Bruce Springsteen
A minimal, hushed rock song built around a single sustained image of desire as physical injury. Springsteen strips away the…
obsessive desire transgression/infidelity psychological torment
Stevie Wonder
A funk sermon against magical thinking. Over one of the most recognizable clavinet riffs in popular music, Wonder catalogues…
superstition and magical thinking the cost of ignorance fear as self-fulfilling prophecy