He noted that during his latter years at Decca and MCA, he was constantly pressured by label heads to record more mainstream-friendly country pop instead of the traditional sounds of his earlier albums, due to the genre's shift away from neotraditional country having a negative impact on his album sales.
Throughout his later years at Decca and MCA, the artist faced pressure from label heads to produce more mainstream-friendly country pop instead of maintaining the traditional sounds of his earlier work due to the genre's shift towards a different style that reduced his album sales.