She does a lot of work that create nice headlines...clickbait. A Gorillaz song, a duet with Dolly, sang with Lana Del Rey when she was all over the place, a song with Elton during his last tour/album hype, a song with Don Henley. She completely distanced herself from Sheryl Crow when she was no longer all over the radio. One might ask why invest all the energy in these one-off collaborations, it's done strictly for the press. Has nothing to do with the actual music or collaboration. Additionally, when you clearly have nothing left to offer as a writer, it's a win-win because the material is already provided for her. Even going back to 24K Gold - the polaroids made a bigger splash than the album.

Joni Mitchell. You want her to be like Joni Mitchell.

Good point, but she could LEAAANNNNNN LIL' in that direction.

Would you imagine Stephanie Nicks with Charles Mingus? :lol:
I have a chiffon friend who told me that stevie is 10 times more talented than Joni Michell.

Joni had Wayne Shorter
Stevie and Kenny G.

So there's your spectrum..

I had row 5!!!!!! I no longer have my stub.

That's because she always needed good producers to pull it all together (like Buckingham, like Olsen, like Iovine). But she couldn't handle it when the producers became what she deemed too controlling. Or, alternately, when she felt she couldn't control the process enough. Rock a Little suffered greatly because of her deteriorating voice, but equally so because of the inconsistent production. She couldn't keep a producer around. By the time we get to OSOTM, she was already straying from the sound that made her famous and letting industry trends dictate what she sounded like. Until In Your Dreams, none of her solo albums approached the consistency of the first two.

But then, I'll go out on a limb here: even at its best, her solo work is a bit generic and comparatively uninteresting to her best Mac work. I was never a huge fan of Bella Donna (though I can see why it is huge) and while I loved The Wild Heart at 13, I no longer am bewitched. It's just a pretty good 80s record with a truly distinctive single: "Stand Back," which is, IMO, more original than anything of her solo work before or since.

That's because her best friend in the whole world, Prince, wrote it.

Point taken. And in my defense, I reread my post and thought, “That could describe Christine, too.”

If I had to sum up Stevie just for myself, I would say she made the smashing best of her skills and sensibilities, and I applaud. She was never a complete piddler or a face in the crowd (the list of piddlers in pop music in my lifetime is hundreds of miles long — people who never gave a damn about anything they were doing). As I noted elsewhere, Stevie is a model of complete self-fulfillment. She was superb at being Stevie, and in fact her more embarrassing moments were when she may have thought she was Joni Mitchell or Don Henley or Bob Dylan. Would I say that to Bob Dylan?

I think you just did. (if he ever reads TL)

I’ve heard that Dylan is an avid ledgie and frequent lurker. He’s even memorized his sign-on password.

Ariana Grande and Ed Sheeran also lurk. Hi, Ariana! :wavey:

You can still make me chuckle after all these years, David O! :lol:

I thought at some moment she thought Dreams was her best song.

Actually, if Silver Springs was the best song she thinks she has ever written, probably she could said that in her respective cd cover of 25 Years The Chain box set. But she chose words about Dreams. Maybe at that time she was still angry with Mick because he didn't let her include SS in Timespace, so she wrote those too proud words and with resentment.

Maybe nowadays it's the side B-side of Go Your Own Way single that hangs on her wall. ;)

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