Aloha !

What kills me about the showing of These Days in America is that most people don't realize what a brutally poignant record this is, because they most likely don't realize it exists. I'm here to hopefully change that.

Someone without any interest in the band is surely not going to read a full page before he gets to that paragraph. I don't get what he thinks he'll achieve with the writing he does about this band. He only writes stuff most Bon Jovi fans know, only Bon Jovi fans seem to be reading it so he's not reaching a new audience and yet he writes the stuff as if it's meant for anyone who's not into the band. A bit pointless.

He's also making much more of These Days than it actually is, just like many people on this board do. It's just a good album, but that's all it is. It's got nothing to do with extreme sadness in their (as in the members of Bon Jovi) souls or letting any demons in. It's just them going with the flow of the music industry which at that time seemed to be writing about feeling shit. The difference towards nowadays is that it made them make better music, whereas when they try to go with the current flow it results in shit pop songs.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan