Everything comes in ebbs and flows, even for her, who so desperately needed an ego boost and apparently got what she needed.
As the smallest and most insignificant fish in a pool full of sharks, she seems to be constantly looking for a way to stand out, and did this week, though the question remains how she can maintain it.
She seems to have come back to where she started and may well account for the positive shift in tone in her most recent poems.
Her recent successes have allowed her apparently to begin building a network of powerful men and women from whom she might be able to draw on for a rebirth. This is far different from her days in the past when she depended on the good will of others. While her current gig may have started out with the Virgin Mayor feeling sorry for her, she seems determined to make it into something all her own, a power base that won’t depends on RR or his mirror image The Private Detective in the town next door.
Some of the players she brought together for her women’s conference bridge the political divide, some even aligned with the Congressman and the Small Man, who might otherwise distrust her.
Again, I wonder, is this the peak, or can she find another level to rise to?
Back when she was with the band, she was basically eye candy, someone the band allowed to play because her husband was a member. Watching those videos of those performances was somewhat painful since she was performing music that wasn’t her music, and you could almost see her aching to want to break out into something that was uniquely her own.
But when she tried – her first solo performance was in 2007 while still technically tied to the band – her career didn’t take off the way one might have expected to, the way – considering her amazing talent – it should have, and, she largely abandoned it, except for a brief appearance here and there, and a few songs recorded at home, turning her attention to some other career she thought she might advance in.
The problem here is despite this success, there really isn’t a future for her in the political realm, where the really powerful are either elected or are those who raise money.
As amazing an accomplishment as her women’s day event was, it doesn’t by itself advance her, unless she somehow manages to connect with some of these powerful people, to find a role with them who clearly have a pathway to greater success.
RR and even the Virgin Mayor really aren’t on their way anywhere. They have reached the pinnacle of their success, and for both, the path is a downward spiral, a slow one if they are lucky, a quick dip if the court case against the mayor works against him.
She really does need to leap from this sinking ship, and it has to be a point when things are going well for her, not later, not when everybody is leaping off like rats.
No comments:
Post a Comment