Kristen Buckingham joins Elle Decor “A-Listers”

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Originally Posted by michelej1

I think it was mostly Tom. Before he came in they didn't want Lindsey's solo album anyway. Lindsey said he felt it was a "lame duck" situation and he thought he'd just wait until someone else was in charge. Meanwhile, he worked with FM. Tom Whalley came in as head and he said he liked the album and I think that made Lindsey very hopeful. But did Tom really like it or was he just making nice with Lindsey because he wanted more FM? Hard to say.

When Lindsey actually had an album, Whalley was indifferent to it and said that WB was not going to promote it. So, at that point, I think is when Lindsey felt he'd been stabbed in the back, because Tom did sort of a flip flop. But I think he also felt that WB was in such a state of flux (and the record business as a whole was) that he didn't hold Whalley personally responsible, even though he seems to be the one that Lindsey was having all the conversations with. I think he thought that Whalley was just trying to hang on to his job -- which he lost soon enough anyway.

At one point, it was like Lindsey was almost blaming himself, saying that maybe WB wasn't promoting his album because he'd called it "boutique," as if describing it in a different way to them would have made them roll out the PR department full blast. It wouldn't have.

Michele

Yeah - I'm thinking about comments LukeA made about this way back in one of our discussions - maybe even in regards to Kristen. I don't have time to try and research right now. Ugh. But seems like there was more animosity about it from LB at the time. Which I don't blame him-- I think taking it in stride was a little after the fact though.