What About Now will be the twelfth studio album by American rock-band Bon Jovi. Produced by John Shanks, the album was launched on March 8, 2013 in Australia and March 12, 2013 within the United States. The album was promoted over the band's 2013 Because We Can: The Tour. It marks the ultimate Bon Jovi album to feature Richie Sambora before he left the group in 2013.
The album debuted at No. one inch the U.S., where it sold 101,000 copies rolling around in its first week, debuting at No. 1 about the Billboard 200. What About Now became their third album repeatedly to hit No. one in US after The Circle and Lost Highway along with their fifth No. 1 album throughout their career. The album has sold 220,000 copies within the U.S. by August 2015, and also over 1.5 million copies worldwide, going gold in Germany selling 100,000 copies.
Recording and Production
In a job interview given to Classic Rock magazine, guitarist Richie Sambora stated the album was recorded before his solo album Aftermath from the Lowdown was completed. He and Jon started write and before they knew it, they were inside the studio with this guitar rock band. "The record has become finished and sounding great, therefore we start our 2013 tour in February, so we'll be at a stadium close to you very soon."
Richie Sambora also characterized the brand new material like a compilation of “different elements”; yet reassured old fans that they're going to be in the same way pleased using the new be they have been while using old more than 30 years.
Music videos were produced with the first two singles "Because We Can" along with the album titled track "What About Now". A music video has also been made with the Jon Bon Jovi solo single "Not Running Anymore" which can be included within the album being a bonus track along with all the track "Old Habits Die Hard". Both songs feature for the soundtrack on the movie Stand Up Guys. On December 13, 2012 that it was announced that "Not Running Anymore" could well be nominated to get a Golden Globe Award
Also included like a bonus track with a music video could be the Richie Sambora single "Every Road Leads Home To You" from his latest solo album Aftermath in the Lowdown.
Artwork
The album artwork is made by Liu Bolin and was revealed on January 10, 2013. The cover artwork features several members of this guitar rock band painted behind a collage which features a soldier that has a guitar and walking up a mountain that has a yellow and blue American flag, 2 hands engrossed in bandages, a headshot of any woman, some roses and this rock band's heart and dagger symbol. A pinwheel can be seen within the background. The cover artwork is usually seen within the back, although the collage has more pictures with it and this guitar rock band members are absent.
Critical reception in the album continues to be generally negative. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating away from 100 to reviews from critics, the album received a normal score of 50, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", depending on 11 reviews. While Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian states that "this guitar rock band have reached out together with the sort of empowering platitudes and riffage that may give fans for this summer's stadium tour something to punch mid-air about", Stephen Unwin on the Daily Express was less favorable, claiming that this album "will be the closest thing to predictable on the poster boys of American rock ’n’ roll, which for most myopic fans may be the closest thing to wonderful."
Phil Mongrendien, in the Toronto Star, criticized the track "Army of One" for locating them "descending into lyrical self-parody featuring its 'never give up' motif hammered home artlessly" even though the title track's guitar "hook nods an excessive amount of to Kraftwerk's 'Computer Love' (and, by extension, Coldplay's 'Talk')". James Manning, from Time Out, believes that this guitar rock band "won't win any new fans using twelfth album however they are unlikely to reduce many either."
Kim Carr and James Cabooter of Daily Star (United Kingdom) were positive, nevertheless "Bon Jovi get home to their rock roots on the best album for 20 years."
Ian Gittins, from Virgin Media, thought "the group's perennial propensity for clichés and Hollywood blockbuster-style happy endings invariably help it become difficult to take Bon Jovi as seriously while they crave", though he later admits that "there are a few good tunes. It's a decent soft rock party album. It's probably also time that Bon Jovi knew their limits." For Stephen Erlewine, from Allmusic, "there aren't countless big hooks on What About Now -- exactly the raise-your-fist anthem of 'Because We Can,' with most from the sweetest melodies coming on the softer, quieter moments, like the acoustic 'The Fighter' and also the Christian ballad 'Room at the End in the World'.
Track Listing
- Because We Can
- I’m With You
- What About Now
- Pictures of You
- Amen
- That’s What the Water Made Me
- What’s Left of Me
- Army of One
- Thick As Thieves
- Beautiful World
- Room At the End of the World
- The Fighter
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