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Title: Like Bon Jovi, a failed attempt to 'grow up'
Review: While the two bands have completely different roots, they've fallen into the same trap. Having great success at writing 'adult' ballads, their default songwriting now *starts* in that mode, forgetting their harder, more emotional rock roots.Doing business that way (business instead of music), a band forgets how to rock. Any attempt to retrace their steps becomes as awkward as Dad "hanging out" at a pizza party. Dad brought "Birds of Pray" and SFBM to the party. And while Dad might enjoy grooving to this harmless mellow vanilla sound, the young and young at heart just stare uncomfortably, eventually shuffling on to something cooler, better, and real.
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