The Ghost album announcement

[Jondalar]

So It is being reported that at the Pollstar Awards, Stevie just announced she is releasing a new album called The Ghost album. It was written while away due to the Palisades fires and the songs are about her memories of the men who have been in her life. 7 songs are written so far.

[Villavic]

There's a picture of her with Jimmy.

[In Your Dreams]

Here’s the Pollstar article about it.

https://news.pollstar.com/2025/04/17...-about-prince/

[mitzo]

I don't believe this will happen.

[Villavic]

Her tour begins in august. So theoretically there would be time to complete the project. I'm not excited about it, but it's interesting to know that there is something coming.

[sue]

She is going to have to write a whole load more than seven songs, about the men in her life…

But having said that I hope this happens , new music not about historic actions in the World, just plain old love songs…..nice.

[bombaysaffires]

It will come out after the Rhiannon ballet and film and soundtrack.

The premise of it sounds intriguing, but if the writing is in they style and caliber of stuff she's written in recent years....

A whole album of songs in the style of the Kennedy's/MLK song or even her abortion rights song (I can't even recall the titles off the top of my head any more since they came and went so fast....) then it will not burnish her songwriter reputation in the least. People will be buying it for the gossip aspect of it, which she is clearly teasing with her speech, hyping it up as some great revelation about her love life. Fair enough; maybe this is the best way for her to put out a "memoir" versus having the discipline to write a real book, or let someone else write one.

I wish her well, but....the ship carrying her musical talent sailed a long time ago.

ETA: Re-reading her comments about not pulling punches anymore...and it being about men in her life...makes me think there's gonna be a LOT of Lindsey in it..... I mean, even after firing him she couldn't go for a single interview without saying his name and talking about him, so.....

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

It will come out after the Rhiannon ballet and film and soundtrack.

The premise of it sounds intriguing, but if the writing is in they style and caliber of stuff she's written in recent years....

A whole album of songs in the style of the Kennedy's/MLK song or even her abortion rights song (I can't even recall the title off the top of my head any more since they came and went so fast....) then it will not burnish her songwriter reputation in the least. People will be buying it for the gossip aspect of it, which she is clearly teasing with her speech, hyping it up as some great revelation about her love life. Fair enough; maybe this is the best way for her to put out a "memoir" versus having the discipline to write a real book, or let someone else write one.

I wish her well, but....the ship carrying her musical talent sailed a long time ago.

ETA: Re-reading her comments about not pulling punches anymore...and it being about men in her life...makes me think there's gonna be a LOT of Lindsey in it..... I mean, even after firing him she couldn't go for a single interview without saying his name and talking about him, so.....

Stevie’s been saying since March 2020 that she’s been writing new songs (she said Harry Styles’ 2019 album inspired her to). It’s been 10 years since her last album. And she’s booked for another leg of her tour this year which I guess will grow in dates.
She also mentions Lindsey’s name multiple times during these shows. Yet she underscores that she’s the legendary icon and he’s not a legend like she is. He’s just a nobody.

I wonder what these pull no punches song lyrics will be like: “He said I had a big belly, but it was his wacky hair that needed the gelly” Maybe her next album will come in 10 more years.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Stevie’s been saying since March 2020 that she’s been writing new songs (she said Harry Styles’ 2019 album inspired her to). It’s been 10 years since her last album. And she’s booked for another leg of her tour this year which I guess will grow in dates.
She also mentions Lindsey’s name multiple times during these shows. Yet she underscores that she’s the legendary icon and he’s not a legend like she is. He’s just a nobody.

I wonder what these pull no punches song lyrics will be like: “He said I had a big belly, but it was his wacky hair that needed the gelly” Maybe her next album will come in 10 more years.

Yep, the only thing that is solid about any of this is the touring, with the dates having already been announced and possibly some dates already on sale. Making an album is sooooo haaaaaaard compared to standing onstage and blathering. Most of which is unintelligible to the audience over the cranked up PA so..... her stories are hard to understand on the videos from the shows as well so

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

...and it being about men in her life...makes me think there's gonna be a LOT of Lindsey in it...

It's possible, I wouldn't be surprised. But I hope not.

Even though I enjoyed all that fantasy during The Dance, created by those looks in Silver Springs (something I always thought it was just that, a fantasy), I wouldn't want to hear all that again, this time about messages to Lindsey or about him in her songs. It would be nonsense, cause it's all over and done with, and I'm personally tired of it.

[tothegypsy]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

She also mentions Lindsey’s name multiple times during these shows. Yet she underscores that she’s the legendary icon and he’s not a legend like she is. He’s just a nobody.
.

I'm curious about what you're referring to. I've never heard her say anything remotely close to "Lindsey is not an icon like me" at a show.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by tothegypsy

I'm curious about what you're referring to. I've never heard her say anything remotely close to "Lindsey is not an icon like me" at a show.

I believe they were referring to the Church of Stevie article from Rolling Stone:

"Is there any other development besides Lindsey’s heart attack?

I’m sure that if there was, I would know. There’s so much heart disease in his family that it’s really not a surprise. So, I wish him the best. I hope he lives a long life and continues to go into a studio and work with other people. He’s also an icon, and he can teach people. He’s not stopped in his tracks. He can still make music and have fun.

For what it’s worth, I think you’re a much larger icon in that regard.

Well, that was one of the problems, wasn’t it?"

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by tothegypsy

I'm curious about what you're referring to. I've never heard her say anything remotely close to "Lindsey is not an icon like me" at a show.

I didn’t say she said it at a show. But you have heard her say Lindsey’s name a few times at a show - that’s a fact, right?

Nathan got it correct - The I Believe In The Church of Stevie article. She called Lindsey useless in a 2017 60 Minutes or Sunday Night interview. In 2008 she said Lindsey should “enjoy my (her) celebrity.”

She’s going to cook him in these new songs - if they ever get officially released.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

I didn’t say she said it at a show. But you have heard her say Lindsey’s name a few times at a show - that’s a fact, right?

Nathan got it correct - The I Believe In The Church of Stevie article. She called Lindsey useless in a 2017 60 Minutes or Sunday Night interview. In 2008 she said Lindsey should “enjoy my (her) celebrity.”

She’s going to cook him in these new songs - if they ever get officially released.

That Mr. Useless stuff was pretty outrageous...

[UnwindedDreams]

And here she calls Fleetwood Mac lazy bums:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx1YD63ZjA8

Stevie always goes to Maui for vacation and she went to Italy for vacation which is where she wrote the poem for "Italian Summer." Her memory...