As we celebrate Independence Day, I think America has to be reexamined and reevaluated. The ideas that our founders espoused are now old-fashioned. What was one was the truth-it's no anything but! America is full of hypocrisy and lies. Even with Obama in Office, America will Never Be a more perfect union! John Mellencamp understands this fact better than anyone in Rock. To Paraphrase his Midwest Guitar Friend Madonna, Nobody's Perfect. In angry heartland classic rocker Pink Houses, Mellencamp angrily writes about inequality-how the American people don't have it so good after all. The Indiana Hoosier Kitty Cat is angry and enraged!-Meow!-Mellencamp rages "Ain't That America for You and Me!"-as if things will never change! What's most shocking is the hopelessness on the sad rocker. The truth hurts. As his Meowing Cat voice gets angrier and sadder, Johnny Rebel just cries in Sad and Enraged Indiana Tears. The Pink House then is a stoic symbol that hard times are gonna be with us always-but we Americans just have to keep going to make America better. There is still hope. Mellencamp knows it. I know it. We all know it! Ain't that America for you and me! Happy Fourth!
As we celebrate Independence Day, I think America has to be reexamined and reevaluated. The ideas that our founders espoused are now old-fashioned. What was one was the truth-it's no anything but! America is full of hypocrisy and lies. Even with Obama in Office, America will Never Be a more perfect union! John Mellencamp understands this fact better than anyone in Rock. To Paraphrase his Midwest Guitar Friend Madonna, Nobody's Perfect. In angry heartland classic rocker Pink Houses, Mellencamp angrily writes about inequality-how the American people don't have it so good after all. The Indiana Hoosier Kitty Cat is angry and enraged!-Meow!-Mellencamp rages "Ain't That America for You and Me!"-as if things will never change! What's most shocking is the hopelessness on the sad rocker. The truth hurts. As his Meowing Cat voice gets angrier and sadder, Johnny Rebel just cries in Sad and Enraged Indiana Tears. The Pink House then is a stoic symbol that hard times are gonna be with us always-but we Americans just have to keep going to make America better. There is still hope. Mellencamp knows it. I know it. We all know it! Ain't that America for you and me! Happy Fourth!