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Originally posted by EnchantedSLN
I imagine Stevie was already kind of disheartened at that time because of the "failure" of Street Angel (I know it's not her best, but hey... I really like it!), and I can see how that, coupled with some cruel concert reviews tearing her down because of her appearance (and jeez, sit's not like she really even looked that bad!) might take the magic out of doing what she loved. Pretty sad. Especially since she gave some killer performances during the SA tour! Her voice was stronger than it had been for a long time.
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Yeah, I thought she was super that year. I was so glad to see her out of that Timespace zonked-out funk. Early on in 1994, Stevie seemed so thrilled to be going out on the road & she wanted to plan a world tour. The next thing you know, you hear Stevie tell radio people that the tour is over & she's ashamed of something-or-other & she's going into virtual hiding.
It was all very bizarre. I don't think it was the concert reviews so much (you can read several of them in BLA & they're unusually positive) as the gossip column type of stuff. In other words, it wasn't the reviewers; it was the Patrick Goldstein "Pop Eye" type of stuff that frequently cracked weight jokes about her. She must have spotted (or been told about) a couple of those, & that planted the unhappiness & the unwillingness to continue the tour in her.