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Originally Posted by gssmith
You made a few decent points until you said her solo career was a joke. Now your a joke. Her last two albums actually did well compared to other classic rock artist. 24 KG had almost no publicity too. The only reason the band had been going since 1997 is because of Stevie. I'm sure they can carry on with out her on a smaller scale now that Chris is back
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Stevie and the Mac are ever-present now not because of her and only her but because retro is currently 'in' in the music world. Look at whats going on; vinyls are making it big again, a Marvin Gaye remix is getting good spins and selling quite well, Meghan Trainor has blown up with retro-sounding music, Bruno Mars and his Motown-ish style.... classic rock bands just happen to be trendy again and making a lot of leeway with casual audiences and the younger generation. That's why Glee did a tribute to them, that's why American Horror Story used their music and had the only witchy personality show up on set......because it's marketable again. If they weren't, I'd bet everything I own the networks would've sh*t-canned those ideas before they got past the scripting phase. I mean, look at the wonders Glee did for bringing Rumours into the eyes of the youth and how well it sold on iTunes after that episode aired; that certainly wasn't because Stevie Nicks pimped it out in the press, it's because
others made it cool to like Fleetwood Mac.
If anything, every member of this band is stuck in a teeny-tiny bubble as to how they manage their publicity and their careers. They've hardly changed a thing since the 70's and are so obviously stubborn and set in their ways its frustrating. Honestly, when they released an online only EP I thought I was in some weird alternate dimension where they actually made
smart creative decisions for once instead of milking the cows dry with the same lies and publicity spun bullsh*t they've been spinning for decades. Honestly, it'd probably get them more headlines and sell more albums if Stevie and Lindsey just outright admitted they want to murder each other in cold blood and duke it on in a deathmatch ring. At least that'd be more interesting of a read than "Oh, it's the ever eternal forbidden love affair of a long gone era....." blah blah blah, spare me the nonsense babble.