Bruce Springsteen has called Lana Del Rey “simply one of the best songwriters” in the US in the latest episode of his radio series.
The Boss hosts From His Home To Yours on SiriusXM and played Del Rey’s 2012 track ‘American’ in the most recent instalment.
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In the song, the star name-checks Springsteen himself, singing: “Springsteen is the kind, don’t you think?/I was like, hell yeah that guy can sing.” After playing the song, the veteran musician said: “She’s, uh, name-checking some guy from New Jersey in there. I’m not sure who.”
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.
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The singer recently opened up about his issues with mental health in a revealing interview. Speaking to Esquire magazine, he described the important role music played in forming his identity.
“When I was a child, and into my teens…I felt like a very, very empty vessel,” he said. “And it wasn’t until I began to fill it up with music that I began to feel my own personal power and my impact on my friends and the small world that I was in.
“I began to get some sense of myself. But it came out of a place of real emptiness
