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Stevie Nicks<\/a> didn\u2019t want to take an ounce of her fame for granted when she first joined Fleetwood Mac. <\/p>\n She knew that she and Lindsey Buckingham had struck gold when working with their bandmates, and when looking at all of the accolades that they have accumulated over the years, they didn\u2019t get there without going through some of the greatest emotional highs and lows as well. But even if they operated like a musical soap opera in lots of ways, Nicks felt that some songs stuck with her for painting a moment in time better than anything that she would ever write.<\/p>\n But when you look at Nicks\u2019s songs, not all of them are meant to be pop masterpieces like Buckingham\u2019s were. Her partner was always used to taking his cues from\u00a0the biggest names in rock and roll, like Brian Wilson<\/a>\u00a0and Phil Spector, and while he could spend hours trying to get the sound that he wanted, Nicks knew that nothing could compare to songs that captured a feeling. Those tunes are like portals to another dimension, and that can be as raw as you want them to be whenever she sings them.<\/p>\n She doesn\u2019t necessarily have to have the same relationship with Buckingham now as she did when she was making Rumours, but you can still hear the vitriol in her voice when she sings tunes like \u2018Silver Springs\u2019<\/a>. A lot of her tunes on the record were about her taking the dignified approach and wishing her other half peace, but when looking at this one tune, every line feels like it\u2019s supposed to be cutting through Buckingham\u2019s soul as they\u2019re singing.<\/p>\n Then again, not all of those times were absolutely terrible, either. There was so much hope that was going into them joining Fleetwood Mac, and it\u2019s not like Nicks and Buckingham didn\u2019t have some fun times on their own. Buckingham Nicks wasn\u2019t going to set the world on fire or anything, but when you listen to their one album, you can hear all of the greatness that they would soon be achieving on \u2018Crying in the Night\u2019. <\/p>\n Right as they joined the band, though, Nicks could tell that things were changing. It was going to be a completely different dynamic when they had more people in their group, and even if she had Christine McVie to help balance things out beside her, she couldn\u2019t help but think about their times barely scraping by when she threw on albums like Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell. That was the era when everything felt possible, and \u2018Same Situation\u2019 was almost a warning for her about things that were going to change.<\/p>\n Mitchell was always one of Nicks\u2019s greatest inspirations, but she also admitted that she could barely get through that song without getting emotional, saying<\/a>, \u201cShe was talking about what it was like to be very famous and to be a woman living in a man\u2019s world. Even though Buckingham Nicks had tanked, I knew that we were going to be very famous, very rich, and it was like a great old premonition just being laid out in front of me. There is a song on it called \u2018Same Situation\u2019 and that song just would kill me when I\u2019d hear it. Because I knew it was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n It was bound to be a little bit scary for Nicks to make that jump, but she wasn\u2019t about to back down, either. She had been making some of the best music that she could during that time, and she was going to do everything in her power to make sure that she could hang with the rest of her peers, whether that was delivering songs like \u2018Gold Dust Woman\u2019 in the studio or transforming \u2018Rhiannon\u2019 <\/a>into a completely different animal whenever they played live.<\/p>\n Mitchell wasn\u2019t writing \u2018Same Situation\u2019 specifically for Nicks by any stretch, but anyone who was looking to break into the industry had a better idea of what they were getting into when listening to her sing. Her voice could be a calming presence for nearly anyone, but Mitchell was never going to sugarcoat her music. She needed to be honest with her fanbase, and that meant telling everyone about her own experiences and making them figure things out for themselves when they made their own records.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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