THINFS - Video Reactions

steel_horse75 · #21 08-12-2016, 11:54 PM

I like the video and jons cheeky smile like the old days when he is in the car.
Videos are 1980 and 90s era so I can give or take them.
I love the song and that's what counts.

MrNickel · #22 08-13-2016, 01:43 AM

Seeing Ticco and David walking around in this video reminds me of the 'Thank You For Loving Me' video. Always loved that video.

Alphavictim · #23 08-13-2016, 02:48 AM

This is pretty heavy on the band-vibe, with everybody walking around. Well, I guess with Richie gone, they gotta showcase everybody.

The roots look super CGI, which I suppose they are. Other than that, I dig the shots of the "coal black sky" and the camera work during that shot. Overall, pretty cool video. Looks somewhat late 90s for some reason, maybe due to the digital editing.

Also good to see that four letter words get censored automatically, but calling video girls bitches is totally fine.

Jonty · #24 08-13-2016, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi

Starring Jon Bon Jovi in Driving Miss Daisy.

The House is on the video. Shanks tweeted the pic, the cover of the album will be this house.

Maybe it will form part of the tour stage set up!

Kathleen · #25 08-13-2016, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Alphavictim

Also good to see that four letter words get censored automatically, but calling video girls bitches is totally fine.

Oh yeah not a problem putting women down here

Alphavictim · #26 08-13-2016, 03:13 AM

Well put up a fight and put down a sucker then!

It'd kinda defeat the point otherwise?

CharlieShipley · #27 08-13-2016, 03:25 AM

I love the root imagery! Ilijed the video very much in general, which certainly hasn't been the case for many years.
I kept thinking they were going to do a gag with the for sale sign in the shots, not sure why.
Great to see everyone together and in good form.

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JackieBlue · #28 08-13-2016, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Rdkopper

... It's Who Says You Can't Go Home 10 years later...Except it's missing the 2 bitches....

And the 2 bitches would be Jennifer Nettles and... um ... ... well, hell if I know. His other bitch took the last train for the coast, so you think Jon might be trying to convince Phil-X to take on that role, too?

Yeah... Good luck with that, Jonny!

Oh, wait... Maybe David's up for a promotion!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kathleen

Oh yeah not a problem putting women down here

Kathleen, there's not a problem putting anybody down around here! LOL

Back on topic, I haven't watched the video yet. From what I'm hearing, I don't think I'd like it much. I KNOW I don't like the creepy house and I'm afraid I'd keep waiting for Rolo's little girl/doll/whatever to come crawling out from between the "roots". *shivers*

I like the song a lot though, especially the lyrics. There seems to be a lot of subtextures going on in them, threads I can follow back to The Circle, WAN, and BB, as well as DA and AOTL. I think some of them reference a lot of things Richie and Jon probably discussed while writing those BJ albums, that may have carried over to some of their solo stuff as well. (Yeah, I know. DA preceded those albums. But some of the songs have the same themes, especially Learning to Fall.)

But anyway, I like the continuity.

Somehow that all seems to fall apart a little with what I'm hearing about the video. It seems odd to me that Jon and the band would be so intent on making a big production of the whole "gang" philosophy and this big show of solidarity and equality, the whole 'getting back to our roots' thing with THIS album. Why is it suddenly so important for them to be seen as a band of brothers again when it clearly hasn't been a high priority image for what? Two decades? The last overt "statement" of that ideal, that I can recall anyway, was the KTF album cover.

It just seems like overkill to me. And a little hypocritical, given how the focus has been almost totally on Jon for all the years since then. I can't help it; it feels like a mockery of those blood on blood, band of brothers values that were so much a part of their identity when they started out but fell to the wayside during the intervening years. That happens. I get it. But to pull them out again now, to make a point seems a little, idk, opportunistic at best; and at worst, downright vindictive. And I'm sure I'm in the minority again here, because some of the fans will probably think that's okay - might even relish it, in fact, as a way for them to vicariously bitch-slap Richie for something they don't think he should have done. But it sure gives the line, "This house was built on higher ground" a hollow ring, IMO; like words chosen for no reason other than to complete a rhyme.

Maybe I'll think differently after I actually watch the video, when I'm not piecing it together based on what others are saying. But right now, based on those same comments, I just don't think I could stomach it.

I'm the meantime, I'll just go back to listening to the song... and wait for the next one.

Rdkopper · #29 08-13-2016, 05:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JackieBlue

Back on topic, I haven't watched the video yet. From what I'm hearing, I don't think I'd like it much.

I'm a guy who thrives on logic and the fact that you wrote a book just now.... in the "video reaction" thread... on the song itself ...when there is a thread solely dedicated to just the song itself... while keeping in mind that it would only take you 3 and a half minutes to watch the actual video before posting at all... has zero logic to me...

And to top it all off, you start off saying that 'from what you've heard, you don't think you'd like it'... So you've been reading fan comments about it instead of just watching it??? You do know that you don't have to go to a movie theater and sit through a 2 hour movie to see the video? Right?

Captain_jovi · #30 08-13-2016, 06:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JackieBlue

And the 2 bitches would be Jennifer Nettles and... um ... ... well, hell if I know. His other bitch took the last train for the coast, so you think Jon might be trying to convince Phil-X to take on that role, too?

Yeah... Good luck with that, Jonny!

Oh, wait... Maybe David's up for a promotion!

Kathleen, there's not a problem putting anybody down around here! LOL

Back on topic, I haven't watched the video yet. From what I'm hearing, I don't think I'd like it much. I KNOW I don't like the creepy house and I'm afraid I'd keep waiting for Rolo's little girl/doll/whatever to come crawling out from between the "roots". *shivers*

I like the song a lot though, especially the lyrics. There seems to be a lot of subtextures going on in them, threads I can follow back to The Circle, WAN, and BB, as well as DA and AOTL. I think some of them reference a lot of things Richie and Jon probably discussed while writing those BJ albums, that may have carried over to some of their solo stuff as well. (Yeah, I know. DA preceded those albums. But some of the songs have the same themes, especially Learning to Fall.)

But anyway, I like the continuity.

Somehow that all seems to fall apart a little with what I'm hearing about the video. It seems odd to me that Jon and the band would be so intent on making a big production of the whole "gang" philosophy and this big show of solidarity and equality, the whole 'getting back to our roots' thing with THIS album. Why is it suddenly so important for them to be seen as a band of brothers again when it clearly hasn't been a high priority image for what? Two decades? The last overt "statement" of that ideal, that I can recall anyway, was the KTF album cover.

It just seems like overkill to me. And a little hypocritical, given how the focus has been almost totally on Jon for all the years since then. I can't help it; it feels like a mockery of those blood on blood, band of brothers values that were so much a part of their identity when they started out but fell to the wayside during the intervening years. That happens. I get it. But to pull them out again now, to make a point seems a little, idk, opportunistic at best; and at worst, downright vindictive. And I'm sure I'm in the minority again here, because some of the fans will probably think that's okay - might even relish it, in fact, as a way for them to vicariously bitch-slap Richie for something they don't think he should have done. But it sure gives the line, "This house was built on higher ground" a hollow ring, IMO; like words chosen for no reason other than to complete a rhyme.

Maybe I'll think differently after I actually watch the video, when I'm not piecing it together based on what others are saying. But right now, based on those same comments, I just don't think I could stomach it.

I'm the meantime, I'll just go back to listening to the song... and wait for the next one.

I'm not trying to be rude or trying to be a jerk but sometimes it feels like...like Richie is what brought you the board. I was curious and looked back and your first post here was in the "No Richie on current leg of the tour" thread and I'm genuinely curious if what happened left that bad a taste in your mouth. You're reviewing a video you haven't seen to say it feels like they're subliminally going after Richie. Are you avoiding the video because you don't want to see them without him? I just dont understand why you're avoiding watching it.

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