Say You Will sales ten years after release

[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

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by michelej1

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

Oh come on. No peasant woman was ever so clean or had hair so smoothly brushed. Or a dress so finely made. And certainly, no peasant owned such a perfectly shiny white horse with a halo that followed them around.

[bethelblues]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Oh come on. No peasant woman was ever so clean or had hair so smoothly brushed. Or a dress so finely made. And certainly, no peasant owned such a perfectly shiny white horse with a halo that followed them around.

Exactly, the hair makes her Stevie Nicks. She's not in character or anything. I can only laugh when I think of what Lindsey might have said (not to Stevie, of course) upon first glimpsing the album cover.

[michelej1]

That's the point. She looks like Stevie Nicks, not a Welsh witch and not particularly mystical. I really don't think STEVIE does horses, although she has been on them when playing characters. The fact that she is herself in that photo makes the horse terribly incongruent to my eyes. Michele