I was a Jersey girl who hated Springsteen. Don`t worry, the Boss finally showed me the way.
(WorldNews Entertainment)

There are boys. There are men. And then there`s Bruce. Bruce Springsteen, who turns 71 this week, is Jersey godhead. An actual living legend. He may be The Boss to his legions of fans, but for years, his music was the bane of my existence. When I moved to New Jersey in the 80s at age 12, Bruce Springsteen was the unofficial soundtrack of summer. I hated those sweaty adolescent months, the cicadas screaming outside the window of my un-air conditioned bedroom. I was new, and I had trouble fitting in at school. There was a combativeness to the Jersey kids that at first scared, then hardened, me. They exhibited a brutal inhospitality to anyone different. They spewed homophobic and racist slurs...