Rolling Stone streaming "Feel About You"

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Originally Posted by brad975

They had tried to convince Stevie to do this album since 2014. She was surely played some of the tracks during their lengthy tour, and she was surely willing to listen to determine whether or not to proceed with the project.

We'll have to see whether she made the right call on not participating. As the first FM collection with the full classic lineup since 1987, an album with Stevie arguably would have had to live up to higher standards than SYW.

And what I've heard so far doesn't lead me to believe this album would be even as good as that. And given that Stevie doesn't sound so great either these days (or write that well), I'm not sure a few songs from her would have helped it much.

The 10-track length suggests they were saving space for Stevie. Or maybe they held some songs back in the hopes that Stevie might participate in a future album in the next year or two

Say you will, Stevie? Or skip it and make 24K-2.

That's just what you want to believe. Whether or not she liked any of the tracks probably didn't have anything to do with it. However, she would be more motivated not to do the project if she liked the songs. She was already outclassed on Tango and wouldn't want to look bad again.