Washington
(ANI):
Rock
star
Bruce
Springsteen's
wife
Patti
Scialfa
got
drunk
to
record
a
song,
so
that
she
could
get
into
the
character
of
a
boozed-up
woman
courting
a
man
in
a
bar.
The
character
was
created
by
Scialfa
for
the
track
'Bad
For
You,'
which
was
recorded
for
her
new
album
'Play
it
as
it
Lays'.
Scialfa
told
Rolling
Stone
magazine,
that
the
song
tells
the
tale
of
the
character
and
she
knocked
back
tequila
to
get
in
the
spirit
of
the
track.
"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," Contactmusic
quoted
Scialfa,
as
telling
the
magazine.
"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,
she
added.
Scialfa
asserted
that
the
song
is
in
response
to
a
song
written
by
her
husband
Bruce
Springsteen
that
she
hates.
"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," she
said.