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The song emotes happiness and joy, but in the form of victory in learning the music theory and its mathematics which would allow “the camp” to go one and have a tremendous career as a pop star, political activist and heart attack survivor.
Since the time of the victory song “I Need A Lover” featured here, according to wikipedia.org somewhere between the ages of 50 and 56, Mellencamp has become a pessimistic, bitter yet highly intelligent man. The Bush years have, according to Mellencamp, “F—— p—– me off, man. When that dastard, all the Republicans – all the democrats, man. Like, wake up. If a congressperson pays 4 million dollars in campaign spending to [earn] a $175K salary, who, I repeat WHO, do you think is responsible for taking quiet bribes, making awful votes in Congress to pay those bribes? Lobbying ain’t illegal either, man. It’s the sheer lack of balls in Congress, dude. No bal;ls in the Seanate, other than Cheney, and we know what the deal is there. No one standing up to a burned down Constitution. That’s my depression.”
John in his anger continued in a candor that can only be called the “anti-Madonna” – what comes out just comes. Not every coming has to be, like, rehearsed to the microsecond, especially not doing a Bette Davis horror act on stage, or so I infer from reading Jon Pareles scathing yet brilliant review of Madonna’s last [concert]. John lights up a Winston. “That Sebator from Ariziona! Dastard with a D – the man did wear the uniform, he did do a little time in a prison camp, ok, I’ll give that twinkie, so a bastard he is not. Ok. But this Hanoi Hilton dude started using my masterpiece Our Country at his rallies – I mean, (a) how is the food going to get on the dinner table when Ford car companies, for whom I wrote that jingle, find out that it was used by that old man: McCain, and, (b) though most won’t admit it, Mellencamp nation, and like Kelly Clarkson nation or Aiken Nation, yes – it is a HUGE f—— fan club, will vote as I vote. When AJohnny Mac was using MY SONG at his rallies – my god isn’t that beyond anything. Like, who’s going to buy a Ford if they are voting McCain. All the McCain voters have those Mercedes, man. Those Toyotas, the Beemrs. They are the very people I will expose in the spring, weather permitting of course , GUANTANAMO AID™. Let me say: I am talking the very spot where Martin said, ‘Free at last, free at last, than k God Almighty we are free at last!’ Jeez. Another RIP-OFF by that power hungry war-monger: he gets out fo a HILTON, and he says, literally, word for word, verbatim, “FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY I AM FREE AT LAST!” Ok, he was a prsonoer. By *Martin* made it up. McCain is just an idea thief, dude.” Guantanamo aid, my friends, and I am talking: That place don’t shut down, those Korans ain’t fished out of the ocean and re-constructed: me and my band will MAKE IT SO! No more nukes! Ahhhhhhh!” The excitement got so much for “The Camp” that I said, “John, yiou take it easy, man. For a cat that doesn’t smoke herbal cigarettes, doesn’t do drugs, doesn’t ever have a glass of wine, you are one strung out fellow. That Farm Aid® thing, though: RIGHTEOUS!” And I do love yoru music – especially the live Check It Out.”
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FROM JOHN MELLENCAMP, THE OFFICIAL SITE - “I did an interview with someone recently,” he chuckles, “who said, ‘Don’t you think at times like this that people just want to sing and dance?’ And I said, ‘You know, when all else fails, when it’s Sodom and Gomorrah, singing and dancing’s fine. If you really think these are the final days, well, f*** it, then, let’s just sing and dance and screw. But I don’t think that’s where we’re at.’ ” When John McCain’s campaign began using his songs Our Country and Pink Houses at rallies, Mellencamp hit back hard. “If [McCain is] such a true conservative,” asked the singer’s publicist, “why [is he] playing songs that have a very populist pro-labour message written by a guy who would find no argument if you characterised him as left of centre?” The practice ceased. Mellencamp says he was surprised his political views weren’t known to the McCain team. “I am never writing to my base,” he argues. “I live in a red state. Indiana has not voted for a liberal president since Kennedy. There are houses that aren’t as big as this room, and are falling down, and there’ll be Bush-Cheney signs in the window. If I was going to vote for my interests, hell, I’d be a conservative.”
His contention that his new album “was written in the American-songbook tradition; all of those songs from the 1930s, 1940s, were telling these sad stories” is surely accurate, though it is significant that most of the great heartland songs of the period come from a socially aware viewpoint. That isn’t to say that there weren’t writers then, or now, with a different political perspective. The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, for one, has written songs imbued with an innately conservative sense of nostalgia. Yet, like Dylan, Young and Springsteen, Mellencamp immerses himself in those songbooks in part because he knows what he will find there: a set of values, a purpose, that reflect and have inspired his own. “Wall Street didn’t get drunk,” he concludes, referring to Bush’s recent comment on the economic meltdown. “Those guys allowed these things to happen, and now they’re bringing us all down. You can’t have the Wild West running the world.” So, here comes the cavalry? The singer knows it’s not that easy, try though he and kindred musical spirits might. In the meantime, sing and dance to his music if you want to, but Mellencamp wants you to remember this: he’s partisan, and proud of it.”
Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title=”I Need A Lover”
composer=John Cougar Mellencamp 
performer=John Cougar Mellencamp
average beat=463 milliseconds
mean speed/average velocity/median tempo=126.9 beats per minute
mean-emotion according to the meanspeed music conjecture=victory
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