My Music Monday

I'm just going on record, Stevie Nicks has (another) bad song out. "The Lighthouse" was just released this last Friday. 

My opinion, of course. 

At 76, she doesn't release a lot of anything anymore. I can count three songs in four years, all of them not good.  Her last disk was 10 years ago - and those songs were all written 20-40 years prior. 

Nicks also brings Sheryl Crow along for the ride. This never works to her advantage, as she's been doing it since the early aughts. 

Four years ago, Nicks released a truly horrid song called "Show Them the Way" which implied but never said, 'vote for Biden'.  In good conscience, I can't even link it here. 

Last year (?) she felt the need to cover Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth".  It was not worth a thing. Again, not even a link. 

The only thing "the Lighthouse" has got going for it is the message. While one can try to make the case that it's for a Harris win - and in a way it is - it's really about reproductive rights. Pro, that is.

“All the rights that you had yesterday are taken away / And now you’re afraid / You should be afraid,” she sings. “Because everything I fought for long ago in a dream is gone.” 

Nicks calls it possibly the most important thing she'll ever do. And in theory, maybe it is. 

Any voice for support is good, but let's be real:  Nicks still sells lots of records - as a band member of Fleetwood Mac.  Rumours is still on the Top 100 albums in Billboard. Yes. Still. 47 years later. She is an influence for female singer-songwriters, but as a current artist, she's not horribly relevant. 

In the land of dozens of satellite stations, there isn't really one of which I can think that would air a new tune of hers. At best, the latest solo work of hers they play is from 1983. She's not reaching the people she thinks. "The Lighthouse" might be a song of awareness, but you have to be aware it exists for it to be that. 

The song isn't great. Three producers. Three songwriters. Too many cooks.  

While again, she is 76, I don't get the baby-ish whispering vocals for the verses. It truly is unlike any way she has sung before - and that's not a compliment. The chorus is vocally strong comparatively to the verses. Mind you, the strong vocals still have the three note range she has had since 1989. I get no reviewer likes to speak ill of Nicks, so they write articles about her, not the performance.