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I believe Jon is still perfectly capable to write amazing songs if he wishes to do so, but he's just can't sing them anymore. All Bon Jovi's signature songs are songs that you can belt out in stadiums. Those songs naturally require a high key. That's just music theory. A powerverse, followed by an uplifting first chorus that leads to a second chorus that even tops the first one. That's how Livin' on a prayer works. That's how You give love a bad name works. The first changes to this style came with Crush, cause let's face it. Apart from It's my life, a big smash, the rest of the record ain't that solid. So yes, even if this song is a nice song, it's great as a song that captures what's going on in american society. But these kinda songs - that we'll get from now on - is not the stuff that will drive concert goers to the arenas rock out with Bon Jovi. |
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The lyrics can't be misinterpreted. The song is low, slow, minimalistic and is basically a story or a plead that is told on music. The musical part with the harmonica screems Springsteen, but as a huge fan of Springsteen this part came as a nice surprise and it makes the song even stronger. Rating songs is indeed something that is useless but what happened with this song is that I wanted to share it immediatly on my social media accounts, with my wife and kids and even my dad. That's a thing I only do when I believe is song is that good. And in Bon Jovi standards: this song doesn't require musical nor vocal acrobacy so, it stands perfectly on its own. |
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I feel compelled to say something about this song. I wouldn’t have come to look at the board if I wasn’t interested in it and of people’s opinions on it...it’s ticked the first box!
There’s a bit of love/hate for me when it comes to Jon’s socially and politically conscious writing. Love that he’s been inspired by what is going on in the world and there’s a relevance to the music that is crucial I think for Bon Jovi. Hate that he rarely does make it work. There’s always been smatterings of this kind of writing and from Bounce onwards (post-9/11) it seemed to be more ‘in your face’. There’s no doubting there’s Springsteen influence all over this and whenever we hear Jon’s efforts without the band and Shanks in particular the influence really comes to the forefront. Throw a harmonica solo in there and he might as well just stand there with a red baseball cap in his back pocket. The difference is the lack of subtlety in the lyrics and the forced nature of the music. This song is stripped back and simple but for some reason still feels laborious. I don’t dislike it, I listen to it and want to hear the words. I like to hear a song that hasn’t come directly from the Bon Jovi by numbers song book. The problem is that I’ve heard it now and I’m not interested in hearing it again. There’s nothing to make me want to listen again. I don’t need to go back to it to figure out the metaphor in the words, there’s no hook in the music that sticks in my head. There’s a couple of tests, for me, to show whether it’s a good song...do you want to listen to it again and do you want to show someone else. Admittedly this doesn’t always happen straightaway and I’d be happy to be proved wrong but is it going to sound any different a few months down the line? It was mentioned earlier in this thread, it’s a bonus track and nothing else. The album is shaping up to be a bit of a stinker. I grew to really quite like This House (or at least parts of it) but there’s nothing here so far. |
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But I do agree my standards are lower that I'm patting him on the back for putting an effort into lyrics. |
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Listen to the intro. Also the rest of the lyrics, if you want to. They're both excellent. |
Jon is getting destroyed on social media..
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