New producers for Stevie? Is she too difficult?

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Originally Posted by tabruns

Completely agree with this.

And mikephaz, protestations aside, yes you are implying she's difficult by putting in the topic heading "Is she too difficult?". Doesn't really work for you to blame it on the people who are calling you out on it.

Agreed! It's one of those classic "how often do you beat your wife" types of questions. I mean, if you had broken chairs in your office, would you be insulted if someone asked you "do you think you might be overweight?" I really loathe those kinds of insidiously disrespectful questions.

Originally Posted by mitzo

But the song is about Jane Goodall and her work with the endangered chimpanzees in Africa, so the lyrics actually fit if you know the context. To me Jane is a sweet and touching tribute to Ms Goodall, written and sung with an endearing kind of tender Stevieballad innocence and sincerity. I have always liked it. Pretty melody and nice sentiments.

There is no question about the sincerity of the song... but I'm afraid Stevie should just avoid "literalism" altogether. Stevie is at her best when she sings in code- in which the words seem to paint a picture about a time/place that is foreign to us, yet seem to hit upon universally understood emotions. The lyrics to "Jane" just smack of bad high school English class homework assignment material- as if the teacher is asking the class to pick a person and write a 100-word ode about him/her. There is nothing personal, emotional or interpretive about it. I think a more effective approach would have been to extrapolate the learnings from Jane's research on chimpanzees onto human relationships and interactions, thereby removing the unfortunate "forgotten chimpanzee" element altogether.