[1980-1984 Best Songs]
Billboard Top 100, 1983, #86
Johnny Cougar... John Cougar... John Mellencamp... John Cougar Mellencamp...
Rock Superstar - humble working man.
Small-town Midwest boy - champion of liberal causes.
Walking contradiction.
He's the only guy I can imagine giving George W. Bush the Dixie Chicks Treatment, and still getting his music in Chevy Truck commercials.
Well, like the song says, "ain't that America?"
Pink Houses makes you feel that very same way, lamenting the sometimes pointlessness of how we all live, while celebrating it at the same time. If the black man with the black cat and the house near the interstate thinks he's got it so good, well, then who's to say he doesn't?
I miss the perspective and courage we had in those days to see and embrace our contradictions.
I think John would agree.
Billboard Top 100, 1983, #86
Johnny Cougar... John Cougar... John Mellencamp... John Cougar Mellencamp...
Rock Superstar - humble working man.
Small-town Midwest boy - champion of liberal causes.
Walking contradiction.
He's the only guy I can imagine giving George W. Bush the Dixie Chicks Treatment, and still getting his music in Chevy Truck commercials.
Well, like the song says, "ain't that America?"
Pink Houses makes you feel that very same way, lamenting the sometimes pointlessness of how we all live, while celebrating it at the same time. If the black man with the black cat and the house near the interstate thinks he's got it so good, well, then who's to say he doesn't?
I miss the perspective and courage we had in those days to see and embrace our contradictions.
I think John would agree.
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