Say You Will sales ten years after release

[bluefox4000]

Originally Posted by bethelblues

To be honest, I don't think Stevie has been able to capture mystical the way she used to. In a few tracks on this album and In Your Dreams, she often comes off more kitsch, riffing on and attempting to recreate her older work. I think, for instance, the album cover for In Your Dreams may speak to my point.

For a wonderful album, IMO...that cover nearly made me vomit. Awfully over the top. I'm Stevie...magical.....Did I mention I'm Stevie.....Nicks

Mick

[bethelblues]

Originally Posted by bluefox4000

For a wonderful album, IMO...that cover nearly made me vomit. Awfully over the top. I'm Stevie...magical.....Did I mention I'm Stevie.....Nicks

Mick

Honestly though, maybe the album cover had more of an impact in the low sales than Stevie may think. When I saw it, I was like barf....that quality is always there, it's ingrained, she doesn't need to hit us over the head with it. It spoke more to the style of a much younger artist and I thought it was corny. I would've gone with a more artistic cover, some kind of collage or montage maybe of her different dreams together: the moonlight, Italy, the ocean, a road trip. Anyway, we're just speaking to the mystical element and how in recent years it may sometimes come off as kitsch when Stevie tries to recreate it and goes over the top.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by bethelblues

Honestly though, maybe the album cover had more of an impact in the low sales than Stevie may think. When I saw it, I was like barf....that quality is always there, it's ingrained, she doesn't need to hit us over the head with it. It spoke more to the style of a much younger artist and I thought it was corny. I would've gone with a more artistic cover, some kind of collage or montage maybe of her different dreams together: the moonlight, Italy, the ocean, a road trip. Anyway, we're just speaking to the mystical element and how in recent years it may sometimes come off as kitsch when Stevie tries to recreate it and goes over the top.

The white horse stuck out like a pink elephant. It was such a horrendous and incongruent choice for her. It certainly surprised me.

Michele

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by michelej1

The white horse stuck out like a pink elephant. It was such a horrendous and incongruent choice for her. It certainly surprised me.

Michele

I love the cover of IYD. The white horse is representative of Rhiannon, who rode about on a white horse.

Stevie's still *really* into that mythology, even though she rarely speaks of it any longer.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

I love the cover of IYD. The white horse is representative of Rhiannon, who rode about on a white horse.

Stevie's still *really* into that mythology, even though she rarely speaks of it any longer.

And Stevie does use that imagery in her concert drawings that play behind the songs. Rhiannon is sharp-featured, hooded, mysterious in those drawings, but on the album cover, Stevie doesn't look like Rhiannon to me. She looks like a peasant woman.

Michele

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by michelej1

And Stevie does use that imagery in her concert drawings that play behind the songs. Rhiannon is sharp-featured, hooded, mysterious in those drawings, but on the album cover, Stevie doesn't look like Rhiannon to me. She looks like a peasant woman.
Michele

I'm thinking that she would disagree.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

I'm thinking that she would disagree.

She looks like a midwife who rode 10 miles to deliver the villager's baby.

But that makes me think of what Stevie would be like in the delivery room. I remember that time she said that she and someone else visited Robin in the hospital and the doctor took Robin's temp and it was normal, but Stevie's was high.

I could see her in the room when some woman went into labor. Stevie would be convinced that she was having contractions.

Michele