The first BJ song I heard was Prayer, back in the mid-2000s when I was obsessed with guitar hero (for those out of the loop, it's a video game where you push buttons on a fake guitar in rhythm with real songs). I was already into rock, and always forced my parents to tune into my city's classic rock station, which had a few BJ songs in rotation, when we had to drive somewhere. Prayer was the most common song BJ song on this station, and I would occasionally hear it played. One day, however, a very similar-sounding song was played, which I later found out was called "You Give Love a Bad Name". As time went on, I would also hear Runaway, Wanted, IBTFY, and Blood on Blood on this station. Then one day, while listening to my city's pop station, the announcer said "here's Bon Jovi", and I was like "huh? on this station? I thought they were an old rock band!" The song that was played sounded like a more modern version of the songs I'd heard on the classic rock station, which I later found out was called "It's My Life". In 2009, I watched them perform on the grammys for the first time ever, where I heard WWBTF and Who Says for the first time. Back then, my family and I used to watch American Idol together, and BJ came on the show one day and performed Superman Tonight. This was the first time I had ever heard the song, and I fell in love with it instantly. It was at that moment where I really became a fan, even though that particular performance was subpar by TC-era standards. After that I dove headfirst into the band's catalog, and the rest is history!
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