Seeds We Sow -- First Impressions

[Nico]

Originally Posted by sparky

I'll just add this as an addendum.

There are a number of immediate sing along moments from IYD. I am not a Lindsey vs. Stevie guy. But AL, SL, and FWIW have great proven hooks. People want to sing along with those. And they do by the thousands at the shows I have seen. You wanna play Big Machine Lindsey? Or even Little Machine? Write a F--king hook already. Just one.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. Are you saying that because SN has singalong songs/hooks that she outshines LB? Or are you just implying that Lindsey needs to write more songs that people can all sing along to because, frankly, I don't agree with that at all. Look, it's nice if people know your words and can sing along to them, but does that make a huge difference for the quality of the material? At the LB show I went to people were definitely singing along to his classic, well-known songs but his album just dropped. I wasn't expecting people to instantly know all the words to IOOT or TTWLG, but certainly I saw many people singing along to the chorus of both songs. I mean, if music is uplifting and resonates with people the way LB struck the crowd of the show I was at, then he is hitting people in a DIFFERENT but still effective way. His live shows are extraordinary and mind-blowing, so maybe I understand if you want more of the "Steal Your Heart Away" or "Never Going Back Again" stuff, but I think he has plenty of hooks on this album. The two songs I mentioned as well as "End Of Time" are plenty hook-y.

And you don't have to agree with me of course, but my aunt who speaks NO ENGLISH and came from Venezuela a week before I took her to the show was singing along to those three songs in the car and at the show immediately. However, Stevie's new album (which I had in my dash and she took with her to borrow for the week) did nothing for her.

Different strokes.