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Originally Posted by rosa3
Richie is trying to catch up with the bands new album, it is very obvious. Its one thing to keep your fans updated on what your doing, but the timing is too obvious and coincidental. And the new People magazine article was really nothing we didn't already know, but it bothers me that he still is saying that he left the band to "spend more time w/Ava" is kind of getting old... I guess my point is if Richie is going to do any promo for the album, and they ask him why he left the band, stop saying to spend more time with Ava, and actually say because u wanted to move on from the band and do your thing, simple as that.
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There's no indication I could see that Richie was doing promo for the album
or that anyone had asked him about why he left the band
or even about whether he plans to rejoin them for the 2017 tour, despite the title of the article. In fact, as far as I could tell, there's nothing to suggest that
Richie had anything to do with this article at all.
According to the article,
Richie didn't say
anything. All I saw was a bunch of information that everybody already knows and a lot of quotes from "a source" who apparently didn't want to be named. I don't give much credence to what an anonymous source has to say, since it could be anyone. (Granted, when it comes to information about Richie, that's probably because Nikki Lund/Sean Borg are usually the first "sources" that come to my mind; and this sounds like their kind of pot-stirring maneuver.)
As far as the convenient timing goes, it might help to remember that there's absolutely nothing new about Ori posting pictures of them working in the studio with various ppl and talking about their album. She's been doing that all along - to the extent that it got downright confusing, there for a while, as to whether she was talking about work they were doing on their album or about stuff they were working on with someone else. It definitely isn't something she's started doing just since the Jovi album was announced.
I still say that Richie and Doc are smart enough to realize that there's nothing to be gained by trying to tie the RSO album to the Jovi release. Any potential benefit that might come from the exposure would be far outweighed by exactly this type of reaction, which would only lead to a rehashing of old history and renewed resentment toward Richie.