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| Billboard |
 Bon Jovi had great crossover success after putting a little bit of country into its rock'n'roll with the 2007 "Lost Highway." But the New Jersey group gets back to the business of rocking on its 11th studio album, "The Circle." The band hits a classic Bon Jovi stride out of the gate with the first single, "We Weren't Born to Follow." The song is a common-man anthem that announces, "This ain't about giving up or giving in," drawing its buoyant chorus straight out of its 1988 song "Born to Be My Baby." Also in that mold are tracks like "Work for the Working Man," "Thorn in My Pride" and "Broken Promiseland." Meanwhile, U2's trademark ambient dynamics can be found on "Love's the Only Rule," "Happy Now" and "Learn to Love." Bon Jovi gets political on "Bullet," while "When We Were Beautiful" is wistfully nostalgic, right down to the sha-la-la backing vocals, with its own brief social commentary about living on a continuing prayer. The country-friendly elements are still there-the fiddle and steel on "Live Before You Die," for example-but "The Circle" rides closer to the New Jersey turnpike than the band's "Highway" run.-Gary Graff...full text |
| Nytimes |
| The repurposed “Livin’ on a Prayer” bass line on “Work for the Working Man,” from Bon Jovi’s 11th studio album, “The Circle,” is no casual rehash. In 1986 “Livin’ on a Prayer” marked Bon Jovi as a band that grappled with meaning, or at least pretended to, in between hairspray sessions and breaking hearts. Twenty-three years later Bon Jovi has become that band in full, having long ago cleansed its system of vice and CFCs. But while the group’s recent albums preached hope, “The Circle” is determinedly dark: the band’s typical uplift is deeply buried here, in songs that are more blatantly angry than any in Bon Jovi’s career. This is a perfectly reasonable response to aging: cynicism hardens with time. But really it’s another step in the slow, sure transformation of Jon Bon Jovi into John Mellencamp, another artist who wears regional authenticity with pride and who started out making the sort of agitated, accessible rock music Bon Jovi is only just now getting around to....full text |
| Rollingstone |
| Bon Jovi are billing their 11th album as a back-to-rock move, following on the heels of 2007's country-tinged Lost Highway, which featured duets with Music City stars. It does rock — if your idea of rock is Aerosmith doing Diane Warren songs. Predictable and immaculately produced, these arena-shakers offer a familiar brand of Jersey cheese, but where Jon Bon Jovi once was kind of quixotic ("Livin' on a Prayer"), he's more contemplative than ever, turning out meditations like "Live Before You Die" ("There'll come a day when you have to say hello to goodbye"). Ah, well, at least blue-collar anthems like "Work for the Working Man" mean well...full text |
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