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07-08-2011 06:00 PM |
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Originally Posted by mitzo
(Post 999132)
It was a bad, bad, bad choice of single.
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I don't believe FWIW was necessarily a bad choice. It's a great song and potentially could have had legs off the back of "Landslide's" popularity. But as Bandon pointed out, it does appear Reprise, and Stevie for that matter, are not promoting it. A collage video could have simply been compiled from the documentary footage ala "Cheaper Than Free" style, to have some presence on the world wide web. TV appearance's could have been booked to perform the FWIW, a song in which she could successfully deliver live easily on national TV compared to "Secret Love". But alas, It feels as if any single Reprise released from IYD at this point would be a hard sell. Her best chance was with the 1st single, and they chose to go with the dusted off, never recorded, old song nostalgia route, complete with a teaser story that Stevie could coyly discourse about whom it could possibly be written about to the press;).
Fans need to accept the fact that Stevie's hit single days are long behind her. I'm not saying she could never have a fluke hit song, but the odds are stacked against her, esp. if her record company is not strongly pushing the song to radio. And I bet they are not willing to spend the money on that gamble at this stage in Stevie's career, when they have younger, more bankable rising stars to spend that scarce marketing $$ behind. In Your Dreams, Moonlight & Annabel Lee all would have been sure fire hits back in Stevie's heyday, but sadly radio & even VH1 now turn their nose at new material from Stevie, choosing instead to almost exclusively only play her classic catalog. I would happily eat my words, if Stevie landed a new hit song...but I've stopped worrying & hoping for it, since around 2003.
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