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Originally Posted by Becky
But they're obviously POP rock. Pick almost any track and it would have been very radio friendly like a Van Halen tune or their other contemporaries. Bon Jovi's sound and look was meant to be on the radio and television.
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Van Halen is very much rock, especially classic VH. Pop Rock is a non-term for me, it just means that some rock music became mainstream popular, infused by pop elements maybe. Metallica did that with the Metallica Album, and especially Load and Reload, and even Megadeth chased a commercial sound in the 90s. AC/DC did it with Back in Black. Whitesnake did the same with Whitesnake (1987). More recently, bands like Edguy did it with Rocket Ride. None of them are pop rock.
It's a term that has no deep meaning. Perhaps some confuse feel good or good time music as "pop".
Maybe, I could say someone like Chesney Hawke was like a true pop-rock artist. Putting on a band setting, holding a guitar, but singing a flat-out pop song.
Bon Jovi were not metal, but I agree with Alphavictim, they were most certainly rock. Sambora and the band were not playing pop music, and Jon was not singing with a pop voice. They still aren't pop to be fair, just the style changed.