BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - SPRINGSTEEN'S WIFE GETS DRUNK TO RECORD BOOZY SONG

SPRINGSTEEN'S WIFE GETS DRUNK TO RECORD BOOZY SONG

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's wife PATTI SCIALFA got drunk to record one track on her new album PLAY IT AS IT LAYS - so she could conjure up the character she'd created in the song. The rocker knocked back tequila to get in the spirit for Bad For You, which tells the tale of a boozed-up woman courting in a bar. She tells Rolling Stone magazine, "I wanted to get to that person in the song: the girl that's drinking, maybe flirting too much and sending signals she shouldn't be sending. "The recording studio was too sterile for that, so I drank a ton of tequila, smoked a lot of cigarettes and sang it. "I know I sang out of tune, but I liked it." Scialfa admits a lot of the song is about her, revealing it's her response to the song her husband wrote - that she hates. She explains, "On (Springsteen album) Devils + Dust, there's a song about the man in the hotel room with the hooker... "I was like, `What are you writing about that s**t for? Are you f**king crazy?' But that's what led me to write Bad For You. He gave himself license, so I gave myself license to write."