I Was Jack (You Were Diane) reminisces about falling in love to the tune years before." Owen said that he asked Mellencamp personally for permission to incorporate portions of "Jack & Diane" into the song, and recorded it after receiving Mellencamp's permission. Owen said that he wanted to record it because of the feelings of nostalgia that the lyrics evoked in him. The song is Owen's first release on Big Loud Records, following a decade on RCA Records Nashville. The song has sold 110,000 copies in the United States as of August 2018. I Was Jack (You Were Diane) "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)" is
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