Then go ask BJ HQ what's true and whta's not...

Kris

Angu2, yes, they got help in the past by other songwriters. But the word HELP is the keyword. They always wrote and will write their songs by themselves, but it's of course okay when they hear the opinion of someone else and take some ideas.

According to the Backstage newsletter (Jon's letter in it) Everyday was written a few days after Sept. 11 in Nashville by Richie and Jon. They propably showed the song to this Swedish songwriter and he gave his ideas and they changed this and that. That's why he is credited as a songwriter, too.

Huh? Actually, I don't give a flying f-word who writes the songs. Guys have had hits with and without co-writers.

Here's the article, translated:

- SWEDE HELPS BON JOVI -

Bon Jovi has once again turn their heads to Sweden for another hit.
Multiproducer Andreas Carlsson lies behind the bands upcoming new single "Everyday".
It was another swede that helped launch Bon Jovis somewhat sleepy career into fame again a couple of years ago. The american rockband turned to the demonproducer Max Martin - and got a huge hit with "It's My Life". The band sold eight million copies of their latest album "Crush".

When the time has come for Bon Jovi to release another album the band turned their heads to Sweden once again. This time Andreas Carlsson got the honourable mission. He has with his studio The Location the last few years created hits for people like Céline Dion and Britney Spears.
Just recently he worked with the somewhat forgotten hard-rock bad Def Leppard.
- "Many old bands like this need a hit to remain at the record company" said Andreas Carlsson at that time to Aftonbladet.
For Bon Jovi he has both written and produced the single "Everyday" from the new album "Bounce" that comes out on September 23rd.
Andreas Carlsson hasn't had bad luck with a song in five years. And he won't have bad luck this time around either.
Aftonbladet was effortless trying to reach Andreas Carlsson for a comment, but he wasn't to be found.

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Alright, now to my own perspective. The paper are wrong on several acounts in this article. First of all is that Andreas Carlsson did NOT both write and produced the song himself, there's no WAY IN HELL that none of the band members would allow a song on the album to be completely produced and written by someone else. What I think is the real truth is that this song was written by Jon, Richie AND Andreas. Cause that's what happened with their last hit "It's My Life".
And the other part of the article when Andreas makes his statement about "bands need a hit to remain on the record company" he's talking about Def Leppard and not Bon Jovi. But the context still feels like he's talking about Bon Jovi.
The article is very poorly written and I hope this will be cleared out soon. I've asked BJHQ to see if I can get any straight answers from them. If you feel like it, please ask the question yourselves as it would probably result in larger chance on getting an answer. And also, mail the idiot Klas Lindberg and tell him how things are run that Carlsson did not write the song himself (amongst other things). He's e-mail is klas.lindberg@aftonbladet.se. Just write in swedish if you know that language, otherwise type english!

- Fredrik

Well I sure hope he didn't write it alone. Can't
imagine that he did. But you know, you can't
keep yelling that you are a rockband and not
a pop band and at the same time work with
songwriters that produce sad and cheap popsongs
for (of all people...) Britney Spears and the
Backstreet Boys, that doesn't match. Kinda
disappointed by that fact anyhow.

Kris

Think it's because I'm a little too naive ;-)

Kris

I think a bit of reading between the lines is required in this article:

It was written by a Swedesh paper about a Swede - hence there is gonna be a thread of bias running through it. Part of the art of reading tabloids is to see through this.

They also simply say that the guy HELPED write IML - this means he was part of 3 way contribution.

They say he wrote Everyday & produced it, but it doesn't say he did this on his own. & going on past BJ song construction & what they have said it stands to reason that he only had a joint role in this.

Concerning the fact that he wrote songs for Britney?? - So what? - He didn't have Jon & Richie joining him on that occasion.

Mike

Calm yourself Mike, remember the blood pressure!

Nope, thank god Jon & Richie weren't there, but
c'mon, it's just a fact that this Max Martin is a
(commercial) hitwonder. That they work with him
just so they can score a hit is just a bit disappointing
to me, sorry. Still kinda hoped they'd be a commercial
succes on their own strenght.

Kris

Daveyboy - sorry if my last post seemed a bit rash (it wasn't meant to be) - just trying to put down my opinion. Kris (& Angu too for that matter) are also perfectly entitled to post their opinions too.

Mike