I think this is a great idea!  If it works for Jon Bon it can also work for another rock star with great hair!  Shaun, I’ll spot you some lyrics to get you started.  “It’s alright” (repeat 21x)

I feel like the new country is aiming at empowering women in a revenge sort of way (thinking about Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” and that other video…who was the country chick who poured and lit the gasoline in her video???)

Console Becky with the knowledge that Jon still has great hair.  It’s my one comfort right now.  *sniff*

Apparently, according to them, some artists have been “banned” for being too sentimental and sappy.  Too female-friendly.  I was actually told to be “less positive!” That’s a new one – me, the positive guy.

And my wife will be very disappointed to learn that her beloved Jon Bon has switched teams.  Yikes.

Pop-country artists are beautiful and friendly to their fans, their songs and videos are bigger than life and the genre’s all about having fun, being a survivor and getting even with who done ya wrong, all wrapped in an American flag.

And hey, anybody can go country.  Bon Jovi’s all over CMT.  Come on now, they’re from JERSEY. Jon?  Richie?  Guys can you hear me?  Come back.  The Boss and I miss you.

This wounds me deeply as a Jersey girl, but I’ll survive. And it’ll make me stronger. Maybe I’ll write me a song about it…

We actually talked before we began writing yesterday, about how I don’t like country music these days.

My grandfather took me to rodeos a few times, taught me how to lasso, wear my boots right and bought me a cowboy hat.  I’m more country than a lot of country artists?  Keith Urban?  Does he look like he’s ever been on a horse?

But I likes country music in the last seventies and eighties.  I was on a Randy Travis kick for a while in high school and who doesn’t like “Coward of the County?” There’s a lot of great songwriting in country music history – just not a lot I like right now.  It sounds like pop music with a little slide guitar.  Rascal Flats is just Mercy Me with a fiddle in the mix.

So, I like old country.  I like pop music..  What I don’t like is pop music masquerading as country.

Does that mean you’re going to have to stop using your joke about “Need you More?”