Penrose,

I agree with some of your points but not with others. Crush is filled with pop-rock songs , i agree to certain extent. After the long break, what BJ want to do is to fit in the current scene and they did. With "Crush", BJ got new fans.

Younger ppl know that Bon Jovi is a rock band and they can still rock!! (some call them pop-metal or they are not rock band..whatever, it depends on your definition of rock.)

And Bon Jovi is always been commerical..even in 80s and 90s, while big hair and rock are main stream.. And I think songs in Bounce and even in Crush have messages. It is not like Offspring or some other bands whose lyrics are so cryptic or no messages or no sense at all.. Even if you look at the rap songs that are so popular these days, they don't have much message except sex, drug and gun fights.

Aerosmith isn't doing anything to get into mainstream?? You are kidding right?

btw, is that you in the picture??