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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid
I don't think any amount of modern inventive production could
have saved Street Angel.
How can you produce something good from an artist that was
in the physical and mental shape she was in from the mid-80's
to the mid-90's?
The fiasco that was Red Rocks led us right to The Other Side Of The
Mirror. If those two projects weren't warning enough, she then releases
Timespace which is supposed to be a best of album. Best of what I might
ask?
Then she releases the worst solo album of her career. And to make matters
even worse she appears on Letterman and Leno almost unrecognizable. It
would have been better for her to have shelved Street Angel and have taken
that time to get healthy, so to speak.
Drugs, obesity and age were the perfect storm for her downward
spiral. Though difficult, two out of three of those things are controllable.
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God, I don't know why men are always so judgemental first and foremost about a woman's appearance. Is beauty or thinnes the only thermometer with which you measure success or desirabilty?
Her appearances on Leno and Letterman were GREAT and her performance was just FIERY on both occasions. 90s fashion wasn't the most elegant but she pulled it off well, but her voice during the tour was again almost at the top.
As you said she was unhealthy but not because she was fat, it's the complete opposite. It was a moment in her life in which she was still recovering from a consuming addiction, the Epstein Barr disease and probably depression, I'd say that was the main problem and that also led her to gain weight, not the weight itself.