It's time for Bon Jovi to grow up

Long may the festive mood continue!

This post somehow put me into the festive mood..!!

Cheers, mate..and cool down..

Bottoms up!

Yes, sometimes it´s hard for the americans to remember that. As krb102 said, Bounce isn´t doing well. Infact, it´s doing worse than any other BJ album since Farenheit. It´s not going to be the 100 million topper for them, maybe a 95 million topper.

And the fact that BJ is doing these so called world tours, isn´t helping the fact that Bounce is a FLOP. Twelve countries? Come on! KTF tour had 40 coutries and with TD it was the only real world tour they´ve ever done.

I agree that if there hadn´t been for the WORLD TOUR in 1995, These Days wouldn´t have sold what it did. Also if there hadn´t been for Cross Road, These Days wouldn´t have sold what it did. I have always though CR pushed the sales for TD.


In terms of touring, it is decreasing with every album. It was uphill all the way till TD but after that it´s been downhill all the way. If you look at the charts, Crush was much more succesful (in USA) than TD but the tour that followed TD was much bigger than the Crush Tour. Even in the US.

I think they should write songs they feel comfortable with and not follow the charts. Now, I´m not saying that they aren´t comfortable with the songs on Bounce. Because if they are, then continue the same way but somehow I feel they´re in it for the charts, releasing big anthemic songs as the first single.

And also writing these kind of songs is not going to help them to be taken seriously. As someone already pointed out, when they´re, say, 55 and if they release songs with lyrics like ”…It´s my life, it´s now or never…”, they aren´t going to be taken seriously and probably never will be taken.

They have good songs with meaningfull lyrics, why don´t they release these songs as the first singles? Because it won´t push the album on the charts, but neither are the anthems anymore.

They are somewhat a party I agree but if they want to be taken seriously, they shouldn´t follow the charts but write what they feel is for them. They´ve had some very good and meaningfull songs but these are the songs that are left behind. Sad but true.

I just wanna say one thing : if BJ were really "commercial", the medias would love them ... From years and years Bj says it themselfs, medias are not very sympathic with them, so if the albums or the songs were made a bit in a way to "seduce and be bought" i think they could do something similar to be "loved" by the medias.

The media loves what they think are 'critically acclaimed'. Being commercial doesn't guarantee love from the media at all. Bon Jovi is commercial but the media doesn't think they're serious musicians, so that's why the media doesn't always kiss their asses. Which is okay but when you take into account that media loves to give props for artists like Aguilera blah blah blah, it becomes really stupid.

Medias can make "miracle", see Aguilera etc ... They sells their S**T just because there's a consequent support behind.
But BJ arrived where they are without their help ! it's a shame they are not recognize as the artists they ar all. But never mind, WE know it !

Excuse me? People here are saying that at 40, Bon Jovi are too old?!!
Nowadays, 40 is nothing! There are plenty of artists now much older that still rock today!

(Anyone here ever heard of the Rolling Stones???!!!!!)

Nobody has said anything about BJ being too old.

No, i think there's just someone who said they are not old but "just older" !!