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I mean, Stevie fans can swim in her lyrics and find endless layers in them, but talking to her one on one back then . . . she might have seemed kind of ditzy. I think the fans may have been screaming for Stevie on stage, but when they got backstage to their dressing rooms, the men that Christine found most attractive might have found Christine to be "the pretty one" and been back there waiting in line. Even someone like Tom Petty loves Stevie very much, but he seemed to think she was kind of flaky back then. You have men like Walter Egan who were infatuated with Stevie, just as her fans are. But you have a whole class of people who put her down, even if they did so unjustifiably. I think these are the type who admire Christine. Sexually, I think there are people who find her making it in a traditionally masculine world very appealing. You know how some women like "a man in uniform?" Well, I think Christine coming out there with an accordion strapped around her neck can entice in a similar fashion. It's a whole "girls with guitars" type of turn on. I mean, I know it's not fun to be the also ran, if you're reading People magazine and see Stevie pictured as being the heart and center of the band. I'm sure that was not fun, but that was just one aspect of the attention they were getting. In the rest of their lives, I don't think there was that much of a disparity. In the parts that we didn't see, I think that Christine was getting plenty of attention, in an amount that pretty much rivaled Stevie's. Michele |
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Even if she loves Stevie and they're two different types of people, it's inevitable that comparisons would be made, by other people or by Christine herself. I just think Stevie being there and getting all the attention could easily make her feel like she wasn't as good as her in whatever way (looks, music, etc.). No one wants to feel like someone is better than them, and when that someone is getting all the attention, that's how it feels - even if you don't want attention yourself. I guess it's hard to explain. Quote:
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As for feeling left out sometimes, maybe Christine did. But I think Stevie did too. I think that Stevie felt inferior to Christine and jealous sometimes. As popular as she was, I think she still looked up to Christine as the big sister who was so accomplished and admired and made it all look so easy. So, it's the kind of thing that evened itself out. I don't think there was a chronic feeling of either one feeling like an "also ran." It went up and down like a seesaw. Michele Last edited by michelej1; 04-19-2011 at 01:39 PM.. |
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I do understand because they were both female that it might bug another woman, but I would say Christine McVie is no ordinary or typical lady. I just don't see her caring that much about her image as much as she cared about the band. She would have tried to pop into the limelight or front the band long before Stevie ever arrived if she was into that sort of thing.
I will say however, I always felt Lindsey was bitter and disappointed that he never got the fandom Stevie did. And he's kind of a girl... (LOL) And comments like, "I had to do it all." that demonstrates to me just how strongly he felt about it.
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I think Christine, John and Mick were concerned about the band more than their own fandom. Mick has an ego, but it wasn't bigger than the band in my opinion.
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Lindsey is a girl. The gayest straight man I've ever seen. And yes, I think he was UBER bitter, over the attention that Stevie received. |
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Yeah, I don't doubt that at all. He seemed like quite the diva at times. I think he's mellowed out a bit now though, so that's good.
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As I said before, if you look at interviews she gave during the 1970s, Christine made fun of all the hysteria/attention Stevie was getting. She wanted no part of it, and seemed relieved and very content in not bearing the brunt of public attention. That, itself, is natural for certain types of people. Christine wanted respect -- not popularity, excessive publicity, and obsessive fandom. That's is what Stevie wanted/needed, and she got it. It was fated in a sense, since Stevie is not tied to an instrument, so her role in the band was more about visual dramatics.
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Many theories again appeared in the press to explain Fleetwood Mac's enormous new audience. One held that our three singer/songwriters and their different voices kept the public from getting bored with a monolithic Big Mac sound. Another postulated that the group fulfilled various deeply ingrained Anglo-American archetypes, with myself as the Public School Aristocrat, McVie as the British Cloth-Cap Working-Class type, Christine as an English Rose from the Midlands, Stevie as the California Girl, and Lindsey as Byronic Rock Star..... Most critics seemed to agree that our writers were producing hit songs that fit into the modern romantic tradition established by the Beatles. But my favorite theory was that we were one of the first white groups since the Mamas and the Papas to successfully bring female voices into the context of rock music. We didn't sound like anyone else. Though I never saw Mick as an aristocrat. Specially during the 70s
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