Yes, Bon Jovi used to be hard rock, and yes, I agree with you.
The album is way to shifty.

It would be better if they made up their mind about how it should sound. The previous albums are fantastic, and there is NO song I don't like on any of them (apart from maybe som stuff on crush), but now, I just don't know. The hard songs are almost a bit too hard, and the rest just feels very thin and empty. At least allot of it.

And I do miss guitar solos. Richie is amazing, but here I hardly notice any solos at all.

Bounce - Much of it is great, but I expected more, and there were to much soft songs on it again.