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I don't agree with your first statement. LH is miles better than TLFR.

Yea, I wouldn't say LH has flopped at all, at least in the states. Selling more than a million copies isn't really a flop.

deb

I think Richie is saying he doesn't know if his fans grew up with the same country feeling as he did.

I actually did because my mum had mostly country albums when I was a kid.

I like that they try new things. I don't think the next one will be country influenced but I think they will do something else new. They would get bored doing the same things thats why they change it up.

Kat

They are not stupid, they have to be aware at least in some degree that the album has flopped as a worldwide release, in the US, sure it has respectable numbers but in europe it hasn't really done much.

Maybe that's what Richie really refers to when talking like that, at least I take it that way, a large percentage of the bands overall sales used to be thanks in large part of the European numbers.

BTW, what's with all this articles saying that the country thing started with TLFR??
did anyone else think WTF when reading that??

I don't think the album was done for Europe. They know Europe is not big on country music. It wasn't even done to be a big album. It just has had good success in the US which is country music territory.

Kat

If that is what you want to believe then that's fine. But the album was done just like every other Bon Jovi album is done, Jon and richie write with collaborators, they put their own spin on whatever sound they consider hip at the moment and release it WORLDWIDE.
If it was done just for the USA it would have been released just in the USA.
If something flops, it flops it happens but to make up excuses like that is just too well...wrong.

No. I never said that I thought TLFR is better than Lost Highway. Lost Highway is miles better than TLFR....but they both aren't anything great.

Yeah and you believe whatever made up stuff you want to as well.

Go listen to Tico when asked about deliberately calculating this album.

Plus they don't consider it a flop. Once again I don't think it was made for the European market as such. Country is always going to be bigger in the US and they knew that going in. They made this album for themselves and then just put it out there to see what happened. They have said this time and time again.

Kat

Isn't this the way supposedly every album is made though??
They make it for themselves and put it out there?
At least that's what they say time and time again in every interview.
All I'm saying is that even with the surprise succes in the US and Canada that the album has had, they maybe are also surprised by the lack of succes the album has had elsewhere.

Plus they just arrived from touring Japan and Australia a few weeks ago, they saw the reaction the LH songs had on the audience there.

I don't know whether they would be surprised as more expected. You wouldn't go in expecting something you release on the Nashville side of the label to be a hit in Europe.

I think crowd reaction to the Lost Highway songs here at least comes down to no history with those songs at all. The people here probably had to get out Slippery and crank it up for a refresh its been that long between Jovi tours lol. I for one loved the LH songs being played but it was pretty much a given with no promotion and no singles over this way that the majority may not know those songs.

I think what Richie alluded to in one of those interviews was the fact the album didn't so much take off in the country side of the US but more mainstream still supported it there.

You can tell they don't know if Europe is ready for country when Richie was talking in previous interviews about he had NO idea how Big and Rich would of gone down there (the look on his face said it all).

I just think this little experiment album that they were not going to tour at all became something they personally liked thus a tour ensued.

Kat