I'm in love with the "Queen of the Supermarket"

"The worst song Bruce Springsteen has ever written."
- Detroit News

"At the 3:00 mark, it accidentally turns into a Meatloaf song."
- Blender

"Removes this record from consideration as one of the best releases of his career."
- Chicago Tribune

"Unintentionally ludicrous."
- San Jose Mercury News

"Unbelievably melodramatic ... sounds like someone doing a Springsteen parody."
- Orlando Sentinel

"Might be the worst song Springsteen has ever released."
- Philadelphia Inquirer

"May be the worst thing he's ever written."
- Pitchfork

Ignore the haters: this song is so bad it's good. From his new "Working on a Dream" album, we can only hope that The Boss busts this song out at the Superbowl. What "The Rising" was to 9/11, "Queen of the Supermarket" is to, well, supermarkets.

Bruce himself explains to The Guardian:

"They opened up this big, beautiful supermarket near where we lived. Patti and I would go down, and I remember walking through the aisles - I hadn't been in one in a while - and I thought his place is spectacular. This place is... it's a fantasy land! And then I started to get into it. I started looking around and hmmm - the subtext in here is so heavy! It's like, 'Do people really want to shop in this store or do they just want to screw on the floor?' So I came home, said: 'Wow, the supermarket is fantastic, it's my new favourite place. And I'm going to write a song about it!' If there's a supermarket and all these things are there, well, there has to be a queen."

Clearly, Bruce Springsteen loves to smoke a doob and then hit up the Krogers. He should have learned by now that it's a terrible idea to shop with the munchies.

The fan-made video below is what really sold me.