Dallas Austin
 

Hi Y'all,
Just wondering if anyone knew which songs Stevie worked on with Dallas Austin for TISL?

supposedly they were either all thrown out- or if a song or two or more did make it... they were reproduced by someone else. i heard that they were done too r&b -ish for stevie's style.

Well, while I DO believe they were more R&B sounding than Stevie could deal with, she said she had to dump Austin's contributions because half of the album was him and half was Sheryl Crow influenced (with a more rock/pop feel). So, she had to pick one, and she's obviously gonna stay with what she's confortable with. I do think it would have been rather disasterous to have a half rock and roll, half r&b album. While I realized there's a lot of rhythm and bass (the basis for R&B) in Rhiannon and Dreams, sorry, they're rock and roll songs. I don't know where anyone got the idea that songs from TLC's album sounded Fleetwood Mac influenced.

I am almost positive that she worked on 'Bombay Sapphires' with Austin.

Man I would love to hear those outtakes!!

Randy

Actually it was Stevie herself who got the idea when she was listening to TLC's Unpretty while vacationing in Hawaii. She said she thought "Hey this guy could do my stuff" or something to that effect.

She did. They recorded it somewhere in Atlanta with candles and a giant picture of Jimi Hendrix in the studio. She said it was "too dirge like." She also said she wanted Sting to sing on it but she chickened out. I think that would have been incredible.

Oh yeah...she did, didn't she? I completely forgot about that. Well, then, I don't know where SHE got that idea, but it was obviously not a good one! :laugh:

I'm, perhaps, a bit closed minded when it comes to like r&b and like hip hop...I hate it. so anyway, I was really pleased when I heard the Dallas Austin tunes were dumped...but that's just me...cause it's not my thing...BUT I would like to hear outtakes and stuff....I think it'd be really interesting.

I'm with you all the way. R&B/hip hop is completely the sound of now, but that's the problem... Everyone is doing it. And to me, unfortunatly, it all sounds so similar that I can't get into it. It's just a phase though and soon enough something new will come along in the world of pop music. For me, the sooner the better!

Madonna's album, 'Bedtime Stories,' which Dallas Austin co-produced, is one of my favorites of her releases... even though I don't tend to be a fan of the R&B or hip-hop sound... so I was initially intrigued with the idea of Stevie working with Dallas.

After I thought about it for a while though, I began seriously hoping Stevie would come to her senses, and find a producer more in keeping with *her* sound, and not the "sound of the moment."

Thankfully, the Austin produced tunes were dropped and/or re-recorded with a different producer, and Stevie delivered one of her best, and most timeless, efforts. :)