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Originally Posted by shackin'up
It's not about integrity. I don't know why you come up with The Dance for g*ds sake.
The dance has NOTHING to do with Lindsey Buckinghams search for artistic growth and search of meaning. OFCOURSE that was for the money and the attention. There's not one soul on earth that would argue that.
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The attention it would garner him so that a solo release would have more legs to get out there. It's always better to follow up on a mega selling machine like the Dance than a commercial failure like OOTC. The Dance itself has nothing to do with it, no, but the reasons behind it were definitely well thought out.
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Say You Will was NOT primary for the money in LB's book. He wanted an artisticly valid double album that contained both FM's radiopopsensibility as well as out of the box new approaches in poprock. How can a man think it's about bucks if you take the challenge to put Murrow, Rover, Come, Say Goodbye etc. on a record? You're also going for critical acclaim for daring that in such a moneymachine that the Mac was.
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I agree 200%. Like I said, if they weren't going to release GoS, what else was there to do for him than take the songs into a FM project, the only thing they were obviously going to stand behind? There were too many loose variables with all the changes going on within WB, so he made sure that his stuff at least
would get out. This was the best way to go. Besides, they didn't put a gun to his head, he made that decision himself. They're not the anti-christ, he obviously likes his bandmembers and was not against working with them again. He made the decision to start working on Stevie's demos himself. And really, he even turned one of
her songs into an obscure one, so you can't convince me he did SYW for commercial reasons.