Thursday, January 22, 2009

Enough!

I’ve seen a lot of bitching from the “too cool for school” camps about Bon Jovi having the gall to sing A Change is Gonna Come at the concert last Saturday. Obviously he was asked to do it; I doubt he was asked to do Dead or Alive and then insisted on switching to this song - and if someone says “Would you like to sing A Change is Gonna Come with Bettye LaVette at the Obama celebration concert?” you say “Thank you, what time shall I be there?” Now, if you wanna be peaved at someone, you can wonder who's the wizard that upon hearing Bettye LaVette was gonna sing THE greatest anthem of the Civil Rights Movement during a celebration for the first black president thought "Hey, you know who we should match her up with for a duet? One of the bleached-out veterans of the 80's soul-sucking hair-metal wars." THAT you may question. I'm sure Al Green must've been wondering if his phone was broken.  Otherwise, you need to get off Bon Jovi's ass.

3 comments:

Cookieface said...

I wouldn't imagine that you would have to look much further than the amount of money my boy Jon Bon contributed to the campaign to know why he was asked to sing.

Xmastime said...

we're calling him "Jon Bon" now? like John-John Kennedy?

Cookieface said...

Well, we are on familiar terms, you know...