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Originally posted by Sorcerer386
The only problem I can see with people saying SYW is too poppy and not very "Fleetwood Mac sounding" is that, I think if Christine were on the album and had written this song, it would be praised more. I mean, nothing's more repetitive than Hold Me. So to say Say You Will isn't Fleetwood Mac sounding isn't quite right to me, considering most reviewers always bring up the fact that they were pioneers of the "California pop sound." And, if Christine were on the album, we would have many more songs like this. I really like Say You Will and it's a great break from the heavy overtones the album has...but I do agree I wouldn't have chosen it as a single. I think FM needed a second single to wow the audience...like Everybody Finds Out. Something with more energy, and more of a build to it. Say You Will may not be very Stevie-like, but it's definitely got that California pop sound. Every time I listen to the opening I picture driving down the road through palm trees in a convertible, the CA sun shining down. In fact, this song reminds me kind of Soak up the Sun by Sheryl Crow. Just my opinions on the song.
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I totally agree the song SYW is very similar to one CM would have written musically. I cannot, however, ever see CM writing "fever dance" or "electricity of love" but you never know
Also, the "happy" organ sound beaming through and high above the chorus at the end along with the YMLF and SYL sound and timing similarity to SYW seemingly are almost a tribute to CM. Stevie has said SYW and the whole dance thing are about a movie she saw or a book she read, but she also said is is her tribute somehow to CM. I think Stevie meant it is her tribute to CM's sound, which to me it clearly has. I also agree this song could have been on and fit in with any FM in the past as a CM song.
My $0.02.
