I have been a Bon Jovi fan for well over 20 years, there isn't much that they've recorded over the span of their career that I haven't liked.
I will say Social Disease is not a favorite (because when you're 10 or 11 in 1986 and if your Mom heard the intro you knew that she was going to take the tape away), and If I was your Mother off KTF makes me squeamish, I don't really hate the songs.
I HATE Who Says You Can't go Home. I have previously posted what I thought Jon would do to the song if it were a woman Here. Have a Nice Day is a really good album, but it would be better without it. Don't even get me started on the Special Edition of HAND with 3 or 4 versions of it.
And I am aware that WSYCGH won a Grammy, but this is the Grammy's we're talking about the same people that when they presented the first Heavy Metal grammy it was given to Jethro Tull, yes flute playing Jethro Tull over Heavy Metal Masters Metallica.
Critics don't like Bon Jovi, its why they had never won an Grammy before. And probably why they will not be inducted into (the joke that is) the RNR HOF. But I feel sometimes that Jon wants the critical praise and adulation more than he want the fans adulation. But the critics don't shell out $1000+ for tickets. Fans do.
We're the ones that know all the words to all the songs, we're the ones with t-shirts from 20 years ago, we're the ones who meet-up before concerts and swap Jovi War stories about past concerts. Songs we hope they play. Song's we're heard, songs that have met so much to us throughout our lives, songs that get us through hard times, songs that make good times better.
If WSYCGH is such a big hit, why is it that a majority of long time fans don't like the song? Why is it that the only people that I meet that like that song are super casual fans, or people that started listening to Bon Jovi cause they're more into Country than Rock. Like at the show in Tampa, the people in front of me in their straw cowboy hats we're all into WSYCGH, while I was singing with the chorus "I Fucking Hate This Song..." and then when Jon raises his hands for the countless (and annoying) hand raises (because you know he has to get crowd participation out of this crappy song you know there's no other way to get people into it otherwise) and then he lowers them, my hands go up in a double barreled greeting from New Jersey salute.
So that kind of sums up what I think of WSYCGH. I think WSYCGH is a representation of what is wrong with Bon Jovi going into the 2nd decade of the 21st Century. I think Jon is trying too hard for critical adulation, from the song to the going to homeless shelters (if his motives are as selfless as he says does he really need members of the local media there to meet him, can't he just write or have a publicist write an editorial after the fact to highlight what's going right in that shelter and the plight of the homeless in that city and nationwide? ), does everyone on BSWJBJ really need to know that on Thursday Jon will be touring the Greater BFE Women and Children's shelter. The fact he says he's the CEO of a huge company but then tries to say that he isn't aware of the ticket pricing structure is laughable.
In conclusion, there are many great Bon Jovi songs, but WSYCGH no matter how Jon tries to force it down our throats at every single show for the last 3 tours, it is not a GREAT Bon Jovi song like Prayer, Wanted, Bad Name, Always, It's My Life, HAND, Bad Medicine, etc... Jon needs to realize the true fans aren't asking for WSYCGH we're asking for it to go away.
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