In 2021, Staind singer Aaron Lewis started a bit of beef between him and Bruce Springsteen when he released the controversial song “Am I the Only One” – which takes aim at liberals and calls out Springsteen specifically.
If the track doesn’t make it obvious, Lewis and Springsteen stand on opposite sides of the political spectrum. While Springsteen has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and his administration, Lewis is a staunch supporter of both Trump and the Republican Party.
Now, during a recent appearance on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Lewis further criticized the New Jersey born musician.
“I think that he is a disgusting display of not appreciating what was handed to him, in this country as being an American, the success that he has had,” Lewis said. “The fact that he duped us all with one of the most anti-American songs ever and called it ‘Born In The USA’ as some sort of celebration of how great it is to be born in the USA. I’m angry at myself for not seeing it for so long and actually giving him, in my mind, the credit of being a representation of blue-collar America.”
He continued: “I think that [Springsteen] has forgotten where he came from. I think that if you’re not careful doing this, this career that that me and him have both been so blessed to have had, if you’re not careful, it will consume you. And it’s obvious that it creates a situation where you’ve lost sight of the reality of the country that you live in because you’ve lived such a cush… you’ve had so much, you have so much that it’s really easy to take a stance that is so anti everything that you were lucky enough to have, lucky enough to create, lucky enough to change your situation in life. And he’s just lost touch with the struggles. He’s lost touch with the struggle.”
He went on to address how Springsteen has long been a supporter of Democratic presidential candidates: “It seems like most people who have lost touch with the true struggle of life, those are the people that vote for these f*cking idiots. Those are the people that feel like they have to virtue signal. Those are the people that, somewhere along the way, they feel guilty for the success that they have had, so they somehow have to make it up with this nonsensical bullsh*t…
“You grew up at the same time… I did. It was the most un-racially driven… The verbal beating that we took over and over and over, our whole childhood of you don’t judge a man by the color of his skin, you judge a man by the content of his character… It was the best that our country has ever been.
“And I think that that didn’t work well for the Democrats and the Communists, because they thrive in the chaos. They want us at each other’s throats. They want us bickering internally so that we have no sense of shared country pride, that we have no sense of shared morality because they’ve created so many things artificially for us to fight about.”
