The press spiel reads something along the lines of ‘All About Loving You’ putting priorities back where they belong, and on this evidence those priorities must be placed somewhere between spending more with your hair stylist and more time washing your socks. Unfortunately for Joe Public, making decent records seems to come much further down the list.
It now seems a long, long time since the band first charted in 1984 and started racking up a really rather remarkable five number One albums in the UK alone. It seems longer still when one is forced to sit through this kind of turgid AOR ear-wreckage. Don’t get me wrong, I actually like a bit of smaltz. Nilsson’s ‘Without You’? An undisputed classic. Aerosmith’s ‘I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing’- a rarefied pillow tickler and then some. So what’s wrong with this? Nothing and everything. It’s neither attractive nor offensive in equal measures. It’s a Bon Jovi love-song. What more can I say? Bar the inspired but largely under priveleged oboe line, it’s simply not very remarkable.
For all those die hard Bovi fans, however, you might be interested to know the video to this song was directed by Marc Klasfeld, the same director who did “Misunderstood“ and stars the two actors who played “Jack & Jill“ in the “Misunderstood“.
Nothing against these daddies, it just doesn’t work for me this time.