“Thank you, Goodnight. The Bon Jovi Story.” Arrival Announced As Being 26 April 2024
It was upon the second floor of an office building, in shimmering Lake Oswego, Oregon, this afternoon, that I stifled a fun yet endorphin-filled “whoop-whoop.” An advertisement a la Bon Jovi-inspired-music-memorabilia filled my feedline on Instagram. To be sure, Bon Jovi fans: it’s coming out on April 26, 2024, “Thank you, Goodnight. The Bon Jovi Story.”
Cupidity be less, says myself, as we move into 2024. This year, it’s said, is another superstarland for music industry moguling, where the industry is once again spiked and infused with career choices to be made by band members, everywhere, I’m told.
Hello, 1984, once again, eh, Bon Jovi?
It’s very important to remember TWO ways of looking at this boy’s Instagram: @jonbonjovi and @bonjovi. Now, whether you make the difference great or small, that’s up to you (point said). Either way, all the talisman swinging Bon Jovi hero worshipers see this act as the biggest in pop’s rock and roll diaries, for forty years.
Bon Jovi, the band, has done everything right—right up until a sideswiping maneuver midst the making of Bon Jovi’s end-of-all-takings music video Runaway (1984). That was the first music video, ever, by Bon Jovi. And, as every member of the band will assuredly inform one and all, next time they reminisce about their award-spangled history in rock music, he wore purple spandex on purpose. No matter, for Runaway has garnered Bon Jovi a mighty 153,855,046 views on YouTube, so far, to date. And that’s just one of dozens of multi-million view scoring videos. And a damned record-setting (as well as an I’ll-be-damned iconic spot) in music history.
That being said, let’s mark April 26th’s date in our calendars, so we can universally combine to watch.
Opinion matters most when one deals in music industry commentary. My own says how Bon Jovi’s super stardom comes from a personal truth. No matter the song structure, the message intricacies of every Bon Jovi album carried truth, sometimes to death-defying heights of nudity and realism. The music by Bon Jovi is with only perfectly placed matras as “Living On A Prayer,” “Bad Medicine,” “Shot Through The Heart,” “Blaze Of Glory,” and “Wanted Dead Or Alive.” Sweeping aside all fantasy and pretext are heart-shuddering classics “I’ll Be There For You,” “Always,” “Bed Of Roses,” “Make A Memory,” and “All About Loving You.”
Lest you remember, the East Coast rocks first, especially when Jon Bon Jovi takes to Instagram to “seal the deal” with plucky commentary about the band’s upcoming contents. Oh, well, I guess you’ll chalk it up to another East Coast favorite anthem song derailed: “Boys Will Be Boys.”
When the fifes and drums of the country’s earlier years along the eastern starboard are remembered, they shake the mind and everything else one has going on. The music of Bon Jovi calls back to the golden times. Still, they carry all of us forward. Music of this day has been fought for and protected by the earlier infantry-dudes and dudettes, with the band Bon Jovi always at the tip of the charge. It’s not a vicious act, at all. More of a fellowship to true stardom moves, for sure.
Be sure to join all of us in the march, on April 26, as we pay homage to Bon Jovi in front of every television in America. If it’s going to make it to Bon Jovi’s frontdom of fandom, it will take an overkill, to be sure, as well as for certain. Almost as if Jon Bon Jovi is pillowing to death an ancient style of rockhead mentalia, contrived suspiciously, in the head.
All this to tell you: there may be more than one ways to talk about Bon Jovi, but there’s only one way to skin a cat (remember?). If you can’t remember, then join in tonight, with all of us to watch Jon Bon Jovi when he appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live (10 April 2024, 11:35/10:35c on ABC).
This is the end of this my supercharged Wednesday diatribe about megarockers/heart-throbbers Bon Jovi. Now is the time to shake your weary bedhead, get back to worrying about money.
