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To DrNickFeelgood: You could just have posted a reply instead of making a new topic.
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Originally Posted by DrNickFeelgood
Granted in recent years Jovi have been geared slightly more to the straight-up pop formula rather than radio friendly pop-metal of Slippery,NJ and the epic,slightly harder KTF but it must be pointed out that Bon Jovi never were,nor were they ever intened to be, a hard metal band.They have always been a "Top 40" band. If you dont like who Bon Jovi are simply listen to another "hardcore" metal band and stop wasting your time on Jon n Co's feelgood pop metal.The guys arent trying to kid anyone about who they are and i wish people would stop complaining about something they think the band should be about.
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You obviously didn't understand the point I was trying to make. I never, never said they a metal band or so, I just said that the pace of a show could be compared to one. When you listen to a Bon Jovi show from the early nineties or late eighties, the pace is just as high as at a Metallica show from that time, it's just a different sort of show. When you listen to one of the shows nowdays, the pace and atmosphere is completely different, because it's got too many pop songs in them.
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Originally Posted by Krycek
I don't really understand peoples overwhelming need to clasify bands or artists into certain "types" of music. Bon Jovi are a rock band, plain and simple. Are they a rock band like Gun's and Roses? No. Are they a rock band like Matallica? No. They are a rock band and they have their own distinct sound.
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People need to classify this band into a certain type of music because at the time Bon Jovi were rock/pop they were great, and at the time they're pop/rock they suck. It's a simple as that, and that's why people want to classify this band that way.
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Originally Posted by Krycek
And who in their right mind would want Bon Jovi or any band to stick to one style of music. Some Bon Jovi songs are hard rock (Hey God), some are pop-rock (It's My Life) and some are just straight up classic rock (I Believe). I think things would get pretty damn boring if they stuck rigidly to one style of music.
The great thing about this band is that they can do any style and pull it off and always, even at their hardest, are able to keep it open and accesible to a wide audience of music lovers, not just rock fans.
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Which is exactly the problem. They can not do any style. The pop songs are weak because they aren't really like the pop music that's in the charts nowadays, but it's certainly no rock music either. Because they want to be accessible to a wide audience of music lovers, they've lost the plot and right direction. You can't please everyone, and Bon Jovi nowadays just seems to be about pleasing the audience they can make the most money of instead of making the great music that made them this big.
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Sebastiaan