This wins it.

Thought I'd let you know that Homeland track doesn't exist.
My friend posted on our group a dream he had about the upcoming album, he wrote "the first single was called Homeland and the realease date was going to be February 7th"
Although it was stated this was only a dream he had, other sites picked it up and posted it as reliable information, not citing "the source" (a stupid dream) and paraphrasing it as an official statement... 👀

You know what, me too. I don't want anything remotely political. I don't want to hear about the working man or any subject matter that he is clearly so far removed from.

He says he doesn't want write a new Bad Name at 50+ years, but frankly, if he did I'd probably take it more seriously than his lightweight attempts at social commentary through music.

Having said that, we're getting an album created through inspiration from a newspaper, so lightweight social commentary we'll get.

Before they retire I hope he/they deliver a final upbeat, fun, slightly cheesy, good time rock n' roll Bon Jovi album.

I do not think Jon sits in his office thinking'....OH, I have to write a political song'
I think that since he is very much involved socially, he cares about these issues!

Sure, fair but he's dumbing the songs down into bumper sticker anthems and making them as non personal as possible. It's that reason I don't agree that The Circle was a political album. It might have been inspired by political events but wanting to inspire change doesn't have to be in reference to a specific party. I need more than "Get up" "try harder" and "you got this". Someday I'll be Saturday Night and the recent go get'em songs are about the same thing, it's all about how you package them.

Apparently the single title Homeland and the release dates arent true

BMF mentioned it 4 posts up.

That's too bad... February 7th would have been a day to remember if so. The Patriots winning Super Bowl 50 AND a new Bon Jovi song!

You win at life. Bwahahaha. :lol:

Unfortunately, if you're like me and you read/listen/watch the press, then you KNOW what the songs are actually about so it ruins the "generic" message. So if you know that, for instance, "Happy Now" is specifically about Obama winning the election, then it's very much a political song, it's very direct and pointed and political. And when you know the stories behind several of the other songs, they're not so generic and dumbed down and you think, "If I wanted the 6:00 news, I'd turn on the TV."

I don't want Jon to dumb down enough to write Bad Name at 50+ either, but listen to a song like Fingerprints--very sexy and sensual and age appropriate. He couldn't have written that when he was 25 and it wouldn't have appealed to a 13 year old audience anyway. He should write along those lines.

Also, can I just say that I think that line about writing inspired by the newspaper really was a throw away line. I think people are reading WAY too much into it. I sure hope so, at least.

Never on Sunday, like the song & the movie. Friday is the new international release day since last year.