Stevie Nicks has released a new one,” The Lighthouse”, now being celebrated by all the normal suspects as an “anthem” to abortion rights, female empowerment, and personal freedom. The music was apparently written immediately after the U. S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago, and Nicks has been working to “perfect” it ever since.
Musically, it’s a tedious occasion, with Nicks singing the same three information, falling within the musical range of a third, for most of its routine, plodding, 5-plus hours. Nicks is graphically depicted as some sort of queen or prophetess, an experienced and wise older woman ready to deliver the truth today’s younger women greatly need — there are a few brief flashes of an area behind her that looks, simultaneously, like a church and a medical area.
The video for the song opens with several definitions of “lighthouse” ( “guide”, “beacon” ) overlaid on a scene of waves crashing against rocks. Therefore the camera zooms in on an exact tower, and what we know is Nicks, dressed in black, swaying back and forth, her long golden hair flying in the wind as she prepares to steer today’s young people away from the burden of personal responsibility and into the liberation of sexual license.
The rest of the video shows various images of pro-abortion demonstrators, women marching for “rights”, and the like. A stunning, young pregnant woman is playing violin while her exposed, bare belly reads” MY CHOICE” while taking a bath in soft light and playing violin in a particularly chilling scene.
Nicks gave an interview to Vox in 1992 where she appeared to express some abortion regret, in contrast to the song’s radical pro-abortion theme.
” To give up four ( babies ) is to give up a lot that would be here now. So that really bothers me, a lot, and really breaks my heart. But they’re gone, so …” she composes herself. ” But I could n’t because I was too busy. And I had all these commitments”.
Nicks continues throughout the interview by asking if she might still be pregnant.
I’ve also thought about getting one myself, but I’m already booked up for the next four years. I do n’t know, at my age, if I can get pregnant right away, do an album at the same time, have a baby, promote the album, go on tour with the baby. So I’m going back and forth with my thoughts. At 43 years old, my time clock is ticking, so I ca n’t afford to wait around for very long.
Nicks is now 76. The clock has ticked all the way down, and she is still childless. Does she still be bothered by abortions? It appears that she is unable to counsel young women to consider a decision that will end one person’s life and permanently and irreversibly alter their own rather than to go to the abortion facility as soon as possible.
Instead, the lyrics of” The Lighthouse” plead with those young women to fight for what Nicks thinks has been taken from them. She tells them to” stand up”, “take it back”, “get mad”, “get in the game”, “learn how to play”, and “do it today”.
However, a few passages in the song that ( it should be noted that is patently ridiculous ) seem to make reference to something else could just as easily be said. She sings of having “scars”, of a light going out, of life being “forever changed”, of “nightmares” and a “dream” dying.
What if the words were used to refer to a baby rather than the right to abort it? Maybe, in some way, they were.
Nicks has made it known that one of her abortions ended the life of a child she had conceived with Don Henley:” I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac… And I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people’s hearts and make people so happy.” And I thought: you know what? That’s really important”.
Somehow, Ms. Nicks, I think the world would have survived without Fleetwood Mac. But what might that child, and your other children, have brought to your life, and to the world? Tragically, we’ll never know.  ,
