Considering the influences which were always there I'say there is a great big distinction to make between being influenced by music you love and trying to reproduce a trendy sound.
90s was the era were Bon Jovi were least influenced by contemporary music. Yes the sound was prety modernly produced, however in Keep The Faith and These Days I hear much more influences comming from the 70s, from Rolling Stones, to Bruce, to Tom Waits even .. than from 90s.. They were doing things they actually liked and found interesting. Afterwards they started to consider good only what is gonna be "the new anthem"... And that is why many influenced were so poorely incorporated in albums like Bounce.
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