[sodascouts]

I'll always like the demo better, but this new version has started to grow on me. I still don't understand why Lindsey turned the chorus into bridge, though, and made the new chorus this mutated echoing sound where all Stevie does is ooh and ahh over his sing-songy repetitions of those ungrammatical lines again and again and again (Note: Those lines were indeed in the demo, but they weren't highlighted like this). This song could have rocked SO HARD! But I guess he wanted a more mellow, "adult contemporary" sound.

And for an adult contemporary type song, it works well. I just feel like Lindsey made the wrong artistic choice in ignoring its hard-core rocking potential. Don't they have enough mellow stuff on there already with his acoustic music? But hey, he did great job with Stevie's "Thrown Down" and his own stuff is fantastic. "Smile at You" if forgivable and, like I said, it is slowly growing on me.

P.S. And "Skies the Limit" IS much worse. I thought that Christine must be going for some kind of clever pun but when I listened to the song, there was nothing to imply that it should have been anything but Sky's. Very lame.

P.P.S. On the Mirage video, Stevie insists on singing "I'm not waiting" while Lindsey sings "I ain't waiting." I have to say, that is the one time where I was annoyed by the grammatically correct version, simply because it was stupid that Stevie wasn't singing the original lyrics and totally clashing with Lindsey. What was up with that?!