Jack & Diane as a love interest. The Jake Owen song "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)" heavily samples the original song and references the original in its lyrics. The All American Rejects would use a drum/choir vocal section similar to the one towards the end of this song towards the end of their 2009 hit Gives You Hell Jack & Diane "Jack & Diane" is a 1982 hit rock song written and performed by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing as "John Cougar." It appears on Mellencamp's album "American Fool". It was chosen by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as
Jack & Diane MKTO's 2014 song "American Dream" claims Jack left Diane thirty years ago. In the American ABC sitcom "Black-ish", the protagonist's six-year-old twins are named Jack and Diane. The fourth episode of the Netflix sitcom "Lady Dynamite" is called "Jack and Diane", as Maria Bamford assumes the fictional identity of one Diane to date a man named Jack Tripper. The episode concludes with a song named "People Pleaser" that parodies "Jack & Diane", edited in the style of the original video. The single "No Such Thing as A Broken Heart" by "Old Dominion" mentions "Jack and Diane" in the opening verse