What are your thoughts...?

[Richard B]

No, Stevie is not a dance artist and never was. POTU was a fluke.

Besides, you can take any song and make it a dance track.

[Sorcerer386]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

I didn't dislike the Planets remix, but that had nothing at all to do with Stevie. She wrote and recorded a rock song, and somebody else remixed it as a dance track. If some DJ wants to go ahead and take a bunch of Stevie songs and do dance mixes for them and release an album like that, I'm sure the results might well be at least decent. I don't think we have any evidence of Stevie ever having written a dance track, though, or even wanting to.

There IS an interview out there in which Stevie says that the dance remix was her idea. I'm trying to think of where I saw/heard it...but my mind is in a total fuzz being clogged with enough congestion to clog a toilet (ewww, GROSS!).

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

As for Stevie: this is a woman who seems to sincerely believe that people will disown her if she doesn't perform "Stand Back" every single time she walks out the door. She clearly does not believe that changing directions is a wise career move.

I don't care WHAT the hell she performs
i am more for variety than staples
should we start a petition & give it to her?

[Jyqm]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

I don't care WHAT the hell she performs
i am more for variety than staples
should we start a petition & give it to her?

Won't do anything. She'll tell herself, "Well, of course, the big fans want to hear more obscure stuff, but just because they've been the lifeblood of my career all these years doesn't mean that I should kowtow to them... I've got to please that woman who just came in off the street and has only heard the four songs of mine they play on the radio."

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

But look at Barbra Streisand, as long as we're comparing apples and oranges. She's recorded the same kind of music for the entirety of her career, and she's not doing too badly for herself.

and just had a big dance hit with a remix of her song Night of My Life

[Highwayman]

Stevie wants to please the record company, not the fans. In the SYW documentary, when the record company execs come to visit and FM plays SYW for them, Stevie gets excited and asked the execs for affirmation with her "Commercial? Isn't that commercial?" She wants to do what the execs want so that they can keep a record deal. After all, they know best what will sell.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Stevie wants to please the record company, not the fans. In the SYW documentary, when the record company execs come to visit and FM plays SYW for them, Stevie gets excited and asked the execs for affirmation with her "Commercial? Isn't that commercial?" She wants to do what the execs want so that they can keep a record deal. After all, they know best what will sell.

It is possible to please both Also, I will never understand why wanting to maintain commercial success is a per se bad thing, esp. when the artists feel, as they apparently do, that they are getting to express themselves in the manner they want.

Finally, to imply that Stevie is the only one who gets excited about commercial success is a little misleading - they all do because they all live the lifestyle it buys them

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

It is possible to please both Also, I will never understand why wanting to maintain commercial success is a per se bad thing, esp. when the artists feel, as they apparently do, that they are getting to express themselves in the manner they want.

Finally, to imply that Stevie is the only one who gets excited about commercial success is a little misleading - they all do because they all live the lifestyle it buys them

plus I think she said that kind of as a sarcastic remark...