Stevie Nicks has released a new single, ‘The Lighthouse’. Marking her first original new song since 2020’s ‘Show Them the Way’, the track was written with Magnus Birgersson and Vincent Villuis. Nicks produced it with Sheryl Crow (who also contributes bass, electric guitar, and background vocals) and Dave Cobb. Check it out via the accompanying video below.
Discussing the new song in a press release, Nicks said:
I wrote this song a few months after Roe V Wade was overturned. It seemed like overnight, people were saying “what can we, as a collective force, do about this…” For me, it was to write a song.
It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me ~ explaining what the loss of Roe v Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night.
That was September 6, 2022. I have been working on it ever since. I have often said to myself, “This may be the most important thing I ever do.” To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the men that love them.
This is an anthem.
Nicks is set to perform on Saturday Night Live on October 12 with host Ariana Grande; it’ll be her first SNL performance since 1983.
