I never thought This House was a bad album objectively, it just isn't what I want so I dropped it failry quickly. This is going to be the same musically, but with the lyrical content of WAN or The Circle.

I think we are at the stage of acceptance where the odds are a Bon Jovi album will not be what most of us want. That said, Jon has seemingly decided he will do what he wants and has enough blind followers to make a living from it.

Unfortunately, what he wants is based on his notion that he has something important to say. As a businessman and maybe as a politician, perhaps he does, but as a songwriter he contributes nothing to social critique, debate, or understanding. As such, for maximum success he should ditch those themes.

Of course, he doesn't need maximum success these days, so is content to churn out the music he has been and still receiving enough fawning from some fans and enough support from casuals to justify it.