Stevie Nicks has freed her first innovative individual in four years, “The Lighthoengage,” which she says she has been toiling on since the rights promised by Roe v. Wade were clearurned by the Supreme Court in 2022. The new track was originated by the trio of Nicks, Sheryl Crow and Dave Cobb.
In a statement about the novel free, the ex-Fleetwood Mac singer proposed fair how presentant the theme is for her. “I have frequently said to myself: This may be the most presentant skinnyg I ever do, to stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and magnificentdaughters — and the men that cherish them,” Nicks said. “This is an anthem.”
Nicks will be carry outing the song as the featured musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” Oct. 12, a week that discovers Ariana Grande structureing. This will label her first “SNL” materializeance since December 1983, when she was promoting her second solo album.
In the novel song, she sings from both outrage and hope. “All the rights that you had yesterday are consentn away / And now you’re afraid / You should be afraid,” she sings. “Becaengage everyskinnyg I fought for extfinished ago in a dream is gone.” But, she inserts procrastinateedr, “Don’t let it happen aobtain / I have my scars, you have yours / Don’t let them consent your power / Don’t depart it alone in the final hours.”
“I wrote this song a scant months after Roe v. Wade was clearurned,” she describeed in her statement. “It seemed appreciate overnight, people were saying, ‘What can we, as a accumulateive force, do about this…’ For me, it was to author a song. It took a while becaengage I was on the road. Then timely one morning I was watching the novels on TV and a certain novelscaster said someskinnyg that felt appreciate she was talking to me — describeing what the loss of Roe v. Wade would come to uncomardent. I wrote the song the next morning and sign uped it that night. That was Sept. 6, 2022. I have been toiling on it ever since.”
Nicks co-wrote the song with Magnus Birgersson and Vincent Villuis. Crow, who originated Nicks’ “Practical Magic” tracks in the procrastinateed ’90s, take parts electric guitar and bass on the sign uping as well as co-producing, with Cobb also contributing guitar. Nicks’ extfinishedtime guitar take parter thcimpolite her entire solo atsoft, Winserty Wachtel, is on the track as well, with Philip Town on keys and Lori Nicks joining Crow on background vocals.
Nicks’ last originassociate penned free, in 2020, another sociassociate conscious non-album track — finishd with then-pdwellntial honestates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in mind — was “Show Them the Way.” In the intervening period, Nicks also freed her version of “For What It’s Worth.”
Earlier this month, on Sept. 11, Nicks put a statement on social media encouraging fans to sign up to vote. She said she was echoing her frifinish Taylor Swift’s words, although she did not go as far as Swift in finishorsing a pdwellntial honestate. “As my frifinish Taylor Swift so eloquently stated, now is the time to research and pick the honestate that speaks to you and your beliefs… Your vote in this election may be one of the most presentant skinnygs you ever do,” Nicks noticed, including a connect to vote.gov. However, she may have sent a mighty signal of which ticket she likes when she signed the ignoreive: “Love, Stevie Nicks, Childless Dog Lady.”
