I have Colbert on while I'm knocking out a few things on the laptop before bedtime. Bon Jovi is the guest.
First there's an "interview" where Colbert lobs him some softballs. Boring. Then he asks Bon Jovi about his writing process for this record. This is a long-time pet peeve of mine: an interviewer asking the songwriter to talk about how they wrote the song, squinting in the light of the writer's imagined genius, and this exchange happening immediately before the audience finds out that the song is, in fact, a banal piece of shit that is utterly devoid of artistic merit. In fact, there's a whole show where this is the formula... it's called "Texas Music Scene with Ray Benson."
But I digress.
So Bon Jovi steps up to the mic and sings a clunker so bad that I had to look up the lyrics to see if my ears were deceiving me. Turns out... nope. He really does use "PPE" in a song, and starts a verse with this line: "Although I'll keep my social distance, what the world needs is a hug."
Take my word for it: The music is even worse than the lyrics.
God Dammit, Jon, you are single handedly killing off what very little is left of rock music.
Jay Fucking Leno is embarrassed at what a milquetoast corporate whore you are.
Please stop.