Pearl Jam sing “My City of Ruins” by Bruce Springsteen

In the last few days, American president Donald Trump called “highly overrated” and “stupid as a rock” Springsteen after the latter had criticized the US government during a performance in Manchester. And so the Pearl Jam proposed their version of “My City of Ruins” of Springsteen. The Seattle band is currently engaged in an extension of the “Dark Matter” world tour, which saw them perform in Pittsburgh on Friday 16 May. During the encore of the concert, which usually opens with Eddie Vedder that it performs acoustic solo acoustic songsthe group started playing a slowed version of the Boss’s 2002 success.

Although Vedder did not speak directly of the current conflict between Springsteen and Trumpfans immediately interpreted the performance as a demonstration of solidarity with the musician, shouting “Bruguuuce!” At the end of the song. Springsteen uses the song during its current tour to introduce critical political speeches to the current President of the United States. Giving the way to the British stage in Manchester at the beginning of this week, he condemned Trump’s actions and the “corruption” and “incompetence” of his administration. Trump subsequently attacked the musician declaring that he has never “ever appreciated” his music. From that moment, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) He published a public press release in defense of Springsteen, as well as Taylor Swiftalso criticized by the president.