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"Pink Houses" is a song written and performed by John Cougar Mellencamp. It was released on 23 October 1983 album Uh-Huh on Riva Records. It reached No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984 and No. 15 in Canada. "Pink Houses" was ranked No. 447 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
- "Serious Business"
- 23 October 1983
- 1983
- Heartland rock
Pink Houses Lyrics: 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 that he's got it so good...
Jan 23, 2023 · The song, inspired by a black man in a pink house, is not a patriotic anthem but a satire of the American Dream. Mellencamp exposes the class divisions and the failures of his country through the lyrics and the chorus.
- Staff Writer
- 5 min
Feb 2, 2022 · Mellencamp actually saw that very thing with his own eyes: one day he was driving along Interstate 65 through Indianapolis when he spotted a Black man and his black cat sitting on a lawn chair in front of a pink house.
