WCSX Classic Cuts : It’s My Life
WCSX Classic Cuts
Bon Jovi: “It’s My Life”
The Hook: Jon Bon Jovi says fans took the song away from him and made it their own.
Year: 2000
Album: Crush
Writers: Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Max Martin
Stats: Peaked at number-33 on the Billboard Hot 100
Background: Despite its never becoming a huge hit single, “It’s My Love” is one of Bon Jovi’s indisputable classics. Jon Bon Jovi explains that this happened because of the way fans related to its lyrics, and especially the title line.
Jon Bovi on how fans’ reacted to the title phrase of “It’s My Life.” OC:…in hope. :29
“They took it away from me, they made it their own. That was a universal and timeless and a beyond our expectations line. I mean, I selfishly said that line, ‘Like Frankie said, I did it my way.’ I’d just come back from making a movie and said, ‘This is me-me-me.’ Wow! Who knew? It gets out into the consciousness – it’s timeless, classic, it translates to any language, the language of the heart, which is music. And it all goes back to those underlying themes of having faith in faith and hope in hope.”
