Why Hasn't Stevie Been Asked About The New FM Record?

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by ragrsrocalot

I get where your coming from.
I just don't know when it was first agreed upon (the assurance). Was this something that was decided upon several months ago, but not revealed until recently? I don't know? Was this just recently decided and then the statement was released the next day? I don't know. To me, knowing the answer to those questions makes a difference. I may have missed something, perhaps an article or interview . Has any member of the band been asked if they were going to record and release an album before this up coming tour, to which someone stated, that they didn't know if Stevie would be involved? That's the part that is confusing me. Because, if that is the case, I am unaware of that information. I know she has voiced her reluctance in the past, I just didn't know there was reluctance stated since Christine has returned.

I don't think they ever expressed a plan or goal to complete the album before the tour, but they definitely mentioned that they didn't know what Stevie's plans were or when she would join them. When Lindsey mentioned that sort of agreement it was a clear change in how they had previously talked about it. So I think we can reasonably conclude it was a new development at that time and not something that had already been arranged months earlier.

Her reluctance is implied by her lack of eagerness. It's clear they would've liked her there working with them. She chose to be elsewhere.....and this is just me, but it feels like she's throwing them a bone by saying she'll do it after the tour.