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Special Thanks to Tiffany who transcribed Jon's words.
Very quick. A similar cycle with Slippery When Wet and New Jersey. Um right after Slippery it was only 10 months later that we were back on the road with New Jersey, and I hope we learned from that record to take our time and enjoy it, but we were on such an emotional high with the success of Crush that between that and the events of 9/11 it was easy to write a record. And so Richie and I really went at it hard from September of last year, and kept writing right throughout the project so we felt confident that we had the record. And if you have it, you know why I hold it at this point.
You know you couldn't help as a songwriter not to write music. But I didn't want it to be a maudlin record I didn't want it to be a sad record. I wanted to.. what we needed to do with it was to turn around the sadness and the hurt and end the anger and try to find something optimistic about the spirit of the people and try to find something positive in negative. And so many people here where I live were effected. More people in this county than any other county in New Jersey. And we lost more people here than they did in the entire Vietnam war in a minute. I mean literally we booked over to the beach and watched the towers burning and falling. So it's only a minute from my house. The smoke was lofting over my house. It was hard not to be involved. You know so many children in my children's classrooms lost their parents, so it was hard not to be. I would have done more if I could have. If I knew CPR they would have let me go and be on the bucket bragade, but they stopped me because I didn't know it. I would have done anything. We were making sandwichs and buying socks and doing whatever you could to help your neighbors.
The initial response was not to write mechanical pop songs. Make sure that what you're saying is important. I think that it was the initial response of the entertainment business by the entertainer in such a way that writing a tripe pop song or seeing a popcorn movie really didn't resident with you. It made a lot of people stand back and think what am I doing? Am I really doing something worthwhile? Am I contributing something?
But as I said what the initial reaction was to write down exactly how we were feeling and I remember just on that could have even been a bad day, if not it was the very next day. The first lyric was I don't wanna write a song today. And writing that down, I found that what we were doing was becoming was very sad. And of course that's the first emotion that I think people have after shock. The sadness and then anger. I didn't feel that that was the right ultimate expression for me as a songwriter. We turned it into songs like Everyday or Undivided or Bounce even. That it was more important to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get on with it. There are so many single parents now. There are so many children who've lost a parent. There's couples that have just lost each other or partners. It just makes you realize how fragile life is. And instead of writing something dark we felt there's too many people that are still fighting for the resiliancy of the people in America. For the strength that they found and the courage that they found in trying times. Instead of it being just we ran upstairs in the darkness I wanna say okay what happened now? It's a year later. What are you gonna do with yourself now?
I would like to think that our music if anything was always optimistic. Even in the darker records like These Days or in the more socially consious records like Keep The Faith leave a tractifying optimism and I don't think that this record is any different in that our journey has always been to try to give people hope, in our careers and in our music that in the jobs of myself and the other guys are to put the people into that character. Make them feel as if they were Tommy and Gina all those years ago. Or that they are the characters now in Everyday. When I talk about I, I do mean it in first person but I mean it in third person too. That's you. I think that that reflection on what we do was directly associated to the events of 9/11. It made us all stand back and realize that you better live your life everyday. You better take everything into account. There might not be a tomorrow. That to me has been a good thing to be able to realize.
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