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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
She keeps talking about creating all of these wonderful poems (the hard part of the process), yet somehow she lacks the motivation to put them to music (the easy part). What's stopping her? Hmmm... fear of failure? Writer's block? Um... laziness?
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My personal suspicion is that it's a fear of failure.
For example, Lindsey's validation is the critical acclaim with which each and every one of his albums is met. He may not sell a lot of physical copies, but he can open up a newspaper or music magazine and see that his songs are indeed reaching people.
Stevie's never been a critical darling -- her validation comes from the amount of folks who buy her albums and attend her concerts. That's the tangible way
she sees that her music is reaching people.
So as the album-buying audience dwindles, it very well may lead her to believe (rightly or wrongly) that people just aren't interested in hearing something new from her anymore and they only want to hear "Stand Back," et al.
I'm sure that, for an insecure person like Stevie (and I'm certain that Lindsey and Stevie are both extremely insecure people), it must create an endless amount of self-doubt and confliction -- which, I'm sure, has also lead to the many and numerous reasons and excuses she's been giving for not recording a new album.