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Originally Posted by Lak
So I guess this is more of a conspiracy theory rather than unpopular opinion....
A few songs on SWW and NJ were actually written by Ghost writers and Jon/Richie had little or no involvement in them.
I'm basing my theory on this. This exact thing someone posted on twitter in response to a someone else's post on something Jovi. They were claiming to have heard from good sources that many of the songs on these two albums were written by another songwriter who was in another New Jersey rock band and wrote songs for a West Coast Rock band. This got me thinking about if this could be true or not and from listening to other songs that this song writer had written for his own band, they did strike me to be in the more in the style of Let it Rock, Raise Your Hands etc than Jon and Richie's own song writing had been for the first two albums. Then I saw an interview with Desmond Child on You Tube in which he told the story that he was offered a lot of money ($35k i think it might have been) to drop his name from You Gove Love a Bad Name and in effect be a Ghost Writer of the song). This kind of gives some credence to the theory as it shows that it was something Jovis manager was obviously be prepared to do and if there had been other writers who had co wrote or wrote for the band then they would likely have had the same type of offer!
The type of songs are on SWW are lyrically much more commercial, have a good time kind of lyrics than on the previous two albums and I therefore wonder if it hadn't been for ghost writers and Desmond Child if the band wouldn't have done something much more in keeping with the previous two albums and never have made that leap to superstardom. Certainly looking at many of the tracks that didn't make SWW, e.g. Borderline, Out of Bounds, Game of the Heart, Deep Cuts the Knife etc they are much more in the genre of not so commercial noir rock of the first two albums.
Oh and Social Disease - how the hell had Aerosmith heard this and wanted it, if it wasn't being offered around to different bands? What made them think they could have it?
Thoughts on the above theory (which would rely on people signing NDAs) much appreciated.
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Hm, Raise Your Hands (as well as Homebound Train) does sound like Richie's style _post_-SWW (Good Guys Don't Always Wear White comes to mind immediately), but yeah, I get what you mean, especially about Let It Rock. Although a user on here cited Lita Ford's autobiography and explained who the lines are all about! So I don't know. It's weird how the "typical" Bon Jovi stuff indeed got way more of the shape we associate with the band after Desmond Child came in - Blood On Blood especially.
I also wonder what the hell the deal with I'd Die For You is. Did Desmond just write the new lyrics? My Slippery booklet doesn't credit him, but I think ASCAP does? And the demo has completely different lyrics. Or did he contribute the original song and JBJ&RS wrote new lyrics for a credit?