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Originally Posted by Regina

If she wanted to make music, she'd make music.
She has this...irritating way...sometimes, about her career. On the one hand, she's the poet. The female Bob Dylan. So many thousands of poems, songs, etc. But, for someone who has all of this, she's actually shared very little. Because of "mismanagement," "piracy," "people stealing from her."
You can't have it both ways. She DOES have enough money (those 1000 fans who steal from her have made it possible to live off what she has and leave behind enough for relatives, by going to, essentially, the same show, for the last decade). Anyway, you'd think she would worry more about a musical legacy. About sharing her gift. About being the 'artist.' And not about the biz. Plus, if she's worried about TPTB--get rid of them. Why continue to surround yourself by people who are stifling your creativity unless that's what you want (along with convenient scapegoats to take all the blame)?
Irritating.
But, the past is past and let's see what she does in the immediate future. I'm waiting for that tour to be announced, Stevie. Any day now. And I want new stuff. NO one wants the stolen oldies I seem to be peddling. (geez...can you imagine, standing on a streetcorner, with bootleg copies of 9000 versions of Stand Back in your raincoat? People would be shooing you away like a giant gnat.)

Amen, sister.