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| Nothin' Matters And What If It Did | ||||
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| Released | September 23, 1980 | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 35:59 | |||
| Label | Riva | |||
| Producer | Steve Cropper | |||
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| Singles from Nothin' Matters and What If It Did | ||||
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Nothin' Matters and What If It Did is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter John Cougar. Produced by soul pioneer Steve Cropper, the album includes the Top 40 hits "Ain't Even Done with the Night", which reached No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 as the album's second single, and "This Time", which peaked at No. 27 as the album's lead single.
The woman pictured on the album's cover and seen in the music video for "This Time" is actress Edith Massey, a member of the Dreamlanders troupe who often appeared in the films of John Waters. Massey was chosen because, as Mellencamp told Rolling Stone in late 1980, "I was looking for a typical heavy woman to convey a lower-middle-class way of living."[1]
A remastered version of Nothin' Matters and What If It Did was released on Mercury/Island/UMe on March 29, 2005; it includes one bonus track, "Latest Game", which, according to the liner notes, was taken from the sessions for Mellencamp's 1982 album American Fool.[2]
The album is certified Platinum by the RIAA.