But the Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA was being misinterpreted by Ronald Reagan as a patriotic song. I thought it was about Vietnam vets facing difficulties at home after the war.
That's Dale Sr. Unless there's a version with Jr. that I haven't seen.
Oh come on, do you really believe there won't be any blue collar workers here in the US in 20 years? Would Honda and Toyota really be building new factories here if they thought they'd be worthless in 20 years? We're not going to start importing grain either.
On John Mellencamp's website, he had a small blurb about the song for a while. Then, when it started cropping up in Chevy ads, he changed the blurb slightly to reflect the partnership with Chevrolet. Bill Simmons wrote a column complaining about the song because its on so much and calling Mellencamp a huge sellout basically, and now the blurb on his website is gone.
Edit: Here's a link to the column I was talking about. You've got to scroll down a bit.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/061025
fustercluck
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How many songs does Mellencamp have that reference America or the U.S. or whatever... I swear he uses madlibs and plugs in patriotic words...
I don't know what's worse, the fact that he writes this crap or that people still buy into it. He knows exactly what he is doing by following the formula that made him a ton of cash (and conveniently doing it after a wave of American tragedies in the last few years).
Mellencamp's music is to art what Crisco is to health food.
I don't know what's worse, the fact that he writes this crap or that people still buy into it. He knows exactly what he is doing by following the formula that made him a ton of cash (and conveniently doing it after a wave of American tragedies in the last few years).
Mellencamp's music is to art what Crisco is to health food.
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LOL! Call me old fashioned, but I prefer Lee Greenwood's
". . . And I'm proud to be an American blah blah blah"
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It's amazing how ignorant some people are of politics. Most union construction workers are blue collar. Most union members are Democrat.
Not all Democrats are latte slurping metros who have delusions of elitism. Many are misguided blue collar conservative folks who have been misled into thinking Democrats support the "working man" because they cater to union protection rackets.
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yeap it was Dale Sr.
that is what put it over the top. the commercial is to over done. I was at a friends house watching the Bears game (yeah grossman!) when that commercial came on NOBODY likes it.
i should mention nearly everyone there is a redneck. nearly all have been in the military, all hunt etc, all like nascar and such. almost all work on or own farms (or owned at one point heh).
they all think they are just trhying to cash in and the picture of Dale Sr. just pisses them off.
i'm pretty sure i said way early in this thread that mellencamp hates the administration... yup, i did.
no kidding... that and the constant remix of "american pie"... a great song turned to garbage.
*pop beat* "singin' byyye bye miss american pie. drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.....".... and that's all you hear of the song. makes me hate it
and i don't want to hate itSo tired of hearing it, comes on every single commercial break for every football game I watched.
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