The mac songwriters listening other's solo works..

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Originally Posted by dissention

Taking into consideration that Stevie's and Christine's solo work was as mainstream as possible, it's not hard to imagine that he didn't exactly like their stuff. He's always said that he thinks Stevie writes amazing lyrics, but the musician in him probably looks at her solo stuff and thinks 'This is unlistenable.' I always thought that Lindsey tried to infuse his quirkiness into Stevie's and Chris' music, so it must've been boring for him to listen to just average, mainstream rock pop.

On the other hand, you have those two who purposely went after the homogenized pop rock sound and probably looked at Lindsey's solo work as, simply put, weird ****. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that either Stevie or Chris said on first listen to Law and Order "He's not pulling that **** with MY songs."

I understand what you're saying, and realize that some of it is being presented as what Lindsey's point of view might be, but I don't think of most of Stevie's solo work as "commercial". Quite the opposite, actually...I think it's quite creative and very reflective of herself. Sure, some of the songs were naturally commercial, but I don't view Stevie as having been too concerned with that I'd say all the way up through OSOTM. Even though she and FM are up against the current state of the record industry, it still surprises me that she is sometimes concerned with commerciality now, as absolutely fuming pissed as she was with TimeSpace when her record company tried to change her to be "more current". I mean, people change their mind about things, but that seemed to just tear her apart. And perhaps even with Street Angel...it seems part of the reason she was so angry about the way it turned out was because it did not reflect her creative vision.