Like I said, unless you know Fiona or about her, I wouldn't make any assumption about what she would or wouldn't choose to do.
And J, I'm not saying that Jon is the only guy who wastes artists' money. However, in every album he has produced, he has failed to have a hit record that makes the money back. Michael Beinhorn can overspend, and he is not anywhere as genius as Jon, but his track record is better.
Like I said, artistic integrity is all well and great when it's your own money and your own career. Also, to me, this doesn't sound fresh and exciting. It's different from what's on the radio, for sure. But it's the same calliope and carnival thing that Jon seems stuck in. It's just my personal taste taht I like the Slater production more.
I just had a good friend of Jon's here an hour ago, and Jon came up in vonversation. And I mentioned that I think it's a shame that Jon refuses to rock anymore. The guy used to rock so hard. Now it's like he's trying to be Raymond Scott meets Pet Sounds, and that is all he does, over and over and over. He's so much more diverse than that, but it's like he's trying to make a point of making this is trademark sound. The unfortunate thing is that he's doing it at his artists' expense, because for a number of albums with different artists now, nobody's getting it, aside from a handful of people.
It's a shame, because he is capable of so much more than even this, and he should have many hit records, but he doesn't. My point is, it's not only OK to be successful, you should try to be successful when somebody hires you. It doesn't have to be commercialized pop bullshit in order to be successful.