Editing Born to Run (section)

===Analysis===
The success of ''Born to Run'' was tied to the fears of growing old held by a generation of late teenagers. Having missed the 1950s [[beat music|beat]] era and 1960s [[Civil rights movement|civil rights]] and [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]] movements, teenagers in the mid-1970s felt disconnected in an era of political turmoil with the Vietnam War and the [[Richard Nixon's resignation speech|resignation]] of president [[Richard Nixon]].{{sfn|Masur|2010|pp=111–112}} The decade was also plagued by [[stagflation]] that affected [[Working class in the United States|working class Americans]], resulting in the loss of the American dream for many.<ref name="Atlantic">{{cite web |last=Zeitz |first=Joshua |author-link=Joshua Zeitz |title=How Bruce Springsteen's ''Born to Run'' Captured the Decline of the American Dream |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/born-to-run-at-40/402137/ |website=[[The Atlantic]] |access-date=January 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121162013/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/born-to-run-at-40/402137/ |archive-date=November 21, 2023 |date=August 24, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Commentators note that ''Born to Run'' collectively captured the ideals of an entire generation of American youths<ref name="week" /><ref name="Paste70s">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/1970s/best-albums-of-the-1970s |title=The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s |date=January 7, 2020 |magazine=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] |access-date=August 25, 2023 |archive-date=August 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807190723/https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/1970s/best-albums-of-the-1970s |url-status=live }}</ref> and "spoke to the cultural shift" between the 1960s and 1970s.{{sfn|Masur|2010|pp=111–112}} [[Joshua Zeitz]] of ''[[The Atlantic]]'' summarized: "Springsteen embodied the lost '70s—the tense, political, working-class rejection of America's limitations."<ref name="Atlantic" /> ''[[Far Out (magazine)|Far Out]]''{{'s}} Tim Coffman argued that Springsteen effectively embodied what it meant to be "a down-and-out working-class kid in America, dreaming of a better life".<ref name="FarOut">{{cite web |last=Coffman |first=Tim |title=Bruce Springsteen – 'Born to Run' album review |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bruce-springsteen-born-to-run-album-review/ |website=[[Far Out (magazine)|Far Out]] |access-date=August 10, 2023 |date=March 18, 2023 |archive-date=August 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810231428/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bruce-springsteen-born-to-run-album-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Springsteen himself stated in 2005:{{sfn|Masur|2010|pp=112–113}}

{{blockquote|The thing people tend to forget about ''Born to Run'' is that it was post-Watergate, post-Vietnam. People just didn't feel that young anymore, and that is part of what made that record present because I was dealing with a lot of classic rock imagery and classic rock sounds but I was writing in a particular moment when people had sort of their legs cut out from underneath them.}}