Blinded By The Lights Acapella Movie

Background song in 'Blinded by the lights' Music Video - The Streets. And could hear stormzy all over it so I grabbed a vocal off YouTube.

There's a moment in 'Blinded by the Light,' a new film from writer/director (',' 'Bride & Prejudice'), when the young protagonist, a kid named Javed , watches the video for 's 'Dancing in the Dark' for the first time. Javed is obsessed with Springsteen's music, but the look on his face as he drinks in Springsteen's powerful meat-and-potatoes stage presence is a visual echo of the awestruck look on Courtney Cox's face as Springsteen pulls her out of the audience in the same video (which was directed by Brian de Palma). It's more than excitement; what Javed feels hits at a deeper level. There's a surfeit of feeling on Javed's face, so perfectly evocative of what it feels like - particularly as a teenager - to suddenly get really into something - music, a movie, a celebrity - and that something hits you in just exactly the right way at exactly the right time. It's like having a house fall on top of you. Or mainlining a powerful drug. You never see the world in quite the same way again.

That's what Bruce Springsteen did for journalist, whose memoir Greetings From Bury Park: Race. Rock'n'Roll is the basis for 'Blinded by the Light' (Manzoor co-wrote the script). 'Blinded by the Light,' at its very best, captures the experience of being a fan, the pure exhilaration of it, and the sense of your vision opening out to vistas beyond your horizon. Set in the 1980s in the small town of Luton, Javed's family struggles to make ends meet in the crushing recession of the late Thatcher era, battling economic strife, rising nationalism, and racist attacks. Javed's mother works out of their home as a seamstress, and his father works at a nearby factory.

Layoffs loom. Parental expectation weighs heavily on Javed, who hides not just his dream of being a writer from his parents, but almost every other aspect of his personality. He's not allowed to have a social life, a girlfriend, independence. (Javed's father says to him at one point, 'Pakistanis do not go to parties.' Javed replies, 'I thought I was British.' ) His best friend Matt is swept up in the New Wave scene, and Javed writes lyrics for Matt's songs, feeling frustrated and trapped.Bruce Springsteen isn't a presence at all in these early sequences, an accurate representation of what it was like in the early 1980s teenage music scene. Maybe your dad had Born to Run, or Nebraska in his collection.

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But Springsteen was from the past, he had nothing to do with 'now.' 'Now' was Madonna and Prince and Pet Shop Boys and Tiffany. That is, until the 1984 juggernaut of Born in the U.S.A., filled with catchy tunes, but seething with political and social anger. The album is a real rager, verbalizing the loss, hardship, and poverty of the American working-class as Springsteen saw it all around him. (The xenophobes who consider 'Born in the U.S.A.' Their anthem clearly haven't listened to the actual lyrics of the song).One day, a Sikh classmate named Roops hands Javed a couple of Springsteen cassettes, sensing the troubled Javed may need it. As Javed listens to 'Dancing in the Dark,' his entire inner life explodes in a moment of revelation, reflected in the outer world as a gigantic wind storm wreaking havoc in his neighborhood (the Great Storm of 1987).

It's like Springsteen himself created that apocalyptic storm. As Javed listens to “The Promised Land,” Springsteen's lyrics float through the air, projected onto the sides of buildings, walls, the music literally actualized in the air, in Javed's world. Javed never knew music could be like this, that music - made by an American guy from some place called New Jersey - could speak so directly to him, the son of immigrants in far-away England. Javed becomes an evangelist for Bruce.

He dresses like him. He commandeers the school radio station. He plasters his wall with posters. His parents think he has lost his mind.

People make fun of teenagers for this kind of thing, but the emotions of fandom are so pure! The root of the word 'fanatic' is 'fanum' - meaning 'temple,' a place where zealots come to worship. Every fan has their deity, whether it's the teenagers in Robert Zemeckis' 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' trying to score tickets to the Beatles' appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' or the Elvis-obsessed Japanese teenagers wandering around Memphis in Jim Jarmusch's '.' Javed's discovery of Springsteen's music leads him into all kinds of unexpected terrain, a tentative romance with a classmate , conflict with his father, and tension with his best mate Matt.There are exuberant sequences in 'Blinded by the Light' that are basically from out of a movie musical. Entire village squares erupt into coordinated dance movements. It's cheesy, but it's infectious too. If you haven't been a fan of something to such a degree that it transforms your whole entire world, you're missing out!

Springsteen allowed use of his capacious catalog, so his songs dominate throughout the film. Chadha's approach is open-minded and affectionate, and it's also filled with sharp insights about growing up the child of immigrants. There's a great sequence involving Javed's sister Shazia , who is not quite as obedient as she seems to be on the surface. Like 'Bend It Like Beckham,' 'Blinded by the Light' is very smart on the tensions within an immigrant family, the push of the younger generation to assimilate, the fears of the older traditional generation of loss of their culture.All of the actors are wonderful, but Kulvinder Ghir is especially poignant, bringing a potent blend of gravitas, pain and humor to his performance. This strong proud man doesn't understand the Springsteen thing. He doesn't like what he doesn't understand. He fears losing his job.

Seeing him humiliated is extremely painful. The entire family is affected by the father-son clashes. Among its many other positive attributes, 'Blinded by the Light' is an emotional father-and-son relationship drama. Holding it all together is Bruce Springsteen's music. Recently, my sister and I took her two kids, ages five and three, to a local pool. On our way there, they chanted from their car seats in the back, 'Fire Song! I assumed it was a kid's song learned in pre-school.

Turns out they were requesting 'Dancing in the Dark,' which they call 'Fire Song' ('You can't start a fire/You can't start a fire without a spark'). The kids heard the song once on the radio, and became obsessed. They know all the words. They wonder if 'Bruce' can come over and play a song in the backyard. The weirdest thing is that the 'Bruce' thing was not imposed on them by my sister. The kids chose him all on their own. The torch has been passed.

When I was single, I once accepted a date with a man I knew I wasn’t really interested in. This was clearly not my finest moment, but many readers may offer absolution when I explain that he had tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert. He was a music producer and in possession of very expensive, enviable seats, the likes of which I would never sit in again. I wrestled my conscience to the ground in about two seconds. No way would I miss this opportunity to see “the Boss” in concert for the first time.Springsteen and his incomparable E Street Band played with electrifying abandon.

Thousands of us danced and sang along with Bruce during “Born to Run,” “Thunder Road,” “The River” and other hits. I’ll never forget the thrill of that evening, and the high that lingered through the following days.The themes of a lot of Springsteen songs were in many ways distant from my reality.

I didn’t grow up in an economically struggling town. I didn’t know anyone who worked on the highway, blasting through the bedrock, and I really had no ambition to drive a pink Cadillac, or drag race on the streets. Some songs were laced with an undercurrent of anger or anxiety; others were about dreams delayed or even deflated. Yet the songs were also shot through with irrepressible youthful energy, eagerness for romance, and a no-holds-barred determination to fulfill one’s dreams wherever they took you, once you escaped the “darkness at the edge of town.” Who among us didn’t have a “hungry heart” when we were young?Almost all young people dream of transcending the limitations of their upbringing, and I was no different. I also had dreams of my own and was resolutely determined to achieve them. I also longed to find the comfort of lasting love.

Who among us didn’t have a “hungry heart” when we were young? In this way, Springsteen’s songs and their universal appeal spoke to me as well.In the decades since I attended that incredible concert, I’ve remained a big fan of that young artist who put Asbury Park, New Jersey on the map. I also became a huge fan of “the Big Man,” saxophone player Clarence Clemons, who was a member of the E Street Band from its inception in 1972 until his passing in 2011. Through an act of sheer chutzpah, I also once wrangled an interview with Clemons for a rather shady magazine, despite my having zero credentials writing about the music scene.

This, too, was exciting, bringing me close to a source of much musical joy.As a decades-long Bruce Springsteen fan, I rushed out to see “Blinded by the Light,” the delightful new movie directed by Gurinder Chadha (“Bend It Like Beckham”) about the impact of the artist’s music on a Pakistani-born British teen named Javed. The film is part coming-of-age story and part movie musical, featuring enough Springsteen music to satisfy the most diehard devotees.Javed (Viveik Kalra) feels his life is increasingly constricted by outside forces, including economic hardship, stifling parental expectations, and rising prejudice against the Pakistani community. Javed’s father, Malik (Kulvinder Ghir), forbids him from going to parties, dismisses his son’s quest to become a writer, and pressures him academically so that he can join the professional class. (Malik is a factory worker until he loses his job due to the recession in the late 1980’s.) When dropping Javed at school one day, Malik shouts after him, “Look for the Jews in your class! Do what they do! They are successful!”Javed’s gloom is transformed to euphoria when hears his first Springsteen song: “Hey I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man, and I believe in the promised land,” Javed hears in the song “The Promised Land.” His eyes widen as big as doorknobs and his face lights up.

Reinvigorated, he retrieves his poems from the trash and becomes an instant Springsteen addict, finding both emotional release as well as confidence in the music. He picks up his pen again to write, encouraged in large measure by his English teacher, who tells him that he has a gift.Malik is at first disturbed by his son’s fandom to an American rock star but is slightly assuaged because he thinks that the name “Springsteen” sounds Jewish.

In a running joke in the film, Malik continues to ask his son if he’s sure that “the Boss' isn’t Jewish after all.This feel-good movie is based on the experiences of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor, the real-life Javed, who co-wrote the film script based on his memoir, Greetings from Bury Park: Race. Rock'n'Roll. Manzoor’s obsession with Springsteen was no passing fancy. He has attended more than 150 concerts and met the artist several times.Different forms of music speak differently to different generations.

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Many in my parents’ generation were shocked and disturbed by the emergence of rock ‘n roll, its hard and angry beats, and its unprecedented explicit lyrics. As an adult myself, I have been similarly appalled by the crudeness and sometimes, violent lyrics and beats of punk, hip-hop, metal and other styles popularized in recent decades.I loved watching “Blinded by the Light.” Springsteen’s music spoke to me when I was a young adult; not just the words, but the music that thrilled and energized me (especially that saxophone!), lifted my mood, made me jump up and dance. The movie brought me back in time to when I was just old enough to begin to pursue my dreams. It also triggered wonderful memories of times when I have shared this favorite rock music with my husband, including one Springsteen concert we went to together - before ticket prices shot stratospherically through the roof. I still listen to “Bruuuuce!” when I need the energy to keep pedaling on our elliptical bicycle, when I’m cooking, or just want to tap into that musical magic again.Music is one of God’s greatest gifts to us, a formidable creative tool that can be used for ill or for good.

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It can trigger our lower, base instincts, or it can lift our souls as if with a divine kiss.Of course, Jewish music also fills my soul. Who can ever get tired of hearing the triumphant sounds of “Od Yishama” at a wedding, of singing “Dayenu” during the Pesach seder, or of hearing “Eishet Chayil” on Shabbat? At shul, I am moved to tears each time the Torah is returned to the ark and we sing “Etz Chayim Hi,” together, as one community with one voice.Those are sublime moments to be treasured. But I can’t live at that exalted spiritual level all the time. Sometimes, I just need to rock out a little with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Other than his signature song 'Dancing in the Dark,' I really can't stand the music of Bruce Springsteen.

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He doesn't sing his music; he screams it. I much prefer slower, more mellow, melodious, harmonious, easy listening music, such as the song from a couple of generations ago called 'Precious and Few.' Musical groups like Simon & Garfunkel as well as the Carpenters, are more my taste. Even when it comes to the Beatles, the songs of theirs I like the most are ones such as 'The Long and Winding Road' and 'Here, There, and Everywhere.' Music should elevate us while giving ourselves a sense of peace and harmony.

There are such pieces of music by Mozart (such as the Second Movement of his Clarinet Concerto, K 622), that makes me feel that this is what Heaven must be like. Bruce Springsteen, not so much. I never heard this particular song, but yes, this one is a good one, much more my speed of what kind of music I like. Of course, that does not mean that this is typical of his music. Almost whenever i have heard him sing, he has screamed instead of sang. I have never liked the music of the Rolling Stones, even wondering how anybody can enjoy such awful sounds, and yet even they have come up with a song or two that is not so bad, such as 'Angie' Now just in case anybody reading this might be curious what kind of music I consider to be truly fine music, here is one such example:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hH56XvqcrE.