John Mellencamp
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Podcast Appearances
But anyway, back to MTV.
And you couldn't go anywhere.
I would walk down the street and all I did was sign autographs and shake hands and I didn't like it at all.
Well, that'd be very weird.
Yeah, I mean, it was like...
You know, you've been in rock bands since you were 13.
And then all of a sudden, they did.
And, you know, it was the baby boomers coming of age.
And, you know, I was very fortunate, but unappreciative.
I figured out, just don't forget the critics hated me.
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.