- Label
- Mercury
- Release date
- 2nd November 2009
- Genre
- Rock
- Buy this album
- Order CD
A new Bon Jovi album! Put it over there, with all the others!
There is a theory that any band who survive two full decades of mockery become hip, albeit ironically, for their sheer longevity. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Bon Jovi.
The Circle, the Jovi’s 11th studio album, could have been recorded at any point since 1985. While their last offering, 2007’s Lost Highway, flirted with country, this finds them firmly back in their stadium-pleasing comfort zone.
Which means skyscraper choruses, shoulder-heaving power ballads and banal lyrical homilies aplenty. Opening single We Weren’t Born To Follow would be rejected by Hallmark as overly trite: would-be blue-collar anthem Work For The Working Man won’t be giving Bruce Springsteen sleepless nights any time soon.
Bombastic tracks such as Fast Cars are simply beyond parody (“We are fast cars on a long ride/Take your foot off the brake, let’s put it in drive”) but carping critics can’t hurt the Jovi. They will sell millions of albums. They will fill the O2 for 20 nights. They are ironically hip. They win…
More to try:
Mötley Crüe: Saints of Los Angeles
Bruce Springsteen: Magic
Aerosmith: Permanent Vacation
