{"id":357941,"date":"2026-03-21T14:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357941\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:50:10","slug":"may-a-covers-stevie-nicks-edge-of-seventeen-on-like-a-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357941\/","title":{"rendered":"MAY-A Covers Stevie Nicks ‘Edge of Seventeen’ on Like a Version"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAustralian singer-songwriter MAY-A<\/a> has put her own stamp on a classic. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 24-year-old Sydney talent covered Stevie Nicks<\/a>\u2018 1981 track \u201cEdge of Seventeen<\/a>\u201d for triple j\u2019s Like a Version<\/a> on Friday (March 20), delivering a grunge-inflected, guitar-driven reworking that stripped away the original\u2019s iconic riff and rebuilt the song from the ground up.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaking to the stage with her live band, MAY-A opened with a restrained, vocally-led arrangement before the track expanded into something heavier \u2014 a distortion-led second half complete with both guitar and bass solos. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe approach made room for her own voice to take center stage, balancing tenderness with a raspy, rock-edged delivery throughout. Guitarist and collaborator Chloe Dadd was central to shaping the arrangement, which came together through extended experimentation in rehearsals. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we started playing around with the idea of this song, we just played it in so many different ways,\u201d MAY-A said. \u201cAnd my guitarist Chloe, she sort of built out the tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song choice was a deliberate one. MAY-A said she wanted to cover something connected to Nicks specifically because of the way the Fleetwood Mac co-founder writes about loss. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI haven\u2019t seen someone write about grief and loss in such a powerful and strong way,\u201d she said, describing the quality as \u201cunique and inspiring.\u201d The triple j team had teased the cover earlier in the week by sharing a School of Rock scene on Instagram Stories.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Like a Version appearance came alongside a performance of \u201cLast Man on Earth\u201d from MAY-A\u2019s debut album Goodbye (If You Call That Gone), released February 20. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a recent interview with The Music<\/a>, the artist \u2014 born Maya Cumming \u2014 spoke about her journey into rock music as a teenager, citing Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, Paramore, Hole and Evanescence as formative influences. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was never from this scene \u2014 I was always a Taylor Swift pop girl \u2014 so when I got into rock in my teens, I felt like a fraud,\u201d she said. \u201cThese women made me feel seen, and made me realise I didn\u2019t need to fit into all of these moulds I\u2019d made for myself. I had to carve my own space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the album itself, MAY-A said she was deliberately resistant to commercial instincts. \u201cThis album is a slow burn; you have to sit with it. I deliberately didn\u2019t make it hi-fi, or really catchy and full of hooks. This was as raw as I could make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMAY-A\u2019s Goodbye (If You Call That Gone) tour kicks off April 2 at The Princess Theatre in Brisbane, with further dates in Sydney, Melbourne, Fremantle and Adelaide. The Like a Version appearance was part of triple j\u2019s expanded March slate, which doubled its weekly output for the first time to include both Friday and Tuesday sessions throughout the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian singer-songwriter MAY-A has put her own stamp on a classic. The 24-year-old Sydney talent covered Stevie Nicks\u2018…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,62243,278,633,22721],"class_list":["post-357941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-like-a-version","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-stevie-nicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}