Lindsey interview

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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

I agree with this. Your statement about the job of a producer has been one of my biggest chafes with him for years--- yeah, you arrange the songs. THAT'S WHAT A PRODUCER/ARRANGER/MUSICAL DIRECTOR does. That's why you get CREDITS for that and PAYMENT. Oy.

in the DR doc, when they are listening to Stevie's demos-- real demos, not songwriting demos--- which are arranged how she thinks they should go, you hear him say to her at one point "I really like what he's done there, there's a lot of stuff I can just use" -- meaning whoever she worked with to produce the demos did stuff that he wants to keep in terms of the arrangement, etc. Yet do you see anyone but him listed as producer on that record?? By his logic (of wanting cowrite credit for his arranging work) shouldn't whoever arranged/produced her demos get at least a co-producer or arranger credit on the fm album since they are using that person's ideas lifted straight from the demos?? You can't have it both ways. He always uses "band politics" as a reference to Stevie, but "band politics" have always included him too. Pot, meet kettle.

Yes yes yes!

And I'm also tired lately of him taking so much credit for the shaping of the songs and doing things "for" Christine and Stevie. Okay, we get it, you're the producer. But his insistence on playing up his contributions in this regard actually have the opposite effect: it makes him seem like an insecure child who constantly needs to build up his own worth. Christine's acceptance of this occasionally seems like the she is pacifying him, and that she has an inner strength neither he nor Stevie possess, one in which humility trumps the need for constant recognition.