I don't like bangs! Stevie's hair looks better now IMO then the last few tours (dance, enchanted, tisl)

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No, the main problem is that they're chunky, clunky, and UGLY!

I understand if she can't wear those sexy boots anymore, but those mutant Reeboks are horrifying. Plus, everyone knows you don't wear sneakers with a nice dress. At least pants would hide those wretched things. For that virtue alone they get my vote.

Suede Reeboks....now THAT sounds interesting!!! LOL

Dress, pants, I don't care....just give us something new and exciting and hip!!!

And I might be the only one, but I'll admit it, I like the bangs better!!! I don't know what it is, but there's just something about this "do" that I don't care for...her hair's not looking as healthy now, or something. Parting weird. Oh goodness!! Go back to the bangs - get some thin ones.

Stephanie

Her hair just looks nasty to me. I liked it better on the Enchanted and TISL tours. The roots look like they need to be touched up, and she definitely needs to stop parting it down the middle. And it wouldn't kill her to cut it a little shorter.

I don't see her wearing pants onstage, but the only real problem I have is this dress. She didn't wear this on the Dance tour, did she? I think it isn't very flattering.

How does her hair look nasty?

Maybe it's the lighting, but in the pics I've seen, the color looks like it needs to be touched up. And I think the parting down the middle makes it look worse.

Poor Stevie. I mean really. As much as I bitch about her clunkenboks and granny sweaters, she must really be getting it from all sides about her looks and costumes. Now that I think about it, the shoes may just be her big F-You to the entire lot of us. I do, for the record, think her comfort should be the utmost of her concerns. She's pushing sixty, for crying out loud.

What would I like to see ? I propose a one record, one tour radical departure. She was stellar singing with the orchestras when I saw her (singing At Last, When Sunny Gets Blue, Sunday Kind of Love, and a special arrangement of Landslide). She did an outstanding job with minimal rehearsals on those numbers.

What I would love to see, in a few years, is a record of standards and blues torch numbers. All with a 60 piece orchestra. Plus, a limited tour, and full length video record of the experience. She could get all dolled up in vampy, film noir drag, pull her hair back and up (which she rarely does but it looks stunning), and go out there and stand still and blow the roofs off of a dozen amphitheaters. As it is, all she has to do is shake her skirt and we all have a heart attack. She could do this with a minimum of effort, and I believe the response would be remarkable. Anyone who has seen her perform in such settings is likely to agree.

Is this trick a little shopworn ? I will concede that point. Ronstadt did it to the nines. Natalie Cole mastered it and was a great success. Even Cyndi Friggin LAUPER put out a standards record. That being said, I think it would be a fine artistic endeavor, and bring a different kind of respectability to her singing. Most people wouldn't believe that she could pull it off. I know she could.

Furthermore, as she gets older, I say work that regal thing. If she really wants to play that royalty card, she could walk out there looking like Catherine Deneuve, stand there and sing with the control and grace she now has, and shock the hell out of everyone. Even just for a three night stand in LA.

If only I was her manager !

I still say her hair looks much better without the bangs when she parts it on the side (like shes been doing since Sept 2003 i think) than in the middle

Chris

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Yeah, could you see Lindsey trying to deal with Carson? That would make for some hilarious television!

You're not the only one.

I like the bangs better too, they make her look younger and they frame her face better. The long bangs make her face look longer, like it's dragged down or something.

Her best hair look is the bangs and the silken, shiney, long straight locks!

Carson: Oh my grossness!

Lindsey: What? Those are my beloved Fruit of the Loom shirts and you're not touching them.

Carson: There's a pan-handler in Newark who wants his wardrobe back. Oh these are just mon-strous. You know what that rhymes with.

Yeah, what Sparky said...
 

Sparky, you have the right idea. (Sorry, I always try the quote thing on this board, but it never works for me...)

I love the orchestra idea, but I DO NO want Stevie to ever release an album of pop "standards". Leave that to the vocalists who aren't songwriters. Stevie has, at this point, probably 1,000 or more songs that are just sitting in her house collecting dust.

I would LOVE a non-electric, simply produced collection of some of her more "moody" songs. Maybe half the album piano-and-vocals only, just like the feel of the demos, only with more fleshed out arrangements. And I've love to hear Stevie vocal productions a la Enya or Tori Amos' "Boys for Pele" album. Lots of background wailing (within reason - no SOTM freak-outs...). Imagine a choir of 40 or 50 Stevie's singing different parts at once.

I'm covered in chillbumps just dreaming about it.