What can Stevie do to win back the many long time fans she’s lost the last few years?

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Originally Posted by rhiannondontgo

Yeah, she’s always talked about the men in the band bending to the will of the girls just to pacify them and make life easier. She always made it seem like it was she and Chris as a team who were coddled and spoiled and made a priority. I remember in one of the limo tapes Mick is in a sh*t mood and Stevie keeps saying “well the girls are happy and that’s all that matters”. And then there’s quotes like “If there was a presidential suite the girls got it. Or two presidentials, we got them, me and Chris. That was the way of the world. I think the boys bitched about that, but in the long run it was like: Happy wife, happy life. Happy girls, happy world. Happy Chris and Stevie, life is easy.”

But i’ve always felt like while she includes Chris in her “we girls are the priority” lines, Chris probably wouldn’t have said the same or described it that way at all. I doubt she was ever the “priority” to the guys the way that Stevie always was (and is). I think Chris seems pretty easy to work with and isn’t as coddled and spoiled by the guys as Stevie. She probably just includes her in those stories because it makes her feel less b*tchy to say “OUR happiness is the most important” than to admit that in reality it’s all just Stevie’s demands and happiness that everybody is working around.

Indeed, there's a video interview in which Chris says something about being 'pampered' and then catches herself and says "Well, not really 'pampered' but they did carry the odd suitcase" for her. This was pre Stevie. You know Chris was in there mucking in and setting up her keyboards etc before Stevie joined. I'll bet my mortgage Stevie NEVER carried and amp or even helped set up her own mic stand even in the BN days. She's too precious.... and would have batted her eyelashes and flirted with the men to get them to do for her. Which makes a lot of her feminist ranting lately kinda hilarious. She was quoted back in the day re going out with Don Henley and being around the Eagles that she was just "quiet, and feminine, and tricked them to death".