Quote:
Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers
well now we all know Stevie changes lyrics at the drop of a hat. it's what she does. I don't know that she changed the lyrics to Don't Stop for any one reason or if it just happened. either way, it doesn't really make a difference...really.
|
It matters to me. And changing your own lyrics is one thing, but when you're singing a band mate's song which, is in many ways, a tribute to them in absence, I think you should learn the words.
One of the reasons why I think Stevie got herself together and stopped crying long enough to finish the song in Reno is that she noticed Lindsey was singing
Goodbye Baby all over the place, from the tower to the shattering lights. She was like, "Boo hoo. Sob. Wait-- what the heck is he doing?"
As for
GYOW, it's a dripping love song. People should sing it at weddings! If Lindsey had sung it all sweet and croony like Wilson Phillips, Stevie would have started purring.
No, it is a love song, lost love song. You can tell someone to get out, but it hardly matters if you're asking them to come back in the next breath. Stevie recognized when she concluded that
Never Going Back Again was the sweetest thing that Lindsey ever wrote for her.
Now, I don't necessarily agree that it's about her. And I don't agree with her interpretation of it, but she says that in the end he exposes his real feelings and says, why don't you come back and see me some time and she interprets that as wanting her. Well, in that sense, the love and wanting is much more explicit in
GYOW than it is in
NGBA. The main difference in why Stevie doesn't read it the same way is the driving music, that and the fact that she was accused of sleeping around. The beat of GYOW says get out, get out, but the bulk of the words themselves say something quite different.
As for the end of
Go Insane, yeah I was kidding. I never heard him saying anything there . . . except "foamy electrician," which I imagine is a caution against Stevie blow drying her hair, while taking a bubble bath.
Michele