Stevie was awful tonight *spoilers*

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"and, ironically, in many ways it is her inflexibility that rankles. she isn't making new music. she isn't offering new perspectives on the old stuff. she isn't collaborating with interesting people, branching out into other forms of art and media, or connecting with her fans in innovative ways. i mean she abandoned the nicks fix for a gazillion years and then the best we got was "the kennedy's" (sic)?

despite her convincing arguments on the destiny rules doc against the double album concept, she does not understand this brave new music world. while other older artists, like annie lennox, are embracing the (not so) new technology of itunes and youtube, stevie has deemed computers evil and has said that making a new album isn't worth it because people will just steal the music anyway.

lindsey is arguably the most shameless member of the band when it comes to admitting that the "unleashed" tour is nothing but a cash grab, but even he has released 2 albums in the last 2-3 years, well aware that he could never dream of approaching rumours-era sales. this leads me to believe that latter-day stevie is little more than a mercenary whose muse dried up decades ago."



I was watching one of Annie Lennox's video blogs the other day and I couldn't help but think of Stevie. Annie is around 8 or so years younger than Stevie but has basically done the complete opposite of Stevie: embraced the internet. Like it or not, that's the direction the world has gone in and smart artists are using it to their advantage.

I think Lindsey's creative output in the last three years only underscores Stevie's lack of output. It seems more than a little ironic that it's Lindsey now who is enjoying a thriving solo career, along with his work in Fleetwood Mac.