John Mellencamp Ordered to Change "Little Pink Houses" Lyrics
WASHINGTON—A newly signed executive order will require John Mellencamp to release a revised version of his 1983 hit single "Little Pink Houses" with the reference to "vacation[ing] down at the Gulf of Mexico" removed from the song's penultimate verse, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced today. "When President Donald J. Trump acted decisively to right an historical wrong," Ms. Leavitt said, visibly fighting back tears, "by ordering that the waters between the Florida and Yucatán Peninsulas be renamed to Mare Nos —I mean the Gulf of America, he knew there would be some loose ends. This order merely ties up one of those loose ends." When asked by a reporter from the Bloomington Herald-Times about the appropriateness of a President directing a singer-songwriter's artistic expression by legal fiat, an angry Leavitt replied, "Look. If Billy Mack can change the words to 'Love Is All Around' in a delibe...