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Originally Posted by The Walrus
Richie's been talking about duetting with country artists since before HAND was released. I dunno why everyone's always so quick to blame Jon
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Multiple reasons for that IMO..firstly where Richie seemed to be genuinely interested in a little bit of an experiment outside of the band and the opportunity to work with other writers without financial pressure, Jon seems to have had a rather calculated vision of what would make money for the band and went where he thought he could achieve that. To me at least it felt like a cynical ploy once he saw that there was potential for crossover (which in all reality there wasn't). Jon appeared to jump a bandwagon, whereas Richie had been interested for years but was waiting for an opportunity to quietly go to Nashville and do some writing.