Lets say that 'Sex Sells' was released instead and there was no IML. Jovi would probably still be a big band perhaps with a slightly smaller 00s audience than they currently have. TYFLM, OWN, Everyday, AALY, HAND and WSYCGH would still prove reasonably popular (if they had been written in this hypothetical scenario).

However, would all the IML clones exist without the original? What would we have instead? I'd wager that we'd have got some adult contemporary stuff that sounds like the boxset or the circle in place of IML clones. On the other hand, we could just have ended up with a load of 'Everyday' clones.