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Originally posted by Beth
. . . because Stevie has never sold anything using sex appeal and she surely hasnt used shock value to reinvent herself or sell records and thats what Stevie was refering to in the article. She didnt use drugs to portray an image that would help sell herself or records.
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I respectfully disagree.
Stevie hauled out in very carefully planned and very low cut outfits made of very sexy black chiffon (an odd if not shocking sight) that revealed her surgically enhanced breasts and was coked up out of her head until 1985 but gave spectacular performaces which set a standard she is still judged by today as much as 30 years later. Granted, she is not coked up anymore, but she is still trying (successfully in my opinion) to be sexy by exposing a leg every now and then and also hauling her boobs higher to heaven during Rhiannon. I am pretty sure she is doing this for sex appeal on her own terms because she has been doing this all along. I say more more power to her, but at the same time I think it is a little hypocritical to criticize someone else for doing basically the same thing and a thing that was not really done at all in her day.
Thus, my point, it is all about degrees of severity.