Producers produce, up to and including suggesting material. That's part of their job.
"Forcing" or the implication thereof is too strong a world, especially none of those records even come close to sucking.
BTW - when Grant came back to BN, after Lion had left, he went HARD away from "straight ahead" jazz.
My sister's mother-in-law for me, and almost a pastor friend of mine who's 20 years younger than I am. He was intubated. Be well, and thankful you have the vaccines. Purpose of a vaccine, as Aggie87 pointed out, is to cut down the severity of the disease rather than stopping us from getting it. Be well.