Sheryl Crow tells Stevie Nicks, Ellen DeGeneres about her decision not to make albums anymore
"Don't get out of the river."
That's the advice Stevie Nicks has for Sheryl Crow.
The two appeared Wednesday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," and Crow talked about how the way people listen to music has changed her perspective on producing full-length albums. Her plan going forward, she said, is to release singles, instead.
"I'm getting the evil eye from Stevie," she continued. "I can feel it. She's searing me."
The "If It Makes You Happy" singer told DeGeneres and Nicks how the landscape of music has changed since she started her career.
"I've grown up with records," she said. "In fact, I've pored over 'Rumours' of Fleetwood Mac as well as James Taylor and Carole King, and these were the records that made me want to do what I'm doing."
Crow noted, however, that people "don't listen to records anymore."
"You can go in and spend a ton of money and spend a lot of your life making a full story, and then people just cherry-pick and make playlists, which is not a bad thing," she added. "But I now sort of love the idea of putting out music immediately if I have something to say. And don't we all have something to say right now?"
Nicks, who nodded along during Crow's explanation, offered her longtime friend some advice.
"We are the lucky ones," Nicks said. "Because the reason to make an album is because, A, you are financially stable, and, B, because you just want to gather a bunch of people together that you love."
"But you know what?" she continued. "As long as you keep making music, you stay in the river of music. ... Don't get out of the river."
Ahead of the release of "Threads" in August, Crow told NPR that it would be her last, though she's "loved the tradition of making records."
While on "Ellen," the two also performed "Prove You Wrong" from "Threads."
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Ellen DeGeneres talks to Sheryl Crow on why she is done making albums
