Enchanted Disc 3 - Discussion

[BigAl84]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

What do you think the chances are of Stevie releasing an album of let’s say at least 10 songs in the next 5 years? She did release The Lighthouse last year with a big music video. Three years ago she said she might have written her best song and recorded it. She’s done three years of touring without any new songs played and it appears like that same style of touring is continuing this year. For myself, 24 Karat Gold Songs From The Vault would be a sad way to end her album discography. Stevie stopped playing songs from that album after 2017 but continued played songs from TISL and IYD from 2022-2024.
I hope she surprises us this year but I doubt it.

I honestly couldn't tell you. She's been talking about new music on and off for the last 5+ years. It seems like every time she has the choice between taking time off the road to work on the record or going out on the road - she opts to go on the road every time, which isn't surprising. She's refused to participate in any project that would require extended time in the studio for over a decade.

If anything does eventually come out as an album, I'd imagine it will be a hodge podge of producers and production styles - which has been her achilles' heel going back to Trouble In Shangri-La in 2000/2001. She's pretty much unwilling to let any one single producer help her get anything over the finish line. Dave Stewart may be the only exception in context of the 2010s.

If she really wanted to release something, I think she would have by now. She was expecting The Lighthouse to be a media sensation, which is wasn't. I'm sure she has many folks in her ear telling her the juice isn't worth the squeeze regarding making an album - and she's proven to be quite happy taking that advice. She openly admits that she didn't do anything but greatest hits tours from 2005-2010 because somebody told her thats what she should be doing instead of making new music. Heck, her team couldn't even be bothered to find some sort of solution for the issues she had with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra project - she just ditched the project all together - and went back out on tour.

TLDR: any string of dates that her management can put together will take priority over any kind of work on new music. If she's offered a double bill with The Doobie Brothers, she'll take it.