The 70's Glam-lite of 'Brothers in Arms' take Bowie influences and mix it up with typical Jovi post 1995. There's a couple of real nuggets in between all the dust though. It's Americana, pop/rock, but not really the kind that people enjoy and support to its fullest.

Musically, it's the same dull and uneven affair as usual. and some background musicians with no real meaning or say. Lyrically, this is a rather enjoyable album performed by the really rich, white privileged rocker. The singer songwriter or if you prefer Bruce Springsteen-lite music of 'American Reckoning' has strong lyrics about the awful George Floyd killing by racist coppers in America and included are the very last words by Floyd, yes, I can't breathe. 2020 give love a bad name? The very best thing I can say about the effort, at least he's trying to do good and supporting Black Lives Matters and various anti-violence happenings. “Bad Medicine” has given way to “Beautiful Drug,” a song about how love is the cure that, in the absence of a vaccine, we need more now than ever.2020 Vision? More like gone blind, gone deaf, voice gone. To his credit, Jon Bon Jovi gets that releasing an album of “let’s go to the shore and party” songs would be utterly tone-deaf in a year when there are so many literal life and death issues playing out. “American Reckoning” deals with the death of George Floyd in police custody, and “Do What You Can” is about surviving the coronavirus pandemic a day at a time. They’re about the struggles of first responders and hospital workers, military members grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder and how the media covers one mass shooting and quickly moves on to the next “before we can even grieve.” They chronicle pain, loss, fear and death from the coronavirus, police killings and mass shootings. This cover image released by Island Records shows “2020,” a release by Bon Jovi. These songs are not meant to be shouted out as one under the stars in a New Jersey football stadium on a hot summer night. And despite kicking off with a song insisting that life is “Limitless,” there’s evidence aplenty on successive tracks that things feel pretty darn limited right now. It’s 2020, and these days, no one’s having a nice day as a virus kills hundreds of thousands of citizens, Black people die at the hands of police and millions remain out of work.īon Jovi, the Jersey Boys who have always radiated a sunny, we-got-this optimism, have a new album named after the dismal year in which we all find ourselves. Tommy and Gina aren’t wild in the streets anymore.

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