If jon wants to write a song about a record label/industry he need look no further than chainsaw Charlie by WASP.

Salud my friend.
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Shit...that's not even something I considered but it's not terribly far fetched of a theory that this album had to take the place of the next album if it expired 2015.

I'm thinking Burning Bridges is about the label. Hence the part where it says like maybe you can sing or even strum along. Even Richie can do that, the bigwigs at the label probably can't. They order bands to write these songs and do this and that, but yet they probably can't sing or play guitar.

My dos centavos on that.

That would make complete sense. As in 'I still gotta give you one more album, but screw you... youre not getting the official album, you can have this bunch of leftovers instead'. Then topping it all off with Burning Bridges at the end.

Would explain why Jon isn't thrilled with the album and isn't excited about it.

That theory makes me like this song even more. I love the lyrics.

YES. Matt's tweet about how everything happens for a reason, Jon adding a song last minute. The album sales have been weak, if the label isn't getting any of the touring and merch revenue then yeah I could this being the case.

I doubt they were dropped. Whats probably happened is the contract has expired and the label has chosen to not renew it. The days of BJ selling 10m copies per album has long gone.

Bon Jovi dont make them money anymore

i remember reading around the time of Hand I think it was that they didnt expect to be with their label for much longer due to how the industry was changing (and that was 2005!) and they would go down the Indie route

Gracias, amigo! :D
But... sorry I can't decipher "I'm Your Man" unless you provide a link to the song because I have none.

Just listened to the previews, really liked Life Is Beautiful, We All Fall Down, and Burning Bridges. I was surprised about the last one as I hated the 30 seconds snippet and with 1:30 sounds way better. Considering the lyrics, I think too that it's for the label. We'll have to see under which one the next album is released.

Yep! And no proper album cover, no lyric booklet... Basically giving the label the shittest release possible while fulfilling contract obligations but still releasing decent music/keeping their dignity.