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Article: Springsteen aside, pop music has been mostly oblivious.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2006
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Byline: Dan DeLuca
Justin Timberlake is doing the anxiety-ridden post-9/11 world a huge favor.
He's bringing "SexyBack."
Have the Sept. 11 attacks had as profound an effect on pop music as they did on geopolitics?
Yep. They've made it sillier.
Not exclusively, of course. Along with a parade of Pussycat Dolls and "Promiscuous" boys and girls, there have been serious responses to the tragic events of that clear blue day. The most impressive, by far, has been Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising," which did its inspirational best in 2002 to make sense of the rubble left behind.
That Brucean effort to address a full range of ...