10 Artists That Changed With One Song

For as long as Aerosmith had been in the game, they never had a #1 during their prime. From Dream On to Walk This Way to Rag Doll, none of the band’s big hit singles ever got the top spot, until Diane Warren came in with a knockout song for the movie Armageddon. After finally tasting that success though, Steven Tyler got a bad idea planted in his head.

Ever since I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing, Aerosmith have been trying their best to go pop, either making songs with too glossy production values or trying to collaborate with pop stars in an attempt to get on the radio. Although the band have returned to their roots in blues a couple of times like the covers album Honkin on Bobo, that seems to be the furthest thing on their mind on Just Push Play, which tries to copy the formula of I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing over half of its runtime.

While the initial hit they had still sounds great today and might be a touch cheesy, these new songs feel like they’re designed to be movie soundtrack songs…except there’s no movie to pair them with. Even the band started to have problems with it, not even appearing in the video for Girls of Summer and Joe Perry getting frustrated about how Steven just wants to write pop songs. Every band has the right to evolve, but you can’t really hold up the mantle of the Bad Boys From Boston with a song like Jaded.