Looks like Tom Hanks won’t easily forget last weekend’s Bruce Springsteen concert in Barcelona. What a show, on both sides. The actor made a surprise appearance with his wife of 35 years, Rita Wilson, at the performance, stood to the side of the stage and, to sum it up, gave everything Hanks’ intensity immediately became a hot topic on social media. He sang, he danced, hands up, hip to one side, to the other; 66 years very well behaved. enviable
It seemed like a very white dance, but a tweet unleashed controversy. The message was published by @la_tarambana: “Barcelona is more than Tom Hanks, Spielberg, Obama, Michelle, Springsteen… an open and tolerant city. Madrid is more for Plácido Domingo, Mario Vaquerizo, José Manuel Soto, BertÃn Osborne, Toni Cantó… a city with the smell of mothballsâ€. It would only be missing, we are in an electoral period and everything must be politicized. error
The comparison was not correct. Madrid doesn’t smell like mothballs, even though that promotional video for tourists with Vaquerizo as the protagonist was one of the most unfortunate things we can remember.
The problem in both cases is called stereotypes. It is human nature to judge everything with a narrow prism. But the most important thing in almost everything in life is the nuances.
The controversy did not stop there. The Boss’s greeting to the Barcelona audience also caused a stir on the networks: “Hello, Barcelona; we love you, Catalonia”. Some tweeters did not like it: flirting with nationalism was the mildest thing they said to him.
These critics forget when Springsteen himself visited Madrid and in front of a packed Santiago Bernabéu said: “Hello, Madrid!”. No trace of Spain. Alas, the reduced prism.
That music is passion was demonstrated at the Olympic Stadium. And that The Boss is fit and committed was demonstrated on stage and in the amount of videos that have circulated on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok… The live performance is unmatched, but the concerts today are even they can broadcast live.
Reminder: Bruce Springsteen wrote Born in the USA as an anthem to the American working class, and The Boss is, in part because of this song, a hero to workers, even if many don’t know it. Nothing about nationalism. But the important thing is to enjoy his music, as Tom Hanks did.
