He did the same with candidate John McCain in 2000. Ain’t that America?!įun fact: Mellencamp refused to permit President Ronald Reagan to use this song in his 1984 campaign. The winner of the contest sold the house two days after moving in.
So the channel had to buy another house and paint it pink. Pink houses represent the deceiving facade of all American Dreams as well as the. The repeating line in the chorus of Aint that America was meant to. The lyrics of this song stand to depict the stereotypical American Dream. When it was discovered that the prize house was located across from a toxic waste dump, Mellencamp refused to let MTV give it away. Mellencamp had intended Pink Houses to be a lesson on race, class and survival in America. To promote the song, MTV ran a contest where one viewer would win a pink house. Unlike “Jack & Diane” and “Hurts So Good”, Mellecamp shared that writing “Pink Houses” happened “very quickly”. Despite its use as a pro-America theme, the lyrics are sarcastic with Mellcamp calling it “an anti-American song”. Leo from Westminster 1, Md Pink Houses is anything but an affirmation of so-called 'Traditional American values Only John Mellencamp has the bravery and balls to look America right between the red, white and blue eyes because the American dream is a nightmare and a myth. Mellencamp said his inspiration for the song came when he saw black man sitting in a lawn chair watching the road, when driving down Interstate 65 in Indianapolis. It became his fourth of ten career US top 10 hits and Rolling Stone magazine ranked the single at #447 on their “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list in 2004. I mean Seymour, Indiana, my roots, is just as unique as, say, Los Angeles. Social media is too visible and frequently brutally honest.
If it were a scam the number of people talking about their bad experience would be substantial. “Pink Houses” was the second single released from the 1983 album Uh-Huh. Its time to talk about Little Pink Houses again Recently someone asked a very good question, is this a scam I know its almost too good to be true, but.no it is definitely not a scam.
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