Springsteen has always been vastly overrated and Mellencamp has always been a strutting little jerk. The only thing that made them the least bit listenable were their back-up bands. And now both posers are considered irrelevant to boot. No surprise there.
Yeah Kenny Aronoff, doesn’t have a lot of good things to say about John.
As a lifelong rock and roll musician, (5 instruments and counting), I’m happy to say that I was never in to either one of those two putz’s music. Way too formulaic and pedestrian. Also too screaming.
✅ What you said.