Stevie on Behind the Mask

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by On Ice

At the time though I remember an interview when she stopped in Toronto on the OTSM tour (which was really a treat, especially on the Toronto stop) that she was in the midst of recording with the band. She made it sound like she was present, but obviously that wasn't the case and was not a contributor to the recording process. In hindsight, it led to 4 very bland and uninspired tracks when she needed to really step up her game.

Stevie on her solo albums and with Mac albums up to Mirage always dug into the vault to put forward some of her older songs. Tango and BTM have her weakest contributions and they were all new songs (at the time). If ever she needed to put forward a few older songs this was the time. My hunch is when she got out of rehab and the band was waiting for her, she wanted to be fresh and relevant and submitted her new song about rehab and the song she sent Lindsey while on the RAL tour. I think she wanted to think she still could write great songs. She was older and she was trying to go against the grain in wanting only to focus on newly written songs. On SYW she dug into the vault and gave some songs the light of day again after decades of putting them on a shelf. Tango would have really thrived with Running Through The Garden and Smile At You.
Her best albums solo and the Mac were a mix of new and old songs. But the klonopin era really needed a boost.