Aloha !

Thank You For Loving Me and Save The World both are ballads, even though they are weak compared to what they used to come up with before. Still, Save The World contains powerful vocals, but there's no way Jon could pull that off live, not even on the Crush Tour. She's A Mystery isn't a ballad either, but just a very slow song.

The ballads on Bounce are simply shit, All About Lovin' You is a rehash of Thank You For Loving Me, and the other songs are, well, shit. You Had Me From Hello had it's lyrics nicked from Wonderful Tonight, and it's melody from one of those Backstreet Boys songs. Open All Night is the only ballad that qualifies as a good song to me, even though it's a bit boring.

Have A Nice Day doesn't have any ballads, and listing the slow songs as ballads doesn't make much sense to me.

Lost Highway is the only album out of those that has ballads that work, and don't sound like they're written in a way of which they thought they had to sound like that. Still, there's no way I'd take any post 2000 ballad over a pre 2000 ballad.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan