Great song. Great video. I'm sure it's a great album because these two songs and videos are very good. Looks like (again!) a very good concept and theme he created with TV.
Iggy can do it (born in '47). Bowie can do it (born in '47). Bruce can do it (he's from '49). Lot's of others with about the same age can do it. The Stones...?
What Bowie did with Tony (and others) on Heathen and Reality and now with The Next Day the Stones really failed to do oreven try (we can blame them for that); working together very serious with your creative partners and rely & concentrate on each others talents.
Of course you can't do that when you are already very very very busy with: -creating rumours about touring to lift prices, -doing just a few shows in carefully selected areas where money is no problem, -performing with well selected stars and former members to create excitement, -collecting bids, -weighing offers, -keeping options open, -and other forms of very very very concentrated focussing on all those $$$, -while you're also very very very busy saying all kinds of very stupid and very childish things about each other in interviews or in the books you wrote...
I think all these other artists who still perform and create on a very good level are making it easy to leave the Stones (maybe even before the tour). It would not surprise me if the 'tour' the Stones are doing later this year would be disappointing in many ways and to much more people than (they) we now realise. Because of that we can say this will be the last tour indeed: people wil just not come back again after that huge disappointment. They (we) will lose our sympathy on the way home from these last shows for various reasons. Fooled to buy far too expensive tickets is an important reason. But they (we) are also fooled by their lack of creativity which we still can get with plenty other very good artists. So we will be fooled again by that carefully created enthusiasm that's based on emotions.
But the times did change because of all these financial and economic crises. I think lots of people started to get rational because they found out that because of these crises they can no longer follow their emotions in buying what just makes them feel good...they buy what they feel is necessary. And before they buy they think very good about where to get the best their money can buy... More and more people will realise the Stones are no longer the best you can buy because that feeling is gone.
So the only way to keep sympathy for the Stones on the same level is to act like Bruce and to lower their prices drastically: not asking more than 250$ for an arena show, not asking more than 150$ for stadium shows... And of course act like Bowie and deliver a very very very good album with songs that reflect how you are right now produced with a really interested guy like Rick Rubin who can find that creative spot and not something rapidly produced from the vaults with that mister knowitall DW.
I know: wishful thinking...
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2013-02-26 15:34 by Dreamer.