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Originally Posted by michelej1
But it's not legal logic at play. It's more like Alice Through the Looking Glass reverse reasoning. Michele
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You mean that same logic you used in the other thread when you said "I don't think he needs the FM money at all to live, but I think he does use it to keep fueling his non-profitable solo work, which is why he could go on that extensive UTS tour, flying around on private jets. SYW gave him the ability to tour so long on UTS."
When I say he uses FM and the wave of popularity and money it provides him (one cannot exist without the other - they go hand in hand) to fuel his less popular and therefore less lucrative solo stuff, you argue that my logic is rubbish. When you say it though, it is okay. Do you not see a problem there
Maybe you are arguing that my speculation that historically he takes too long to fully take advantage of that wave of popularity is incorrect. But, I think the way GOS morphed in the SYW (five or so years after The Dance) and the solo record he morphed into TITN (five or so years after Mirage) supports my theory of a pattern. OOTC was also about five years after TITN, which though he left before the tour which would have made him millions, he still got the recognition with the singles and by quitting, which was all over the press at the time - putting him again in the spotlight, though I think he left for different reasons than to gain popularity. I think that if he had released OOTC in 1988 or 89 as opposed to 1992, it maybe would have done better because more people would have remembered him. So, I conclude that he historically has waited too long to fully take advantage of the success of FM. Where is the flaw in that assumption
I think by the time UTS came out, he somewhat learned that perhaps expediting the process could benefit him as UTS came out about three years after the end of SYW, which was not that successful a record, but the tour mostly was and he still did huge press events for SYW, which placed him in the public eye again. I fully agree that he said UTS was a boutique record, but surely he still wanted it to sell fairly well (sadly it did not for IMO unrelated reasons) and he still wanted enough popularity to play on a large tour in style, which he did perhapsd because of FM. I still think though he realized early on that UTS likely would not be a success (hence his quotes on it) - he in some way wanted those mostly publicly inaccessible songs to be a hit on his own terms so he could in a way be vindicated, but that is just my opinion and really hope for him. But anyway, my point is perhaps if he had come out with UTS in 2009, his ability to tour so long and in such style would have been lessened
So, why is my logic totally "
Alice Through the Looking Glass reverse reasoning."