John Mellencamp
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It was like, well, fuck you, then I will.
And then I walked outside and thought for a minute, thought,
I guess I'm Johnny Cougar.
And they compared me to James Dean and Bruce.
And, you know, so the critics just hated that.
It was like, you know, he's so American.
Yeah, I was a fucking hillbilly.
Yeah, but you know what?
I learned stuff from some of the critics that were good.
Well, one of my best friends was a guy named Tim White, who was the editor of Rolling Stone and the editor of Billboard magazine, and he died a few years ago.
And you want to hear some inside baseball?
Tim and I talked every day.
And Tim is as different as me, as you.
Tim wore a bow tie, white bucks, you know, blue jeans, suit jacket every day.
And he was the editor of Rolling Stone for a long time.