{"id":374589,"date":"2025-12-27T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:24:07","slug":"the-fleetwood-mac-song-used-to-make-fun-of-stevie-nicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374589\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fleetwood Mac song used to make fun of Stevie Nicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fleetwood<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ IMDB)<\/p>\n

Sat 27 December 2025 10:10, UK <\/p>\n

The personal dynamic within Fleetwood Mac<\/a> was always on eggshells at the best of times. <\/p>\n

Before the band even turned into the living soap opera that we know and love today, their willingness to drop members like a bad habit would become a foundational part of their sound, with founder Peter Green leaving in the 1970s and Bob Welch vacating the lead guitar spot before Lindsey Buckingham entered the fray. <\/p>\n

While the band channelled most of their emotions into Rumours, one of the most biting songs they ever made came from one album later.<\/p>\n

Looking to follow up on the enormous success of their musical masterpiece, the band settled into the studio with producers Richard Dashut and Ken Caillat to top themselves on Tusk. Even though everyone had come in with phenomenal material, it would be far from smooth sailing once everyone presented their new songs.<\/p>\n

Not deciding which direction they should take the material, every band member seemed to treat their songs as individual solo tracks<\/a>, practically using the rest of the group as a glorified backing band when working on their material. Even with the fractured studio environment, it did result in some of the band\u2019s strongest singles, from Buckingham\u2019s angry tone on the title track to Stevie Nicks lamenting the loss of her unborn child on \u2018Sara\u2019.<\/p>\n

Although Buckingham and Nicks had been separated for a while, that didn\u2019t mean those aggressions hadn\u2019t gone away. Even though Buckingham would write songs meant to be attacks on Nicks, he was still expected to help her craft her songs into good enough shape, which would become a chore for him as the years went on.<\/p>\n

\"Lindsey<\/a>Lindsey Buckingham on stage with his guitar. (Credits: Far Out \/ Steve Proctor)<\/p>\n

Despite having to roll over and help Nicks, Buckingham got his revenge when writing the song \u2018What Makes You Think You\u2019re The One\u2019. But while the track was certainly a pointed one, it was originated in a more docile fashion. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was just me and Mick, and we were really looking to get some kind of crazy drum sound,\u201d Buckingham told Uncut. \u201cThat was back in the day when everybody had boomboxes, and we had an old cassette player with these really crappy Mics. But you could record on it, and the system had built-in compressors, and we took the output. We put that right in front of the drums, and I think we put another one overhead, too, as opposed to mic\u2019ing the whole thing as you usually do. And we ran that cassette player into the console and it just made this really explosive, trashy sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cMick was getting off on that drum sound so much,\u201d he added. \u201cI was playing the piano and he was playing the drums, and we cut that song late one night, just the two of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the tune boasts one of the more pop-friendly melodies on the record, Buckingham used every trick in his arsenal to mock Nicks\u2019 approach to songwriting on the final track.<\/p>\n

As Caillat explained in the book Get Tusked, Buckingham was still seething with anger on the song, recalling<\/a>, \u201c\u2018What Makes You Think You\u2019re The One\u2019 was rooted in the lyrics and performance that revisited Lindsey\u2019s feelings toward Stevie and their past as a couple, a breakup that was only two years old at this point. If there was any doubt of who the song was about, Lindsey did his best to imitate Stevie\u2019s distinctive vibrato, giving it a bleating, goatlike quality, and her rudimentary piano playing, which he knew made her self-conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though Nicks may have felt insecure working alongside Buckingham, she didn\u2019t have to worry about relying on him for much longer. As the band made their way into the 1980s, Nicks would find a way to balance her time with The Mac with her solo career, earning massive hits with \u2018The Edge of Seventeen\u2019 and working with Tom Petty to create \u2018Stop Draggin\u2019 My Heart Around\u2019.<\/p>\n

Those lingering resentments never went away, though, leading to the pair getting into a physical altercation that ended their creative relationship for decades. Buckingham may have tried to choose his battles when he could, but \u2018What Makes You Think You\u2019re The One\u2019 was one of the most unfiltered attacks on his writing partner. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ IMDB) Sat 27 December 2025 10:10, UK The personal dynamic within Fleetwood Mac was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,17742,14154,136,14155],"class_list":{"0":"post-374589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fleetwood-mac","12":"tag-lindsey-buckingham","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-stevie-nicks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}