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Exclamation 'It's My Life', the first track on Bon Jovi's Grammy-nominated 2000 album "CRUSH"



THIS IS A GREAT SONG

I know this song has kind of gotten stale over the last 18 years for so many Jovi fans, and that's not without good reason. It's been at every live show since its birth, and it's always been a bit of a stinker live (compared to the album version at least).

But golly gosh!

It's a fantastic track. I'm hard-pressed to think of many choruses this band has recorded that soar as high as this one does. There's a reason this song was a hit. You couldn't have picked a better comeback single.

Fuuuuck. If there's one thing Mr. Jonathan Bonathan Jovie can do, it's write a positively thumping chorus.

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There's just....so many font choices here!

I think this is one of those songs that I loved to death with it came out and just over played it. Every now and again it comes on shuffle and I appreciate it but it's not a song I search to play.
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There's just....so many font choices here!

I think this is one of those songs that I loved to death with it came out and just over played it. Every now and again it comes on shuffle and I appreciate it but it's not a song I search to play.
This is true of a lot of post-2000 songs really. But it's been so long since I really listened to this song that I was almost listening with fresh ears, and was kinda blown away by how great the song is.
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Fuuuuck. If there's one thing Mr. Jonathan Bonathan Jovie can do, it's write a positively thumping chorus.

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He definitely can, yet I'm still pretty convinced that this chorus came from Max Martin

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He definitely can, yet I'm still pretty convinced that this chorus came from Max Martin

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That seems very plausible to me. I guess Max Martin has a penchant for writing a good chorus too
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That seems very plausible to me. I guess Max Martin has a penchant for writing a good chorus too
Exactly. And I'm glad they joined forces for that one.

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It always amazes me why certain songs become huge hits and others don't...

It's My Life, Everyday, and Beautiful Day could all essentially be the same song so why is one loved, one hated, and one just Okay?

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It always amazes me why certain songs become huge hits and others don't...

It's My Life, Everyday, and Beautiful Day could all essentially be the same song so why is one loved, one hated, and one just Okay?

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Oh come one dude. It's My Life is SO much better than the former two, especially Beautiful Day. It's My Life had the video, had the shine, sounded current yet was ahead of its time, and had lyrics that grabbed everyone.
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It's My Life had a chorus that knocked you out and seemed to flow effortlessly. Everyday sounded forced.
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It always amazes me why certain songs become huge hits and others don't...

It's My Life, Everyday, and Beautiful Day could all essentially be the same song so why is one loved, one hated, and one just Okay?
Bullshit. The only thing that may be similar about those songs are the themes. But that's like saying that Always and Bed of Roses are the same song because both are love songs.
I've never understood the "IML copies" people rave about. Just because the chord structures are similar doesn't make the songs copies. Bon Jovi has pretty much always worked with 4-5 chords in their songs. There's nothing similar about the vocal melodies in Everyday and It's My Life, the riffs are not similar, the chord structure are no the same, the solos are different. Both are "live your life"-songs but in what world does that make them copies?
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