“There’s a Black man, with a black cat/Livin’ in a Black neighborhood/He’s got an interstate runnin’ through his front yard/You know he thinks he’s got it so good.” Mellencamp wrote the song to spotlight race and class inequalities. − McDermott ‘Pink Houses,’ John Mellencampīack when he was John Cougar Mellencamp, the thoughtful singer/songwriter was moved to write the opening verse of his 1983 strummer after driving past a Black man sitting in front of his house with his cat. The song has been similarly treated as a patriotic working-class anthem, but listen past its star-spangled opening lines − "Some folks are born made to wave the flag / Ooh, they're red, white and blue" − for John Fogerty's anti-establishment storytelling about how the poor were sent to fight and die in Vietnam while the wealthy were spared. If "Born in the U.S.A." is rock ‘n’ roll’s preeminent misunderstood protest song, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s "Fortunate Son," from 1969, is a close second.
− Maeve McDermott 'Fortunate Son,' Creedence Clearwater Revival Starting in the ‘90s, Springsteen abandoned the song’s cheerful original melody in his live performances, choosing to play a darker, more skeletal acoustic version that better reflects the song’s status as a protest song, which is the version that appeared in Springsteen's Broadway show in 20. Yet, listen past the song’s booming chorus, and its lyrics tell the story of a young American kid sent against his will to fight in Vietnam, only to return home to a country arguably as hostile. Perhaps the most famous song to be widely mistaken for a patriotic anthem, Springsteen’s famous 1984 single has been used by politicians including presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Here's a list of songs with meanings that go deeper than their patriotic or America-centric first impressions. Yet, many of the classic songs that casual listeners assume are patriotic are anything but, from misunderstood anti-war protests to singalong favorites masking darker meanings.
Watch Video: Chicken 'plays' national anthem on keyboardįourth of July is fast approaching, and with it, the wave of patriotic playlists featuring rousing anthems, nostalgic rock 'n' roll favorites and all sorts of other songs with "America" in the title.
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