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re: John Cougar Meloncamp storms off stage when fans push back against his Biden propaganda

Posted on 4/16/24 at 10:58 pm to
Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
4356 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 10:58 pm to
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It looks to me like about a quarter of the reviewers did not like the show (one or two stars) and way more than half awarded four or five stars.


If you're going to walk out because of one heckler saying one thing, 25% of the reviewers is more than enough to be relevant in this story.

Remember how the name "Little Bastard" was always listed in the album credits in his records in the 80s (and possibly 90s)?

That was a pseudonym for Mellencamp. Because he actually was a little bastard and he knew it and was proud of it.

The song "Troubled Man?" It's 100% autobiographical and confessional.

Mellencamp is a career jerk. I don't feel bad for that guy just about no matter what.
Posted by OzonaOkapi
Patrolling the Edwards Plateau
Member since Apr 2024
400 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:12 pm to
Look, our heckler bought a ticket to a small-venue acoustic show, and expected to be attending a greatest hits concert. If HE had read the reviews, he would know that was not what he was going to be attending. In any case, he did not like it, and he acted like an arse.

As I said, Mellencamp should have, just thrown the heckler out and continued the show for everyone else. Yes, walking out makes makes him something of an arse as well, which I acknowledged above.

None of which is the point of this thread or of my initial comments.. If you do not want to attend an intimate, small venue acoustic show, don't buy a ticket for one. It is really that simple.

For three pages, posters here asserted that the heckler was complaining about Mellencamp making comments praising Biden (clearly NOT the case), when he was simply telling the same type of story that he had been telling for the entire tour ... as reported in all the earlier reviews.

Those posters just accepted a false representation from social media, and they went with it ... because it satisfied their preconceptions. That is intellectually lazy. In the first three pages of the thread, I was the ONLY poster to stop, think and research. That is just sad.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 11:25 pm
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