Editing Bounce (Bon Jovi album) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
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| MC = 61/100<ref name="Metacritic"/>
|rev1 = ''[[AllMusic]]''
|rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Bounce - Bon Jovi|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/bounce-mw0000661199|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
|rev2Score = C<ref name="EW">{{cite web|last=Browne|first=David|title=Bounce|url=http://ew.com/article/2002/10/11/bounce-4/|publisher=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=July 5, 2017}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|rev3Score = {{Rating|2|4}}<ref name="LAT">{{cite web|last=Nichols|first=Natalie|title=Nice try, Faith, but go back to the studio|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/bounce-20020925|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=January 8, 2017|archive-date=February 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210180055/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/bounce-20020925|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite web|last=Edwards|first=Gavin|author-link=Gavin Edwards (writer)|title=Bounce - Rolling Stone|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/13/entertainment/ca-racka13/2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527220457/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/13/entertainment/ca-racka13/2|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 27, 2014|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=July 5, 2017}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''Sputnikmusic''
|rev5Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="SM">{{cite web|title=Bon Jovi - Bounce (album review)|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/63518/Bon-Jovi-Bounce/|publisher=Sputnikmusic|access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
|rev6Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="TG">{{cite news|last=Poole|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Poole|title=CD: Bon Jovi, Bounce|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/sep/20/popandrock.artsfeatures6|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=20 September 2002 |access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref>
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''Bounce'' received generally mixed to unfavorable reviews from critics. At ''[[Metacritic]]'', which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 61 out of 100, which indicates "favorable reviews" based on 8 reviews.<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite web |title=Critic Reviews for Bounce - Metacritic |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/bounce/bon-jovi/critic-reviews |access-date=2017-01-08}}</ref> Though, Stephen Thomas Erlewine from ''[[Allmusic]]'' gave the album 2 stars out of 5 stating that album "After all, this is a record where Bon Jovi seems to have consciously decided to avoid everything that gives their music character, melody, and muscle, a move that would have been odd at any point during their career, but is particularly puzzling after they delivered an album that found them growing old gracefully. It's as if they want to undo everything ''[[Crush (Bon Jovi album)|Crush]]'' did for them".<ref name="AM" /> David Browne from ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' rated the album with C stating that "Bon Jovi have every right to write and sing topical songs. But the results are sonically grating (the music feels shrill and compressed) and strained, reducing the emotions and situations connected to Sept. 11 to stadium chants".<ref name="EW" /> Natalie Nichols from ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' gave the album 2 stars out of 4 stating that "This time the music's trademark epic quality comes less from Richie Sambora's sprawling guitar work than from an overdose of strings and piano that reflects singer-actor Jon Bon Jovi's movie and TV interests".<ref name="LAT" /> Gavin Edwards from ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album 3 stars out of 5 by saying that "The title Bounce is meant to be an exhortation to America after 9/11, and if it doesn't exactly offer poetic catharsis, the existence of the eighth Bon Jovi record is reassurance of a different kind: Life goes on".<ref name="RS" /> ''Sputnikmusic'' gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5 saying that "Fueled by an emotional theme, Bon Jovi end up making their best album of the millennium era".<ref name="SM" /> Steven Poole from ''[[The Guardian]]'' gave the album 2 stars out of 5 saying that "for most of the record Jon Bon Jovi sounds puzzlingly like [[Elvis Costello]] or [[Elton John]], and sugary ballads predominate, with Bruce Hornby-like piano intros and tasteful acoustic-guitar lines leading to swollen, meaningless choruses".<ref name="TG" />