Bella Donna Bella Donna Bella Donna

[GypsyNomad]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Such loving, loyal fans. No wonder the woman is still touring....all these sucker fans will gladly pay to see her perform the same songs 20 years running....even if they don't buy her records. Why go into the studio when your hardcore fans do nothing but complain about your songs, your writings, accuse you of stealing lyrics, and bitch that your album covers are shoddy, cheap and a rip off of someone else's idea. For the record, Stevie says that she concieved the cover of Bella Donna in a dream....where she saw a bright vertical white line, against a dark background. She realized the bright light was herself, coming in out of the darkness. She talks about this in her Rolling Stone interview, the issue where she is on the cover with the bird.

Then again, she probably stole this dream from someone else, too.

I realize that everyone is entitled to their own opinions (which is exactly why I feel comfortable here expressing my own)....but, gosh, why all the unnecessary cruelty?

Anyway, that being said, I still like all of you.

I totally agree with you. I myself could not believe what was posted earlier... all of those quotes are very similar to her lyrics, hell maybe she intentionaly did use some of the lines from those books and poems because she loved them so much... but she didn't steal anything! Stuff like this happens all of the time with musicans, writers, animators, and visual artists in general. But its all done subconsciously and we don't realize it at first. I go to art school in NY, we learned about this.... I myself was told that I draw and write like certain people (Burton, Gorey, Syndack), but that doesn't mean I am stealing their particular style or idea.... Stevie obviously read thier works over the course of many years, maybe starting in her teens, and was probably just inspired, these were her teachers, people she aspired to write like. Did you know that apprentices of master artists paint or draw almost like their teachers? Most of those song were never released anyway, she probably wrote them for herself and has never made a dime from them. And look at the vast majority of songs she hasn't been accused of "stealing"..... 'Rhiannon', for one is a Masterpiece! I don't mean to rant, but this really annoyed the hell out of me.... Of course everyone has a write to speak their minds, but if you have to go dig up so much unnecessary dirt one someone you love and admire so much just to make them look like a rotten thief, then why are you wasting your time listening to her music in the first place? I will always think Stevie is wonderful and talented no matter what

~Carei