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He used a podcast interview to blast a fellow 76-year-old, Bruce Springsteen, as an \u201cannoying, bitter old man,\u201d saying the outspoken should just \u201cshut up.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4549\">Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 Ties Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey\u2019s Records on Billboard Hot 100<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tCain\u2019s problems with Springsteen aren\u2019t just with the Boss\u2019s recently pointed on-stage commentary about the state of the U.S. He called Springsteen\u2019s \u201980s classic \u201cBorn in the USA\u201d a \u201cdiss\u201d track against America.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI used to be a Democrat back in the old days, but I couldn\u2019t go there anymore, you know?\u201d Cain said in an appearance on the \u201cComplete Disaster Network\u201d podcast. \u201cI\u2019m a diehard conservative\u2026 And guys like Bruce Springsteen should shut up. You know, really, honestly, shut up, Bruce, you know? Him and\u2026 who\u2019s the other one? Robert DeNiro. I mean, who cares, guys? Do your art. I try to keep politics out of my music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCain, who is married to evangelist Paula White-Cain, an advisor to President Donald J. Trump, further said, \u201cNow, people say, \u2018Well, you\u2019re a Christian and you\u2019re conservative,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018So what?\u2019 I don\u2019t preach it on stage. I don\u2019t spend 10 minutes talking about it\u2026 And Bruce, I mean, what the heck? I used to like him, and now he\u2019s just annoying. He\u2019s an annoying, bitter old man. I mean, stop it. Really. You were born in the USA, weren\u2019t you, dude? So act like it. But even that song, if you look at the lyrics, I mean, it\u2019s a kind of a diss toward our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCain then brought up \u201cWinds of Freedom,\u201d his new solo single, from the EP \u201cOnly a Prayer Away,\u201d which he says was inspired by the right-wing evangelical influencer Eric Metaxas, and which includes lines like \u201cWith our fate uncertain \/ Across boundless seas \/ To distant shores \/ We\u2019d fight to make a stand.\u201d But lest anyone consider this bringing political commentary into music, Cain preemptively insisted that, in boosting his brand of patriotism, this didn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI\u2019m releasing this patriotic song because I\u2019m a diehard patriot,\u201d Cain said \u2014 \u201clike Ted Nugent, who\u2019s my friend. We\u2019re a couple of patriots,\u2026 we love our flag and we love our nation, and we grew up that way.\u201d He also brought up another sympatico rocker, after the hosts suggested that he might be a \u201cunicorn\u201d as a conservative in rock. \u201cMe and Kid Rock, we\u2019re probably on an island,\u201d he acknowledged. \u201cThere\u2019s a few of us, and I proudly stand there with my flag on that island. And if anybody\u2019s got a problem with me, America and Jesus, then bring it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4548\">Kovert Creative Hires Mallory Morehead Pritzl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tCain talked about the band surviving years of being \u201cuncool\u201d in Journey\u2019s half-century-plus. When the hosts insisted that no one ever hated Journey, he provided evidence otherwise. \u201cBack in the day it was cool to hate us, and those were dark days. I figured this would turn around eventually because, again, the music speaks louder than the noise and the haters. \u2026 Rolling Stone hated us. For 20 years, they dissed us in their magazine, they dissed our shows, they dissed our records, they gave us one star. It was cool to hate Journey because we were so successful,.. When grunge came around, it was like, \u2018Okay, now it\u2019s grunge time,\u2019 and Pearl Jam and all that, and we kinda went in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe brought up a positive stock market as something fans associate Journey with. \u201cWe\u2019re the certainty in uncertain times. And so especially after 9\/11, I felt like people really leaned in to what was certain, what was good. Back in the days of Ronnie Reagan, we were all making a lot of money in the stock market. That was the days of Journey, you know \u2014 the \u201980s, what we represented.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe also took credit for Journey being one of the first bands to book a tour during the time of COVID, when \u201ceverybody told us we were gonna fail, and we were crazy \u2014 we\u2019re all gonna die, you know?  \u2014 and we said, \u2018Nonsense, it\u2019s time to go back out and celebrate rock \u2018n\u2019 roll again,\u2019 and we were right, and we filled every arena we played.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJourney is currently in the midst of a multi-year farewell tour, with no definite end date announced. 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