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Originally Posted by BJFan99
Have we really forgotten how much better 2017-18 still was than even 2019, let alone ’22? Jon was hitting + holding some tough notes better than in at least 4 years and even his timing was better alongside the pitch control.
https://youtu.be/-3Zc0OlVb9w?feature=shared
Show me even a single performance of a song post-2018 where Jon a) manages to stay on key most of the time and b) doesn’t drag massively behind the beat - right, there aren’t any, so perhaps people will finally admit he was indeed still way better 6-7 years ago than ever since then, and to compare this kind of a situation where he was struggling but still had a functioning voice, to one where he could no longer even speak properly, is just silly. |
That's a terrible vocal. Ultimately we're all trying to reckon with how the aging process has crushed Jon. We can look back at the 90s, then his brief uplift in the late 2000s, and we're nostalgic, of course. Youtube doesn't help. But he is never, ever coming back to that point. The writing has been on the wall actually since about 2000. 2008-2011, with him pulling DC, TAALS, These Days etc out of the bag with good vocals, was a miracle. A last hurrah. Maybe in some way the fact that so many of us are still posting about JBJ is our own way of reckoning with the aging process. And the 08-11 rebound continues to give some of us hope that the past can return, if we just keep posting