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Originally Posted by Supersonic
Aloha !
Erm, don't these reviewers actually have a point about Jon still singing Bad Medicine after all these years, meaning that even though they've written better things, they yet still decide to play every big song from the 80's? If Bon Jovi would've focussed more on the songs written in the nineties, or the songs with better lyrics than "Bad Name (boom boom) Bad Medicine (boom boom boom), they'd gain a lot more respect, both from critics and from fans.
They need to play the big songs from the eighties, I agree with that. Yet they don't have to play every big song from the eighties. A 40 year old singer singing about needing Bad Medicine does, at times, come across as pathetic, and is exactly why Bon Jovi will not be taken seriously by the critics and general audiences.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan
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A.Has BOn Jovi ever cared about critics?
B.No fans should care about critics.
C.Unfortunately (or fortunately) Bon Jovi has done something that very few bands have done. They've written MANY absolute must do's in concert. I critique Jon's choice on the setlists as much as anyone, but one thing I get:
Bad Name
Prayer
Wanted
Medicine
It's My Life
Those are 5 BJ songs that will always show up. I don't agree that songs like Who Says..., and I'll Sleep... need to still be there, but that's another story.
Personally, I'm perfectly content with Bon Jovi not having all those ass-kissing Bono dick sucking critics on their side. U2 has, in my opinion, released maybe 2 or 3 good songs in the past 15 years.