Bon Joviver reminds me of traditional Japanese court music (a.k.a. Gagaku). Basically, what happened with Gagaku was that as Buddhism was imported to Japan (from India via China) it brought with it a musical tradition. Japanese courtiers tried to learn how to play this new music but they were terrible at it so they only learned to play the songs very slowly and that became the music of Japanese emperors for centuries.
Bon Joviver did something similar with Bon Jovi's music. They demonstrated that if you slow a song way down, take out the drums, and sing in falsettos, you can turn pretty much any song into a Bon Iver song.
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