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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Triggered Trump Unloads on Bruce Springsteen in Wild Rant
President Donald Trump is losing it after Bruce Springsteen torched his administration as 'treasonous' and 'incompetent.' 'This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country,' the 78-year-old president fumed on Truth Social Friday morning. Calling Springsteen, 75, 'dumb as a rock' and 'Highly Overrated,' Trump went after the music legend for 'speaking badly about the President of the United States.' 'Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy,' he said of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of the world's best-selling artists. '[He's] just a pushy, obnoxious JERK.' Though Trump now insists that he's never been a Springsteen fan, he used to blare 'Born in the U.S.A' at rallies in 2016—much to the rocker's dismay. The president's hissy fit came in response to Springsteen's remarks at the start of the 'Land of Hope & Dreams' European tour earlier this week. 'In my home, the America I love, the America I've written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,' Springsteen told the crowd in Manchester, England before performing the tour's namesake song. 'Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!' Throughout the show, Springsteen—who performed at a rally for Kamala Harris last year—came back to the subject, slamming Trump for attacking the press, cozying up to dictators, and defunding universities, without directly naming him. He also decried the Trump administration for its 'sadistic' firing of federal workers, mass deportations, and for 'abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death.' It's not the first time the 'Dancing in the Dark' singer has taken aim at Trump—he's spent years warning that the former president poses a threat to democracy. But his latest rebukes clearly hit an nerve with the famously thin-skinned president, who launched into a familiar tirade against his predecessor—as he often does when trying to deflect criticism. He chastised Springsteen for supporting former President Joe Biden, whom he described as 'a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country.' 'If I wasn't elected, it would have been GONE by now!' he added. Trump is flying back to the United States after wrapping up his Middle East trip. In another unhinged Truth Social post he presumably typed out while aboard Air Force One, he said Taylor Swift had stopped being 'hot.'
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump hits back at ‘dried-up prune' Springsteen
Donald Trump has called Bruce Springsteen a 'dried-up prune' in an escalating row with the musician. Springsteen, 75, criticised the president during the first show of his UK tour earlier this week, branding Mr Trump's administration 'corrupt, incompetent and treasonous'. In response, the president took to Truth Social to question the 20-time Grammy winner's musical talents, calling him 'highly overrated' and 'dumb as a rock'. Mr Trump said: 'I see that highly overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a foreign country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his radical Left politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy.' The president has previously played the singer's 'Born in the USA' anthem at his rallies. Credit: Instagram/Bruce Springsteen Mr Trump, 78, also lambasted the singer for his looks. 'This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that's just 'standard fare'. Then we'll all see how it goes for him!' the president said. During his Manchester concert, Springsteen said: 'Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.' The Dancing in the Dark singer later went on to deliver a longer political speech in which he warned of 'very weird, strange and dangerous s--- going on' in the US and labelled Mr Trump an 'unfit president' presiding over a 'rogue government'. Springsteen is a long-time Democrat supporter who called Mr Trump an 'American tyrant' when he performed at a star-studded Kamala Harris rally on the 2024 campaign trail. Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, accused Springsteen of suffering from 'Trump derangement syndrome'. Mr Cheung told The Washington Post: 'When this loser Springsteen comes back home to his own City of Ruins in his head, he'll realize his Glory Days are behind him and his fans have left him Out in the Street, putting him in a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out because he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain.' Mr Trump's diatribe came less than an hour after he criticised Taylor Swift, saying the singer-songwriter is 'no longer hot'. 'Has anyone noticed that, since I said 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' she's no longer 'HOT?'' the president wrote on Truth Social. Mr Trump previously fulminated against the Shake It Off singer in September after she endorsed Ms Harris for president. The musician announced her endorsement after the presidential debate with a social media post signed 'Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady,' in a nod to JD Vance's jibes against Democrats. During his first term in office, Mr Trump frequently clashed with a number of celebrities, including Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Los Angeles Times
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Rilo Kiley's reunion is right on time at Just Like Heaven
'Can you believe,' Jenny Lewis asked, 'this is our third show in 17 years?' Wearing the same outfit she'd worn at the first two — polka-dot mini-dress, white ruffle socks, a glittering tiara perched atop her head — Lewis was onstage Saturday night with her band Rilo Kiley at the Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena. 'It's truly amazing to be here with you all,' she told the crowd of thousands spread across the leafy grounds surrounding the Rose Bowl. 'But mostly,' she added, turning to her bandmates, 'it's amazing to be here with you all.' One of the defining Los Angeles rock bands of the last quarter-century, Rilo Kiley formed in 1998 — both Lewis and the group's other singer and songwriter, Blake Sennett, had been child actors — then spent the next decade steadily approaching the big time with clever if jaundiced songs about sex, bad decisions and the Hollywood dream machine. Yet just as the band was poised to blow up, Rilo Kiley split amid creative and personal tensions between Lewis and Sennett, who'd also been romantically involved. Now, for the first time since 2008, the group — rounded out by Pierre De Reeder and Jason Boesel — is on the road playing shows again; its reunion tour launched last week with gigs in San Luis Obispo and Ojai and is scheduled to run through the fall. The timing makes sense, given that Lewis over the intervening years has become something of an older-sister figure for a subsequent generation or two of smart young musicians writing about all the ways the world can disappoint a woman in her 20s. (Think Phoebe Bridgers, think Haim, think Olivia Rodrigo.) Then again, nostalgia is rarely required to justify itself, as Just Like Heaven made clear. A fixture of the Southern California festival landscape since 2019, this annual show brings together veterans of early-2000s indie rock to relive memories of an era before streaming and social media remade pop music; other acts high on the bill this year included Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, the Drums and Toro y Moi. Near the end of its headlining set on Saturday, Vampire Weekend offered up what frontman Ezra Koenig called 'a salute to indie' — strung-together covers of period hits by Phoenix, Tame Impala, Beach House, Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio — in a slot the band typically dedicates to audience requests for oldies like 'Don't Stop Believin' ' or 'Dancing in the Dark.' That Grizzly Bear's 'Two Weeks' now qualifies as a classic was a fact nobody seemed to need convincing. Indeed, Lewis has said that part of what led her to reconvene Rilo Kiley was the huge success of a recent reunion tour by the Postal Service, the electro-pop side project that she and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard introduced in 2003 and which last year headlined Just Like Heaven after earlier selling out three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. Yet if all that eagerness to reminisce made easy pickings of folks in Pasadena, Rilo Kiley played with more muscle and panache than it needed to on Saturday in an hour-long set that showcased the band's impressive versatility. 'The Execution of All Things' and 'With Arms Outstretched' were crisp and strummy, while 'The Moneymaker' rode a raunchy soul-rock groove and 'Dreamworld' evoked the glossy menace of mid-'70s Fleetwood Mac. Now as during the group's heyday, what elevated the performance was Lewis' skill as a storyteller: the torch-song melancholy she found in 'I Never,' about a woman betting too much on a relationship, and the perfectly soapy romantic drama of 'Does He Love You?' in which she plays two of the three parts in a doomed love triangle. For the latter, she grabbed a video camera and roamed the stage, sending footage of her bandmates to the giant screen behind her — not just the star of the Rilo Kiley show but its director too. On Spotify, the band's biggest song is the coolly self-assured 'Silver Lining,' from its darkly funny final LP, 'Under the Blacklight,' and here Lewis delivered it with a swaggy nonchalance. But the true heads know that Rilo Kiley's real should've-been-a-hit was 2004's sly yet ebullient 'Portions for Foxes' — 'The talking leads to touching / And the touching leads to sex,' goes one key line — which is why the group finished with the song at Just Like Heaven. As she sauntered offstage, Lewis blew a kiss to the crowd, then jumped back to her microphone, grabbed a Modelo she'd left behind and took a sip through a straw.
The Guardian
08-04-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Leeds return to summit after James' early strike sees off Middlesbrough
A night when visiting fans had reason to lament the absence of VAR was more uncomfortable for Leeds than it should have been but still ended with Daniel Farke's team top of the Championship. Farke was furious to see two 'goals' from first Ao Tanaka and then Patrick Bamford disallowed for imaginary offsides, but his players somehow weathered a late attacking storm from Michael Carrick's playoff-chasing Middlesbrough to move ahead of Burnley on goal difference. It took only two minutes for Carrick's high defensive line to look foolhardy rather than brave as Leeds assumed a morale boosting, nerve assuaging lead. If Junior Firpo's initial through pass was good, Manor Solomon's expert dodging of Anfernee Dijksteel bewildered the rest of Boro's backline. The resultant confusion left a stretching Dan James to evade his supposed marker, Samuel Iling-Junior, and flick the resultant low, hard cross beyond Mark Travers. The Tees had still been glistening in glorious April sunshine when the Leeds team bus pulled into the Riverside and the visiting fans waiting to greet them muttered nervously about a demoralising run of one win in the previous six games. By now though darkness had descended as fast as the evening temperature and, menacing almost every time he touched the ball, James sensed real opportunity. As he repeatedly unwound his sprinter's legs and the Leeds supporters sung 'Dan James is on fire' to the tune of Bruce Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark, Travers did well to repel another shot from the Wales winger. Boro had registered five wins in their previous seven games but, despite enjoying plenty of possession, they struggled to test Karl Darlow, once again preferred to Illan Meslier in goal by Farke. Tellingly, by the time Darlow picked the ball out of his net after the fall-out from a miscued corner led to Tommy Conway turning the ball home from close range, he had still to make proper save. A late linesman's flag dictated that Conway was offside and that effort was correctly, if a little belatedly, disallowed. In contrast, Tanaka had cause to feel wronged after directing a Solomon cross past Travers only to see his celebrations ended abruptly by another offside call. This time replays suggested it had been the wrong one and the Japan midfielder's strike should have stood. After viewing that little cameo on his pitchside monitor and realising Tanaka was onside after all, Farke placed his head in his heads before subjecting the fourth official to a volley of righteous indignation. With the automatic promotion race painfully tight and almost unbearably tense, that sort of officiating mistake could ultimately mean the difference between a guaranteed Premier League place and the lottery of the playoffs. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion The latter route is the only remaining option open to Boro and is one Carrick remains desperate to take. If only he and his players could fathom out a way of concluding those hallmark pleasing passing sequences with killer final balls. Carrick possesses some good players, the talented Hayden Hackney in particular. His ability to pass quickly with pace and urgency sporadically threatened Farke's defence as the midfielder began bringing the best out in Delano Burgzorg, creating a couple of decent chances for the forward. With Finn Azaz and Hackney himself also missing decent openings as Darlow was finally called to arms, Boro were far from out of it. Farke responded with a flurry of substitutions and, with his first touch, Bamford slide the ball into the back of the net at the end of a fine counterattack involving fellow substitutes Isaac Schmidt and Wilfried Gnonto. If Bamford thought that scoring against one of his former clubs would mark the end of almost 12 injury blighted months he was wrong as that assured finish was ruled out for offside. Once again though replays showed it was the wrong decision and Farke did not look amused. The good news for the Leeds manager though is that Bamford looked fit and sharp. Farke believes that the loss of his No 9 to a knee injury at the Riverside almost exactly a year ago cost his team promotion but maybe, just maybe, Bamford has returned at the right moment to help Leeds over the line this time.
Telegraph
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Bruce Springsteen to release seven ‘lost albums'
Bruce Springsteen has announced seven new 'lost albums' of unreleased songs he has recorded over a 35-year period. The Grammy-winning American singer, 75, said he had now 'finished everything I had in my vault' over the years. Tracks II: The Lost Albums, to be released on June 27, includes 83 tracks recorded by Springsteen between 1983 and 2018. The Dancing in the Dark singer, one of the best-selling musicians of all time, said in a video: 'I often read about myself in the 90s as having some lost period or something. Really, I was working the whole time. 'During the pandemic, what I did for that period of time was I finished everything I had in my vault. So this is Tracks II: The Lost Albums. [They] are records that were full records, some even to the point of being mixed and not released. 'For one reason or another, something I felt was missing from some of them, or they just didn't feel complete at the time. Over a period of time, I built up a small collection of full albums that, for one reason or another, never got put out.' On Thursday, he released the song Rain in the River, which comes from the 'lost album' Perfect World. The six others are called LA Garage Sessions '83, Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North Of Nashville, Inyo and Twilight Hours. 'Different musical directions' The collection, being released through Sony Music, was described as filling in 'rich chapters of Springsteen's expansive career timeline while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist'. The musician told his fans: 'I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them.' He explained that recording at home whenever he wanted to allowed him 'to go into a wide variety of different musical directions' with the expansive collection. The lost albums will come in limited-edition nine LP, seven CD and digital formats with a 100-page cloth-bound, hard cover book featuring archival photos and a personal introduction to the project from Springsteen. A companion set called Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums will feature 20 highlights from across the collection, available on two LPs or one CD. Springsteen, also known as The Boss, has been making music for decades and formed his backing group the E Street Band in 1972. He has won 20 Grammys across his career, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. Tracks II: The Lost Albums will be released via Sony Music on June 27, and Springsteen will be performing in the UK in May and June.
