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Old 08-12-2024, 04:51 PM
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He made a sincere effort and did podcasts I never dreamed he would be on. On that stance, he did a great job. But the band is so adverse to well produced video content.Like, so many other bands have gotten the process right with video diaries and loook back videos and q and a's and things to stoke the fanbase until whatever happens next. I think you can still do promo that isnt traditional question and answer style interview. Though I dont think it will ever make the band relevant again so maybe not.

Its their strongest album in awhile it makes me so sad they couldnt put out a single other music video.
Totally agreed.
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They should take a leaf out of Def Leppard's book when it comes to the socials. They clearly have their own team that do a great job for them.

It's clear to me that Jovi rely on Universal with help on their social media. The problem is that unless you are a young and current pop artist Universal just have no idea how to engage your audience using the socials.
Yup. On the flip side, majority of Def Leps social media content, video wise, is tour diaries. BJ has spent so many years not really gleaming into the music side, and it being clear thats left of them, theyve curated an audience that doesnt yearn for that stuff. Its wild.
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Old 08-12-2024, 05:14 PM
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There is a lot of tour stuff of course, but Leppard also do stuff like talking about albums on anniversaries of the releases and stuff like that, competitions too. Always with direct video from the members of the band. This kind of stuff is alien to Bon Jovi.
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Old 08-12-2024, 06:54 PM
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For the moment the only thing that we’re almost sure will happen is a new Runaway tour with Jon.
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This this this.

Yes the album sold poorly. Hey guess what, so did the last four or five when the ticket bundle wasn't rolled in. Forever did as good or as bad as it was ever going to do.

But even knowing what they know, to finance another (maybe two) music vidoes and talk about doing promo shows....to from that to zip, zero, silence other the occasional IG story or tweet about "hey what's your favourite song" feels amiss. Were there not more promo and video releases in the can, I'd have an easier time swallowing it all.

Maybe they thought by now they'd be on tour or doing shows to promote it or putting out new promo made sense and it went tits up when Jons voice wasn't doing what they hoped? They gotta be realistic enough to know this thing was never going to sell well.

Didn’t Jon work on another video for ‘we made it look easy’? Was this completely scrapped because they released ‘Living Proof’ or did they intend to release both but changed their mind?🤷*♀️
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Didn’t Jon work on another video for ‘we made it look easy’? Was this completely scrapped because they released ‘Living Proof’ or did they intend to release both but changed their mind?🤷*♀️
They didn't really release Living Proof as a single though. Putting a song online and calling it a single doesn't it make it one, to me at least. I don't beleive it was serviced to radio or had any promo push past the social media stuff we saw. The video for WMILE was absolutely filmed and scrapped but I highly doubt that's why. Them filming music videos and dropping them isn't something (I guess that we we know of) isn't typical.

Welcome to Wherever You Are and Beautiful Drug are the only two instances I can think of. First based on quality, second based on the pandemic. So this is something that is baffling me. The album was never going to sell well enough to continously promote but why talk about the future only for it to stop on a dime as if it's a surprise sales failure.
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Judging by what he posted today, I don’t think he’s feeling mentally there to promote whatever needs promoting.




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Them filming music videos and dropping them isn't something (I guess that we we know of) isn't typical.
It's possible that the video for WMILE was financed by the band and not the label. It's not uncommon for acts to do this, when they have used up the labels budget. It's possible that the band decided not to go ahead with releasing the video rather than the label, as the label may not have had anything to do with it. Just speculating...

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Welcome to Wherever You Are and Beautiful Drug are the only two instances I can think of. First based on quality, second based on the pandemic.
Was there a different version of Welcome To Wherever You Are, before the one that was used (at least in Europe)?
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It's possible that the video for WMILE was financed by the band and not the label. It's not uncommon for acts to do this, when they have used up the labels budget. It's possible that the band decided not to go ahead with releasing the video rather than the label, as the label may not have had anything to do with it. Just speculating...



Was there a different version of Welcome To Wherever You Are, before the one that was used (at least in Europe)?
Yeah, entirely possible it's band related. Jon was overly confident in it being a hit single. I mean you kind of have to be do to this, so to go from "It's going to surprise people like Prayer did" to it sitting in vault overly surprises me.

Yeah there was a video for Welcome....shot before the album came out. You can see bits of it being filmed in the EPK. I know there was a contest someone one to be in it that posted their experience but I can't seem to find it.
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Yeah, entirely possible it's band related. Jon was overly confident in it being a hit single. I mean you kind of have to be do to this, so to go from "It's going to surprise people like Prayer did" to it sitting in vault overly surprises me.

Yeah there was a video for Welcome....shot before the album came out. You can see bits of it being filmed in the EPK. I know there was a contest someone one to be in it that posted their experience but I can't seem to find it.
Wayne Isham did the video that was released, correct? Was he involved in the aborted video?
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