Stevie Nicks has returned with a rallying cry for ladies, dropping new single “The Lighthouse” Friday (Sept. 27) in hopes of reinvigorating the combat for reproductive healthcare.
The monitor opens with a melodic pinging beat and anthemic sound results because the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman sings softly, “I’ve my scars, you’ve got yours/ Don’t allow them to, take your energy.”
Because the music intensifies and ultimately devolves into an explosive rock n’ roll head-banger, Nicks encourages ladies to “get up and take it again” in reference to ladies’s rights, particularly abortion entry. “They’ll take your soul they’ll take your energy/ Until you put it aside,” she belts. “And that’s that/ Until you get up and take it again.”
Nicks additionally dropped a music video for “The Lighthouse,” which finds her singing passionately contained in the lantern room of an precise lighthouse searching onto stormy seas. It additionally splices in images taken from ladies’s rights marches.
In an announcement in regards to the music, Nicks revealed that she “wrote this music just a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned” in June 2022. “It appeared like in a single day, individuals had been saying, ‘What can we, as a collective drive, do about this…,’” she continued in her word. “For me, it was to put in writing a music.”
“I’ve typically mentioned to myself, ‘This can be an important factor I ever do,’” Nicks added. “To face up for the ladies of the US and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the boys that love them. That is an anthem.”
Watch Nicks’ music video for “The Lighthouse” under.