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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
There is no way it could have been more expensive than spending months in a recording studio with big name producers, engineers and musicians. Soundstage was filmed/recorded in a single evening with her touring band (plus a small string section), using the same live production. Additionally I suspect much of the production cost was underwritten by grants from PBS. Sure, there was some postproduction, but it probably took only a few weeks total. I have to agree that, yes, this is pretty lazy-ass for an artist who had built her trademark on her prolific songwriting and recording career, which are now pretty much non-existent. The bar is so low for her at this point that if she included just a few new original songs (like The Dance), her diehard fans would faint from joy. Heaven forbid that she should toss her fans an original morsel or two during the past six years. Instead all we got were a handful of live covers, a couple of remixes and a couple of back-up vocal appearances. Why create new material when you could re-package the old stuff for less money and make more profit from the fans? Let them eat cake!
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First of all, let me reiterate, again. I did not say it was more expensive or the same amount of money. I said with all of the costs that went into it, it was PROBABLY almost as expensive, because every aspect of the production has to be accounted for financially when comparing the two. Now, I can say with certainty that it is more expensive than a compilation album would be to make, like Crystal Visions.
I'm tired of people calling Stevie a lazy-ass. She's 60 years old, not 40, and she's not Madonna. She has the right to do whatever she wants to do at this point in her career. Unlike the aforementioned Madonna, Stevie has spent the last 4 years of her life focusing heavily on continuing her father's work with the Arizona Heart Foundation and visiting and advocating for the troops currently fighting in this war. So, for the many people who continually complain about Stevie's lazy-ass, you'll have to excuse her for not releasing new material in a timely fashion, because she's too busy trying to help out those who are afflicted by serious health issues or those who are being blown up by terrorists.