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Originally Posted by Liza
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.
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Pure speculation
Bear in mind, Jon and Richie co-wrote Who Says You Can't Go Home ... we have to assume that they probably both had some interest in exploring a country direction (and we know that Richie did as he'd mentioned it in interviews). It's quite a leap to then make the assumption that Richie was interested purely for artistic reasons while Jon was all about the money
03-08-2008, 09:17 PM
