I remember reading the Rolling Stone review of the Wild Heart and can almost recite it even to this day. Revealing of the depth of my obsession for the Queen
. Anyway, it praised her voice, which was stellar through this period but (in retrospect) rightly went after her lyrics which were "inchoate ramblings" and far from her stellar writing in Edge of Seventeen or the sadly overlooked gem I Don't Want to Know.
I remember going through a period of slight embarrassment in my fandom when I was trying to sell such songs as I will Run to You and Nothing Ever Changes to my friends and their response was nothing short of boredom.
That truly was only the foreshadow of the disaster that was the Rock a Little and Tango in the Night disastrous studio and live performance stretch. Although she did redeem voice wise and tour wise later, I will now admit, it has never been quite the same. Patchy, inconsistent, not able to write great songs. No vocal range.
Time to retire is now and leave it be.
