John Mellencamp, the outspoken pro-Biden rockstar, failed to read the room during a show in Toledo, Ohio, last month.
The incident came when an angry heckler demanded the singer sing the songs they came to see instead of pushing a political agenda for Democrats.
The clip shows the moment Mellencamp began trading words with a heckler, who demanded the singer “play some music” and stop lecturing them about how great Biden is.
“What do you think I’ve been doing, you c**?” the singer shoots back.
“You don’t f know me.”
The rocker became overwhelmed as more hecklers joined in.
Mellencamp told another member of the uaienc eto to “go back to kindergarten” after the man yelled out, “Play ‘The Authority Song’,” a hit from the 1983 album “Uh-huh,”
“Guys, I can stop this show right now and just go home,” Mellencamp responds.
“Tell you what I’m going to do. Since you’ve been so wonderful, I’m going to cut about 10 songs out of the show. Here we go.”
He then broke into an acoustic rendition of his hit “Jack & Diane” before abruptly leaving.
“Know what? Show’s over,” he said as he walked off.
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Biden supporter John Cougar Mellencamp throws a tantrum and storms off stage after he learns his audience doesn’t want to be politically lectured and would rather get what they paid for. pic.twitter.com/Ut5VLoFIUj
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Mellencamp, 72, has played for over five decades with a style blended with peers such as Bruce Springsteen.
However, the singer has been subjected to recent heckling, most notably in the performance of “Longest Days.”
After leaving the stage, he returned after the hecklers had been removed, continuing with “Rain On the Scarecrow,” “Lonely Ol’ Night,” and “Pink Houses.”
However, this isn’t the first clash the singer has had with patriotic audience members.
Last May, Mellencamp lost it during a show in Cleveland when an audience member yelled out, “Play the f music!” after the singer began criticizing the United States.
“Listen, hey, you guys, if these people don’t shut the (expletive) up I’m just going to leave, OK? Because I’m not used to this crap,” Mellencamp said.
“Look, guys, if I wanted to play in this type of drunken environment, I’d play outside or I’d play in an arena.”
The Democratic singer has been a vocal supporter of Democratic former presidents like Barack Obama and has unsurprisingly targeted former President Donald Trump since his first day in office.
The day before Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, Mellencamp released a new music video titled “Easy Target,” in which he sings his views on the downtrodden state of a racist America,
“So Black Lives Matter, who we tryin’ to kid / Here’s an easy target / Don’t matter, never did / Crosses burnin’, such a long time ago / 400 years, and we still don’t let it go / Well, let the poor be damned and the easy targets, too / All are created equally, beneath you and me.”
“Slowly but surely this country changes by the men we admire and I’m very aware of that,” he told Katie Couric. “The country is changing by what has happened and, you know, welcome to Suckertown.”
When asked for his thoughts on Trump taking office, Mellencamp said:
“You don’t really know what he’s really going to do or what because he says one thing and does another. You know, ‘We’re not going to have Wall Street involved,’ and his whole cabinet is Wall Street. I’m just going to sit back and see how weird it gets.”
