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Bon Jovi’s What About Now drops from #34 to #50

Well its week 4.  As predicted, the worst ever Bon Jovi album has proven to be just that.  It’s moved 2,383 units for the week but the tour is selling out.  That alone should tell Bon Jovi that the music they put out, is completely garbage.  The fans coming to the shows have totally ignored it.  In most cases, i can see fans running to the toilet or to buy a drink when any new song appears in the set.

This album debuted at Number 1 four weeks ago.  It went to number 7.  It went to number 34.  Now it is at 50.

There are fans that are angry at the absence of Richie Sambora due to drinking and partying.  If i was Richie, i would be drinking as well, especially when in the lead up to the album release he was saying that it is the best thing Bon Jovi has ever created.  With a statement like that, i will be hitting the booze as well, as all street cred goes out the window.

Trust is more important these days than sales.  Bon Jovi is moderating its own forums so that they paint a rosy picture.  What are they trying to say to their fans?  We don’t care about your views?  We don’t want to connect with you?  We just want you to give us all of your money, like the one way street of old.  It’s different these days Jon.  It’s a two way street.  If you want to be relevant, you need to write great songs again and again and again.    You need to release them more frequently or just stop releasing new crap music and live of the legacy you created sort of like the Eagles.

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Bon Jovi’s What About Now drops from #7 to #34

Bon Jovi’s What About Now drops from #7 to #34

Well it’s week 3 of Bon Jovi’s new album release, What About Now.  In three weeks, it has gone from Number 1 to Number 7 to Number 34.  What a drop off.  Sales for weekending 4 April 2013, came to 16,154.  So sales have dropped from 101,000 to 29,000 to 16,000.

Even Richie Sambora has dropped off the tour due to personal issues.   It looks like the elevator music album they created is going down.  To make it worse, the Bon Jovi website has a moderator that is deleting posts from angry fans.  Talk about living in a fantasy land. Lets make everything look okay, because we can.

Babel from Mumford and Sons is still moving 37,000 units, and Night Visions from Imagine Dragons is moving 47,000 units.  Both albums have been on the charts for 27 and 30 weeks respectively.

Another artist using the old mainstream hype of hitting people across the head with a sledgehammer is Justin Timberlake.  He dropped from 1,000,000 in sales to 317,000 in sales.  That is a 68% drop off.  Let’s see how long Justin hangs around.

The people need to feel like they can relate to the album, that they own a part of it, and the old top down approach is not how it works these days.  It is reversed.  It is the people at the bottom that spread the word and make it go viral.  No one is doing that for Bon Jovi.

The shows are selling out.  But the new album is not selling.  Does JBJ care?  I don’t think so.

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Bon Jovi – What About It’s Over

Just finished listening to Bon Jovi’s new album What About Now (deluxe edition).

Lucky I purchased the deluxe addition as the best song on the album is Every Road Leads Home to You, the Sambora penned track from his equally forgettable solo album, Aftermath of The Lowdown.

The next song worth any note is That’s What the Water Made Me. So this is what happens, when 50 year old rockers try to chase the money from the twenty something’s.  Instead of writing for their hard core audience, they are focusing on a different market.

Bon Jovi doesn’t even know who their audience is anymore.  They have lost complete touch with them.  In a world where one to one connections is the new normal (take a leaf out of Nikki Sixx’s twittering and Facebook offerings), Bon Jovi is entrenched in the old paradigm.  Spend months creating an album for an audience they don’t even know. I am not a hater.

I am a big Bon Jovi fan.  I am displeased with this effort.  Hell, the best song they have written in the last 5 years is This is Love, This Is Life from the Greatest Hits CD.  You would only hear this song if you purchased the deluxe edition that had disc 2 and another two bonus songs on that.  The carbon copied Someday I’ll Be A Saturday Night morphed into The More Things Change is also a stand out.

Yeah I know Jovi sell shows out on a regular basis, but you tell me a fan that goes to the show to hear the new songs and I will call them a liar.  A set list of their most recent show (via setlist.fm) on March 10 shows only 3 songs played from the new album (Because We Can, Amen and That’s What The Water Made Me).  That is two too many.

The only tune that they should be pushing is That’s The Water Made Me.

Cause devils in heaven
There’s angels in hell

You don’t know these days, who is righteous or not.  We live in a world of fakes, a world of avatars.  Where people who think they have 1000 Facebook friends are cool, where people pay $800 for a meet and greet just to say they did.  The lines between good and evil are blurred these days.  

Love is like fingerprints It don’t wash away

No one forgets their first love or their greatest love.  It stays forever with them.  Look at the band Hinder.  They have made a career singing about the one that got away. 

That’s what the water made me That’s who I am and what I’ll be

This is it.  We can’t change how we are made, how we have grown up and what we believe in.  Of course we can adapt to situations and sometimes we can fake a different personality but in the end, we will fall back to how we were made and what we are.  Look at how the 80’s glam bands thought they had to go all Industrial or grunge like to keep an audience, further alienating their fan base, until the said Fuck that and returned to their roots. 

This world, it’s cracked and crazy
Say one of your pretty prayers for me
No roles in the garden? Or Wishing well?

Life is no Garden of Eden.  It never was and it never will be.  We have copyright granted monopolies fighting hard to control the internet.  We have people working 12 hour days just to see all of their moneys go to the mortgage, to the utilities, to basic survival needs.   At night, we might feel better saying a pretty prayer, but that is all it is.  The World is cracked and Crazy. 

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