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Originally Posted by James89
I think pre- The Dance was a strange time, as from 1986 people started to lose interest in her.
I can never understand how The Other Side of the Mirror was so successful as I always thought she wasn't that popular at this time.
Behind the Mask cemented her decline in popularity in my opinion as it wasn't very popular in the US and her contribution was not well received.
1991 - Street Angel (1994) just made things worse as she was overweight and out of it mentally. I wish she'd never appeared on Leno or Letterman as it was just plain sad to see someone deteriorate like that. I also find it funny when Letterman says "I think the album will be a huge success" and Stevie replies acting as though she thinks it will be too. I always thought she was unhappy with the album? Weird. Perhaps she took an instant dislike to it when it only peaked at #45! 
Thank God for The Dance! |
And I'm sure her stage performances from 1989-1994 had a lot to do with her popularity decline. Sure, her die hards were still coming to see her but her zonked out, robotic performances on the Mirror, Behind The Mask, and Timespace tours (in a space of 3 years) surely were damaging, not to mention the weight gain. I remember one review of the BTM tour described Stevie as being completely unrecognizable from her former self.