What About Now
| Jon Bon Jovi
What About Now
What About Now is the twelfth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. Produced by John Shanks, the album was released on March 8, 2013 in Australia and March 12, 2013 in the United States.
Critic Reviews
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Rolling Stone
The 12th Bon Jovi album extends the Springsteen liberalism in JBJ’s stadium rattling Jersey cheese into full-on “social commentary”
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Under the Gun Review
What About Now is a very disappointing album.
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Entertainment
Bon Jovi’s twelfth studio-release “What About Now” is an improvement in certain aspects of their last two previous efforts.
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The Guardian
It's easy to excoriate this band for producing another corporate-rock album, but it's hard to slate them for still feeling kinship with their own blue-collar backgrounds.
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Boston Globe
It’s a dozen slices of us-against-the-world optimism delivered in Bon Jovi’s Jersey drawl, a perfectly smooth tone for these edgeless songs.
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Sputnik Music
A career spanning three decades could offer so much more than another average release.
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Sputnik Music 3
Keeping the brand name alive.
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Golden Plec
“What About Now”, the difficult, sad sound of a band trapped by their own nostalgia.
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Time Out
Sadly, 'What About Now' is more wet blanket than ‘Slippery When Wet’, but for die-hard Jovites it’ll do.
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Hit The Floor
Pretty much the same as every other Bon Jovi album, but with a lot more country and still keeping that fun and emotional spirit.
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May The Rock Be With You
So for me ‘What About Now’ is a good balance between ‘Lost Highway’ and ‘The Circle’ and I’m good with that.
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The Pop Break
they’ve created a solid record here.
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Popblerd
What About Now, represents a severe drop-off in quality.
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The Star
What About Now one of Bon Jovi’s weakest releases
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Mimo
“Have we hit the mark this time?”
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Pop Matters
Overall, What About Now isn’t a consistently great record.
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Express
Bon Jovi’s 12th studio album is the closest thing to predictable from the poster boys of American rock ’n’ roll, which for their most myopic fans is the closest thing to wonderful.
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Daily Nebraskan
Only Bon Jovi can get away with releasing an album so painfully cliched and so unapologetically saturated with blatant appeals to pathos.
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The Void
I say this with the heaviest of hearts – but what the hell happened to Bon Jovi?
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Seattle PI
Bon Jovi's 12th studio record could better be described as a very polished production with a strong emphasis on ballads.
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Montreal Gazette
tracks that split the difference between 2007’s country-influenced Lost Highway and the return to familiar arena terrain on 2009’s The Circle.
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2 loud 2 Old Music
Here we are at Lucky 13, except this one wasn’t much better than the prior album.
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Think McFly Think
As a whole, What About Now fits in nicely with the other albums in Bon Jovi’s oeuvre.
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LSU Now
“What About Now” strives for greatness but fails to escape mediocrity.
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TSG TV
The Album is very different from from what one may normally hear from Bon Jovi.
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Stereo Board
'What About Now' is a solid album, even though it needs a couple of stronger tracks towards the end as it crawls to a rather dull conclusion
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Nemo Atkins
it's really hard to recommend this album to anyone who isn't already a big Bon Jovi fan.
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Now UC
Bon Jovi’s latest offering What About Now is an album that caters for their long-time fans
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The Hindu
Overall, it is a nice album, but doesn’t showcase anything groundbreaking.
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Hot press
New Jersey natives grow old gracefully..
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