Stevie On American Idol

[Josh2003]

I think what I liked so much about this, aside from seeing Stevie acting so real, so genuine, so friendly, was that I don't think I was expecting her to have such good advice for the kids.

I think of Stevie as sometimes being too nice, and I was afraid that she would hold back and sort of give some lightweight, rather empty/airy-fairy suggestions, "Oh, you know, I think you just did great. Keep it up."

But she had some real, thoughtful words of advice, unique to each individual contestant, and clearly knew what she was talking about.

I guess we've really never had a good look at Stevie "behind the scenes" in a creative sense, giving her input and feedback, and instead we (or I at least), have the image of her, in FM, shunned off to Sly Stone's studio while the real "musicians" do all the creative/technical stuff. It was refreshing being able to see Stevie bring forth her ideas, all which, I thought, made total sense.

Bring on the In Your Dreams documentary!