First of all, I have to agree with Regina's posts. I will try to explain my feelings on this issue although she has already stated a lot of what I also think about this.
I'm sad that Javier feels so angry some 30 years later about what has happened. It's also sad to me that he has to be so bitter that he puts his harsh opinions out there to make fans start questioning the people that they admire. I understand that he has a right to his own opinions and that he is expressing his feelings of being slighted. But everyone in the business knows just how rough and dirty the music business can be when trying to get recognized. Like many others have said, S&L have proven their talent and it doesn't seem fair to me that those that were in their lives so long ago had to make up excuses for why S&L were discovered over themselves. I know I would be extremely hurt if my 30 year career as a musician was being questioned...on whether it was only my looks and race that got me where I was today. S&L have put way too much on the line for what they have today. To have someone come along and undermine the reasons for them being where they are today totally disgusts me.
Another issue besides the musical talent that has been questioned is S&L's personal lives. I agree with Regina's post...I didn't recall S&L being marketed as anything other than a male and female singer/songwriter team that had the perfect dueting voices to sing together. That was their appeal...their voices...at least in the beginning. Do you really think that anybody cared that they were a couple back then? They didn't have the drama of a break up like they did during Rumours and after. What benefits would that have really created for them?
It seems to me that Javier is coming up with excuses for why S&L have made it to where they are...overlooking the fact that they are truly talented people who deserve to be where they are today.
Sometimes I really wish that S&L would do a Q&A to stand up for themselves. This hasn't turned into just a debate of Javier vs. Keith...it has somehow turned out to be about the credibility of both the talent and the relationship of S&L. But, in a way, why should they have to justify their own lives? As long as they have been true to themselves then that's all that matters. How upsetting for talented people to have to explain their lives in order to be redeemed as worthy.
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