Stevie Nicks has lent her creative genius to Taylor Swift for the singer’s hugely expected album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
The Fleetwood Mac alum, 75, penned a relocating poem about heartbreak that serves as a prologue on the 14-time Grammy winner’s 11th studio album, which dropped on Friday and was unveiled as a double album in a 2 a.m. surprise announcement to fans.
“He was in really like with her / Or at least she imagined so / She was broken hearted / Maybe he was much too / Neither of them knew,” Nicks writes, in aspect.
“She was way far too warm to handle / He was way far too substantial to try… He genuinely can not response her / He’s frightened of her / He’s hiding from her / And he appreciates that he’s hurting her / She tells the real truth / She writes about it / She’s an informer / He’s an ex-lover.”
“There’s almost nothing there for her / She’s by now absent / There is absolutely nothing that can stop her,” the “Edge of Seventeen” hitmaker carries on.
“She was just traveling / by means of the clouds / When he observed her / She was just creating her way / to the stars / When he lost her…”
Swift’s admiration for the “Dreams” singer has long been acknowledged considering the fact that the pair took the stage alongside one another at the Grammys in 2010.
The duo performed Swift’s “You Belong with Me” and Nicks’ hit observe “Rhiannon,” right after which Swift gushed in excess of the “fairytale” knowledge.
Nicks, for her element, praised Swift’s “determination” and “childlike nature” at the time, introducing that “this girl writes the songs that make the complete earth sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John.”
“Taylor reminds me of myself in her determination and her childlike nature. It’s an innocence that is so distinctive and so rare,” Nicks wrote for Time magazine soon soon after Swift won Album of the 12 months for her 2nd album, “Fearless.”
“This girl writes the tracks that make the total planet sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John. She sings, she writes, she performs, she plays wonderful guitar,” Nicks went on.
“Taylor can do ballads that could be considered pop or rock and then change back into state. When I turned 20 many years outdated, I experienced just manufactured the really serious decision to under no circumstances be a dental assistant. Taylor just turned 20, and she’s won four Grammys.”
Nicks formerly gushed around the 34-year-old singer all through her set at the Point out Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga., in May 2023.
“Thank you to Taylor Swift for carrying out this detail for me, and that is crafting a track named ‘You’re on Your Have, Kid’,” Nicks informed the group.
“That is the unhappiness of how I feel. As extensive as Chris was, even on the other side of the entire world, we did not have to talk on the phone. We weren’t genuinely mobile phone buddies.”
“Then we would go back again to Fleetwood Mac, and we would walk in and it would be like, ‘Little sister, how are you?’ It was like a minute experienced in no way passed, in no way an argument in our entire 47 decades,” she went on.
“So, when it was the two of us, the two of us have been on our have, youngsters, we normally had been. And now, I’m having to learnt to be on my very own, child, by myself. So, you enable me do that. Thank you.”
