thanks for posting the full article, Michele. For whatever reason, I was able to access it without the paywall coming up through their Twitter link.
But it's great to have these articles embedded here for archival purposes in case the links get removed.
Stevie's a big girl. She knows how to push back and say no to LB. Witness the infamous Bob Dylan conversation. It is beyond belief that she would wear a cardigan onstage because he "insisted" on it. Please.
Also, her assertion that she can still write romantic songs.... that's a very clever and subtle way to push back on the obvious fact that she isn't writing any songs and finds it too hard. She herself (in typical Stevie revisionist history) said just a few months back that she was quarantining in her big house with a bunch of her god daughters and that they were saying to her "ooh let's use this time to record a bunch of songs" and her response was that that was easy for people to say because THEY didn't have to write the songs, SHE did and she hasn't been able to write. (She just left out that she hasn't written for a long time, not just during covid.)
Funny she now wants to do a solo record. Though without a new product or tour to plug she can't do the big publicity pushes and get herself all over the media. And without any new FM albums or tours in the offing, she's either got to crank out a solo project or fade into the background. Remember a few years ago when that was her dream.... she got her trailer in Malibu to retreat to and was so distressed because she'd been so busy with work commitments that she hadn't had any time to furnish or decorate it? All the years whining about wanting to retreat to a castle on a cliff overlooking the ocean......blah blah blah. She's got that fabulous penthouse hanging over the beach and she still isn't happy. her career really is the only thing she's got. It's getting truly rather sad.