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Has Bon Jovi's attempt at a country crossover resulted in eternally grinning frontman Jon Bon Jovi getting testy? Because this Guardian interview gets tense really quickly:
Your music is often defined as soft rock or rock light. How do you feel about that?
You can call it whatever you want - it's Bon Jovi.
Is that people being snobby?
It's not for me to decide what someone's perception is, darlin', it's theirs.
Do you care what reviewers think?
Is that what this interview is about?
I have a whole load of questions.
Move on.
Really?
Don't get like that.
OK. I didn't mean to upset you.
You're not upsetting me. Don't belittle yourself. If you want to talk about music, let's talk.
When Jon Bon Jovi's million-dollar smile is dimmed, the world loses a bit of its light, and we should all be saddened. (Imagine what this interview might have been like if it took place after Tuesday's allegedly "disastrous" Unplugged taping, where Richie Sambora gave remembering the words to "Wanted Dead Or Alive" a bad name? )
Question time [The Guardian, via No Rock And Roll Fun]
Comments
I got a chill reading this.
Bon Jovi lives for the fight when it's all that he's got.
Tico would NEVER react like that!
Meh. Far be it from me to defend Jon Bon Jovi, but at first blush, it doesn't seem like he's being antagonistic or even all that rude. Critics - & others - have been calling Bon Jovi 'rock-light' or 'pop-rock' since day one. After 20+ years, I think Jon's entitled to feel a little tired of answering those charges. He does what he does... why y'all gotta be hatin'?
To cleanse myself after semi-defending Jon, I have to say his tortured-metaphor, sophmoric lyrics are some of the worst out there. Don't believe me?
"I guess this time you're really leaving, I heard your suitcase say goodbye"
"With an iron-clad fist, I wake up & french-kiss the morning" (wtf does that even mean?)
& More recently: "Like a blind dog without a bone, I was a gypsy lost in the twilight zone".
Clearly Jon understands metaphor as well as he simile.
I remember when he slagged off The Darkness; Justin Hawkins' response was "I wonder what the rest of the cast of Ally McBeal think."
Worst. Band. Ever.
The band always annoyed me and it seemed every girl I dated loved them. Paul Stanley introduced Jon to Desmond Child and the rest is crap metal history.
I heard "Lay Your Hands on Me" in the Circle K parking lot this morning when I stopped for coffee. It was immediately followed by Donna Summer's "On the Radio." I think that really says it all.
Arrg, you made me click on Perez Hilton! It burns!
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