I just came across this. Love meloncholy and retrospective music.
I will have to check this one out. But with everything we do in life, all the anger, fighting, bitching, loving, planting and working, this is the universal truth. And nothing you can do to stop it.

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article246930402.html?fbclid=IwAR0Z1YYceJgDaaoSiRibKlkaMQi_Lh2U7KQDeNC9LiWS4ixIi0h5DMmnSGs

Bruce Springsteen is wrestling with death.

You hear him as you float high above leafless trees dusted with snow. The scene, captured in creamy tones of black and white, is one of beauty almost unbearably elegiac, sacred in its stillness. Then he speaks, giving words to a truth all too familiar to anyone who has lived long enough to see skin grow loose and hair turn thin and gray.

“Age,” he says. “Age brings perspective and the fine clarity one gets at midnight on the tracks, looking into the lights of an oncoming train. It dawns on you rather quickly, there’s only so much time left. Only so many star-filled nights, snowfalls, brisk fall afternoons, rainy midsummer days.”

All this is from “Bruce Springsteen’s Letter To You,” the Apple TV documentary on the making of Springsteen’s new album of the same name. It is, he tells you on film, a suite of songs born on a deathbed. Meaning that they were written after a vigil with George Theiss who, before he was a 68-year-old carpenter stricken with lung cancer, was a teenager playing in a Jersey Shore band called the Castiles with his girlfriend’s brother, Bruce Springsteen.

“With George’s death,” says Springsteen in voiceover, “I was the last living member of the mighty Castiles.” He says this by way of introducing “Last Man Standing,” a propulsive paean to gigs long past in days long gone, to being young and loud, rocking together against the world. Which makes it also, inevitably, a song about the swiftness and the thievery of time, a song that implicitly asks, Hey, what happened to 1967?

"It's the only album where it's the entire band playing at one time, with all the vocals and everything completely live. The record is the first record that I've made where the subject is the music itself... It's about popular music. It's about being in a rock band, over the course of time. And it's also a direct conversation between me and my fans, at a level that I think they've come to expect over the years." —Springsteen, on recording Letter to You[

Letter to You is the twentieth studio album from Bruce Springsteen; it marks his first new studio album with his regular backing band the E Street Band since 2014's High Hopes. The release has been met with widespread critical acclaim by critics, particularly with the album's ability to face mortality and aging in a profound manner and was a commercial success, topping several international sales charts. In lieu of touring, the release was promoted with an online radio station, music videos, and a custom Twitter emoji.

Springsteen assembled the E Street Band at his home studio for five days of recording in November 2019 but finished after just four. The recordings were produced by Ron Aniello and Springsteen and came after a period of writer's block that the musician had[4] which spontaneously broke over the course of a week and a half of intense songwriting in April 2019 and was inspired in part by the death of Springsteen's former bandmate George Theiss. The lyrics discuss themes of regret, aging, and dying. The album was recorded live in studio, with no demos and only minimal overdubs (such as guitar solos, handclaps, and backing vocals); it features three tracks that were originally written prior to Springsteen's 1973 debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J.: "If I Was the Priest", "Janey Needs a Shooter", and "Song for Orphans". Springsteen came across earlier recordings of these songs with John Hammond while assembling a compilation album. "If I Was the Priest" has not previously been released by Springsteen but was covered by Allan Clarke in the 1970s and Warren Zevon reworked "Janey Needs a Shooter" for his 1980 album Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School.[8] Photography for the cover and liner notes was captured by Danny Clinch in late 2018 as Springsteen was in New York City for his stage show Springsteen on Broadway. The band assumed they would tour to support the record starting in early 2021 but those plans were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic; by the time of the release, Springsteen estimated that the earliest they could perform live would be 2022. E Street drummer Max Weinberg continued touring with his group Max Weinberg's Jukebox and used those dates to promote Letter to You. Springsteen considers the decision to not tour "very painful", as he looks forward to presenting the new material in a live context but he made promotional appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show to introduce the music to new audiences. The release was announced on September 10, with a music video for lead single "Letter to You" published simultaneously. Streaming audio and a music video for "Ghosts" followed on September 24. A documentary on making the album directed by Thom Zimny came out via Apple TV+ on October 23. An emoji in the shape of Springsteen was released via Twitter to promote the album on October 14. Apple Music hosted Letter to You Radio, a channel where Springsteen interviews fellow musicians such as Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder, along with political discussion from guests such as Jon Stewart.

oookay, this isn't about popular opinions of his career though

He was on Jimmy Fallon's show about a week ago and SNL too