Women have changed that much?

Lilith Fair appears to be dead. I was surprised to find out it was still alive. This quote from Sarah McLachlan's press conference announcing the demise really struck me (emphasis added):

"... bringing the same thing back last year didn't really make sense, in retrospect, without due diligence being done on how women have changed. Because in twelve years, women have changed a lot. Their expectations have changed, the way they view the world has changed, and that was not taken into consideration, which I blame myself for."

Women have changed a lot in twelve years? Okay, we all know what is happening here. McLachlan doesn't want to face certain rather blunt truths about her declining popularity and she doesn't want to acknowledge that Lilith Fair, far from the feminist victory a lot of people wanted to believe it was, was just another pop music fad. And although this is far, far away from Charlie Sheen territory, she no doubt is surrounded by toadies who indulge her her fantasy life.

Speaking from professional perspective however, I can't imagine why someone in McLachlan's camp didn't see that embarrassing answer was inevitable. It's their job to keep her from looking like an idiot so they should have drilled her in some possible answers before they let her go up in front of the press. Yes, she was plainly determined to to spin her fantasy vision but there is no reason it had to be an inane fantasy.