Community-minded heartland liberals who also happen to be rock musicians have had to deal with Republican candidates misappropriating their songs since the great Reagan/Springsteen "misunderstanding" of 1984, but John Mellencamp has reached his limit. He's "quietly" had his "people" approach Republican candidate John McCain to ask him to stop using the mildly patriotic (and awful) "Our Country" and the mildly subversive (and classic) "Pink Houses" at his campaign rallies. It's easy to understand why McCain would want to use "Our Country"; he was probably just hypnotized like the rest of us by all those mom and apple pie and a two-car garage for everyone Chevy commercials. But
Rolling Stone finds it hard to believe that dude even bothered to pull out the lyric sheet to
Uh-Huh to see exactly what "Pink Houses" was saying about this great country of ours before he added it to the playlist.
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