Diving into lowest-common-denominator waters, Bon Jovi humiliated themselves with some of the most mindless lyrics ever committed to tape: “Is there anybody out there looking for a party / Shake your money maker, baby, smoke it if you got it.” Yes, they wrote "We Got It Going On," they recorded it and to this day, the song’s greatest sin and legacy is it has remained a staple of their live show.ĥ3. If the Big and Rich collaboration is any indication, this was a blessing in disguise. This cut featured Big and Rich, and LeAnn Rimes appears on another song, but what about the other 10? Rumor has it that many Nashville artists felt Bon Jovi was stepping on their home turf in a flagrant effort to sell records, and declined to be a part of this project. There’s been a longstanding rumor that the reason that Jon Bon Jovi negotiated to have Mercury Nashville market Bon Jovi’s foray into country music was because the band promised a star-studded effort that would be easy to sell to the one genre of music which still buys compacts discs en masse. "We Got It Going On," Lost Highway (2007) A more appropriate title would have been “Let Them Eat Cake.”ģ32. At the time, The Circle dates were the most expensive in the history of concerts, and they’re peddling a song about men and women who have lost their jobs in the worst recession in more than 65 years? How did someone not stop Jon Bon Jovi from writing this song, recording it, putting it on the album and touring behind it? In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, you forfeit your right to pretend to care about your audience when tickets for a pair of seats up close cost $3,500. If the chanting “work” chorus didn’t make your eyes roll, then the prices for their tour in support of their album would. Jon Bon Jovi provided a copy of the lyrics to Barack Obama's advisor David Axelrod, who apparently had them hanging on his wall in the White House. Revisiting the bass groove from "Livin' on a Prayer," Bon Jovi delivered a mouth-gaping faux pas in a song meant to show their blue-collar roots which ultimately came off like a creepy sales pitch. "Work for the Working Man," The Circle (2009) Ben Affleck’s fake tears at the end of Armageddon are more believable than this throwaway that never should have made it to demo form, let alone to an album.ģ33. It stuns me that this much work and energy went into a song that is overwrought musically, featuring the most cringe-worthy lyrics in Bon Jovi's discography.
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Recalling the moment to Bryan Reesman, he said “I chose one of the songs that I knew would be my strong suit, which is orchestral arrangements.” Ebbin re-worked the song on his Pro Tools rig and won the gig of producer. One of them, Luke Ebbin, took home the demo Jon had made. This left the band without a plan and they began auditioning producers. It would be the first co-production the two men took on, but sadly in May of 1999 as Jon Bon Jovi was walking in the door from the U-571 film shoot, he received a call that Fairbairn had died unexpectedly at the age of 49. Crush was supposed to be co-produced by the Slippery When Wet and New Jersey team of producer Bruce Fairburn and then-engineer/mixer Bob Rock, who also produced Keep the Faith. Kalodner settled on “Mister Big Time” for the soundtrack, while this ballad was shelved temporarily. One of those demos was “Save the World,” a song that Jon had submitted to Michael Bay and John Kalodner for inclusion in the 1998 film Armageddon.
At the party, fans listened to these demos and ranked them. In the summer of 1998, there was a 10th anniversary party for his fan club, Backstage with Jon Bon Jovi.
After 1997’s Destination Anywhere, Jon Bon Jovi continued to write and record songs for an undetermined project. It’s peculiar that we start our journey with a song written during Bon Jovi's most fertile decade, and recorded for their commercial comeback album.
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