Talk:Hotcakes (album)

Fair use rationale for Image:Carly Simon - Hotcakes.jpg[edit]

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Fair use rationale for Image:Carly Simon - Hotcakes.jpg[edit]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Personnel[edit]

Personnel is lacking; compared to excellent job done on previous album's article. Dogru144 (talk) 02:36, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Best-selling?[edit]

'Hotcakes became one of Simon's biggest selling albums.' Yeah, how big exactly? One of two, one of five, one of ten or perhaps one of hundred biggest? It's so ambiguous to claim one-of-something like this. Isn't these the so-called weasel words? 82.141.72.71 (talk) 01:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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"gleamingly white kitchen"[edit]

Back in 2006, an IP contribution from NYC contained a bunch of unreferenced, flowery, descriptive text along with personal opinions. Here's the text:

"...as well as many other songs that reflected Simon's upbeat beat mood during her pregnancy with her first child. On the album cover, Simon sits in a gleamingly white kitchen, robustly pregnant, smiling brightly and wearing a somewhat bohemian white linen dress. It is a portrait of emancipated, domestic bliss that perfectly matches the album's music. Pop music seldom sounded as intelligent, catchy and playful as this."

I removed much of this stuff, adding instead a summary of the observations made by Bill Schnee in his 2021 book.

After my removal, someone from the Louisiana Delta has been restoring the flowery prose including "gleamingly white kitchen". I don't think it's appropriate. It's unencyclopedic, and its original source was so compromised with violations of WP:No original research. Binksternet (talk) 15:34, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]