An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi
Dear Jon Bon Jovi, please buy a ‘J’ or a ‘B’ or a ‘B, J,’ and release your songs from the cycle they keep spinning-up in my head. If it was only ‘Keep the Faith’ for one day, maybe it would be OK. But it keeps happening, over and over and over again. Maybe it’s our own fault, playing your songs knowing we’re going to be seriously held to them for a long time to come. Maybe this hypothetical solution wouldn’t work anyway; because, Jon Bon Jovi, if you did buy a ‘J’ or a ‘B’ or a ‘B, J,’ I would probably keep you and only you on repeat! So, Jon Bon Jovi, what do you say?
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Jon,
This is Simon, and I have Bon Jovi songs in my head, too!
In my teenage years in Tunisia a friend of mine used to tighten his pants and ‘become’ Jon Bon Jovi. He held an imaginary microphone stand with one hand and stroked his hair with the other while keeping his weight on one leg and tapping the tip of his other foot on the ground behind him to the stirring riffs of Ritchie & Co.
It was awesome.
I think all the serious rocking is too concentrated in too few songs on most of your albums, but what terrific hard-hitters those are! Put them all together and you’re set to ROCK.
Thanks for the music and please buy a Generous Alphabet letter!
— Simon
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