Pink Cadillac (song) release "Art or Bust" video - comprising footage from the two De Tour concerts at the University of Minnesota - included "Pink Cadillac" as the opening number. Aretha Franklin is sometimes mis-credited as a singer of "Pink Cadillac" as the imagery occurs in her 1985 comeback hit "Freeway of Love" with the same metaphoric sense as in the Springsteen original, the lyric being: "We're going riding on the freeway of love in my pink Cadillac". "Pink Cadillac" has long been a staple of Melissa Etheridge's live repertoire; at a 2 October 1996 Milwaukee concert by Etheridge, Bruce Springsteen joined her
The River (Bruce Springsteen album) mix of the frivolous next to the solemn. This was intentional, and in contrast to "Darkness", for as Springsteen said during an interview, "Rock and roll has always been this joy, this certain happiness that is in its way the most beautiful thing in life. But rock is also about hardness and coldness and being alone ... I finally got to the place where I realized life had paradoxes, a lot of them, and you've got to live with them." On November 8, 2009, at a concert, Bruce Springsteen spoke about the album, saying: ""The River" was a record that