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Originally Posted by MoonSister75
These two have either been in a relationship, or working together on and off since their late teens. Writing love songs, break up songs, angry songs and healing songs. There is so much emotional history there, and what they have been through in the past 45years has created a very powerful force. Just because they can not (and probably should not) be a couple or live together, doesn't mean they can not have love for each other. They are still in some kind of relationship (although one based on music). It may not be a conventional relationship, buts its still romantic  |
I agree with you and I think there is beauty in the long, fabled and invincible nature of the love they
do have. When Stevie told Courtney that Lindsey was her musical love, I think she was accurate. I think the music has given them a lasting relationship that would have ended a long time ago, had they not been in this band together. If BN had been a hit, then
that music would have kept them together, but I don't know if BN would have had the staying power that FM has had. But if there was no music, then I don't think there would have been any couple for very long. 1975 could have been the end of something instead of the beginning.
But this musical love, this level of communication, I guess it's frustrating at times, because if there's no music, then how else can you relate? I think that with Stevie and Lindsey and the FM members in general, you have this great love, but no real way of expressing it, except when you're creating music. And they feel "I've shared so much with this person, how is it that we can have nothing to talk about, if it's not a demo?"
So, the connection may seem attenuated at times because it's not based on the traditional exchanges that most relationships are, but in reality, it's something that has endured longer than many romantic loves. Longer than the love they had outside of the music, when they were living together. Because I don't think that was taking them very far. But because of FM, I think it has evolved into something bigger. Sex and passion are not
more. They're just different. I think what they
do have is more.
In fact, I think that's what Lindsey has wanted to preserve since the SYW album started. It's like,
I've known her since I was 16, we should be able to get along. And that he's wanted the need to argue with and hurt each other with words to finally stop. Just because this is not the person you're sleeping with or could have built a home and a family with does not mean they're not your partner. And it's possible to have that partnership and rejoice in it and have outgrown the yearning for something else.
Michele