Lately Jon is constantly talkin' in first person.I this, I that,....If you watch VH1 behind the music that was recorded 'round 2001 or so, where Doc Mcghee says: "...when you start hearing I's instead of we's, you know party is pretty much over...".He said that talking about the end of NJ tour. I think that says a lot about what Jon means when he says I did this or I did that.
When you talk about songwriting Desmond Child is the 3rd part of BJ songwriting.I mean this guy co-wrote all the big ones (except Wanted, Always,These Days and few others).I do think of him as a member of BJ writing society, so to speak.As i see it, they started writing, in 2000 era, with a lot of young songwriters to get "hip-trendy" sound on their albums, songs.In my opinion that was a biiiig mistake! On this album, The Circle, you have old JB&RS&DC writing "squad" and you can hear the difference.That is BJ sound!!All those different writers that wrote with JB "killed" BJ sound.Yes it's trendy but it's not real BJ sound.
I listened to These days yesterday, after a looong time,and you can hear such a huge differenece between those songs and the ones in recent years.They are so well crafted !! And the whole TD album was written by the trio-amigos.
So if i was Jon i'd stop following the trends and i'd go back to writing my own songs, and forget about those hired songwriters.Cos it's sad that last night ,when i watched EMA's, when Tokio Hotel performed on stage you could hear the same drums, guitar effects and other shit as on BJ record.GO back boys!!
SO what if you don't have no 1 hit and album!!Screw that!We want songs that mean something, not some trendy pop band.Peace!!