"John Mellencamp gives away the intent of Other People's Stuff with its titles: it's a collection of covers, ten songs recorded between 1993 and 2018 ... Not everything on Other People's Stuff is politically charged - Robert Johnson's "Stones in My Passway" is merely haunted, for instance - but taken as a whole, the album can be read as a summation of what Mellencamp loves about America, which amounts to a political statement in 2018"