John Mellencamp - Authority Song

[Pandatalks]

This song is great!

[UtubeAdminSucksAss]

Mellencamp is a hard-core communist and does not support Ron Paul. FYI!

[abcul11]

One of the best song writers around

[CaptainLightning1]

You too! This song demands that it be cranked. I wish it would go to 11!

[hoprabbitbunny]

Kitty Cat Mellencamp Gets my Vote as the Next Great Indiana Senator! John will stand and Fight. Authority is when life itself pulls you down!=but Johnny Got back up. Now hes a brilliant rocker

[tjaeger5]

well i like pikachu

[captfrogger]

@tjaeger5 You're so cute!

[mooman72v2]

12 people lose to authority.

[stillwellgirl]

luv him, sexxxy man he is/ was

[WWAHP]

That kid, is that a young Matt Damon?

[jeff62rey]

The Authority has us on our knees, ready to rape us again and cash in on their sxploitative orgasms. John's music has always been a thumb-in-eye to the authority and a call to the Heartland to stand up and f'em back. How many of you are ready to do just that in 2012 when you go to the ballot box?

[Rapunzel676]

Hey VEVO, I think you're a total disgrace.

[kennethcross87]

Hail the authority (computer brains)!! Nobody can defeat them.

[tonnyteku]

Does anyone know who's the lil boy in the video - Mark Wahlberg?

[jcane28eatsfatpuss]

@tonnyteku Markie Wahlberg was getting buttraped by Kangaroos in 1984...same as he is today.

[Halpin994]

Hold on wait, Vevo fucking rocks does no one get that? They bring us top quality stuff. The only reason people hate them is because they started when youtube started deleting all the videos of music uploaded by regular users. thus people hated Vevo. But now they have a massive library of top quality music. Its trustworthy and i dont have to check 5 videos before i get the right one. If there are still people out there that hate Vevo you are a sheep and you probably dont know why you hate them.

[jcane28eatsfatpuss]

@Halpin994 Horseshit !!! The corporatizing of youtube and America is hardly a good thing. You must be a Republican i.e. clueless.

[Halpin994]

@jcane28eatsfatpuss do you believe in God? your argument is invalid

[jcane28eatsfatpuss]

@Halpin994 My argument is invalid ? I have precisely zero interest in learning the warped logic behind that idiotic reply. Do you believe in the tooth fairy ? You've proven my point.

[penndancer]

I think I may have killed my laptop speakers on this song... they keep buzzing like they want to blow... maybe I should turn it down, but that's just not an option with this song!!!

[YOUvsBULLIES]

Have always loved this song. Another rockin' guitar based song you might remember / like is Tina Turner's "What you get is what you see".

[rubydawn1]

Makes me want to be wilder.

[SuperLiftRick]

I've fought authority my entire life and will do so to my grave. Whether it be: parents, employer, or government. It's my nature to stand against things that I feel are wrong and I do so vocally.

Thanks John...Good Job

[antisocialisme]

I started with my current employer in 1984 and have been fighting authority since then . Union the people who gave u weekends.

[gangstastylzes]

i fight authority!always will & sometimes i WIN.LOL

[PompousPreacher]

John Mellancamp is NOT a right-winger.

[mataleao1994]

@PompousPreacher Nobody from Southern Indiana is a right winger haha

[randomaccount39]

This song should have a lot more views than some of his other ones

[azzkeeker]

2:45 "Giggity" XD



[ZombieReaper420]

@azzkeeker i thought i heard that!! lol awesome!

[azzkeeker]

@ZombieReaper420 Now I can't help cracking up everytime I hear this song!

[ZombieReaper420]

@azzkeeker and for that your welcome =p

[honkifulikewomen]

dont make it like this no more and he is and still is hot

[FanDrawersStudios]

Without Vevo we'd have to pay for youTube.

[MsDiddlydoo]

VEVO I hate you for buying all the damn videos and having to sit through your stupid ass commercials.

[darknight0dc]

Story of a lot of us...cool tune.

[breffnipark]

Fantastic track !!

[zach25man4]

10 people didnt have the guts to fight Authority

[xXHellkittiesXx]

0:01

[kez51able]

Best Song:))

[Mrsjocampbell]

i can always dance to this song no matter where i am, i love it

[deeway1963]

Let's face it Ladies and Gentlemen of Youtube... John Mellencamp is just so damn COOL! He's James Dean COOL! And that's pretty damn COOL! Thumbs Up if you agree! =)

[AvelWorld]

Ad placement here very bad. Why would someone who like JCM want to listen to Hip-hop?

[cuteduckies254]

@AvelWorld I do :)

[deeway1963]

@chubill121 Ha-Ha! Great comment! LMAO!

[97karenlacey]

@chubill121 Are you SUUURREE you want that Blow-job? Your dicing with death there! ROLF

[kckinsmcg]

@97karenlacey Rolling On Laughing Floor? O_o

[97karenlacey]

@kckinsmcg yep :)

[YankeesDaily]

@97karenlacey

How some one can vote this up on a John Cougar Mellancamp song is beyond me and disrespectful.

[m0nkEz]

@chubill121 No thumbs up, what a great way to cover up your thumb-whoring. At least be man enough to admit that your doing it, I prefer the people who copy and paste something stupid for thumbs up than the one who complains about people trying to get thumbs up in order to get fucking thumbs ups.

[bcollins31572]

@chubill121

On Firefox download the AdBlock plus. POOF! No more ads anywhere on the internet.

[ramrod20042000]

Love this song and video! Mellencamp gave it the good fight but in the end Authority KO'ed him.

[pawsclean]

We all have to fight for our rights! Great song that will never go out of style. Thanks John for the music!!!

[cpljones69]

fuck vevo right in its ass

[ITILII]

Great song and vid, the people sitting on both sides of the ring pretty much sum things up: the "authority" figures on one side, and the rest of us who make things actually work, on the other. And to think that their authority is granted to them by us; the only way to deal with it is non-cooperation. "If you resist illegitimate authority, you may be ridiculed, shunned, harassed, beaten, imprisoned, murdered - but you will NEVER be enslaved" - Gandhi

[DaveWollenberg]

John hit #14 in Billboard, 5-19-84. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

[mugzsta1]

that little boy looks evil at the end

[RawheadRex72]

Thanks for reminding me where I come from.

[mugzsta1]

Respect my Authorit-A!!!!!!!

[AlexDodt]

punk rock

[gregsf2002]

When I hear this song I think of the democrats that have banned smoking in bars, lowered the OWI limit to .08, taxed the hell out of cigarettes and beer and basically try to regulate any kind of fun a modern day American may try to have. Sure both sides are to blame but if you look at the more liberal states, they are always the first to put the shackles on.

[DrLoafer]

@gregsf2002 I would like to think that too, but then I remember that Republicans oppose marijuana, video games, comedic television, and same-sex marriage. They also put in the Blue Laws. Damn conservatives trying to regulate any kind of fun a modern day American may try to have.

Nevertheless, awesome song.

[agnoses]

Loose lips sink ships!

[garic2k]

corona sucks

[TheDirtball524]

I am not a democrat. You can't trust them as far as I can throw my car. They are worms just like the lying republicans. When I go to the voting booth, I usually don't vote for one slate. I do my home work on each candidate. I know what the moral to the song is. I was just trying to stir things up. I also don't trust many politicians. They don't care about the middle class. I don't care about them. I just care about the future of the middle class. I am pro gay marrige. Let them be miserable too.

[TheIntolerantAtheist]

When Police arrest people for no reason, this is the theme song in their heads. This is the song Republicans think of when they vote for anti-American nazis.

[dbcooper714]

the produces of all his videos should be shot

[Maxxxz12]

666 likes.... nice....



[TheDirtball524]

This song goes out to all the middle class blue-collar workers being attasked by all the labor hating lying politicians. Keep up the fight brothers and sisters. I am proud to be an American and a Teamster! Shout out to IBT local 641

[TheIntolerantAtheist]

@TheDirtball524 the moral to this song? You fight authority authority always wins. America doesn't give a SHIT about you Democrats, they care about corporate power. I see right-wing dumbfucks like Bryan Fischer complain about the non-existant militant homosexual mafia who's apparently forcing 1st graders to watch them have orgies in public toilets.

[jbharuch]

He always walked like an Egyptian; Cougar or Melloncamp.... got my vote....

[gigits27]

the three people who disliked cant fight the quthority...

this is an eic song =D

[TobyW360]

thats crazy, all the people who are in authority on one side of the ring, and the other side on the other, crazy stoned music.

let the good times roll.

[WarriorMigs24]

Great Song

[xXHellkittiesXx]

Yeppers :)

[justice540]

This video has been chosen for March 30, 2011 post on facebook page : Random Daily Classic Rock Song

[michaelsmorrison]

Pay Pay Pay

If there was a a game

I wanted to play

Then they would make me a winner

and I would loose the very next day

I used to think money didn't matter

until I had to Pay Pay Pay...

M.S. Morrison

[BSGbarberkris]

a very sex pistolish solo done midwest style...........

[roosevelthighschool]

I say what is with the kid in this video? He is hanging around John Mellencamp. What's his problem?

[97karenlacey]

@roosevelthighschool John is fighting the government policies behind the news articles, He is taking the working man's grieveances to the "powers that be" they hold all the cards. He gets to speak and voice his concerns but they "knock him out" the boy child is the witness to the struggle as well as one who will contuine the fight for John and the average working people. Soilders, miners farmers and housewives every one that enables an economy to function.

[kngrtk]

@97karenlacey "the boy child is the witness to the struggle as well as one who will contuine the fight for John and the average working people"

And the sad thing is that now that it's 25 years past, that boy will also experience being knocked out by the power that be. And so the cycle goes on.

[97karenlacey]

@kngrtk NWA Said " FIGHT THE POWER!"

[roosevelthighschool]

Haven't heard this song in a long ass time. Thought I'd just take a listen to it and reminisce. Love the way the video looks.

[97karenlacey]

@roosevelthighschool This video is a CLASSIC 80's.Many 80's videos were creative and had great messages but I think this really qualifies as one of the best. As all people have to fight "authority" at one time or anorther". This song make it clear that some times the fight is necsssary and at other times youthful rebellion and how to tell the differance. If you lose on a true cause not to let the"authority" break you.":)

[michaelsmorrison]

Pay Pay Pay

If there was a a game

I wanted to play

Then they would make me a winner

and I would loose the very next day

I used to think money didn't matter

Until I had to Pay Pay Pay...

M.S. Morrison

[estherbonnie13075]

Dear Chris Brown,

i humbly dedicate this song to you. you should listen to these lyrics until you can sing it yourself, and then you might begin to understand the jam you are in. i don't know if you are familiar with the Word, you know that fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding, of wisdom. Romans 13 explains "authority" and its purpose. I Corinthians 13 defines love, as the Lord teaches it.

[97karenlacey]

@estherbonnie13075 Does Chris Brown have anyway of knowing that? I haven't seen any chris brown posts here. huh?

[grizzlyfan41]

Is there any other artist (besides Bruce Springsteen,)  that champions the fight for "the common man" like Mr Mellencamp?

[Pandaoniman]

@grizzlyfan41 I think Marky Mark did in Good Vibration. :P

[sparky0018]

great video.  That kid looks familiar tho. anyone know who he is?

[sparky0018]

great video. kid looks familiar, anyone know who he is?

[brothertee1017]

@sparky0018 He looks like the dude that plays Dexter...LOL.

[sbubbb]

Best JM song ever........And, he has many great ones!

[ZINGGO]

THE 3 who dislike this video-are the authority ..

[0cerveza]

thank whoever put sound on this place we call earth! music keeps me rockin thru life!! two thumbs up for mellencamp!! to all the haters stop drinking that haterade!!

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[0cerveza]

thank whoever put sound on this place we call earth! music keeps me rockin thru life!! two thumbs up for mellencamp!! to all the haters stop drinking that haterade!!

[frontierdriver]

Just got back from seeing him at DPAC...what a show!!!! Opened with this song...

[tcampbellla]

@themaninthemirror131: Pathetic comment on a Mellencamp video, Junior.

Too bad your guy(Cobain) put a bullet through his head.

Mellencamp Lives! Mellencamp Rocks! Mellencamp is in the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame!!!!!

[texcavy]

I said, "Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying

And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun"

[mabonvin3]

Screw VEVO, I'm sick of all the ads !!!

[toolboyrocks]

is that boy john mellencamp when he is a kid

[rob4041]

which one is this kid in the movie born on the forth of july can someone tell me with out pedo remarks thanks robo

[TheAKAJACKIE]

people just relax, this is a cool song still right?

[julkat73]

Favorite cougar song

[bigbiscuit100]

"and dyin to me don't sound like all that much fun."

[Napier081979]

Should be my theme song at work...

[McBeck1960]

In - Law's & Outlaw's, Kid's & grand kid's I will always take my stance. It's all we have to stand on .That's our rights , beliefs, & principals! AUTHORITY does not ALWAYS win! Even if it is what we live by!!!

[waynejune2180]

I fight vevo comecials but they always win :>/

[lngbrdsrcool]

The authority song describes me exactly. They say you cant fight the system I say Im not fighting the system the system is fighting me!!!.

[Myhike3]

no x 4 commercIALS! gotta RUN!

[camm1210]

Well long story short I fought the authority! I got a ticket for speeding and A court date for propitiating a officer. After everything is said and done. I met the officer 2yrs later in a bar and he married me! love you honey!

[meczm]

is it justin bieber (sec.39)??? hahaha

[TheDato2025]

@meczm are you a freaking homo?

[meczm]

@TheDato2025 not!!! I'm a girl ,,, I'm a hot girl

[markmoderatto]

@meczm Yep...it's his older brother..hahahaahhah....it kinda looks like him...

[cambridgevparanormal]

I fought Authority, it gave me 1 year in prison, better than the 3 to 5 split. I learned my lesson, dont punch a police officer in the face. When he ask you to leave,just leave lol

[sgtpruitt]

You have to be a miserable person to not like this song. I would not like to meet those 3 people. This is great music.

[ChikwhoRocks]

This damn song made me get a ticket on highway 49......love it! <3

[TheRomeoDallaire]

I fought the law and the law won

[jtmichaelson]

26 years later and authority is STILL winning.

[magicmarkeruser]

I just fought authority to a stale mate over the weekend.... In one year authority will state my idea as its own and win. :(

[partypianoplayer]

Great tune.. 

[YourTypicalZenAnarch]

Saw this in the epigram of one of Sinfest's comic strips. Great song!

[klaritydawn]

Growin up only leads to dyin and dyin to me don't sound like all that much fun! Ha! Dang that man was a doll! Love him!!

[jtmichaelson]

@klaritydawn That was very cool. Growin' up leads to growin' old and then to dyin'.

[nagaslrac]

This rocks.

[beckjwilson]

Another great song by John Mellencamp !!!!!!!!!

[theseether]

Authority does always win lol. sucks.

[Cameronsmomable]

Back when Mellencamp first came out,and he was still using the "Cougar" moniker, lots of people felt he was nothing more than a Springsteen Imitator and kind of blew him off. So glad he stuck around all of these years.

[tamirshahin]

You won't ever win against the system

[stevekrulik]

I bet if Justin Bieber fought authority he would win.

[berryboo4]

i hate vevo commercilas : (

[n8tureboy]

@hancock06

I agree totally but where did that comment come from. I'm referring to the nightmare police state that's fast approaching. I do respect authority, but it's got to be a mutual respect-why shouldn't it be?

What does"touching" someone have to do with it. What's that supposed to mean? I think pedophiles ought to be horsewhipped,water-boarded, spat-upon, and finally castrated-how's that?

Don't take the comment out of context, after all I did reference Orwell didn't I.

[dictatorpepper]

sometimes, thats how they dressed 4 that album song going tp assault left and right mini games dressed nobody's fool; i'm n love with urinals!

[cgarbiano]

@horsecockdec16 LOL

[douglaswsandy]

YEAH, I LIVE BACK IN INDIANA AGAIN, AND I HAVE ALWAYS GOT MY @#$ SMACKED BACK DOWN AGAIN, KIND OF A KARMA THING...LOL

[justice540]

This video has been chosen for November 2, 2010 post on facebook page: Random Daily Classic Rock Song

[kikomiko1]

yeah, they always get you in the end, but that don't mean we can't make it a royal pain in the ass for them to catch us.

[vaf88]

i live here in indiana every time you get out of line you do get smacked right back into place

[RWOODWARD64]

i lost too.....

[riverlioness]

Authority is only worth about as much as the amount of accountability invested in it.

[n8tureboy]

I respect authority under one condition. That condition is: That authority respects me and leaves me the hell alone!

Got no problem with it otherwise, unfortunately "authority" has become Orwell's wet dream.

Goose-stepping jackboot stamping on the face of humanity-forever! There's your "authority" !

Montani Semper Liberi.

[thespiswolf]

@n8tureboy You must REALLY hate Obama, then.

[n8tureboy]

@thespiswolf

You betcha! Didn't much care for his predecessor either. Don't care much for any modern actors. Err, I mean politicians.

[Mr221keith]

hell with authority

[julkat73]

Grew up listening to him. Love his music but this song has always been my favorite. fuck Authority but dam it usually does in the end win LOL

[skeletorment666]

I hate vevo.

[NorthStar20121]

When I fight authority, I win.

[sarcasticnfantastic]

i fight authority-authority always wins. story of my life!

[therealraybaby]

When I was a young kid I used 2 think Mellencamp was Jon Bon Jovi's big brother. LOL

[horsecockdec16]

i fought authority,,it didn't turn out so good.

[riverlioness]

@horsecockdec16

No way...really?

[buckeyes1204]

@horsecockdec16 I agree brother. It never turns out well.

[Schenker1067]

@horsecockdec16 cause authority always wins!

[ripping76]

@horsecockdec16 I hear that..lol

[hrrisman]

Love this song....

[recordgolf]

great song and video and yes the kid in here is in the movie born on the 4th of july.

[vodude]

@recordgolf Which part did he play? If you're saying that kid is the one who played the young Tom Cruise I don't think it's him cuz this video was made 5 yrs before the movie came out. He would've been too old for that part. Or are you talking about another character?

[SuperJohnreid]

reminds me of the 60's i grew up with, just rocking

[japeve]

This song remember me my chilhood.

[Teraluna]

Have loved this singer since I'm 19....I'm 47; he's amazing!!!

[N7075]

@Teraluna i cant agree more.. and im only 16!

[kentonlarsen]

Kick-ass rewrite of "I Fought the Law."

[F150man1998]

Best boxing I've seen in years