"American Reckoning" was inspired by the murder of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter Movement. Bon Jovi wrote the song the day after his wife took a photo of him washing the dishes in a JBJ Soul Kitchen restaurant and published it on social media with caption "If You Can't Do What You Do… Do What You Can". "Do What You Can" is a song about COVID-19 pandemic. "Limitless" is a song that is encouraging optimism in an uncertain world and implores the listener to seize the day. The murder of George Floyd inspired him to write "American Reckoning", and the pandemic gave him the opportunity to write "Do What You Can". However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the release of the album was postponed, and a tour was cancelled. Bon Jovi then picked his favorite 10 songs, and for those songs, the band recorded vocals, guitar, piano, keyboard and percussion overdubs as well backing vocals sang by all of the band members. During the period of 11 days in Nashville, band recorded bed tracks for 23 songs. Jon Bon Jovi recorded all the songs on his smartphone in poor audio quality and brought them to the rest of the band. On the same day, Jon posted 30-second long Instagram story videos showing him, Tico Torres, David Bryan, John Shanks, Hugh McDonald and Phil X tuning up their instruments in the same studio. Recording of the album started on Saturday, Main Ocean Way Recording studio in Nashville. The tracklist order also changed, as the first version of the album was set to start with "Beautiful Drug" and finish with "Blood in the Water". Before the postponement, the songs "Luv Can" and "Shine" were initially part of the album, but were replaced with "Do What You Can" and "American Reckoning". While in quarantine, lead singer Jon Bon Jovi wrote two songs that would be included in the final album: "Do What You Can", which represents the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and "American Reckoning", a protest song about the murder of George Floyd, written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The music video for "Do What You Can" was released on August 25, 2020. "American Reckoning" was released on July 10, 2020, along with a lyric video, and "Do What You Can" was released on July 23, 2020. The album's debut single "Unbroken" was released in November 2019, and the second single "Limitless" was released on February 20, 2020. The album was initially set for release on May 15, 2020, through Island, but was later pushed back to October 2, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi.
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