Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks has dropped her first solo single in four years and right-wing trolls cannot cope with the pro-choice anthem. The 76-year-old singer released The Lighthouse earlier this week as her first solo single since she dropped the political tune Show Them The Way in 2020, dedicating the lyric video to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris . Now she has returned with another punchy song in the lead-up to the US election in November – this time hitting on women’s rights, and more specifically, the increasing restrictions around abortions in the States.
The topic is more heated than ever as women’s rights campaigners continue to fight back after Roe v Wade – protecting abortion rights – was overturned in 2022. Stevie’s song has been two years in the making. ‘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,’ the singer and longtime political activist shared on Instagram. She continued: ‘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.
‘I have often said to myself, “This may be the most important thing I ever do. To stand up for.