New Studio Album - Forever

I was wondering if now Jon can practically publish almost what he want, i mean if he can choose the songs to put in the new album and then the songs he chosen "will be in the new album for sure" with no complains by the record company like for example rejected songs or if instead the record company has the final decision of the tracklist...


I have Have A Nice Day album in my mind which had probably been rejected by the record company and not for Jon choice even if I don't know how things actually went.

It's pretty safe to say that the advertisement budget Bon Jovi get nowadays is VERY different compared to the HAND era.

I'm gonna poke some holes into this much-talked factoid.

In my own personal theory, I don't buy it. If Jon was sent back to the studio because the record label wasn't happy...The three singles from HAND were all on the early version and two did very well (depending on where you live). There's zero chance they heard a song like HAND and said "not commercial enough". Unless someone knows more from an actual source, I do think Jon gave it more time. Lost Highway had some last minute shakeups too, obviously so did 2020.

Yep. I don't think a record company rejects stuff like Nothing or These Open Arms, has Jon come back with Wildflower and Last Cigarette and they go "NOW we're talking, that's a proper album!"

I believe they had a hand in forcing Max Martin onto Jon and Richie since Crush didn't have a potential lead single and I believe that they had a little to do with the change of direction (or loss of just that) on Bounce where the band probably wanted to go for some harder rocking songs like Standing, Another Reason To Believe or Alive that ended up on the Target EP instead.
But neither on HAND nor on LH was there a significant shift in quality due to newly written songs. If anything, the albums dropped in quality in my opinion.

LH was definitely Jon's decision to go back in and record extra songs and drop some. He said that the album was done, he was in London overseeing the mixing of the album and he decided that the record wasn't ready so they wrote some more songs...I would imagine HAND would be similar. As long as they have a couple of strong singles the record company would have been happy...

I've heard the Leann duet and Everybody's Broken were added at the 12th hour so I'd love to know what didnt make it becaue of it, if it was one of the released tracks or not. There are quite a few Brett James co-writes on ASCAP, could be any one of them.

I vaguely remember that Lonely was one of the newer tracks that didn't make the final cut in the end. But it could be my memory developing m deceiving me.

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INTERESTING! For some reason my brain put it as one of the older songs that leaned too heavily in the country/pedal steel direction but that's based on absolutely nothing haha.

Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore i read somewhere that it was originally sung only by Jon, maybe with Richie in lower key.

Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore i read somewhere that it was originally sung only by Jon, maybe with Richie in lower key.