New album imminent?

[sands of time]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I'm intrigued to know the details of that "ethical line" resulting from what he says he's learned.

You have to understand that Lindsey is a very old man from a very different time. A time when aspiring to be an artist meant following your own instincts, regardless of what your audience wanted. To try to please the audience would be considered unethical pandering, whereas today it is the one and only consideration, as music is nothing more than a vehicle to build a brand to sell, sell, sell.

It was his ethics that drove him to insist that Fleetwood Mac follow up Rumours with Tusk, and to record songs like Come, fully knowing that the majority of the simple minded namby pamby potential audience would not understand it, and that the potential audience were the sort of people who instinctively hate what they don’t understand. And for those of us who think Come frickin’ rules, there is no way to express the gratitude we feel that Lindsey followed his ethics, because if he merely gave the audience what they wanted, we’d have been deprived of some of our favorite music.

Lindsey is a dusty artifact of the past. Today’s popular artists wouldn’t dream of doing anything artistically that’s might even slightly alienate their audience. Is not fair to analyze Lindsey through a modern lens, because today’s paradigm mandates that the audience be made to feel like their reactionary opinions in comments sections and message boards actually have value. And the audience isn’t even capable of discussing paradigms.

In any case, the video about “the new album” is clearly from at least two years ago, so I’ll believe there’s a new album when I see it. If it does happen, I hope that he stays true to his ethics, and the album contains songs that will be hated by the lame clownshoes who don’t understand Come or who say that Go Insane isn’t “the Lindsey they knew”. It will be glorious.