Bon Jovi Releases Official 'Because We Can' Video

As bands go, Bon Jovi is near the top when it comes to riches. The band can afford to make real videos, with real directors and real actors. Bon Jovi tapped acclaimed director Fisher Stevens for the clip to promote the single "Because We Can." Gotta say, I'm not impressed. Come to think of it, I don't like the song much either.

"Because We Can" is off the forthcoming album What About Now, due out March 26.

Comments

[Him]

Rita, Metalboy! did a better job explaining my point than I did. I didn't mean any offense and apologize for causing any.

[Rita]

Him and Metalboy! - You are both awesome. Sorry for being overly sensitive. When I first read that line, I laughed. And then I thought "hey, wait a minute".

I agree that nowadays Bon Jovi appeals to a very wide audience base and the majority (I could be wrong) are probably way more mainstream than we are.

[Christian]

Metalboy, my point is entirely that they did hair metal when it was POPular, then moved on as trends moved. Thus, pop. Having said that, I saw them twice on their last tour ( my first and last time ) and I do love a lot of their older stuff. It's just wrong to say they betrayed us. They stayed true to what they were, they just moved away from what we are.

Glam metal is a recognised category for a lot of people, but it is still not metal. Keep trying though :-)

[Metalboy!]

It's called Glam METAL for a reason, pal.

I can't help the fact you are trying to rewrite METAL HISTORY to suit your denial like the rest of sheeple who will be at the next tedious Big Four Headbanging Contest.

As far as Bonjiovi is concerned, nearly everyone on his thread are in agreement Bon Jovi took selling out to a high art and I'm not talking about ticket sales. I'm talking about their style, which, indeed was totally POPped out Hair Metal.

Then the act was taken a step further, into a more hookless and even dumber musical and stylistic approach closer to that of the artists I mentioned previously above. That's not staying true to themselves. That's taking selling out one step further.

Look up Desmond Child's Hair Metal credentials. You'll see that he also crafted or co-wrote hits for the likes of Alice Cooper ("Poison", among others), RATT (10 songs including "Loving You's A Dirty Job", a quintessential example of Glam METAL, not even one of their best songs, yet still better than anything your Prog Metal clowns, Iron-on Rubbermaiden, ever produced), Scorpions (12 songs), Aerosmith (8 songs including the ultra-shite "Dude Looks Like A Lady" -- Sorry, al. not sorry, Christian, hahaha!!!), Ace Frehley, KISS (16 Hits from what Eddie Chump himself, one of your slavish defenders of Metal, calls their 80's Glam METAL phase), Sebastian Bach, Paul Stanley, Steve Vai (Who dat?), Robin Beck, Bon Jovi (Shite, I need a fact checker -- he went along for the ride, too, when they took selling out to a whole other level, having written over 27 songs for them, but of course, his biggest hits with them were of the Hair METAL ilk), Bonfire, Vince Neil, Kane Roberts (including the Bon Jovi mistakenly thrown away "Does Anybody Fall In Love Anymore?" Do you know who he is, Christian? Do you? Do you?!), Richie Samoron and Saraya. All Hair METAL, a great lot of it also considered GLAM METAL. You got the problem, Bro. Not me. Because I'm operating off Facts not Denial. It's ALL Metal, dude! Your sh*t AND mine. By the way, how are those C.C. DeVille solos coming? Careful over in the Maybelline section, Christian. I wonder what Jesus would say about your propensity for lying, mischaracterization and passive aggressive behavior toward your fellow man? So much for living up to your nom de plume, dude. I rest my case.

[Christian]

hair metal and glam metal are the same thing. A marketing construct, from a time when, if it had guitars, it had to be metal. If glam is metal, then anything with a guitar solo is metal, because, good as it is, it has no bearing on anything else that goes by the name of metal, and, as I've shown, the family tree of glam has nothing to do with metal before the term got co-opted in the 80s.

[Metalboy!]

You haven't shown anything. It's ALL Metal, Bro, plain and simple. If you go over your own comments, you admit it. It is only now that you are trying to back track.

What would Jesus say of your lies?

Let me up the ante. Here's my rule... If it ain't Rock and Roll, it doesn't deserve to be Metal. That's why Priest is better than Maiden. Cutting through the Metal, Priest's roots lie in Rock and Roll as opposed to Maiden, who's roots clearly lie in Prog.

That's why Maiden don't do it for me, Bro. Strip away the leather and the extra Marshalls and ya got a Prog band. Strip away the same from Priest and ya got a Rock and Roll band.

Same test goes for who I now have crowned as The Real Big Four, Crüe, RATT, Cinderella and Poison. They simply ROCK more than your Big Four.

Each of them play just as loud and have more plodding sustain on their crunch chords than your boys, Maiden have, let alone noodlers like Metallica, Anthrax and Pantera combined.

The only one who gets it from your Big Four is Megadeth.

Maybe that's because Mustaine rhymes with Sustain!

[Christian]

Hey Metalboy. Not sure why you keep calling me a liar. It just makes you look silly, especially when you try to drag Jesus in to it.

I agree that Maiden have their roots in prog. I saw Nightwish recently and they did a song that was basically lounge jazz. It reminded me how diverse metal is, the song was only 'metal' in the sense that the band that played it was diverse enough that metal is the best category for them. Your tastes are, however, quite narrow, and appear to include rock ( including glam ) but not metal ( including thrash ). That's fine. But, trying to cast glam as 'glam metal' in order to claim to be a metal fan, is kind of odd. I am happy to say that I don't like certain types of music, and I don't try to change the names of styles of music to try to claim I like something I do not.

[dj]

im sorry, even though i like everything up to new jersey. they are NOT good songwritters. this is coming from the biggest glam fan on the planet. shot through the heart, and your to blame you give love a bad name, it cant get much cheesier than that. i love bon jovi, i love poison, i love mostly all glam. but some of it (Not all) (i said some) is cheesy as hell.

[dj]

and thats why i love glam and thats why i love the music i do. Metalhead for life.

[Metalboy!]

I'm calling you a liar, Christian because you are simply all over the place with the facts.

To wit -- Your assertion my tastes in Metal are quite narrow when it is indeed YOU who are narrow minded, claiming Glam Metal is not Metal.

My tastes in Metal cast quite a wide net, actually. I like plenty of Thrash, for example. But it's got to be good. That's why I like Overkill but not Anthrash.

As far as jazz chords in Metal, I give you RATT's "Round And Round" and Dokken's "It's Not Love" as a couple of examples, just for starters.

[Christian]

Wow - that's astonishing. The odd 'jazz chord' does not make music jazz, any more than a distortion pedal makes a song metal. I am not even sure what you mean, It's not love uses some pretty basic partial chord shapes, nothing I'd call jazzy.

There's nothing narrow minded about liking a lot of things and not needing to call them all by the same name.