I’ve come to the realization that Stevie Nicks just plain sucks. I have a very high appreciation and respect for the ’70s gold sounds of Fleetwood Mac – authors of so many great pop songs, and I always lumped Nicks in there with them. Thinking about it in golf terms, though, she got a total mulligan in all facets of the game. In the 1970s, she got by on a distinctive (note I didn’t say “good”) voice and the fact that she was all spinning, scarfy, witchy and mysterious, not to mention good looking. All of her strongest songs featured Lindsay Buckingham singing at equal volume with her: “The Chain,” “Never Going Back Again” and “Second Hand News,” among others. Now think about the ones she sings on her own: “Rhiannon,” “Landslide,” “Gypsy,” and one of her worst ever, “Dreams.” Dreams is the utterly painful one where you can’t figure out one single phrase she’s singing other than “thunder only happens when it’s raining.”
See what I mean here? She sucks and I cannot even understand half her lyrics because when she sings it sounds like she’s had 47 vodkas. It sounds so slurred. Her solo career only adds fuel to my argument. “Edge of Seventeen” might be one of the single worst songs ever made – “Just like the wide winged dove?” Come on. Give me a break. However, look at her collaborations: singing with Tom Petty on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – now that was a good song; I never made a final decision on “Leather and Lace,” the one Nicks sang with Don Henley, but I don’t think it’s as horrendous as Rhiannon or anything. There is one song, however, where Nicks shines, and that song is “Silver Springs.” For some reason, she pulls this one off without reminding me of sitting in the passenger seat in the 1970s in the musty smell of my family’s old Mercury Cougar or Ford Mustang, dried out, cracked dashboards and all. The smell was a combination of the intense humidity of the northeast and stale cigarette smoke. My parents were big smokers, a habit they’ve long since abandoned, thankfully. By the way, what was up with those vinyl seats in the ’70s? The heat and humidity back then caused the vinyl seats to loosly resemble the feeling like you were sitting on the sun.
Anyway, I acknowledge that it’s a unique theory – a person who sucks singing solo in a song, but sounds mostly great in duets. I suppose it’s better than Linda McCartney, right?
Warren Zevon – “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” (how weird is that???)
Christine McVie was the better songwriter, singer, and musician in Fleetwood Mac, but she wasn’t “California” pretty or charismatic. Nor did she have a brain dead shtick like being a “witch” and dancing around on stage like an imbecile.
Stevie appealed to the lowest common denominator music fans, like a cracked out Disney princess. Fame is fickle, image always takes precedence over talent.
The thing that bothers me about Stevie Nicks is that she’s hailed as a great songwriter when she blatantly makes her demos over other peoples’ songs or when her simple repeating melodies get dressed up with lots of painstaking instrumental arrangement by other people. “Stand Back” was written over “Little Red Corvette”, “Wild Heart” was written over “Can’t Go Back”, “She Loves Him Still” was written over “Irish Boy”, “Dreams” is two chords. She’s like Jimmy Page or George Harrison in a way, brilliant performer but not an original songwriter. Her talent is remixing other peoples’ work. She is a one of a kind vocal talent and lyricist. I think it’s only fair to say she’s overrated because her fans are obsessive and a bit delusional and go out of their way to credit her entirely with the success of Fleetwood Mac.
Stevie Nicks is low key one of the biggest whores ever. I don’t think there is one rock star she didn’t fuck in the 70s. She had 4 abortions and had coke blown up her ass with a straw. Now she’s a sad old lady with no kids and a punani that is like a dodge dart with 250k miles on it.
Stevie Nicks is a biological male. He probably had castrato (surgery performed on the vocal chords where they cut a chord)performed before the onset of puberty which made his voice quite good.
Cannot stand her voice. Everyone seems to love her, but she makes me cringe with that awful sound.
Stevie Nicks wasn’t even the most talented woman in Fleetwood Mac. Christine McVie had 10 times the talent and 1/10th of the recognition.
She was todays typical overstated “Artist”.. had to start somewhere..
Nancy & Anne Wilson > Stevie “Hicks”
and any moron who stupidly disagrees with the author also really sucks
I just heard Edge of 17 on the radio at a car dealership. Holy shit what a bad song. The 80s fucking sucked.
This old hag loves to play the victim. Stevie you didn’t have kids not because of touring, or your psychiatrist or whatever man you’re blaming being a old bitter spinster on, but because you’re a crazy drug addict and whatever baby you had would have been born addicted to crack. Thank god this trash dumpster crackhead didn’t pass on her genes.
i have a distant memory of a DJ on the air describing her voice as sounding like a billy goat. so tre
Stevie Nicks is amazing. She was also the best singer in Fleetwood Mac.
White trash hooker who somehow discovered that people like her goat voice and idiotic mysticism. If she looked like Adele no one would have cared.
Obnoxious BPD cunt who thinks her abortion created Fleetwood Mac.You are not Peter Green, whore.
Nicks is so cringe. ANd she’s a cucking funt to boot.
Nicks can’t sing for shit, as simples as that. She got the job because of her boyfriend.
Stevie nicks alway comes off as an attention seeking media whore who likes to flaunt her persoanal life as if everybody is so intrigued by her destructive sad life. She did so much come, she literally burnt the wall separating her nostrils.
Agreed that she’s totally overrated. She’s really a sad person that put being in the limelight over having a family or any modicum of normalcy in her life. Without Lindsey she never would’ve had a career in music. She was propped up by the major talent in Fleetwood Mac. She became the face of Fleetwood Mac because she was the pretty one. It was a manufactured persona. She also used Tom Petty and a variety of other men to write songs for her and perform with her.Stevie on her own is not good.
I am saving a link to this entry so whenever I’m down I can come back and read it and get cheered up. Thank you so much.
unfounded criticism is the cheapest form of conversation. It is used by those who feeling inadequate need to boost there own egos. Most of you should be ashamed of yourself. Stevie Nicks has the the second best female voice in music first is Jennifer Nettles.
My grandad was “in the business” and she was already a major whore in the 60s. He and his 70 year old jewish business partner had a go at her in the late 60s.
He said even for the poor hygiene of the time, she was absolutely rotten smelling when she let it air out.
He and his partner both got a rash shortly afterwards and my grandmother almost divorced him over it.
I agree, she sucks. I also agree she’s a goat. Not THE goat, A Goat! BTW, she’s so disgusting that she named a song after the baby she murdered “Sara.” Thank the lord her line ends with her…
Stevie Nicks is in love with herself,
she’s a 12 year old swirling around in her
room singing into a hairbrush…
Sorry not a fan favorite of hers and when they put her with Tom Petty it was upsetting for me because Tom Petty’s way above her isn’t even in the same league
Stevie didn’t ‘steal’ Jinx’s persona and ‘imagery'(whatever you’re trying to say with that word). Jinx is a satanist! Her persona and ‘imagery’ are ALL about that. Stevie seems to fancy herself a gypsy. Those are not the same thing. Put your glasses on, for real
Oh thank you thank you thank you. I have been looking long and hard for a website that is the definition of an ignorant self-aggrandizing, vitriolic, purveyor of putrescence. Oops, to many syllables? How about hate filled nobodies whose lives are so shallow and meaningless you can only feel good about your self if you are belittling others. I looked at the “who is this guy” page and couldn’t find anything there that gives you any type of credibility to judge any one else. It isn’t your 10 Youtube subscribers, is it? How about the 48 Facebook followers?
Or in language you are more accustomed to, butt ugly nobody douchebag with an overinflated opinion of yourself. Wear a face shield and stop taking pucks to the face.
I have seen better content from and 80-year-old hillbilly catching fish with his hands. You aren’t related, are you?
I am confident more people think you suck than Stevie Nicks.
And for those who commented in your hate filled vein. You shouldn’t spread opinions about some one’s hygiene when you’re in your mom’s basement in a diaper, passing along second hand information that is probably untrue.
Finally, with 140 million records sold and a mansion in Phoenix and Hawaii she probably doesn’t spend one second of her time on the opinions of low life internet trolls.
Stevie has more charisma than the rest of Mac combined. It’s helped to popularize her more talented bandmated
Yep, Stevie still sucks. And a self promoting washed up whore. She does and will always sound like a goat going to the slaughterhouse, ” aaaanndddd the landslideeeeeh bringehhhh me down, Baugh Baugh bahhh”
Terrible voice. Weird-acting on stage. Looks sloppy. Cannot stand her voice. Never, ever could.
I never heard her sing before, and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing recently. She has an awful voice. How did she get where she is?
Never liked Fleetwood Mac thought Nick’s was a horrible singer h.Stern use to rip on her voice saying how horrible she was. And a witch on top why bother
OMG I’ve been waiting for you!! My whole life, and I’m 60, whenever I spoke out against Stevie Nicks and that horrible goat-in-a-beartrap voice of hers, people looked at me like I have no musical sense at all. She SUCKS. Always has. She it’s the “high” note on Dreams and wallpaper curls everywhere. God AWFUL voice. She was famous because women in the 70’s wanted to look like her and men wanted to sleep with her. That’s it.
I’m a professional singer and it shocks me how terrible Stevie Nicks is. I’m too young to remember her drug-addled hi jinks in the 70s and 80s, but I will bank on her abilities to “entertain” a man in order to slither into Fleetwood Mac and actually destroy the band. Before Nicks came along, Fleetwood Mac made absolutely breathtaking music and songs. “Mystery To Me” is one of the best records ever made. It still takes my breath away. Then we have Nicks come on in and destroy the whole band. She was another Yoko Ono with the same level of vocal ability. I saw a live video of Nicks attempting to sing and I was disgusted with her as a human being not only because of her horrendous vocal ability and vapid personality, but also because of the band she single-handedly destroyed. I honestly believe she is the worst female Rock vocalist that ever lived.