
Like I was talking to Springsteen, and he asked me if I watched the Grammys. So, I don’t really pay attention to popular culture. I live a very solitude life,” he explained. In the Forbes interview, Mellencamp was also asked about his music’s place in popular culture, to which he admitted he was deliberately unaware. And that is the part everybody remembers on the song. “ put the percussion on there and then he sang the part ‘let it rock, let it roll’ as a choir-ish-type thing, which had never occurred to me. Mellencamp credits producer and guitarist Mick Ronson for the song’s more memorable parts. However, he chose to leave the clapping in once he realised that the song would not work without it. The clapping was used only to help keep time and was supposed to be removed in the final mix. Stopping and starting, it’s not very musical,” he previously said. “When I play it on guitar by myself, it sounds great but I could never get the band to play along with me. 7 in Australia) in 1982, often just saying it was notoriously difficult to record.


Mellencamp has previously sidestepped questions about the track, which spent four weeks at No. Can you imagine? I thought, ‘S**t.’ I said, ‘How do all these f**king people know this song?’” “I watched a football game this past weekend, and 80,000 people were singing that song at half time. “I always detested that song until the last couple, three years,” he said, adding that he’s shocked that the song still resonates with fans 40 years after it was released. Mellencamp made the admission during a recent chat with Forbes. Jack kept spouting, I’m supporting Kyle.Despite its huge success, John Mellencamp has revealed he ‘always detested’ his hit little ditty, Jack & Diane. JG had Kyle forgive Diane before Summer even got home. He could still write the story as Diane coming out smelling like a rose at the end. She manipulated Jack into Grand Larceny and she stood behind Jack with a smirk on her face as Jack lied to Nikki about it.ĭiane likes to tell Jack that she didn’t want to come between him and Ashley but the smirk was back on her face was she watched Jack defend her to Ashley.ĭiane has always been able to control a situation by taking it to the edge but finding a way to say, “I guess I shouldn’t have gloated”, etc., to get Jack back on her side.
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After she got Jack and Kyle to buy into her description of “Jeremy” then all of a sudden she wasn’t afraid but knew exactly how to control Stark. She would start in on how dangerous “Jeremy” is. And, when she felt Jack or Kyle were on the verge of asking follow-up questions because her explanations didn’t make sense, she would change the subject to distract them. Diane had to do damage control for each lie to get Jack and Kyle back in line. Diane can back manipulating Jack with the mystery texts, did not follow any agreements she made with Jack but turned up in GC.

I, too, am a long time viewer who knows Diane’s history and personality. I understand why some people like Diane and just can not understand why we hate her but they have to understand as a long time viewer why we can not trust her. Sure you can read her history but it does not tell the whole story it never does you had to have watched it to get the whole story. The problem with this story as I see it is it creates a disconnect between long time viewers and new viewers, new viewers only see the Diane as she is shown now they do not know the real Diane all they see is this poor little Diane wanting to get back with her son and wanting redemption and the crocodile tears poor poor me if I was a newer viewer I would see it that way myself but long time viewers watched the real Diane and the chaos she creates and the manipulation and conning to get her own way she was evil and Jack hated her and I for one can not separate that Diane from Diane now.
