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Title: Definitively Not Her Best
Review: This is a very sad album to listen to. True, the music is different and that is ok. Stevie opted to go towards a more pop/dance sound instead of the mystic rock of her previous solo and Fleetwood Mac releases. I could handle the switch in styles and the heavy 80's sound...but the vocals are terrible. It is painfully obvious that her voice had enough abuse at this point and the result is a grating, tired croak throughout the album. Listening to her voice in Bella Donna and Wild Heart in which she weaves her then gorgeous instrument into a spell, is breathtaking. Unfortunately Rock a Little shows what can happen to a gifted voice if it is not taken care of. Her following albums were better but she never completely recuperated (she probably has nodes in her vocal chords). During her tour for Fleetwood Mac's The Dance she hired a vocal teacher and there was some improvement. I hope she is still seeing this voice teacher. I would love to hear her voice improve even more!
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