And in my younger years, when Roy Clark would play his guitar on Hee Haw, everything stopped. Can you believe that it's been over 35 years since the little ditty about Jack and Diane was released? And that is the part everybody remembers on the song. It spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and is Mellencamp's most successful hit single. 76 Comments. FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on September 03, 2018: Shannon - I had noticed a small batch of them and that made me question, like you. Thanks for taking the time to compile this. For the 2012 film, see, Last edited on 17 September 2020, at 14:08, Recording Industry Association of America, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://www.sydneyunleashed.com/kylie-minogue-at-the-movies/, https://hooksandharmony.com/you-too-can-play-guitar-like-john-cougar-mellencamp/, https://mountainx.com/arts/art-news/0706jackdiane-php/, https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20120831/NEWS/208310399?template=ampart, "John Mellencamp's 'Jack & Diane' Was Originally Written About An Interracial Couple", "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada", "South African Rock Lists Website – SA Charts 1965 – 1989 Acts (M)", "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_%26_Diane&oldid=978884296, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 September 2020, at 14:08.
Not so much. She thinks of herself as a "song interpreter," but back in the '80s another country star convinced Emmylou to take a crack at songwriting. March 6, 2018 @ It panders to tasteless people. Jake Owen ain't Jack. Peggy Woods from Houston, Texas on June 26, 2018: I probably heard that song Jack and Diane but never paid much attention to it. Dobe Daddy Putting all my chips on Cody Jinks and Tyler Childers. July 13, 2018 @ I was a ’60’s teen and I don’t hear something new and think of it being the same song from 50 years ago and say ” oh that is the same song, but worse” Move on- don’t compare-have FUN with it ! .Nah, I'm thinking of Keith Urban's "John Cougar, John Deer, John 3:16".
March 7, 2018 @ I would be curious to know how many folks in country’s target audience now knows who John Mellencamp is. See if you can match the song to the writer. That’s because Mellencamp wasn’t waxing nostalgic in this song. Be Jake Owen. What Diane put up with this from Jack? He appreciates being able to have someone to laugh with at the county fair and share a seat with at the corner pub. The fourth episode of the Netflix sitcom Lady Dynamite is called "Jack and Diane", as Maria Bamford assumes the fictional identity of one Diane to date a man named Jack Tripper. 36 years to be precise! Thanks for reading and commenting! "Described by critics as a "love ballad", this song was released as the second single from Mellencamp's 1982 album American Fool, and was chosen by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as one of the Songs of the Century.
Listen, all you people cant be serious I think it is great.. my personal opinion is when people talk negative it is because they have nothing nice to say.. Jake stay young, sing what feels good to you.. and people he wasn’t trying to steal the original he made his version.. jealousy does not fit you people.. John Mellencamp has become more country/Americana sounding the further his career has progressed…and yes, it’s a LOT more country than almost anything on country radio today.
Emilijane Life is about change. March 7, 2018 @
I’ve always had the sense that Jake Owen is one of these performers who is trapped in a contract. Unfortunately, the friend turned around and headed back home, marrying the hometown football star. If that’s true, it makes this shit show of a song even worse. GREAT!!!! Love the song ! Do yourself a favor and listen to John Mellencamp instead.
But who will be looking back at Jake Owen’s “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” and be doing the same thing 35 years from now? King Honky Of Crackershire FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on July 20, 2018: Genna - Glad you enjoyed this. blue demon I cannot ‘rap’ my brain around this guy’s attempt to . They're like boomerangs. I once rented a beach plate and learned that the owners were named Jack and Diane. He remembers how they were so in love with each other and he also remembers the one song they listen to all the time (which is John Mellencamp’s song “Jack and Diane”). At The Simpsons Take the Hollywood Bowl, he would perform a full version of the parody. The only thing I know of Big Loud is that it served us that absolute joke of a “country” singer, Chris Lane, and surely one of the most annoying “country” hits of the past five years: “Fix.”. Together they were Thelma and Louise, pretending there were no rules and belting out every word to "Jack and Diane." The teen years are a tough time of life, however, and I'd never want to relive them! "Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted." Of course they tweaked it in weird ways in their attire, but they basically left country music intact. It’s a love story in the 80’s about two teenagers in love with each other.
I guess, iIn fairness, the melody is good, but that only because it’s an anthem of my generation that I know like the back of my hand — This song feels like someone took my favorite old comfortable shirt, and took a giant $hit on it…. In the 90’s, maybe 1/2 of the music was still “country.” Now, only 10% (or less) of what the country music industry is producing is … actually country. Although he wants to be with her, at the same time he wants to pursue his dreams: "you got your life and I got mine." In total reverse of Barbara’s song, they are becoming un-country, because country isn’t cool. This doesn’t. March 6, 2018 @ - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, Free-Photos via Pixabay, Free Domain, modified by FlourishAnyway. This tune's teens seek change and want to make their mark on the world by fleeing to California. FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on June 28, 2018: Dora - Thanks for stopping by.
She could be at college in the city, for all we know.). Jack thinks of himself as inherently a good person. Corncaster Thanks for stopping by! Johnny Cougar was to be promoted as the next David Bowie initially, I believe. Just like Darrin was replaced on Bewitched, groups have swapped out original members, hoping we wouldn't notice. "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock Of Seagulls ends with an alien abduction.
John Mellencamp used to perform using the name John Cougar back then. They made me wonder just how many more existed! For young lovers, time seems to stand still, and then poof ... it's gone. Linda - It's made quite an impact on American culture, capturing not just the 80s era but also the feeling of being trapped by growing up in a small town even though you have big dreams. Like a time machine, the classic rock ditty instantly transports him back in time to when he drove his high school girlfriend out to the levy in his truck. And why does nearly every single Jake releases nowadays has to have him talking/mumbling the friggin’ verses? It was built from the line, “Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone,” which is repeated over and over in the original, and is glaringly missing in this remake. if I was the lawyer for Chevrolet, and I heard Jake Owen “sing” about our brand in this song the way he does, I’d sue him for slander, libel, and defamation of character, even though I’m an automobile, not a person. March 6, 2018 @ However, with nearly ten years of hindsight, It has somewhat grown on me. 11:28 am, These lyrics are just SO BAD. The best thing John Mellencamp ever did was discover James McMurtry.
"The original 'Jack & Diane' was about 'two American kids growing up in the heartland' and that image is exactly what so many country songs are based on.
Interesting you bring that up… Mellencamp did go after country radio with his 2006 album “Freedom’s Road,” which even spawned a Top 40 country single in 2006 with “Our Country” (featuring Little Big Town on backup vocals). It still talks (some) about the activities of the country life, but it no longer has the heartbeat of the country, or the soul of farming, ranching and living off the land. “Rain on the Scarecrow” is a great tune! Do you know who wrote Patti Smith's biggest hit? I made it 18 seconds. 9:57 am. I have seen some of the golden boys as old guys, and I am ever so grateful to have met and married the boy I met when I left my small town to live in the big city. Have a great day! Oh yeah, life goes on, even after the thrill of selling out is gone. Just stop. Many people describe this as a song that flips the script on Dolly Parton's classic "Jolene." Kevin Davis
"Take On Me" was just a minor hit in Norway until a new version was released with the iconic video, making it a global smash. I can’t get away from it.
That original version had the lyrics: "Don't tell my heart, my achy, breakin' heart...". And the next song.
I don't know of many other songs that are referenced like this in other songs.
Ever since the Days Of Gold album, he has been a trainwreck. It’s truly awful.
Jake also tries too hard to be Buffet at times and is bad at it. "Mr. Roboto" by Styx was written by their keyboard player, Dennis DeYoung, who used Japanese words and imagery to create an allegory about censorship. And because that industry and the flow of “country” music on the regular country stations has gone so far away from country … I come down on Jake’s song a bit different than most of you who have commented on here. Some days it feels like ear (and soul) torture. Completely agree, it actually makes the song very irritating the way it mimics the original. This one is just a throwaway knockoff. Album Review – Ray Wylie Hubbard’s “Co-Starring”. This angst-filled 1999 tune uses lines from famous rock songs then throws them back in your face as right or wrong. :). 11:58 am. March 6, 2018 @ This country song from 2013 celebrates the favorite pastime of the small "Jack and Diane town" where you work for the weekend and on Fridays and Saturdays, you drive around real slow with big dreams in your pocket.
This is the big impression Jake Owen wants to make with the lead single from his next album, that he’s completely bereft of new or original ideas? If it’s a crossover he’s looking for, he should just send it to adult contemporary radio and be done with it. MKTO's 2014 song "American Dream" includes the lines "This ain't the same summer song that you used to know/ 'Cause Jack left Diane thirty years ago".[18]. 9:50 am. Thanks for highlighting it. 12:22 pm. Once I heard Beachin’, I crossed him off my list.
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