#silver springs 1997

[feminist-cult-following]

rip alicent hightower you would have loved the 1997 live performance of silver springs

[reggie-black-is-my-gender]

Thinking about how there’s should be an exes to lovers wolfstar au featuring the band getting back together for a reunion show and some silver springs 1997 vibes…

[volpeta]

Can we please talk about ANY OTHER SONG Stevie Nicks sang/wrote that ISN’T Silver Springs? Like it’s obviously a beautiful song with crazy lore but SHE HAS OTHER SONGS PLEASEE!! Every time I look up Stevie Nicks on any social media, it’s all her 1997 performance with Lindsey. She exists beyond her relationships to men guys PLEASEEE talk about her solo work too im BEGGING

[mirandaputsherbestbuttforward]

No one:

Stevie Nicks: I'll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you. 👁👁 You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you. 👁👁 I'll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you 👁👁 Was I just a FOOL? 👁👁 YOU'LL NEVER 👁👁 GET AWAY 👁👁 FROM THE SOUND 👁👁 OF THE WOMAN 👁👁 THAT LOVES YOU! 👁👁 WAS I JUST A FOOL? 👁👁 I'LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN TIL THE 👁👁 SOUND OF MY VOICE 👁👁WILL HAUNT YOU. 👁👁 Give me just a chance! 👁👁 You'll never get away! Never get away! Never get away! 👁👁 🧍‍♀️ you could be my silver spring,😔 my blue green colors flashin'.

[jabeur]

today i'm really into divorce music (fleetwood mac)

[star-spangled-man]

YOU’LL NEVER GET AWAY FROM THE SOUND OF THE WORLD WOMAN WHO LOVES YOU (was i just a fool?) I’LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN ‘TILL THE SOUND OF MY VOICE WILL HAUNT YOU (give me just a chance) YOU’LL NEVER GET AWAY (never get away) FROM THE SOUND OF THE WOMAN WHO LOVES YOU!!

[feminist-cult-following]

good luck, babe! is chappell roan’s silver springs and the black dog is taylor swift’s.

“you’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling” and “even if I die screaming / and I hope you hear it” are to them what “you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you” are to stevie

[existentialism-and-chocolate]

hey (with the intention of following you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you)

[veryfergaliciousdude]

i know i could’ve loved you but you would not let me

[nedlittle]

if alanis morissette wrote you oughta know about me i would never show my face in public ever again but if stevie nicks wrote silver springs about me and made me perform it while she sang directly at me with murder in her heart and bloodlust in her eyes i would straight up kill myself

[cherrycolouredpunk]

[atohii]

Lindsey Buckingham is stronger than me because if Stevie Nicks ever looked at me like that I would be on my knees

[lettuceish]

YOU'LL NEVER GET AWAY FROM THE SOUND OF THE WOMAN THAT LOVES YOU

[immatureoldsoul]

Happy 50th Anniversary Buckingham Nicks!

[imtheswanqueen2010]

made myself SICK with WANT

[arabella-strange]

And also let’s make sure to note (from the same article):

Nicks was proud of “Silver Springs,” and while it was in part a revenge anthem directed at her bandmate/ex, there was someone more important in her life who was meant to benefit from the commercial success she assumed it would gain.

“She decided to give the publishing rights to her mother [Barbara] as kind of a big thanks with a nice royalty check for her mom,” Caillat adds.

The album was nearly finished when Mick Fleetwood pulled Nicks out into the parking lot of the Record Plant, the Sausalito, California, studio where much of the album had been recorded.

“I knew it was really serious ’cause Mick never asks you to go out to the parking lot for anything,” Nicks recalled in a 1991 BBC radio interview. It was there that Fleetwood revealed that “Silver Springs” had been cut from the album for being too long and “a lot of [other] reasons,” according to Nicks. Fleetwood wanted the lighter “I Don’t Want to Know” on the album instead, a track on which she and her ex-boyfriend harmonized about their breakup. She did not approve.[...]

As Caillat sees it, the placement of “Silver Springs” as a B side on the album’s first single was a peace offering. “Stevie was devastated for a number of reasons,” he explains. “She loved the song, and by it not being on the LP, her mom didn’t make all the extra publishing because the single didn’t sell very much.” [...]

Since Nicks was able to turn “Silver Springs” into the hit she always wanted it to be, her mom Barbara did receive the royalty check her daughter had earmarked for her – 20 years later than expected. “My mom ended up getting a $50,000 check two months after The Dance went out,” the singer revealed. “To my mother, it had been a million dollar check.”

SILVER SPRINGS Fleetwood Mac — The Dance (1997)

By 1997, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s romance should have been ancient history. The pair had split two decades prior, fueling Rumours’ famously raw breakup anthems. But during a taping of a Fleetwood Mac reunion show later released as The Dance, shit once again got very real. Midway through a non-album rarity called “Silver Springs,” Nicks turned and faced her former flame as she sang the song’s rueful bridge: “Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me / I know I could have loved you but you would not let me.” The pair locked eyes, and Nicks gradually built to a cathartic howl — “I’ll follow you down ‘til the sound of my voice will haunt you / You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you” — indicating that, for her at least, resolution had never really come.

This was by design. Nicks has admitted that the fiery take on the song that appears in The Dance was “for posterity,” as she told Rolling Stone at the time. “I wanted people to stand back and really watch and understand what [the relationship with Lindsey] was,” she later told Arizona Republic.

The track’s primary exposure was as a B side to “Go Your Own Way” — Buckingham’s own expression of anger and revenge against Nicks, where he claimed that “packin’ up, shackin’ up is all you wanna do.” The song would become one of the band’s biggest hits, charting in the Top 10. “He knew it wasn’t true. It was just an angry thing that he said,” Nicks told Rolling Stone in 1997 of the “packin’ up, shackin’ up” line. “Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it. He really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, ‘I’ll make you suffer for leaving me.’ And I did.”

Of course, Nicks had the exact same motivation when she wrote “Silver Springs.” In a 1997 interview with Arizona Republic, she explained the song’s message as “I’m so angry with you. You will listen to me on the radio for the rest of your life, and it will bug you. I hope it bugs you.”

—Brittany Spanos, ‘Silver Springs’: Inside Fleetwood Mac’s Great Lost Breakup Anthem