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, richard never really acknowledged his role in contributing to karen's illness, especially back then.
SwimAMile said:the consensus view has been that both the record label and the family failed to see karen's voice as a lifetime success, and succumbed to the pressure to keep churning out records. given the sheer genius of richard, and his clearly "ahead of his time" view, i find it sad that there was a need to "break away" from the prevailing view about the carpenters at the time.
so, in commenting on passages, i think they were trying to prove something at the time that didn't really need to be proven.
i thought this forum was for discussing and analyzing the carpenters music and the things that shaped them. perhaps i misunderstood. evaluating the decisions of the past is not "criticizing" nor pretending to assign blame. but i do think it helpful to look at the forces that (possibly) shaped their music.