John Mellencamp's - Jack and Diane Origanally About Interracial Couple

Gorath said:
I remember Janis Ian's At Seventeen. That was probably the best song about being an outsider. Ian is biracial(mother is black and father is white from Ireland). She lives in Nashville, Tennessee now. I guess she is still writing songs.
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Janis Ian wrote a song about an IR couple, "Society's Child", and her parents were active in the Civil Rights movement, but I couldn't find one citation that she's the product of Black and White parents.
http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/At-60-Janis-Ian-is-no-longer-lonely

Based on her celebrity and pro civil rights views, I think if Ms. Ian was mixed it would be treated as more of a big deal in the media.

Was that reference based off memory or did you read it somewhere??
 
andreboba said:
Janis Ian wrote a song about an IR couple, "Society's Child", and her parents were active in the Civil Rights movement, but I couldn't find one citation that she's the product of Black and White parents.
http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/At-60-Janis-Ian-is-no-longer-lonely

Based on her celebrity and pro civil rights views, I think if Ms. Ian was mixed it would be treated as more of a big deal in the media.

Was that reference based off memory or did you read it somewhere??
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I had heard about Janis Ian's story on television more than twenty years ago.
 
Given that Janis was 14 years old when she wrote this tune, Society's Child in 1967 released when Janis was 16 might be THE most shocking and controversial song about IR romance EVER written.

She got death threats for this track and did not care one bit.[YOUTUBE]yW_rYLoIR08[/YOUTUBE]
 
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