can't imagine that he's a guitar player
but though i can understand some points in his critics- there's no successor of always or bed of roses- and i acclaim his statement about crush the album is a big disapointment but it has sold again 8 mio. albums because of ONE single track... the problem with bounce is that there's no IML on it- so it's by far a better album but i wagor my life that it won't sell as much copies as crush did- because crush had this song called IML- and bounce doesn't sorry for running in circles *g*- they obviously don't want to put out undivided as a single- which would be probably a big hit- the other song which would gain also a lot popularity is imho bounce- but it seems that they put out misunderstood and all about loving you- misunderstood will probably make a top ten "hit" but all about loving you will gain as much success as thank you for loving... NO success at all... it's a hard time for ballads right now- people don't want to buy ballads- and if so they have to have sth. special, sth. new- and all about loving you can't compete with underneath your clothes at all unfortunately...
there's another point i agree with him and i fear that i dislike this one as much as you will: the thing with bj have already reached their top in popularity- and if they don't do sth. real special real soon- then i fear that they play in front of 20,000 people in europe within a few years, and within a few more years, they'll play in front of 10,000.... the problem is not that they are gettin weaker- the problem is that there are so many other artists and so many different styles of music which attract more and more and more people so that being a "rock" fan- meaning being a bj fan will become sth. real "strange" by the time... that doesn't mean that they should make hiphop- actually i don't know what they should do when i say that they should do sth special & new... it's up to them!

ktf!