Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Okay, so Jon Bon Jovi has certainly been the butt of more than a few jokes, but let’s think about this for a minute. The guy has been making successful records since 1984. That’s pretty impressive. He’s also true to himself, playing near-country tunes while maintaining a liberal political stance (most country artists and fans are conservative). His band Bon Jovi just released a new album, Lost Highway, that’s doing very well. So well, in fact, that Mason is feeling a little insecure in comparison. Who’s laughing now?
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Mason: Uh, Amanda, do you love me as much as you love Bon Jovi?
Amanda: Bon Jovi...The group or are you talking about Jon Bon Jovi himself?
Mason: The man. The icon.
Amanda: I guess he is the namesake of the band, right?
Mason: He hasn’t aged in like 15 years.
Amanda: It’s the hair…and the Botox.
Mason: Does he get Botox?
Amanda: Yeah! I think they just released, what, their 10th album? That’s pretty cool. Decades and decades of music.
Mason: It’s so funny because he’s kind of crossed over in the country genre, too, but he himself is fairly liberal.
Amanda: Really? Is he competing with Carrie Underwood right now?
Mason: I don’t know. I don’t really listen to the country thing. But the man who was wearing zebra stretch pants and had 10 scarves wrapped around his neck, like, is a country guy now.
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Discussion
Half kidding, Mason asks Amanda if she loves him as much as she loves Bon Jovi. She needs to clarify whether he’s talking about Jon Bon Jovi himself, or his band.
Mason replies that he’s asking about Jon specifically, not the band that’s named for him. He adds that Jon doesn’t appear to have aged in the last 15 years. Amanda says maybe the singer’s apparent youth has to do with his wild hair, or the Botox injections he gets to keep his face from wrinkling.
Mason asks if Jon really gets Botox injections and Amanda assures him that he does. She also reminds him that Bon Jovi has been making music for decades and Mason notes that he’s crossed over into country lately, which is particularly funny because he used to dress like an outrageous rocker in the ‘80s.
If you could get Botox injections to make yourself look younger, would you do it? Can you think of another star who (for reasons natural or artificial) just doesn’t appear to get any older?
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