I have five unpopular Stevie opinions. uht-oh.
1.) Stevie is
not a prolific songwriter. In fact, she only writes once in a blue moon. She writes maybe 2 songs per year.
2.) Along those same lines, she has almost completely lost her confidence in her ability to write new songs.
New songs. Literally almost 100% lost it.
3.) Despite sincere, best efforts, Stevie has little understanding on a deep level of how hard most people work. I feel she sort of understands it in a "basic" way but she doesn't actually "get" it. i.m.o. you can tell this from several interviews - perfect example, how "spotless" the house where she worked as a cleaning lady was - how "hard" she worked at that job - - the guy eventually commented on it and said the reality was she did a very poor job and anybody else probably would have fired her.
4.) I think Stevie is a lot more "self-educated" than she might "pretend" to be - - I think overall, she's a VERY bright person and I think she reads a lot. It's very easy to find photos where she's either carrying a book or has one near her.
5.) I think Stevie's a lot more business-savvy than people realize - for example the house she recently sold in Pacific Palisades, where she claimed it was because there were "ghosts" haunting the house that were scaring her. I think that was just Stevie being Stevie, playing up her "image," and I think the place was almost 100% a real estate investment for her - throw it on the pile, ka-CHING, Bay-bee! And I feel less-certain of this part but I think the image-building with "seeing ghosts" goes all the way back to the early '80s - she claimed in one of her first interviews as a solo artist that she had "seen ghosts" in her hotel room but I wouldn't be surprised if that was again totally for publicity. I think these things may have even been the record company's idea, rather than her own. But Stevie's been at this a LONG time and she knows how to "work her image." Along those same "practical" lines, I think she also sold the Phoenix house totally or mostly for business reasons - because of the real estate taxes and maintenance - and - I think all of these business things are about one thing only - - creating generational wealth for her niece.
Rock on - just my thoughts - nobody's perfect.
ps - to be more accurate, imo she
publishes one or two songs, on the average, per year. I love many of the demos but in a way it seems it doesn't count in terms of being "prolific," if it's just sitting in a filing cabinet somewhere gathering dust.