Two passages really jumped out at me in Stevie's interviews this week, so I figured I'd ramble for a bit:
For the New York Times, she says "I love being part of a team. We argue all the time, but we always have."
For Billboard, she says "[D]o you want to take a chance of going in and setting up in a room for like a year and having a bunch of arguing people? And then not wanting to go on tour because you just spent a year arguing? Or do you just go on tour because you know that you have fun up there and you love doing shows?"
Stevie's clearly conflicted right now. She loves touring with FM and knows some amount of argument comes along with it, but she doesn't want to risk the whole band imploding if they go into the studio. I'm reading that as saying she doesn't entirely trust Lindsey to make the recording process fun for her or keep it short enough that they don't argue for a year. I assume it's even possible she doesn't entirely buy into his thoughts on the band's musical direction and would rather have full say on her own songs. (Notice that the song she brought in for Extended Play was one that they didn't really need to argue about since they'd already recorded it before.) Whatever the case, they clearly still have some negotiating to do if Lindsey wants to get her voice on tape in a year or two.
I suppose the good news is that she isn't saying anywhere that she's done with FM. I'd have been happy even if they'd called it a day after the '97 reunion, so everything after that has been a nice bonus. One more album would be great, but I'd much rather see the five of them retire on good terms at this point. Life's too short...
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