Spotify listeners can now stream Barack and the Boss.
Former President Obama and Bruce Springsteen have teamed up for a wide-ranging Spotify podcast, through which they focus on politics, race, household and manhood.
Eight episodes of Renegades: Born within the USA have been recorded over a number of days at Springsteen’s Jersey Shore farmhouse. The primary two have been launched Monday for streaming on the location.
The podcast was produced by Obama and spouse Michelle’s manufacturing firm, Larger Floor. The couple brokered a podcast take care of Spotify in 2019.
“The longtime pals focus on their hometowns and position fashions, discover fashionable manhood, and confront the painfully divided state of the nation at present—and provide a imaginative and prescient of how we are able to all transfer ahead collectively,” Spotify mentioned in a press release.
“On the floor Bruce and I don’t have loads in widespread,” the previous President says in a voiceover introduction of the sequence’ first 56 minute episode.
“He’s a white man from a small city in Jersey. I’m a black man of blended race born in Hawaii with a childhood that took me all over the world. He’s a rock and roll icon. I’m a lawyer and politician, not as cool,” Obama continued.
“Through the years, what we’ve discovered is that we’ve bought a shared sensibility: about work, about household and about America.”
The episodes reveal that Obama first thought Springsteen was shy once they met on the marketing campaign path in 2008, however the musician opened up after the 2 imbibed collectively.
Huge-ranging conversations between the unlikely duo dissect cultural and political divides and their unlikely similarities, together with their shared sense of rising up as outsiders.
“I don’t assume it’s one thing that you just select. I believe it’s one thing that’s innate inside you,” Springsteen mentioned on the present.
“I would like to search out my approach into my city [of Freehold.] I’ve bought to search out out who my individuals are. And it wasn’t till I found music and located a method to course of… my very own identification and to discover a method to communicate, and to have some impression, and tips on how to be heard, that I started to really feel at dwelling the place I lived,” Springsteen mirrored.
Spotify gained 27 p.c extra followers final yr in comparison with 2019 because it made a new push to characteristic common podcasts.
The Monday unveiling comes lower than two weeks after the 71-year-old rocker was busted for DWI on the Jersey Shore.
Springsteen’s much-hyped Jeep Tremendous Bowl industrial, that touted nationwide unity, was taken off the air within the wake of his arrest.
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