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Originally Posted by CADreaming
I don't believe that Christine was any sort of a bridge between SnL. To me, all their albums sound as disconnected as SYW, only with 3 directions instead of two. I don't mind it, but only the first two albums felt like they had any sort of "meshing" whatsoever. But, overall, I still feel like I am hearing 3 separate solo artists, save for a handful of songs where the collaboration was there or they at least had more equal parts musically and vocally.
Honestly, we don't REALLY know how much discussion went on for SYW anyway. I would bet money that Stevie was just fine letting LB do all the prep work prior to her arrival to work on the tracks. For instance, he asked her about cutting the guitar solo in half on TD and she was cool with it.
Regardless, there are tracks on SYW where the two of them together still blow me away both with LB's guitar work on her songs (RTTG) and her vocals on his songs (Miranda, SG, WTWCT) and vice versa (Illume, TD). Almost a nice BN follow up. Almost...
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Stevie has stated before that Chris was the "glue" that held FM together, the moderator and fairy godmother so to speak. I don't think she took a lot of crap from Stevie or Lindsey. I definitely agree that the three songwriters had vastly different aesthetics, but there was still some sort of common ground that made their songs hang together. Maybe it was the luscious harmonies with Chris that was the common thread. All of the songs on Say You Will just seemed to be far more independent efforts.
Regarding the Mac recording process, I think Stevie was absolutely very used to handing over reasonably rough versions of her songs to Lindsey, and him "making them into magic" as she states it. I really think it kinda backfired with Say You Will... I think it's the first time she's gone to the press and named specifics about her dissatisfaction. Watching the Destiny Rules documentary, she really came to the plate with fairly finished songs too to be honest. Lindsey for the most part just polished them up. Add that to the fact that the overwhelming majority of Lindsey's songs were absolute 100% carbon copies of the Gift Of Screws tracks that had been floating around for nearly a decade in the Mac community, and it just doesn't seem like either were particularly interested in making Say You Will a truly group effort.