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Nobody supports Biden.
They oppose Trump.

Jack is transgender, Diane a single mom with multiple biracial children.

Go woke, go broke, Marxist Entertainer style. Mellencamp is a useful idiot.

Seems life went on without John Menstrual Cramp.

Political diatribe and his singing voice is shot.

Why is anyone wasting their money on this?

Karloff says

Why is anyone wasting their money on this?

Nostalgia.

Hey, he's just sticking up for a fellow traveler on the Lolita Express . . .

. . . . and he can DIAF

stereotomy says

and he can DIAF

He looks like he already did.

I saw him about 15 years ago and it’s pretty clear at that time is was bored and not into really performing. He was a pretty huge jackass here.

It’s too bad. Most of his music is very good with his stuff between American Fool and Whenever We Wanted is legendary.

But like Springsteen, he’s depressed, angry and fighting against imaginary enemies, and basically pissing on everything he was able to earn in the US as well as on the fans that bought his album and supported him in concert. He has a perpetual pity party where there’s no reason he should self pity.

It’s gross really.

I only liked him when he was the frontman for Johnny Cougar. When he changed his name to John Cougar Meloncamp, I didn't care for his over produced sound. Earlier stuff before the name change sounded like a rock band, after the name change he became a pop singer.

richwicks says

Karloff says

Why is anyone wasting their money on this?

Nostalgia.

Nostalgia is very overated

HeadSet says

DIAF

Had to look it up:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=D.I.A.F.

komputodo says

Nostalgia is very overated

Sure, these days it is, but back when, we had great nostalgia.

Patrick says

komputodo says

Nostalgia is very overated

Sure, these days it is, but back when, we had great nostalgia.

We grow out of it.

I can't enjoy anything from my childhood or young adulthood now, from a video game to a film, to a toy, anything. I've grown out of it all. I guess I still want to learn, I think I do anyhow. It's the path I put myself on 30 years ago. The more I learn, the more depressing it is.

I'm hoping it's like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, if I go through it, I'll be on top but that slide down is a shithole. Maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I don't see it, but I have to have faith there is. If there is an end, I'll definitely help people through it. It will be a moral responsibility at that point.

What's he wearing, some kind of janitor's outfit?

richwicks says

Patrick says

komputodo says

Nostalgia is very overated

Sure, these days it is, but back when, we had great nostalgia.

We grow out of it.

Bullshit! Nostalgia was so great before the pisshead commie scumbags decided to shit on all great art. That even I, a person born in 1967 had great appreciation for Nostalgia from all ages. From silent films, and slap stick comedy of the roaring 20's, and 30's, swing big band nostalgia of the 40's, Dowop and the birth of rock and roll of the 50's, the 60's classic rock of the 70's. Film, comedy, clothes, architecture from those eras. The 80's was the first cringe decade of stupidity we ran into. The 90's was ify, the 2000's started getting squirrelly again. And now music and art is pure shit not even worth having a streaming service let alone a TV.
Just look how all of the art, and cinema that has been burned like books. The classic cartoons, if you find them on Youtube, they are disjoined collages of some scenes. You'll never find a Merry Melodies, or Looney Tunes cartoon from start to finish on Youtube.

I'll take Nostalgia over anything produced in the name of art today. Nostalgia from any era but now.

I remember a cartoon from an English magazine Punch.
Man at a cocktail party: "Don't you miss the old days when people didn't go on about nostalgia so much?"

These days performers make money from concerts; nobody actually buys music.

I have seen some cool bands but very few over the years, so I feel pretty fortunate.

I wouldn't pay a dollar to see Mellencamp.

richwicks says

Patrick says

komputodo says

Nostalgia is very overated

Sure, these days it is, but back when, we had great nostalgia.

We grow out of it.

I can't enjoy anything from my childhood or young adulthood now, from a video game to a film, to a toy, anything. I've grown out of it all. I guess I still want to learn, I think I do anyhow. It's the path I put myself on 30 years ago. The more I learn, the more depressing it is.

I'm hoping it's like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, if I go through it, I'll be on top but that slide down is a shithole. Maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I don't see it, but I have to have faith there is. If there is an end, I'll definitely help people through it. It will be a moral responsibility at that point.

I didn’t grow out of it. But I don’t wallow in it either. I still listen to music from my teen and college years. But also listen to other music from the 20’s to the 70’s and I try to find newer music I like as well.

The people that puzzle me are those that stay stuck in culture from their teen years. Seems like they are almost stuck in molasses.

clambo says

I wouldn't pay a dollar to see Mellencamp

I wouldn't see him even if I got paid.

Onvacation says

clambo says

I wouldn't pay a dollar to see Mellencamp

I wouldn't see him even if I got paid.

If a Mellencamp screech comes up on the car radio, I change the station.

From cougar to cuckoo bird, and flipping off his fan base to boot. The last couple of years have shown us how genuinely free of meaningful judgment and analysis celebrities can be, and how sold out and craven. There are exceptions, but they aren't the loudest ones.

Ironically I have greater nostalgic tendencies towards music I didn't appreciate at the time. How ever those songs or bands are nostalgic now, only because of a person, event or place that song may have been playing. It's easier to associate them with the past, because they haven't been played to death on a classic rock station on an endless loop for 50 years. They broadcasted all of the nostalgia out of all of the cool rock songs, until they have all bled into one contiguous memory.

I also appreciate nostalgia from before my time. Not unlike how young folks today appreciate media and culture from our time.

ELO is a great example of music I had no appreciation for at the time. But their music brings back so many cool memories, even though at the time I thought ELO sucked. Jeff Lynn was a nobody. Today I consider him Beatles post breakup producer.

I was too young for the music of the 70s, but I do appreciate that decade more and more as I find all kinds of cool shit from that time. Can, Neu!, Space, etc. I once wrote it off as nothing but Eagles, Peter Frampton, Kiss, and ABBA.

A lot of which wasn't widespread popular then but had a huge influence over time. It's wild to see how musicians later are clearly incorporating some of their techniques and saluting them. Space and Daft Punk, Gary Numan and Everybody (yes, Numan was in the tail end of the 70s). Kraftwerk a big one. But also Can and Neu with the Happy Mondays and the Fall.

The late 70s-very early 80s has a ton of wild shit going on in music and movies and such. I don't think there's been an era like it since for pure range.

richwicks says

I'm hoping it's like the Dunning-Kruger Effect,

Is that the paper company from THE OFFICE?

Ceffer says

What's he wearing, some kind of janitor's outfit?

One of Hillary's pantsuits

AmericanKulak says

I was too young for the music of the 70s, but I do appreciate that decade more and more as I find all kinds of cool shit from that time. Can, Neu!, Space, etc. I once wrote it off as nothing but Eagles, Peter Frampton, Kiss, and ABBA.

A lot of which wasn't widespread popular then but had a huge influence over time. It's wild to see how musicians later are clearly incorporating some of their techniques and saluting them. Space and Daft Punk, Gary Numan and Everybody (yes, Numan was in the tail end of the 70s). Kraftwerk a big one. But also Can and Neu with the Happy Mondays and the Fall.

The late 70s-very early 80s has a ton of wild shit going on in music and movies and such. I don't think there's been an era like it since for pure range.

Tangerine dream and amon duul 2!

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

I saw him about 15 years ago and it’s pretty clear at that time is was bored and not into really performing. He was a pretty huge jackass here.

He's always been a liberal prick.

My older brother was a bouncer at a club in Bloomington Indiana (IU campus) back in the 80's and accidentally carded Mellencamp when his huge entourage was coming to club for a show. Mellencamp apparently made a big stink even though my brother immediately let him in when he finally recognized him.

Is this the mythical baby boomer work ethic in action?