Steelers and the Boss - wow

Picture this Feb. 1 scenario...The Steelers and Bruce Springsteen at the Super Bowl.

There would be a serious danger of Pittsburghers like myself thinking they died and went to heaven. Because heaven, along with angels on clouds and stuff, will have to have some Steelers and some Boss to be heaven.

I blogged that back in September when it was announced Bruce would play Super Bowl XLIII and now it's all come to pass.

So, next week we get the ecstasy and tension of the Steelers in the Super Bowl broken up by three or four songs from the Boss with the E Street Band.

Let's hope he's smart and self-aware enough to keep the focus on the old stuff, because early fears about the single and title track, "Working on a Dream," seem to be panning out.

The reviews are coming in -- and they're not good.

Paste writes, "God only knows what led to this New Jersey Transit train wreck.... [this] time Bruce forgot the tunes, the hooks, and the lyrics, and he mistakes the usual first-rate songs about common men and women for common songs about Bruce."

The Associated Press writes, "Springsteen says he wrote these songs quickly, and it shows. The rich characters who populate his best work are largely missing, and instead he rocks out to simple sentiments built on first- and second-person pronouns."

Not too worried about the pronouns, but the tunes, the hooks and lyrics could be a problem.

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