2020: The New Album

I have had this feeling all along this is a JBJ solo song (dressed up as Bon Jovi) and this vid pretty much confirms it.

They only need to tweak it - so

actually have the band play on it might help.
Adjust the vocals
Add a good guitar solo

Other than that its fine

JBJ did it again!
I hate him. -_-


I don't like the song.

PS He's the songwriter, I'm not surprised he's alone in the video (I like that! -_-)

I mean it sounds like Tico to me. What constitutes the band playing on it? Let's say it gets confirmed David and Tico played on it, it's not going to change how it sounds because the band has been watered down so much from what it sounds like years ago. The band doesn't just need to play on it, it needs to sound like the band.

Stickin to my guns that its Tico though.

Play the video at speed 1.25x, and it sounds a bit more like older Bon Jovi.


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I think it's Tico too. I do think it's the band and I do think it's Phil X at the start. You're right that it doesn't really matter, though.

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The vocal timing sounds all over the place this way.

All the band are credited as "Associated Performer" so I've no doubt they played on it. But there's a difference between playing on it and actually contributing to the formation and arrangement.

Not only does it sound to me like a Jon solo project, with Shanks providing instruments and vocal backup, but the credits read that way as well.

Shanks and Jon are listed first (I'm guessing because they're co-producers?) and I get that; but would there be a reason why the rest of the band is at the bottom of the list, after everybody else and his brother?

Shanks and Jon are the only ones credited as background vocalists, so apparently none of the band contributed to that.

Shanks is listed as associated performer on both electric guitar and acoustic guitar, specifically; whereas Phil-X is listed as associated performer on "Guitar", almost like an afterthought.

While David is credited for synth, piano, and Hammond B3, Shanks is also credited for synth.

It just seems very Shanks-centric to me. Like he and Jon put it all together and the rest of the band came in and overdubbed their parts.

The beginning sounds like it's gonna be good, then Jon starts to sing...the last 30 seconds or so sound cool. The rest of it just plods and goes nowhere. I've never been so uninterested in a new Jovi record.

oh, shit, his voice sound better. his verses acapella on the bridge sound more desperate and I like it.