John Mellencamp - Authority Song (REACTION) with my wife

[@correctlyrics]

I always felt that this song was a reimagined version of "I Fought the Law".

[@Diecastclassicist]

Absolutely!

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Same🙂

[@waynemoon5359]

Shout out to the great Kenny Aronoff on drums. Another banger is "Crumbling Down".

[@peterreist2882]

Love it. This video was on like twice an hour early MTV while it was popular.

[@davidgalvez5341]

I enoy your reactions because both of you always put a personal touch in them. Usually, after using the internet, you're left with so much negative baggage, so I thank you guys, because you're not, in a strict sense of the word, merely sharing music with us. You're also authentically sharing a bit of yourselves.So many times I've left your channel with a smile and, for that, I thank you both. 🙂

[@bubsmomma]

My favorite JM song. Must be blasted as loud as possible while driving or dancing in the living room

[@andrewgr144]

Watching you react to songs I grew up with is always a treat, a consistent bright spot in my day. I'm not likely to put any John Mellencamp on a playlist, but his songs were a part of my childhood. I never got the impression that John was necessarily a deep thinker, but even as a child, I did think that he had a level of genuineness and sincerity that most of he contemporaries did not (and that is even rarer in our current ultra-ironic, ultra-self-referential, ultra-cynical culture). Sincerity-- like kindness-- is a virtue that I grow to appreciate more with each passing year.

[@tinakeith5822]

This has always been one of my favorite songs by John!!!

[@mikemiller3069]

My band covered this song back in the 80s. It was one of the best for filling up the dance floor.

[@keithcarper8809]

John does really good "Rock". I enjoyed you enjoying it. Thanks A&D ☮💛🎶

[@JoeHicks-ow4rm]

I'm not a big fan of Mellencamp but I love this song Pink House's and Jack and Diane. Also Small Town because it describes exactly the kind of town I was raised in. Selma California.❤❤❤

[@matthewlee6168]

This is probably my favorite Mellencamp song!

[@tootz1950]

Thank you so much for the video, John is such a great guy to watch.

[@f.murphy9182]

Thoughtful as always. Surprised yet again that you do not have more subscribers.

[@ToddSauve]

Talking about "the teacher is always right" Domenika. One day shortly after I started school in grade one, September 1964, about 15 or 20 of us 6 year old boys decided to organize a good sized mud ball fight on either side of a mud puddle in the middle of the playground at recess time. So, we had barely gotten the fight going decently when the principle and assistant principle saw this happening right before their very eyes, as they spied on us from the second story of the school, and came storming out to haul us all up to their office. We were lined up outside the principles office and then each taken in one at a time for "the strap"! LOL! We were all horrified as we could hear the whizzing of the dreaded strap coming down with a ghastly smack across outstretched 6 year old hands and the resultant howl of anguish ... until it was our turn! Maybe miscreants like me around the world have suffered the same fate for just being fun loving 6 year old boys. But, it didn't end there! My best friend's godfather was the assistant principle and he phoned my best friend's dad, who gave poor Chuck a good spanking for getting in trouble at school! Next my friend's dad phoned my dad (we lived kitty corner across the street from each other), and guess who got a good spanking next? Go to the front of the line if you guessed poor old me! To this day I have the honour of being the only kid in our family of five kids to get the strap at school. (My four sisters were such goodie two shoes I guess. 😇😄😜) And not just once but twice, because I got it again in grade two for reasons I can't recall, but were likely justified, ha, ha! My goodness, that was 60 years ago!!! 🤣😂 Well, that's how things were handled with kids in the 1960s. I will say this. There were literally no shootings or stabbings in schools that I was ever aware of back then. Since they have forbidden the strap from being applied to rebellious kids (and others) I think our North American educational institutes have become a degenerate joke. 👀🤔🤷

[@paulashanks3129]

Thank you for doing this 💜

[@TheGrannyGoat]

American folk music has a lot of different sounds. He is definitely a great folk artist!

[@ellerootz6702]

Flashback

[@williamcabell142]

One of the best! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@keithetherington4824]

Please react to, Check It Out by John Mellencamp. I'm positive you two will enjoy the message behind the song. John and me both grew up in Indiana and I can relate to his story. He is one of my favorite artists of all time.

[@pattymckitrick7436]

😊😊😊😊

[@dalemcmillan7231]

I love it!!!❤❤

[@michaelakkerman407]

Check out the song. CHECK IT OUT. Another great, great, song.

[@davidjudd951]

Seen John four times. Always put on a great concert. The first two, in the early 80's, he was younger, and really was one of the best live acts I've ever seen. It's a shame that he's become a rather bitter person in his older self. Saw a Sammy Hager show where Sammy featured John on an episode. I don't think I saw John smile even once during that airing. He's into his true love lately, and that's painting on canvas.

[@petertaylor5035]

Check out "Ain't Even Done with the Night"

[@richdiana3663]

I struggle with people who think they have authority over me.

[@mortennygaard5317]

👍

[@jewsbad]

When he came out he was John Cougar,, then John Cougar Mellencamp, then John Mellencamp, by the time he got to the 3rd name he had his act together and much better songs in my opinion.

[@BClarke]

Do “Check It Out”, a minor hit but his most underrated song in my opinion.

[@markmurphy558]

The difference between British and American rock is evident in artists like John Mellencamp and Bob Seeger from the Midwest/ South. I love both, but American rock has a fuller sound with much more soul and accessory instrumentation than the often bare bones of guitar and bass found in the early British Invasion. Elements of country, gospel, folk, and jazz color the songs. Esp in the early invasion period.

[@christophereichten9005]

I totally agree. There’s always a small but constant pool of American musicians that are really talented at the instruments that create that filler sound

[@RHAY_ASMR]

Love your videos just subscribed ♥️ I’m from South Africa can you please react to Patti LABELLE singing somewhere over the rainbow at the Martin Luther king celebration please 🙏

[@bryanhickey7317]

l'm with matthewlee

[@sheryldalton8965]

Hard to believe a lot of artist & performers from this era are now woke & telling us peons to do everything our 'democratic' government tells us to do. I don't know anything about JM but he is in an elite group. I'm old & sceptical now so excuse my complaining lol

[@БатырКазбеков-э3з]

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