John Mellencamp
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Podcast Appearances
They hated Johnny Cougar.
And I didn't like him much either.
Because we weren't any good.
We did not write songs.
We did not do anything.
How do you reach a lot of people?
By being on the radio.
So keep it simple, stupid.
So I would write, like I had a song called Hurt So Good.
Do you remember that song?
I wrote that in the shower.
And I came out real quick and I wrote it down and then I had somebody write it down and I remembered the melody and I sang it to a tape machine.
I got so many funny stories.
I was down in Criteria, which was in Florida, in Miami, and
You know, it was the early 80s, and so we had this, and Criteria had five or six studios, and you know, there were like, I don't know, all kind of bands.
The Bee Gees were over here, and this band was over here.