As far as we know she wanted Quincy Jones to produce her first LP, and it’s because of schedule impossibilities she went to produce WDFFIL by herself. Who says it’s because Quincy was expensive she decided to do without him. This LP was probably expensive to produce, maybe more than diana. So I’m not saying that money issues were not important for her at that time, but I have a hard time accepting the idea that she is wealthy because she saved money in the making of this LP. It’s a mediocre one because she had no capacity or ethic to do the job. Lazy vocals are not less expensive to record than crisp one.