New York Times columnist Pamela Paul writes that performances last week in New York by comedian Jerry Seinfeld and singer Bruce Springsteen gave audiences what they have been missing lately: exuberance, positivity and a sense of “in it together.”
Bruce Springsteen performs at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 1, 2023.Is there any sentiment more startling at this current gloomy moment than optimism? Or, at a time when half the country seems to be warring simultaneously with the other half and itself, unity? Perhaps even more disconcerting, that long dormant sensation, hope?
It wasn’t just that the very concept of synchronicity itself is so markedly out of sync with our divisive era. Nor did the feeling of togetherness seem to stem from the shared audience demographics — overwhelmingly white, skewed male and on the whole ... not young. Something more than mere nostalgia for their earlier selves seemed to be at play. It was as if the two performances reconnected audiences with an earlierSpringsteen is 73 and Seinfeld 68.
Both Springsteen and Seinfeld experienced their apogee at a very different political moment in this country. The 1980s and ‘90s certainly had their share of problems, but the dominant mood was that things were generally OK in America or at least would get better. Even those who didn’t share Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” platitudes felt unified in their opposition.
And there may be particular resonance in the fact that these two quintessential tri-state area liberals nonetheless appeal widely to the rest of the country, a rare consensus. Springsteen, of course, channels the hardworking, overlooked American — the Vietnam vet, the blue-collar worker, the underclass. Seinfeld’s shtick is more urban schmo, muddling through daily life, mystified by its absurdities.
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