But the label of obsessive perfectionist has haunted me ever since. The veteran music writer Holly George-Warren later wrote an essay in my defense and said, “The issue goes beyond an artist being held to task for taking too long to finish a record. A lot of things I’ve heard said about Lucinda are sexist—that she’s difficult, for example. You don’t hear things like that about Bruce Springsteen or John Fogerty. Both of them have taken a long time to make records.” She went on: “It seems that happens a lot, especially if a woman hears things a certain way—her way—rather than the way a male
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