With an approach that broad and wide, it's easy to understand how Bon Jovi grossed more than a billion dollars just from ticket sales between 2003-13. Is it Bon Jovi's good looks, their ability to hop genres, their blatant commercialism or their music? Regardless of what anyone thinks, they have been prolific and at different points in their career, they’ve flirted with genres as disparate as hard rock, light metal, pop-metal, classic rock, pop, adult contemporary, country and adult alternative pop/rock. From the Asbury Park bar scene in the late '70s through the new century, Jon has aimed for the fences - and it's paid off.ĭespite this level of success, few acts have been as disdained and dismissed as this New Jersey pop-metal outfit. He didn’t want to bunt, sacrifice or even just get a single: He was swinging for a grand slam.
Jon Bon Jovi has never denied that every time he released a new album, he viewed it as walking up to the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning during the seventh game of the World Series. And I never had any ambition in that direction, but always hunted for bigger game – the masses.” I was not equipped for it, either by native gifts or training.
Whenever I hear Bon Jovi, I often think about a Mark Twain quote: “I have never tried, in even one single little instance, to help cultivate the cultivated classes. ALL 334 BON JOVI SONGS, RANKED WORST TO BEST
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