Stevie Nicks has clarified an often misheard lyric in ‘Frozen Love’ and apologised to Lindsey Buckingham for the misconception.
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Last month, the legendary duo reissued their 1973 album ‘Buckingham Nicks’, making it publicly available for the first time since its original release. Now, the former Fleetwood Mac members have appeared on the Song Exploder podcast to discuss their iconic track ‘Frozen Love’, in an episode comprising two separate interviews.
In her segment of the episode, Nicks described the song’s themes, saying it’s about “two people that were in love, that had a lot of differences and saw the world slightly differently, but had this like relationship that seemed to be, like a gift.”
She went on to compare them to classic literary romances. “I like to think of it as Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations. A modern-day love affair, tragedies. Because nobody really loves happy songs. Certainly, I didn’t, and neither really did Lindsey.”
After Nicks wrote the song, she said that she gave it to Buckingham to further develop, with him explaining: “I don’t think she craved my input on that level, and nor did I crave hers on production or instrumental level, either.
“She understood that I was transforming things for her, and I understood that I wouldn’t have had anything to transform without the beautiful centre that she’d given me.”
Nicks then detailed how their turbulent relationship influenced their work, explaining: “Our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult, but at the same time, fantastic. And what we were doing was so fantastic that it was worth putting up with the trials and tribulations of a relationship that’s difficult.”
She then went on to clarify a frequently misheard lyric, “Hate gave you me for a lover”, saying she originally wrote it as, “Fate gave you me for a lover.”
“When I hear myself sing that line, it sounds like I’m saying ‘hate,’” she said. “So, that’s not good. I’m sorry, Lindsey. I’m calling him later.”
Elsewhere in the podcast, Nicks shared that she and Buckingham are now back on talking terms, saying: “Lindsey and I started talking about it last night. This whole thing seems really like yesterday to us.”
Prior to the ‘Buckingham Nicks’ re-issue and subsequent confirmation that the duo are back on talking terms, Mick Fleetwood publicly expressed his eagerness to see the two reunite. Their supposed reconnection now is all the more surprising, given that just last year, Nicks said to Rolling Stone that the last time she had seen Lindsey was at Christine McVie’s celebration of life, and that she could only talk to him “for about three minutes. I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could. You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.”
Nicks has also continually shot down the idea of the band getting back together, and has said that without the late Christine McVie, “there is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together.”
Earlier this month, Nicks kicked off her North American tour at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. On the opening night, Nicks played a career-spanning set, including a rendition of Fleetwood Mac‘s ‘Angel’ live for the first time in 42 years.
The tour was originally set to kick off in August, but was rescheduled after she suffered a shoulder fracture. The August and September dates have since been rescheduled for October, November and December – see the full list of dates here.
