Why Is Bruce the Only Singer That Is Aware of the Planet Around Him?

Bruce Springsteen on CNN, 6/23/06

Awesome short interview with Bruce; some concert footage mixed in with him bitch-slapping Ann Coulter and Dubya. As usual, all he does is make sense. Saturday's show in Jersey (thanks Lisk!) was 10x better than the Garden one, I know Bruce always turns it up a notch for his hometown crowd. Also my Godson's first Bruce show!! :) beat me by 30 years. Show was amazing, songs were incredible and his voice is better than it's ever been, though I'm bothered by the obvious tanning bed sessions :) Also started thinking why is it that it's Bruce who's doing music like this, ie topical protest (and don't forget last year's "Devils & Dust") music instead of younger bands, people of my generation? I know I'm a bit out of the loop, but we've been in the midst of an illegal war for over 3 years, we lost a whole American city while the president was on vacation (surprise!), yet the black people are still singing about ho's and bling and the white dudes are singing about why the pretty girls don't talk to them even tho they have they have the first Cat Power single on vinyl. Bruce is 56 years old and has more money than God, yet he is moved and angry enough as a person and an artist to say somethinig about it; where are all the other bands' protests, where is their outrage? What the fuck.