We Didn’t Start the Fire is obviously a hilarious song but we don’t talk enough about the line “cola wars I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE”, like was that the straw that broke the camels back for you my man?
I dunno, Jack and Diane is all about how horny teenagers don’t realize that they are going to grow up and become miserable one day. One of those songs where the bouncy melody masks how cynical it is
I always read the cynicism in that song as a sort of fake depthiness. Maybe because I can picture a boomer nodding along to it in a car, thinking "deep man, deep".
Yeah, maybe, I don’t really wish to defend Mellencamp as some super insightful lyricist. I don’t think the song is all that good, but it’s not “Summer of ‘69”, which is the more straightforward, completely earnest version of this sort of thing
