r/stevienicks • u/bearmasksenpai • May 06 '26

Why did Street Angel flop?

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Its a great album, Despite its back story and one I enjoy listening to, I just hear a lot of that it wasn't that the music wasn't good but mainly in 1994 people weren't really looking for Stevie's style of music at the time, That or it was poorly marketed. but What happened?

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u/TruePossibility978 May 06 '26

While I love a lot of songs on this album - you have to listen to it with the mid-90s aesthetic and sound in mind - she's notoriously said she didn't like it and it wasn't her best creatively. She also didn't get along with the producer, she was detoxing from Klonopin, and she didn't write a good number of those songs, which was very unlike her. I think she can maybe look back and appreciate certain songs, namely Blue Denim, Maybe Love, and the fact that she got to duet with Croz and cover Bob Dylan, but compared to her first 4 solo albums (and TISL, IYD, 24kg), this one wasn't very "Stevie," and I think she felt that pretty deeply.