Quote Originally Posted by Levi Stubbs Tears View Post
In regard to the original topic, I don't think it would have worked.

As a teenage music fan in 1980, I probably thought Diana Ross was something of a has-been. A singer of dreary love songs and best suited to K-Tel albums.

But Chic were hot and so the diana album caused me [[and, no doubt, many other young people) to realise Diana Ross still had it! She could still put out groovy new music which the kids could dance to.

The Guilty album [[as good as I later realised it was) would not have done this. I would have just thought 'more dreary love songs'.

The diana album was EXACTLY what her career needed at this point.
That's actually a very good take on the idea -