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Bon Jovi: Crush
(Island Def Jam)
| Time seems to have
stopped around 1990 for Bon Jovi, which
returns from a six-year exile with an
album that revs up big-hair pop-rock
anthems as timeless as they are so, like,
over. Jon Bon Jovi exhibits supreme
confidence these days, having developed a
burgeoning acting career. Few singers
would have the guts or the perceptiveness
to return to a formula of, well, formula
rock, birthed with the success of 1986's
Slippery When Wet. But sexism, hard rock,
the '80s and romance have all made year
2000 comebacks, and so why not Bon Jovi,
which has its original lineup intact, the
string section in tune and the Richie
Sambora guitar licks perfectly placed.
With new wedding and prom standards in
the sweeping ballads "Thank You for
Loving Me" and "Save the
World," radio anthems in "It's
My Life" and "Two Story
Town," and a sense of humor showing
on "Older" and the
Bowie/Beatles rip "Captain Crash and
the Beauty Queen From Mars," the new
Bon Jovi is primed to crush the
competition. |
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