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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
I think that she likely is the better of the two because her stuff is more mysterious in that she rarely uses "I" -- so you have to think about the subject more.
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If she's labeled as more mysterious, it's because no one has a freaking clue what she's talking about most of the time, which I get is part of her appeal.
If you would have asked me, say, 10 years ago, who was the superior songwriter -- Stevie or Lindsey -- I would have said Stevie, hands down. Right now, I think Lindsey is better. His material on SYW and GOS/UTS was, lyrically, the best he's written IMO. Stevie is still capable of great songwriting ("Trouble in Shangri-La"), but she's been very, very spotty the last decade. As for whose overall catalog is better, I say it's a draw.