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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
She freely admits that her accountants/managers/lawyers are the ones dictating she tour so exhaustively these days.
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Yes, Stevie finally copped to this is a few interviews during the
In Your Dreams era and was even more blunt during her IYD doc Q&A's this fall.
Basically after the SYW tour wrapped in 04', Stevie planned to go back in the studio to record another solo record in 05', going back and forth (between FM project to solo) like she'd always done since Bella Donna. But much to our displeasure we've come to discover that not only her management discouraged her to record, but also music executives & industry people convinced her the recording industry (specifically piracy) was in such a state of disarray and that she'd only be hurt and discouraged by the outcome of recordings diminishing returns. Basically "they" said she should continue touring, because that's where the money is, while she still was a marquee concert selling solo artists. So unfortunately, as we all know, she conceded, and didn't fight back against this advice.
So essentially from 05' through 09' this was Stevie mindset, until she wrote "Moonlight" towards the end of the "Unleashed" tour, which thankfully was the creative catalyst from which Stevie decided it was time to record again. Music Industry politics & piracy be damned!
Claiming that she wasn't going to be deterred whether the record sold well or not.