I like to see.’ It felt good.”
"When my daughter was in college, she took me with all of her girlfriends, and it was a fantastic show. Her audience experiences her songwriting very, very personally, and I think she's speaking to a large part of them very personally."
Although Springsteen may not have fit into the same category as Swift’s work, he considered her one of the best in her field at what she does. While not catering to the traditional world of rock music, Springsteen saw Swift as a songwriter who embodied everything that comes with popular music.
“If you look at the music, she’s an excellent writer. She is, lyrically. She’s a really good… lyricist – about this moment, I would say. It’s everything top 40 records should be. She is going to be a very influential artist for a long time”.
While the perspectives of Springsteen fans and Taylor Swift fans may seem poles apart at times, Springsteen knows the difference between a song written by a committee and someone with their own outlook on the world.
Regardless of how the music sounds, it’s about being authentic to yourself, and Springsteen was able to recognise the reality behind every one of Swift’s modern masterpieces.
"It's not necessarily something I'm driving around listening to in my car 24-7 - I'm too old, I tend to listen to older music."
But not only Taylor Swift is in heart of the Boss as he previously decleared "Lana Del Rey is one of the best songwriters” in the US. She's simply one of the best songwriters in the US".
Bruce Springsteen talking about Lana Del Rey on his radio show last night❤️ pic.twitter.com/Bk22TUXkrP
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The veteran musician praised Del Rey for "creating a world of her own"
He continued to talk about Del Rey, calling her hometown of Lake Placid, NY a “fabulous little American town”, before moving on to discuss her songwriting itself. “Lana is simply one of the best songwriters in the country, as we speak,” he said.