The gap between TISL and IYD

[AnthonyMI]

She did not record a totally NEW album, but she kept herself busy...

1. There was the big tour with Tom Petty and Heartbreakers, a DVD etc
2. Soundstage Sessions, album of rerecorded materials, plus a special DVD, plus a tour
3. Another greatest hits package, plus a tour
4. A fleetwood Mac tour (Unleashed)
5. "guest" artists on various specials and on other albums or tributes
6. I think there were a couple other minor mini tours in there too. One of which was supposed to of been recorded in Melbourne but she had her eyes did and they were saggy and so she scrapped it.

The main reasons cited for NOT making a new album of new material was that.
1. Her record company said that nobody was buying records anymore, to hold off and wait
2. She was all bitter about how TISL sold and died after 9/11 and was all sad and cancelled the world tour (seriously, I know she is crazy, it hit #3)
3. She got lazy or became difficult to work with after a hissy fit with LB over the track listing on SYW. John Stewart finally got her to cooperate for IYD by saying "if you don't like it was don't have to do it"
4. Her Dad died and she turned into a bit of recluse
5. She went through the "change of life" and maybe felt like she wasn't confident enough in her sex appeal? I dunno. I am not a woman I don't know how that works. We know she can be VERY vain.


Meanwhile in that decade between TISL and IYD album sales took a sharp nose dive, people stopped buying whole records. iTunes became the main place people bought "singles" again (like they used to in the days of 78s and 45s before "Albums" of songs on 331/3 became popular) and she just did NOT know what to do with herself. She is an album rock oriented type artists, even if she pretends to always have a single. Her last decent "single" was 1989 as a solo and Silver Springs as part of FM. I think everything else since has a minor hiccup or burp on the charts. Charts are for teenagers and contest winners now unless its country or rap.