Lex nailed it: "This song is a feeling." Like she said, I always got the feeling that this song was about the loss of childlike innocence and wonder; or the freedom to roam and explore without bounds.
Now this is a true classic. Stevie can sing like no other. Uniqueness of voice is always leads to fame... To me, her voice is the sound of the 70's and early 80's ... Fleetwood mac is a true super group and worth diving deeper. Great reaction.
She's reflecting on the person she used to be before she was famooux. She used to shop in a vintage clothing store called The Velvet Underground which had a room that sold lace items and it did have paper flowers on the wall. Everything Stevie writes is personal although often adorned with symbolism and poetic imagery.
@@mnemonic1363 Not at all, but I can see why you would say that:) I was just talking Fleetwood Mac. If we were talking just Stevie I actually love Edge of Seventeen, Stop Draggin my Heart Around and Leather and Lace. Ah Crap just everything she does really :) LOL
@@mnemonic1363 Hey Stewart, look forward seeing you around! With a name like that you must have an amazing Memory, so I will just "Stand Back" and see if "Anyone ever written anything for you", So "I can't wait" to see "If anyone Falls" from the "rooms on fire" cause some one's in a "Whole lotta trouble" after they " talk to me" Have a great night!! :):)
If you like FWM do “Rhiannon”, video from 1976 (taped live on The Midnight Special). From instrumentation to background vocals to Buckingham solo to Nicks finish, the very best.
Oh yes! Stevie literally goes off the chain when she sings this song. I actually don’t know how they kept her relatively contained in the studio recording. Her band mates have been quoted as saying that watching Stevie sing this song wasn’t watching a performance…it was viewing a possession. The background of the actual Welch Demi-goddess Rhiannon and Stevie’s experience in writing and performing this song, laced with many unusual coincidences as it was, is quite interesting.
She is singing on going back to simpler times, when she didnt have money, her mattress was on the floor, she had old wallpaper with flowers, etc. Before she was a star and it all got complicated. To understand their songs truly, you must study the story of the band. It will then all make sense
This song was written about Stevie’s best friend Robin who died of leukemia 2 days after having a baby. Stevie promised her that she would be a mother to Robins child and married Robins widow shortly after she died. Unfortunately because they were not in love w each other and both heavily grieving the loss of Robin they divorced a year later. The lyrics about the “child not being enough” was referring to the child not being enough to make the marriage work. She calls herself Gypsy because that’s what she and Robin called themselves, and she was the “gypsy that remained ie the one that lived”. The “floor that she loved and room w lace and paper flowers” is referring to a time before the fame w Fleetwood when she literally slept on a bed on the floor and she’d decorated her room w lace and paper flowers. She’s saying she is missing those times when her and Robin were just 2 young girls living and loving life even though they were poor, they were happy. Then the “she is dancing away from you now, she is just a wish” is referring to Robin dying slowly, because she was dying throughout her pregnancy. The instrumental is very light and heavenly but it’s actually a really sad song.
@@applemoneroy7371 She said that years later, about more than one song, but she herself gave many interviews where she talked about the origins of the song. One line was about Robin but the overall song was not: "Originally intended for her solo album, “Gypsy” explores the side of one’s personality that values freedom and fearlessness. Nicks breaks down the song by focusing on its first few lines: “So I’m back to the velvet underground / Back to the floor, that I love / To a room with some lace and paper flowers / Back to the gypsy that I was / To the gypsy… that I was” The velvet underground refers to a specific hole-in-the-wall store in San Francisco where one of Nicks’ artistic influences, Janis Joplin, found most of her unique clothing. By referencing such an iconic aspect of her early musical inspiration, Nicks highlights the emotional significance held in the early years of her music career. Nicks then shifts her focus to the description of her favorite memory of home in the early days of her life with Lindsey Buckingham: “Okay: In the old days, before Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey and I had no money, so we had a king-size mattress, but we just had it on the floor. I had old vintage coverlets on it, and even though we had no money it was still really pretty… Just that and a lamp on the floor, and that was it-there was a certain calmness about it. To this day, when I’m feeling cluttered, I will take my mattress off of my beautiful bed, wherever that may be, and put it outside my bedroom, with a table and a little lamp” (2009)." americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-fleetwood-mac-gypsy-stevie-nicks/
@@Joepacalypse1107 Yes I’ve seen that. Thanks for including the link ❤️ I definitely get the velvet underground reference not being about Robin specifically and it sounds like she used alot of influences from her past when writing this song. So many of the lyrics can be interpreted differently or applied to the moments she referred to in that interview, some were more specific but some are also interchangeable, which I’m assuming was the point. I don’t think that only 1 line of the song was about Robin, and Stevie never said that only 1 line of the song was about her, she just referred to one line in particular. Overall I think the song was about all of those moments, just interwoven in a way that was meant to encompass everything she was feeling when she wrote it. But that’s the cool thing about art,everyone has their own interpretation. And that’s why I love Stevie’s songwriting. She’s so complex and multilayered, trying to decipher her songs is like putting together a puzzle. You should check out the genius breakdown of the lyrics. genius.com/Fleetwood-mac-gypsy-lyrics
Maybe I'm the only one, but this song has always held very deep meaning for me, and I was in tears while watching the video. Am I the only one? Perhaps I read too much into it, but I feel like it's a very emotional song. I interpret the lightning strikes as certain key people and events in your life that create magical possibilities, giving you the chance to acknowledge their gifts, or squander them. I interpret the lyrics as hinting towards her feeling like she gives so much, and she just wants to share her inner beauty and magic, and be acknowledged and appreciated for what she gives, but is not. She is having to evaluate her inner strength in regards to moving on. "The gypsy," is the strength that us women have to carry to make it though this world, and having to constantly remind ourselves that we are enough. We can do it, we are "gypsies," and everything is temporary, except the fact that we will carry ourselves. We have to remember the inner child, or vulnerability, that lives inside of us, and love and care for them, and in the end, we will have to be enough on our own. It also feels like a song of loss, possibly of a relationship. And of wishing they would appreciate the spark in you that lights up the night. But they just can't see it, so you are dancing away from them now, even though you don't want to, preparing to be strong once again, and to remember the gypsy.
As a child of the 70s & 80s, this is one of those songs that always takes me back to my childhood. Couldn't turn the radio on for more than 10 minutes any time between 1982 and 1985 without hearing this song.
Lex “That’s how my blood sounds!” YES! That is exactly how listening to Stevie and Fleetwood Mac makes me feel! It’s all feeling and energy with anything from them! Do More!! 💕
Lex, you really do have that hippie/gypsy vibe. While many female artists broke through the barriers of the times, Stevie Nicks embodied the feminine side of rock/hippie and made her own gypsy persona. That persona is still alive & well today. Check out her & Tom Petty's "Stop Dragging my Heart Around", and her & Don Henley's "Leather & Lace." And, OMG YES(!), Edge of Seventeen!!
Lex, are you sure you haven't solved Einstein's theory of "time travel"?? I swear if go back and watch the Woodstock Documentary I'm gonna see you in the audience with flowers in your hair, wearing bell-bottoms, and dancing to the music. Your spirit, and Brad's love of your spirit, is just, well, perfect.
Fleetwood Mac in the 70's fell into the 'California Sound", along with the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and other bands like Cheap Trick. It is a thick FM sound like back when your room would be lit by the little green light from the long stereo dial below the turntable on the room stereo.
As a formally trained musician, I was never into Fleetwood Mac, but I gave this album a chance. I was immediately struck by its sound, it might be the best produced and engineered rock album, it just sounds perfectly captured and balanced. Then I realized the lyrics are awesome, and I've been hooked ever since.
I believe it’s about before she became famous and life was simpler, she was anonymous and could go anywhere she wanted, no lawyers and contracts…just free like a gypsy.
This song is partly about Stevie Nick’s best friend dying from Leukemia and it also talks about her going back to her roots when she was younger and carefree in simpler times. Back to living like a gypsy one room with some lace and paper flowers where she literally slept on a bed mattress on the floor and her room was decorated like a gypsy room. Lex definitely got the gist of the song. And Brad, to say she has a good voice is the biggest understatement pertaining to the incredible Stevie Nicks.
I love Stevie Nicks, solo and with Fleetwood Mac! To me the Gypsy represents a free spirit and the child in the song represents pure love! This song was released in 1982 from the album “Mirage” and I love the Official video for it also! ❤️❤️
Stevie Nicks worked in a shop called the Velvet Underground which was a hippie shop. This song is a reminiscence of her youth. She was the gypsy and still has a lot of gypsy going on.
This a Stevie mini autobio of her early days traveling around doing gigs and crashing where she could. Trying to make a little home wherever she was. Like a Cypsy.
Guys.....seriously just do the whole album. You won't regret it. 💜💜💜 I love when someone gets FM. Its always beautiful. This is why they are timeless and perfect. Its art for your soul to explore and understand about yourself.
Just the instrumentals of Fleetwood mac is powerful enough, add in the vocals of stevie nicks and all that just blows me away. Instrumental perfection. xx💖💖
Hope you catch the official video at some point. Gorgeous production, with a number of different sets. Was one of the most expensive videos in its time.
fleetwood mac, oh those memories from the 70s are amazing^^ I've listened to them over and over, still have the LPs and still listen to them. when i wanted to chill i listened to fleetwood mac for hours ^^
I know this song has a literal meaning but for me it is about looking back to the person you were before, way before experience changed you, and wanting to be that person again, even just for a moment. It is about nostalgia and longing for the you that once was, more innocent, less jaded. That’s how it feels to me anyway when I sing along to it.
This released in 1982 and is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Y’all should take a look at the music video. It won one of the first VMAs if I’m not mistaken
Love you guys. She gets it, this song is “more of a feeling.” When I need to check out this is my go. You don’t really know where you go while listening to it or a specific literal story but you know you went somewhere else for a few minutes and you loved it, wherever it was.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you may enjoy Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere” which was used recently in a Chevrolet television commercial. Also, the official music video of this song shows the story from the famous poem “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes. Another singer, Loreena McKennitt, put the poem to music in a song of the same name that is very beautiful.
GYPSE was the singer's favorite vintage clothing store .. she used to love to shop there for vintage clothes which at that time would have been from the 20s,30s,40s, 50s.....
Love this song, and watching Lex jam out to it. They have so many amazing songs, Rhiannon is a must, and just too many to name right now 😅 All of Rumours, of course...
You kids are so awesome I'm 58 was in this music up to my neck my Era... magical mystical hippy love connection hard simple to the point no jive... 70's was the best.. simple not so complicated.. bell bottoms platform shoes and wallabies even tho this was eighties in that spirit of the 70's..
This song to me is about losing something you really love. How many times in life do you find that one thing, or one person. Hence the lyric, "Lightning strikes... Maybe once, Maybe twice" (if you can be that lucky to have it strike twice). "She is dancing away from you now." But you still see her everywhere and in everything.
The story is about her missing her carefree days when she was a gypsy and not trapped in the cages of fame and fortune and her wanting to go back to the gypsy that se was and misses. It’s also about her best friend dying of leukemia and how she lost her and can still see her friend’s bright eyes. That part about the child she is referring to marrying her friends husband to care for the child. But they broke up which is why she brings the child up because loving the child wasn’t enough for them to stay together. They both love the child but don’t love each other. So it has three stories in the song. About her carefree gypsy days, her friend dying/missing and mourning her, and the doomed marriage which was supposed to give the child a good home but never works out.
It's about holding on to your inner child. The one with big dreams and a bright future. It all comes down to you whether or not you keep that childlike wonder. I still see your bright eyes.
To me, this song is about the randomness that people and opportunities come in and out of our lives. When the "lightning strikes", take advantage of the opportunity before it's gone.
She has explained the Velvet Underground was a store where hippies or cool people went back in the day to buy clothes and outfits for shows. It had a special decorated floor and a room with some lace and paper flowers. It was one of her fav places as a starving artist……so it made its way into one of her songs.
Stevie Nicks is a God. Edge of Seventeen and anything from Rumours would be a great choice. I know you try hard to get the lyrics Brad, but sometimes you just need to let it flow. Cheers!
intricate knowledge of the band and their individual pasts does help. Fleetwood Mac is the first band to make me stop dead in my tracks and stare at the speaker the entire song as a child. I was 5-6 and it was 77-78 and it was Gold Dust Woman. This song needs followed by Sara.
Brad is the analytical one and Lex is the feels everything one. They compliment each other very well. This song is so good. They have some other great songs if you haven't listened to them yet...Landslide, Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way, Sara, etc.
Brad, as a male I love this song. It's tiring hearing you be so analytical about every reaction I hear from you. Leave a little bit of your mind behind, open your heart and maybe you'll "see your gypsy".
This might be my favorite Fleetwood Mac song of all of their hit songs. Although I also really love You Make Lovin Fun with Christie on the lead vocals. Got to see them at the Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles back in 1977.
Stevie is absolutely amazing live. Thankful for my hippie parents who basically raised us with all the great music. Got to see Stevie live with my Daddy and I literally ugly cried during many points of the concert.
My dad's first crush! Stevie Nicks just has the most amazing and unique voice. You know its her from the moment she sings her first note. True icon ❤️❤️❤️
You should do Fleetwood Mac, "Rhiannon", live from the Midnight Special in 1976. It's a great live performance. The whole band was on fire for that song that night.
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"That's how my blood sounds". I feel like Lex is the first person that has ever understood how music makes me feel. She rocks.
the "Rumours" album is worthy of a full album review...nothing less!
Top 5 of all time. Not one bad song on the album
@@papadonhomerepairs9700 agreed!!
Agreed!!!!
AGREE!!!
Facts! If it was the 70's and you did not have this album what were you even doing there?
Lex nailed it: "This song is a feeling."
Like she said, I always got the feeling that this song was about the loss of childlike innocence and wonder; or the freedom to roam and explore without bounds.
Now this is a true classic. Stevie can sing like no other. Uniqueness of voice is always leads to fame... To me, her voice is the sound of the 70's and early 80's ... Fleetwood mac is a true super group and worth diving deeper. Great reaction.
one of the best female singers ever!
oh and I am still in love with Stevie 😍
She's reflecting on the person she used to be before she was famooux. She used to shop in a vintage clothing store called The Velvet Underground which had a room that sold lace items and it did have paper flowers on the wall. Everything Stevie writes is personal although often adorned with symbolism and poetic imagery.
Stevie the the poetess, Rock Goddess,
Thank you.
Stevie Nicks is an ICON, one of a kind voice. "Landslide" and "Go your own way" I feel were there best. but they are all really good!
So in other words the only Stevie Nicks songs you know 😂
@@mnemonic1363 Not at all, but I can see why you would say that:) I was just talking Fleetwood Mac. If we were talking just Stevie I actually love Edge of Seventeen, Stop Draggin my Heart Around and Leather and Lace. Ah Crap just everything she does really :) LOL
@@hthuseby Yeah she really is great ROLDY! You can call me Stewart😂😂
@@mnemonic1363 Hey Stewart, look forward seeing you around! With a name like that you must have an amazing Memory, so I will just "Stand Back" and see if "Anyone ever written anything for you", So "I can't wait" to see "If anyone Falls" from the "rooms on fire" cause some one's in a "Whole lotta trouble" after they " talk to me" Have a great night!! :):)
@@hthuseby 😂😂😂😂 That's awesome! Made my night!
Guys, literally every track off their Rumors album is worth listening to. Its one of the best albums ever recorded no joke.
This song isn't on Rumors. It's on 1982 album Mirage.
@@TheBuzzo72 I know, I was just saying that the Rumors album is worth giving a listen to.
I concur.
I don't agree about "every track". I was grateful on vinyl that "Second-hand News" was the first track and I could skip it; I can't stand the track!
Gypsy wasn't on Rumours
If you like FWM do “Rhiannon”, video from 1976 (taped live on The Midnight Special). From instrumentation to background vocals to Buckingham solo to Nicks finish, the very best.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Oh yes! Stevie literally goes off the chain when she sings this song. I actually don’t know how they kept her relatively contained in the studio recording. Her band mates have been quoted as saying that watching Stevie sing this song wasn’t watching a performance…it was viewing a possession. The background of the actual Welch Demi-goddess Rhiannon and Stevie’s experience in writing and performing this song, laced with many unusual coincidences as it was, is quite interesting.
Incredible live performance
Truly incredible 👏
I would suggest 1975 live version. It's even more incredible.
I just love how Lex genuinely enjoys the music, you can tell it's not fake like a lot of reactors.
She is singing on going back to simpler times, when she didnt have money, her mattress was on the floor, she had old wallpaper with flowers, etc. Before she was a star and it all got complicated. To understand their songs truly, you must study the story of the band. It will then all make sense
She is also describing the floor of a gypsy shop she frequented. That’s how she introduced it in concert. The velvet on the floor is the shop.
This song was written about Stevie’s best friend Robin who died of leukemia 2 days after having a baby. Stevie promised her that she would be a mother to Robins child and married Robins widow shortly after she died. Unfortunately because they were not in love w each other and both heavily grieving the loss of Robin they divorced a year later. The lyrics about the “child not being enough” was referring to the child not being enough to make the marriage work. She calls herself Gypsy because that’s what she and Robin called themselves, and she was the “gypsy that remained ie the one that lived”. The “floor that she loved and room w lace and paper flowers” is referring to a time before the fame w Fleetwood when she literally slept on a bed on the floor and she’d decorated her room w lace and paper flowers. She’s saying she is missing those times when her and Robin were just 2 young girls living and loving life even though they were poor, they were happy. Then the “she is dancing away from you now, she is just a wish” is referring to Robin dying slowly, because she was dying throughout her pregnancy. The instrumental is very light and heavenly but it’s actually a really sad song.
@@applemoneroy7371 She said that years later, about more than one song, but she herself gave many interviews where she talked about the origins of the song. One line was about Robin but the overall song was not:
"Originally intended for her solo album, “Gypsy” explores the side of one’s personality that values freedom and fearlessness. Nicks breaks down the song by focusing on its first few lines:
“So I’m back to the velvet underground / Back to the floor, that I love / To a room with some lace and paper flowers / Back to the gypsy that I was / To the gypsy… that I was”
The velvet underground refers to a specific hole-in-the-wall store in San Francisco where one of Nicks’ artistic influences, Janis Joplin, found most of her unique clothing. By referencing such an iconic aspect of her early musical inspiration, Nicks highlights the emotional significance held in the early years of her music career. Nicks then shifts her focus to the description of her favorite memory of home in the early days of her life with Lindsey Buckingham:
“Okay: In the old days, before Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey and I had no money, so we had a king-size mattress, but we just had it on the floor. I had old vintage coverlets on it, and even though we had no money it was still really pretty… Just that and a lamp on the floor, and that was it-there was a certain calmness about it. To this day, when I’m feeling cluttered, I will take my mattress off of my beautiful bed, wherever that may be, and put it outside my bedroom, with a table and a little lamp” (2009)."
americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-fleetwood-mac-gypsy-stevie-nicks/
@@Joepacalypse1107 Yes I’ve seen that. Thanks for including the link ❤️ I definitely get the velvet underground reference not being about Robin specifically and it sounds like she used alot of influences from her past when writing this song. So many of the lyrics can be interpreted differently or applied to the moments she referred to in that interview, some were more specific but some are also interchangeable, which I’m assuming was the point. I don’t think that only 1 line of the song was about Robin, and Stevie never said that only 1 line of the song was about her, she just referred to one line in particular. Overall I think the song was about all of those moments, just interwoven in a way that was meant to encompass everything she was feeling when she wrote it. But that’s the cool thing about art,everyone has their own interpretation. And that’s why I love Stevie’s songwriting. She’s so complex and multilayered, trying to decipher her songs is like putting together a puzzle.
You should check out the genius breakdown of the lyrics.
genius.com/Fleetwood-mac-gypsy-lyrics
The lives of ordinary people can be way more 'complicated' than those of comfortable rock stars Joe.
Brad-so sensible! Lexi-so creative! Together-so fun! -Terry
Brad so boring. He doesn’t understand any music that’s not rap. So sad
They are left brain and right brain
Maybe I'm the only one, but this song has always held very deep meaning for me, and I was in tears while watching the video. Am I the only one? Perhaps I read too much into it, but I feel like it's a very emotional song. I interpret the lightning strikes as certain key people and events in your life that create magical possibilities, giving you the chance to acknowledge their gifts, or squander them. I interpret the lyrics as hinting towards her feeling like she gives so much, and she just wants to share her inner beauty and magic, and be acknowledged and appreciated for what she gives, but is not. She is having to evaluate her inner strength in regards to moving on. "The gypsy," is the strength that us women have to carry to make it though this world, and having to constantly remind ourselves that we are enough. We can do it, we are "gypsies," and everything is temporary, except the fact that we will carry ourselves. We have to remember the inner child, or vulnerability, that lives inside of us, and love and care for them, and in the end, we will have to be enough on our own. It also feels like a song of loss, possibly of a relationship. And of wishing they would appreciate the spark in you that lights up the night. But they just can't see it, so you are dancing away from them now, even though you don't want to, preparing to be strong once again, and to remember the gypsy.
Sometimes just put the pipe down
you are not the only one.
As a child of the 70s & 80s, this is one of those songs that always takes me back to my childhood. Couldn't turn the radio on for more than 10 minutes any time between 1982 and 1985 without hearing this song.
Watching Lex have a song touch her soul is the best. It comes out in her whole face. She just lights up. Thanks for making my day. Love to you both
Deep down Lex is a Hippie, that's great🤘
Lex “That’s how my blood sounds!” YES! That is exactly how listening to Stevie and Fleetwood Mac makes me feel! It’s all feeling and energy with anything from them! Do More!! 💕
Same!!
I am a musician and love 80's heavy metal but when a song hits you right it does not matter the genre...very cool song.
I just love how Lex gets into the music and Brad is always so stoic.
Once again Lexy is spot on, the innocence of a child and the freedom of a gypsy, just a memory now.
The guitar solo at the end. Delicate and intricate. Blows me away everytime I hear it.
Lex, you really do have that hippie/gypsy vibe. While many female artists broke through the barriers of the times, Stevie Nicks embodied the feminine side of rock/hippie and made her own gypsy persona. That persona is still alive & well today. Check out her & Tom Petty's "Stop Dragging my Heart Around", and her & Don Henley's "Leather & Lace." And, OMG YES(!), Edge of Seventeen!!
Lex is the actual living embodiment of that old saying, "Live, Laugh, Love."
Except she actually lives it
I grew up on this music. I’m a long haul truck driver and I listen to them a lot. Their song Sarah makes me cry.
I always found their song "Sara" to be the superior one.... ;-)
Lex, are you sure you haven't solved Einstein's theory of "time travel"?? I swear if go back and watch the Woodstock Documentary I'm gonna see you in the audience with flowers in your hair, wearing bell-bottoms, and dancing to the music. Your spirit, and Brad's love of your spirit, is just, well, perfect.
"Thats how my blood sounds"
Man she always come up with the most craziest yet! Creatively genius thoughts
I fell in love with Stevie Nicks when I was 7, and she and her voice, still have me hooked today. The queen of Rock and Roll.
Fleetwood Mac in the 70's fell into the 'California Sound", along with the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and other bands like Cheap Trick. It is a thick FM sound like back when your room would be lit by the little green light from the long stereo dial below the turntable on the room stereo.
As a formally trained musician, I was never into Fleetwood Mac, but I gave this album a chance. I was immediately struck by its sound, it might be the best produced and engineered rock album, it just sounds perfectly captured and balanced. Then I realized the lyrics are awesome, and I've been hooked ever since.
Agree totally! The best sounding band ever!
Welcome to The FM cult ! We've been waiting for you !
I believe it’s about before she became famous and life was simpler, she was anonymous and could go anywhere she wanted, no lawyers and contracts…just free like a gypsy.
Lex FEELS the music, Brad over analyses the music. Lex comes off with the broader smile.
This song is partly about Stevie Nick’s best friend dying from Leukemia and it also talks about her going back to her roots when she was younger and carefree in simpler times. Back to living like a gypsy one room with some lace and paper flowers where she literally slept on a bed mattress on the floor and her room was decorated like a gypsy room. Lex definitely got the gist of the song. And Brad, to say she has a good voice is the biggest understatement pertaining to the incredible Stevie Nicks.
I love Stevie Nicks, solo and with Fleetwood Mac! To me the Gypsy represents a free spirit and the child in the song represents pure love! This song was released in 1982 from the album “Mirage” and I love the Official video for it also! ❤️❤️
You should do Fleetwood Mac "Rhianon" live on the Midnight Special show. Stevie goes off .
Agree 100% amazing performance
From 1976 the best version of Rhiannon I ever heard ! Buckingham goes of too.
Facts! That performance is otherworldly
Agreed, without question the best version of Rhiannon.
Always liked Fleetwood Mac, Especially Stevie Nicks!
Her father was a billie goat.
NAILED IT AGAIN LEX!! Self-inflecting song....my top 3 Fleetwood Mac songs....gorgeous, deep, and self-inflecting...
Lex is so cute and bubbly and Brad is perpetually perplexed ...lol.. you guys are awesome
70's hippie, I remember playing this album over and over , in my bell bottoms, and my corduroy platform shoes, and yes singing in to my hair brush.
Once upon a time music was poetry. This is a brilliant example of that.
Lex is it! What sweet energy, what groove.... sooooo in touch AND GEORGOUS . Brad is a FORTUNATE MAN
This song is just one of the many reasons why this woman was THE FIRST woman inducted in to the rock and roll hall of fame twice!!! 🎩👢🌝✨
Rhiannon live performance is a must to see Stevie perform the crap out of that song Midnight Special
It's so funny to watch you react. Brad always looks a little bit confused and Lex enjoyed - not only in this song
You look so happy! That smile. It’s perfect. I hope she sees this. It would bring her so much joy.
Stevie Nicks worked in a shop called the Velvet Underground which was a hippie shop. This song is a reminiscence of her youth. She was the gypsy and still has a lot of gypsy going on.
Why does Lex remind me of a cute lil puppet enjoying herself bouncing to the music. LoL!!
This a Stevie mini autobio of her early days traveling around doing gigs and crashing where she could. Trying to make a little home wherever she was. Like a Cypsy.
For a band always at odds with each other they created awesome unforgettable music
Guys.....seriously just do the whole album. You won't regret it. 💜💜💜
I love when someone gets FM. Its always beautiful. This is why they are timeless and perfect. Its art for your soul to explore and understand about yourself.
To paraphrase: “My blood sounds ‘do de do do’ but my sweat is all metal.” This is my new favorite semi-quote.
Brad, you're the king!! The king of overthinking... just flow with it man, it's all good!
He just annoys me. If it’s not rap he’s so lost.
Just the instrumentals of Fleetwood mac is powerful enough, add in the vocals of stevie nicks and all that just blows me away. Instrumental perfection. xx💖💖
Hope you catch the official video at some point. Gorgeous production, with a number of different sets. Was one of the most expensive videos in its time.
fleetwood mac, oh those memories from the 70s are amazing^^ I've listened to them over and over, still have the LPs and still listen to them. when i wanted to chill i listened to fleetwood mac for hours ^^
I know this song has a literal meaning but for me it is about looking back to the person you were before, way before experience changed you, and wanting to be that person again, even just for a moment. It is about nostalgia and longing for the you that once was, more innocent, less jaded. That’s how it feels to me anyway when I sing along to it.
This released in 1982 and is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Y’all should take a look at the music video. It won one of the first VMAs if I’m not mistaken
Love you guys. She gets it, this song is “more of a feeling.” When I need to check out this is my go. You don’t really know where you go while listening to it or a specific literal story but you know you went somewhere else for a few minutes and you loved it, wherever it was.
LMAO! Love the conceptualization from Lex! She's always totally out there left field, and also totally accurate! Love it!
I absolutely love Lyndseys guitar at the end.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you may enjoy Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere” which was used recently in a Chevrolet television commercial. Also, the official music video of this song shows the story from the famous poem “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes. Another singer, Loreena McKennitt, put the poem to music in a song of the same name that is very beautiful.
Fav Fleet song with Christine singing
Lex you are a joy to watch, you feel you understand the songs and meanings, even if you don't your take is very incytfull , you are a joy to watch
Love that Lex smiling the whole way through!
GYPSE was the singer's favorite vintage clothing store .. she used to love to shop there for vintage clothes which at that time would have been from the 20s,30s,40s, 50s.....
One of my favorite songs ever & im a NY born & raised 40 plus hip hop fan
I'm a musician and this is my favorite song because of her power of genuine lyrics. Fleetwood is incredible, too. Lot of house funk un there
Absolutely love Fleetwood Mac do dreams gold dust woman and landslide Stevie is a goddess
She's right. That is in her blood. Beautiful spirit.
gypsy is a feeling of liberty and freedom and love
God, I love Lex. She is a musical savant.
Love this song, and watching Lex jam out to it. They have so many amazing songs, Rhiannon is a must, and just too many to name right now 😅 All of Rumours, of course...
You kids are so awesome I'm 58 was in this music up to my neck my Era... magical mystical hippy love connection hard simple to the point no jive... 70's was the best.. simple not so complicated.. bell bottoms platform shoes and wallabies even tho this was eighties in that spirit of the 70's..
This song to me is about losing something you really love. How many times in life do you find that one thing, or one person. Hence the lyric, "Lightning strikes... Maybe once, Maybe twice" (if you can be that lucky to have it strike twice). "She is dancing away from you now." But you still see her everywhere and in everything.
The story is about her missing her carefree days when she was a gypsy and not trapped in the cages of fame and fortune and her wanting to go back to the gypsy that se was and misses.
It’s also about her best friend dying of leukemia and how she lost her and can still see her friend’s bright eyes.
That part about the child she is referring to marrying her friends husband to care for the child. But they broke up which is why she brings the child up because loving the child wasn’t enough for them to stay together. They both love the child but don’t love each other.
So it has three stories in the song. About her carefree gypsy days, her friend dying/missing and mourning her, and the doomed marriage which was supposed to give the child a good home but never works out.
It's about holding on to your inner child. The one with big dreams and a bright future. It all comes down to you whether or not you keep that childlike wonder. I still see your bright eyes.
"Lyrically what are we working with ..... because I am a little confused" Awesome~
To me, this song is about the randomness that people and opportunities come in and out of our lives. When the "lightning strikes", take advantage of the opportunity before it's gone.
She has explained the Velvet Underground was a store where hippies or cool people went back in the day to buy clothes and outfits for shows. It had a special decorated floor and a room with some lace and paper flowers. It was one of her fav places as a starving artist……so it made its way into one of her songs.
Stevie Nicks is a God. Edge of Seventeen and anything from Rumours would be a great choice. I know you try hard to get the lyrics Brad, but sometimes you just need to let it flow. Cheers!
Goddess, Gypsy Goddess
Your girl is a free spirit. A bohemian. A gypsy in her heart😅❤
intricate knowledge of the band and their individual pasts does help. Fleetwood Mac is the first band to make me stop dead in my tracks and stare at the speaker the entire song as a child. I was 5-6 and it was 77-78 and it was Gold Dust Woman. This song needs followed by Sara.
Great review. Like the ending „Stevie Nicks is my spirit animal“. AWESOME!
The unbridled joy in lex's face just made my day
Lexi gets it. I can tell she connects with the music, her description of the sound of her heartbeat and...well you heard her.
Much love
God bless 🕯️
I love John McVie's bass line. And Lindsey Buckingham's guitar work. Very unique.
Brad is the analytical one and Lex is the feels everything one. They compliment each other very well. This song is so good. They have some other great songs if you haven't listened to them yet...Landslide, Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way, Sara, etc.
I love this woman... She still has plenty of gypsy in her... He kinda keeps her grounded... Gotta love it!
I love the new sign! The light is adjusted perfectly in this video. Really cool.
Brad, as a male I love this song. It's tiring hearing you be so analytical about every reaction I hear from you. Leave a little bit of your mind behind, open your heart and maybe you'll "see your gypsy".
Have you ever been around hippies?
@@billw6954 I have really nice people 😊
Beautiful comment @Harold Eisenstat 🕯️
Rock is often abstract. And Brad seeks logic and a direct message most often.
He’s the only reaction guy who reads all the lyrics. Just listen and enjoy the great music. C’mon man
Lex will Love Stevie! Mystical. Glad you found her and Fleetwood Mac ❤
This might be my favorite Fleetwood Mac song of all of their hit songs. Although I also really love You Make Lovin Fun with Christie on the lead vocals. Got to see them at the Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles back in 1977.
Stevie is absolutely amazing live. Thankful for my hippie parents who basically raised us with all the great music. Got to see Stevie live with my Daddy and I literally ugly cried during many points of the concert.
Their song "Dreams" is one of my fav jams of all time. Just a smooth vibe
Just sit back and enjoy the flow... Just beautiful composition of words and music. Words and Music.
Lex and I are kindred spirits for sure! She is literally speaking my mind and feelings.
My dad's first crush! Stevie Nicks just has the most amazing and unique voice. You know its her from the moment she sings her first note. True icon ❤️❤️❤️
She gets it. Free spirit, take a chance, it comes down to you.
You should do Fleetwood Mac, "Rhiannon", live from the Midnight Special in 1976. It's a great live performance. The whole band was on fire for that song that night.
Lex you are adorable.....I was a hippie in the 70's and you have that hippie spirit in you
Lex, you never cease to amaze me. This is total 60's vibe, transported to the 1980's!
Brad good luck on analyzing the lyrics of 70s music. Lots of drugs involved.
A strawberry mouse or-soufflé of a song,and as beautiful.
She has to be the happiest person ever, after having watched around 30 of their UA-cam posts. Magnificent character.