She's reflecting on the person she used to be before she was famooux. She used to shop in a vintage clothing store called The Velvet Underground which had a room that sold lace items and it did have paper flowers on the wall. Everything Stevie writes is personal although often adorned with symbolism and poetic imagery.
Lex nailed it: "This song is a feeling." Like she said, I always got the feeling that this song was about the loss of childlike innocence and wonder; or the freedom to roam and explore without bounds.
She is singing on going back to simpler times, when she didnt have money, her mattress was on the floor, she had old wallpaper with flowers, etc. Before she was a star and it all got complicated. To understand their songs truly, you must study the story of the band. It will then all make sense
This song was written about Stevie’s best friend Robin who died of leukemia 2 days after having a baby. Stevie promised her that she would be a mother to Robins child and married Robins widow shortly after she died. Unfortunately because they were not in love w each other and both heavily grieving the loss of Robin they divorced a year later. The lyrics about the “child not being enough” was referring to the child not being enough to make the marriage work. She calls herself Gypsy because that’s what she and Robin called themselves, and she was the “gypsy that remained ie the one that lived”. The “floor that she loved and room w lace and paper flowers” is referring to a time before the fame w Fleetwood when she literally slept on a bed on the floor and she’d decorated her room w lace and paper flowers. She’s saying she is missing those times when her and Robin were just 2 young girls living and loving life even though they were poor, they were happy. Then the “she is dancing away from you now, she is just a wish” is referring to Robin dying slowly, because she was dying throughout her pregnancy. The instrumental is very light and heavenly but it’s actually a really sad song.
@@applemoneroy7371 She said that years later, about more than one song, but she herself gave many interviews where she talked about the origins of the song. One line was about Robin but the overall song was not: "Originally intended for her solo album, “Gypsy” explores the side of one’s personality that values freedom and fearlessness. Nicks breaks down the song by focusing on its first few lines: “So I’m back to the velvet underground / Back to the floor, that I love / To a room with some lace and paper flowers / Back to the gypsy that I was / To the gypsy… that I was” The velvet underground refers to a specific hole-in-the-wall store in San Francisco where one of Nicks’ artistic influences, Janis Joplin, found most of her unique clothing. By referencing such an iconic aspect of her early musical inspiration, Nicks highlights the emotional significance held in the early years of her music career. Nicks then shifts her focus to the description of her favorite memory of home in the early days of her life with Lindsey Buckingham: “Okay: In the old days, before Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey and I had no money, so we had a king-size mattress, but we just had it on the floor. I had old vintage coverlets on it, and even though we had no money it was still really pretty… Just that and a lamp on the floor, and that was it-there was a certain calmness about it. To this day, when I’m feeling cluttered, I will take my mattress off of my beautiful bed, wherever that may be, and put it outside my bedroom, with a table and a little lamp” (2009)." americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-fleetwood-mac-gypsy-stevie-nicks/
@@Joepacalypse1107 Yes I’ve seen that. Thanks for including the link ❤️ I definitely get the velvet underground reference not being about Robin specifically and it sounds like she used alot of influences from her past when writing this song. So many of the lyrics can be interpreted differently or applied to the moments she referred to in that interview, some were more specific but some are also interchangeable, which I’m assuming was the point. I don’t think that only 1 line of the song was about Robin, and Stevie never said that only 1 line of the song was about her, she just referred to one line in particular. Overall I think the song was about all of those moments, just interwoven in a way that was meant to encompass everything she was feeling when she wrote it. But that’s the cool thing about art,everyone has their own interpretation. And that’s why I love Stevie’s songwriting. She’s so complex and multilayered, trying to decipher her songs is like putting together a puzzle. You should check out the genius breakdown of the lyrics. genius.com/Fleetwood-mac-gypsy-lyrics
Now this is a true classic. Stevie can sing like no other. Uniqueness of voice is always leads to fame... To me, her voice is the sound of the 70's and early 80's ... Fleetwood mac is a true super group and worth diving deeper. Great reaction.
@@mnemonic1363 Not at all, but I can see why you would say that:) I was just talking Fleetwood Mac. If we were talking just Stevie I actually love Edge of Seventeen, Stop Draggin my Heart Around and Leather and Lace. Ah Crap just everything she does really :) LOL
@@mnemonic1363 Hey Stewart, look forward seeing you around! With a name like that you must have an amazing Memory, so I will just "Stand Back" and see if "Anyone ever written anything for you", So "I can't wait" to see "If anyone Falls" from the "rooms on fire" cause some one's in a "Whole lotta trouble" after they " talk to me" Have a great night!! :):)
If you like FWM do “Rhiannon”, video from 1976 (taped live on The Midnight Special). From instrumentation to background vocals to Buckingham solo to Nicks finish, the very best.
Oh yes! Stevie literally goes off the chain when she sings this song. I actually don’t know how they kept her relatively contained in the studio recording. Her band mates have been quoted as saying that watching Stevie sing this song wasn’t watching a performance…it was viewing a possession. The background of the actual Welch Demi-goddess Rhiannon and Stevie’s experience in writing and performing this song, laced with many unusual coincidences as it was, is quite interesting.
As a child of the 70s & 80s, this is one of those songs that always takes me back to my childhood. Couldn't turn the radio on for more than 10 minutes any time between 1982 and 1985 without hearing this song.
Maybe I'm the only one, but this song has always held very deep meaning for me, and I was in tears while watching the video. Am I the only one? Perhaps I read too much into it, but I feel like it's a very emotional song. I interpret the lightning strikes as certain key people and events in your life that create magical possibilities, giving you the chance to acknowledge their gifts, or squander them. I interpret the lyrics as hinting towards her feeling like she gives so much, and she just wants to share her inner beauty and magic, and be acknowledged and appreciated for what she gives, but is not. She is having to evaluate her inner strength in regards to moving on. "The gypsy," is the strength that us women have to carry to make it though this world, and having to constantly remind ourselves that we are enough. We can do it, we are "gypsies," and everything is temporary, except the fact that we will carry ourselves. We have to remember the inner child, or vulnerability, that lives inside of us, and love and care for them, and in the end, we will have to be enough on our own. It also feels like a song of loss, possibly of a relationship. And of wishing they would appreciate the spark in you that lights up the night. But they just can't see it, so you are dancing away from them now, even though you don't want to, preparing to be strong once again, and to remember the gypsy.
Lex “That’s how my blood sounds!” YES! That is exactly how listening to Stevie and Fleetwood Mac makes me feel! It’s all feeling and energy with anything from them! Do More!! 💕
I believe it’s about before she became famous and life was simpler, she was anonymous and could go anywhere she wanted, no lawyers and contracts…just free like a gypsy.
Lex, are you sure you haven't solved Einstein's theory of "time travel"?? I swear if go back and watch the Woodstock Documentary I'm gonna see you in the audience with flowers in your hair, wearing bell-bottoms, and dancing to the music. Your spirit, and Brad's love of your spirit, is just, well, perfect.
Lex, you really do have that hippie/gypsy vibe. While many female artists broke through the barriers of the times, Stevie Nicks embodied the feminine side of rock/hippie and made her own gypsy persona. That persona is still alive & well today. Check out her & Tom Petty's "Stop Dragging my Heart Around", and her & Don Henley's "Leather & Lace." And, OMG YES(!), Edge of Seventeen!!
As a formally trained musician, I was never into Fleetwood Mac, but I gave this album a chance. I was immediately struck by its sound, it might be the best produced and engineered rock album, it just sounds perfectly captured and balanced. Then I realized the lyrics are awesome, and I've been hooked ever since.
Fleetwood Mac in the 70's fell into the 'California Sound", along with the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and other bands like Cheap Trick. It is a thick FM sound like back when your room would be lit by the little green light from the long stereo dial below the turntable on the room stereo.
I love Stevie Nicks, solo and with Fleetwood Mac! To me the Gypsy represents a free spirit and the child in the song represents pure love! This song was released in 1982 from the album “Mirage” and I love the Official video for it also! ❤️❤️
This song is partly about Stevie Nick’s best friend dying from Leukemia and it also talks about her going back to her roots when she was younger and carefree in simpler times. Back to living like a gypsy one room with some lace and paper flowers where she literally slept on a bed mattress on the floor and her room was decorated like a gypsy room. Lex definitely got the gist of the song. And Brad, to say she has a good voice is the biggest understatement pertaining to the incredible Stevie Nicks.
Hope you catch the official video at some point. Gorgeous production, with a number of different sets. Was one of the most expensive videos in its time.
Stevie Nicks worked in a shop called the Velvet Underground which was a hippie shop. This song is a reminiscence of her youth. She was the gypsy and still has a lot of gypsy going on.
Guys.....seriously just do the whole album. You won't regret it. 💜💜💜 I love when someone gets FM. Its always beautiful. This is why they are timeless and perfect. Its art for your soul to explore and understand about yourself.
I know this song has a literal meaning but for me it is about looking back to the person you were before, way before experience changed you, and wanting to be that person again, even just for a moment. It is about nostalgia and longing for the you that once was, more innocent, less jaded. That’s how it feels to me anyway when I sing along to it.
Just the instrumentals of Fleetwood mac is powerful enough, add in the vocals of stevie nicks and all that just blows me away. Instrumental perfection. xx💖💖
This released in 1982 and is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Y’all should take a look at the music video. It won one of the first VMAs if I’m not mistaken
Love you guys. She gets it, this song is “more of a feeling.” When I need to check out this is my go. You don’t really know where you go while listening to it or a specific literal story but you know you went somewhere else for a few minutes and you loved it, wherever it was.
Stevie Nicks is a God. Edge of Seventeen and anything from Rumours would be a great choice. I know you try hard to get the lyrics Brad, but sometimes you just need to let it flow. Cheers!
This a Stevie mini autobio of her early days traveling around doing gigs and crashing where she could. Trying to make a little home wherever she was. Like a Cypsy.
fleetwood mac, oh those memories from the 70s are amazing^^ I've listened to them over and over, still have the LPs and still listen to them. when i wanted to chill i listened to fleetwood mac for hours ^^
This song to me is about losing something you really love. How many times in life do you find that one thing, or one person. Hence the lyric, "Lightning strikes... Maybe once, Maybe twice" (if you can be that lucky to have it strike twice). "She is dancing away from you now." But you still see her everywhere and in everything.
Love this song, and watching Lex jam out to it. They have so many amazing songs, Rhiannon is a must, and just too many to name right now 😅 All of Rumours, of course...
Brad, as a male I love this song. It's tiring hearing you be so analytical about every reaction I hear from you. Leave a little bit of your mind behind, open your heart and maybe you'll "see your gypsy".
You should do Fleetwood Mac, "Rhiannon", live from the Midnight Special in 1976. It's a great live performance. The whole band was on fire for that song that night.
GYPSE was the singer's favorite vintage clothing store .. she used to love to shop there for vintage clothes which at that time would have been from the 20s,30s,40s, 50s.....
I haven't really listened to this song in thirty years. Since I WAS a child. Amazing. I wonder if this would be a hit in today's mumble rap milieu, though? I fear not.
It's about holding on to your inner child. The one with big dreams and a bright future. It all comes down to you whether or not you keep that childlike wonder. I still see your bright eyes.
The story is about her missing her carefree days when she was a gypsy and not trapped in the cages of fame and fortune and her wanting to go back to the gypsy that se was and misses. It’s also about her best friend dying of leukemia and how she lost her and can still see her friend’s bright eyes. That part about the child she is referring to marrying her friends husband to care for the child. But they broke up which is why she brings the child up because loving the child wasn’t enough for them to stay together. They both love the child but don’t love each other. So it has three stories in the song. About her carefree gypsy days, her friend dying/missing and mourning her, and the doomed marriage which was supposed to give the child a good home but never works out.
intricate knowledge of the band and their individual pasts does help. Fleetwood Mac is the first band to make me stop dead in my tracks and stare at the speaker the entire song as a child. I was 5-6 and it was 77-78 and it was Gold Dust Woman. This song needs followed by Sara.
Brad is the analytical one and Lex is the feels everything one. They compliment each other very well. This song is so good. They have some other great songs if you haven't listened to them yet...Landslide, Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way, Sara, etc.
To me, this song is about the randomness that people and opportunities come in and out of our lives. When the "lightning strikes", take advantage of the opportunity before it's gone.
Stevie is absolutely amazing live. Thankful for my hippie parents who basically raised us with all the great music. Got to see Stevie live with my Daddy and I literally ugly cried during many points of the concert.
You kids are so awesome I'm 58 was in this music up to my neck my Era... magical mystical hippy love connection hard simple to the point no jive... 70's was the best.. simple not so complicated.. bell bottoms platform shoes and wallabies even tho this was eighties in that spirit of the 70's..
I don't think Lex stopped smiling the entire song :) I don't know what the song means. But I've always liked it. When I listen to this song, I do it in the mind and style of Lex... just along for the melodic ride.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you may enjoy Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere” which was used recently in a Chevrolet television commercial. Also, the official music video of this song shows the story from the famous poem “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes. Another singer, Loreena McKennitt, put the poem to music in a song of the same name that is very beautiful.
"Gypsy" was released as a single in 1982. Their mind-blowingly successful album "Rumours" was released in February 1977 and since then is one of the highest selling albums. I think you could definitely describe Stevie Nicks as a 'hippyish' and Christine McVie and the rhythm section, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie (guess where the band name came from), were like older blues-playing 'hippies'.
My dad's first crush! Stevie Nicks just has the most amazing and unique voice. You know its her from the moment she sings her first note. True icon ❤️❤️❤️
She has explained the Velvet Underground was a store where hippies or cool people went back in the day to buy clothes and outfits for shows. It had a special decorated floor and a room with some lace and paper flowers. It was one of her fav places as a starving artist……so it made its way into one of her songs.
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"That's how my blood sounds". I feel like Lex is the first person that has ever understood how music makes me feel. She rocks.
the "Rumours" album is worthy of a full album review...nothing less!
Top 5 of all time. Not one bad song on the album
@@papadonhomerepairs9700 agreed!!
Agreed!!!!
AGREE!!!
Facts! If it was the 70's and you did not have this album what were you even doing there?
She's reflecting on the person she used to be before she was famooux. She used to shop in a vintage clothing store called The Velvet Underground which had a room that sold lace items and it did have paper flowers on the wall. Everything Stevie writes is personal although often adorned with symbolism and poetic imagery.
Stevie the the poetess, Rock Goddess,
Thank you.
Guys, literally every track off their Rumors album is worth listening to. Its one of the best albums ever recorded no joke.
This song isn't on Rumors. It's on 1982 album Mirage.
@@TheBuzzo72 I know, I was just saying that the Rumors album is worth giving a listen to.
I concur.
I don't agree about "every track". I was grateful on vinyl that "Second-hand News" was the first track and I could skip it; I can't stand the track!
Gypsy wasn't on Rumours
Lex nailed it: "This song is a feeling."
Like she said, I always got the feeling that this song was about the loss of childlike innocence and wonder; or the freedom to roam and explore without bounds.
She is singing on going back to simpler times, when she didnt have money, her mattress was on the floor, she had old wallpaper with flowers, etc. Before she was a star and it all got complicated. To understand their songs truly, you must study the story of the band. It will then all make sense
She is also describing the floor of a gypsy shop she frequented. That’s how she introduced it in concert. The velvet on the floor is the shop.
This song was written about Stevie’s best friend Robin who died of leukemia 2 days after having a baby. Stevie promised her that she would be a mother to Robins child and married Robins widow shortly after she died. Unfortunately because they were not in love w each other and both heavily grieving the loss of Robin they divorced a year later. The lyrics about the “child not being enough” was referring to the child not being enough to make the marriage work. She calls herself Gypsy because that’s what she and Robin called themselves, and she was the “gypsy that remained ie the one that lived”. The “floor that she loved and room w lace and paper flowers” is referring to a time before the fame w Fleetwood when she literally slept on a bed on the floor and she’d decorated her room w lace and paper flowers. She’s saying she is missing those times when her and Robin were just 2 young girls living and loving life even though they were poor, they were happy. Then the “she is dancing away from you now, she is just a wish” is referring to Robin dying slowly, because she was dying throughout her pregnancy. The instrumental is very light and heavenly but it’s actually a really sad song.
@@applemoneroy7371 She said that years later, about more than one song, but she herself gave many interviews where she talked about the origins of the song. One line was about Robin but the overall song was not:
"Originally intended for her solo album, “Gypsy” explores the side of one’s personality that values freedom and fearlessness. Nicks breaks down the song by focusing on its first few lines:
“So I’m back to the velvet underground / Back to the floor, that I love / To a room with some lace and paper flowers / Back to the gypsy that I was / To the gypsy… that I was”
The velvet underground refers to a specific hole-in-the-wall store in San Francisco where one of Nicks’ artistic influences, Janis Joplin, found most of her unique clothing. By referencing such an iconic aspect of her early musical inspiration, Nicks highlights the emotional significance held in the early years of her music career. Nicks then shifts her focus to the description of her favorite memory of home in the early days of her life with Lindsey Buckingham:
“Okay: In the old days, before Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey and I had no money, so we had a king-size mattress, but we just had it on the floor. I had old vintage coverlets on it, and even though we had no money it was still really pretty… Just that and a lamp on the floor, and that was it-there was a certain calmness about it. To this day, when I’m feeling cluttered, I will take my mattress off of my beautiful bed, wherever that may be, and put it outside my bedroom, with a table and a little lamp” (2009)."
americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-fleetwood-mac-gypsy-stevie-nicks/
@@Joepacalypse1107 Yes I’ve seen that. Thanks for including the link ❤️ I definitely get the velvet underground reference not being about Robin specifically and it sounds like she used alot of influences from her past when writing this song. So many of the lyrics can be interpreted differently or applied to the moments she referred to in that interview, some were more specific but some are also interchangeable, which I’m assuming was the point. I don’t think that only 1 line of the song was about Robin, and Stevie never said that only 1 line of the song was about her, she just referred to one line in particular. Overall I think the song was about all of those moments, just interwoven in a way that was meant to encompass everything she was feeling when she wrote it. But that’s the cool thing about art,everyone has their own interpretation. And that’s why I love Stevie’s songwriting. She’s so complex and multilayered, trying to decipher her songs is like putting together a puzzle.
You should check out the genius breakdown of the lyrics.
genius.com/Fleetwood-mac-gypsy-lyrics
The lives of ordinary people can be way more 'complicated' than those of comfortable rock stars Joe.
Now this is a true classic. Stevie can sing like no other. Uniqueness of voice is always leads to fame... To me, her voice is the sound of the 70's and early 80's ... Fleetwood mac is a true super group and worth diving deeper. Great reaction.
one of the best female singers ever!
oh and I am still in love with Stevie 😍
Stevie Nicks is an ICON, one of a kind voice. "Landslide" and "Go your own way" I feel were there best. but they are all really good!
So in other words the only Stevie Nicks songs you know 😂
@@mnemonic1363 Not at all, but I can see why you would say that:) I was just talking Fleetwood Mac. If we were talking just Stevie I actually love Edge of Seventeen, Stop Draggin my Heart Around and Leather and Lace. Ah Crap just everything she does really :) LOL
@@hthuseby Yeah she really is great ROLDY! You can call me Stewart😂😂
@@mnemonic1363 Hey Stewart, look forward seeing you around! With a name like that you must have an amazing Memory, so I will just "Stand Back" and see if "Anyone ever written anything for you", So "I can't wait" to see "If anyone Falls" from the "rooms on fire" cause some one's in a "Whole lotta trouble" after they " talk to me" Have a great night!! :):)
@@hthuseby 😂😂😂😂 That's awesome! Made my night!
If you like FWM do “Rhiannon”, video from 1976 (taped live on The Midnight Special). From instrumentation to background vocals to Buckingham solo to Nicks finish, the very best.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Oh yes! Stevie literally goes off the chain when she sings this song. I actually don’t know how they kept her relatively contained in the studio recording. Her band mates have been quoted as saying that watching Stevie sing this song wasn’t watching a performance…it was viewing a possession. The background of the actual Welch Demi-goddess Rhiannon and Stevie’s experience in writing and performing this song, laced with many unusual coincidences as it was, is quite interesting.
Incredible live performance
Truly incredible 👏
I would suggest 1975 live version. It's even more incredible.
I just love how Lex genuinely enjoys the music, you can tell it's not fake like a lot of reactors.
As a child of the 70s & 80s, this is one of those songs that always takes me back to my childhood. Couldn't turn the radio on for more than 10 minutes any time between 1982 and 1985 without hearing this song.
Maybe I'm the only one, but this song has always held very deep meaning for me, and I was in tears while watching the video. Am I the only one? Perhaps I read too much into it, but I feel like it's a very emotional song. I interpret the lightning strikes as certain key people and events in your life that create magical possibilities, giving you the chance to acknowledge their gifts, or squander them. I interpret the lyrics as hinting towards her feeling like she gives so much, and she just wants to share her inner beauty and magic, and be acknowledged and appreciated for what she gives, but is not. She is having to evaluate her inner strength in regards to moving on. "The gypsy," is the strength that us women have to carry to make it though this world, and having to constantly remind ourselves that we are enough. We can do it, we are "gypsies," and everything is temporary, except the fact that we will carry ourselves. We have to remember the inner child, or vulnerability, that lives inside of us, and love and care for them, and in the end, we will have to be enough on our own. It also feels like a song of loss, possibly of a relationship. And of wishing they would appreciate the spark in you that lights up the night. But they just can't see it, so you are dancing away from them now, even though you don't want to, preparing to be strong once again, and to remember the gypsy.
Sometimes just put the pipe down
you are not the only one.
Watching Lex have a song touch her soul is the best. It comes out in her whole face. She just lights up. Thanks for making my day. Love to you both
Lex “That’s how my blood sounds!” YES! That is exactly how listening to Stevie and Fleetwood Mac makes me feel! It’s all feeling and energy with anything from them! Do More!! 💕
Same!!
I am a musician and love 80's heavy metal but when a song hits you right it does not matter the genre...very cool song.
Brad-so sensible! Lexi-so creative! Together-so fun! -Terry
Brad so boring. He doesn’t understand any music that’s not rap. So sad
They are left brain and right brain
Deep down Lex is a Hippie, that's great🤘
I just love how Lex gets into the music and Brad is always so stoic.
Once again Lexy is spot on, the innocence of a child and the freedom of a gypsy, just a memory now.
I grew up on this music. I’m a long haul truck driver and I listen to them a lot. Their song Sarah makes me cry.
I always found their song "Sara" to be the superior one.... ;-)
The guitar solo at the end. Delicate and intricate. Blows me away everytime I hear it.
This song is so smooth, it's like there aren't any consonants, just vowels the whole way through.
Yeah, the song really is like a massage.
I never get tired of listening to it.
I believe it’s about before she became famous and life was simpler, she was anonymous and could go anywhere she wanted, no lawyers and contracts…just free like a gypsy.
Lex, are you sure you haven't solved Einstein's theory of "time travel"?? I swear if go back and watch the Woodstock Documentary I'm gonna see you in the audience with flowers in your hair, wearing bell-bottoms, and dancing to the music. Your spirit, and Brad's love of your spirit, is just, well, perfect.
Lex, you really do have that hippie/gypsy vibe. While many female artists broke through the barriers of the times, Stevie Nicks embodied the feminine side of rock/hippie and made her own gypsy persona. That persona is still alive & well today. Check out her & Tom Petty's "Stop Dragging my Heart Around", and her & Don Henley's "Leather & Lace." And, OMG YES(!), Edge of Seventeen!!
Lex FEELS the music, Brad over analyses the music. Lex comes off with the broader smile.
As a formally trained musician, I was never into Fleetwood Mac, but I gave this album a chance. I was immediately struck by its sound, it might be the best produced and engineered rock album, it just sounds perfectly captured and balanced. Then I realized the lyrics are awesome, and I've been hooked ever since.
Agree totally! The best sounding band ever!
Welcome to The FM cult ! We've been waiting for you !
Iindsey's arrangement of this is divine. That bridge and the ending guitarpickingsegment....really add to this gorgeously sung song.
"Thats how my blood sounds"
Man she always come up with the most craziest yet! Creatively genius thoughts
You should do Fleetwood Mac "Rhianon" live on the Midnight Special show. Stevie goes off .
Agree 100% amazing performance
From 1976 the best version of Rhiannon I ever heard ! Buckingham goes of too.
Facts! That performance is otherworldly
Agreed, without question the best version of Rhiannon.
Always liked Fleetwood Mac, Especially Stevie Nicks!
Her father was a billie goat.
I fell in love with Stevie Nicks when I was 7, and she and her voice, still have me hooked today. The queen of Rock and Roll.
Fleetwood Mac in the 70's fell into the 'California Sound", along with the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and other bands like Cheap Trick. It is a thick FM sound like back when your room would be lit by the little green light from the long stereo dial below the turntable on the room stereo.
I love Stevie Nicks, solo and with Fleetwood Mac! To me the Gypsy represents a free spirit and the child in the song represents pure love! This song was released in 1982 from the album “Mirage” and I love the Official video for it also! ❤️❤️
This song is partly about Stevie Nick’s best friend dying from Leukemia and it also talks about her going back to her roots when she was younger and carefree in simpler times. Back to living like a gypsy one room with some lace and paper flowers where she literally slept on a bed mattress on the floor and her room was decorated like a gypsy room. Lex definitely got the gist of the song. And Brad, to say she has a good voice is the biggest understatement pertaining to the incredible Stevie Nicks.
Lex, you never cease to amaze me. This is total 60's vibe, transported to the 1980's!
Lex is the actual living embodiment of that old saying, "Live, Laugh, Love."
Except she actually lives it
Rhiannon live performance is a must to see Stevie perform the crap out of that song Midnight Special
This song is just one of the many reasons why this woman was THE FIRST woman inducted in to the rock and roll hall of fame twice!!! 🎩👢🌝✨
Lex knows her music!! Her soul be reaching out to the classics!!! ♥️♥️
70's hippie, I remember playing this album over and over , in my bell bottoms, and my corduroy platform shoes, and yes singing in to my hair brush.
Hope you catch the official video at some point. Gorgeous production, with a number of different sets. Was one of the most expensive videos in its time.
NAILED IT AGAIN LEX!! Self-inflecting song....my top 3 Fleetwood Mac songs....gorgeous, deep, and self-inflecting...
Once upon a time music was poetry. This is a brilliant example of that.
the "gypsy" is a free spirit...you got it Lex!
Stevie Nicks worked in a shop called the Velvet Underground which was a hippie shop. This song is a reminiscence of her youth. She was the gypsy and still has a lot of gypsy going on.
Guys.....seriously just do the whole album. You won't regret it. 💜💜💜
I love when someone gets FM. Its always beautiful. This is why they are timeless and perfect. Its art for your soul to explore and understand about yourself.
It's so funny to watch you react. Brad always looks a little bit confused and Lex enjoyed - not only in this song
For a band always at odds with each other they created awesome unforgettable music
Lex is so cute and bubbly and Brad is perpetually perplexed ...lol.. you guys are awesome
Brad, you're the king!! The king of overthinking... just flow with it man, it's all good!
He just annoys me. If it’s not rap he’s so lost.
You look so happy! That smile. It’s perfect. I hope she sees this. It would bring her so much joy.
Lex is it! What sweet energy, what groove.... sooooo in touch AND GEORGOUS . Brad is a FORTUNATE MAN
I know this song has a literal meaning but for me it is about looking back to the person you were before, way before experience changed you, and wanting to be that person again, even just for a moment. It is about nostalgia and longing for the you that once was, more innocent, less jaded. That’s how it feels to me anyway when I sing along to it.
Art is not always literal. You’re going to break your head trying to figure out the mind of an artist. Your wife gets it.
Why does Lex remind me of a cute lil puppet enjoying herself bouncing to the music. LoL!!
Just the instrumentals of Fleetwood mac is powerful enough, add in the vocals of stevie nicks and all that just blows me away. Instrumental perfection. xx💖💖
I absolutely love Lyndseys guitar at the end.
Absolutely love Fleetwood Mac do dreams gold dust woman and landslide Stevie is a goddess
One of my favorite songs ever & im a NY born & raised 40 plus hip hop fan
Lex you are a joy to watch, you feel you understand the songs and meanings, even if you don't your take is very incytfull , you are a joy to watch
To paraphrase: “My blood sounds ‘do de do do’ but my sweat is all metal.” This is my new favorite semi-quote.
LMAO! Love the conceptualization from Lex! She's always totally out there left field, and also totally accurate! Love it!
This released in 1982 and is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Y’all should take a look at the music video. It won one of the first VMAs if I’m not mistaken
Love you guys. She gets it, this song is “more of a feeling.” When I need to check out this is my go. You don’t really know where you go while listening to it or a specific literal story but you know you went somewhere else for a few minutes and you loved it, wherever it was.
Stevie Nicks is a God. Edge of Seventeen and anything from Rumours would be a great choice. I know you try hard to get the lyrics Brad, but sometimes you just need to let it flow. Cheers!
Goddess, Gypsy Goddess
This a Stevie mini autobio of her early days traveling around doing gigs and crashing where she could. Trying to make a little home wherever she was. Like a Cypsy.
fleetwood mac, oh those memories from the 70s are amazing^^ I've listened to them over and over, still have the LPs and still listen to them. when i wanted to chill i listened to fleetwood mac for hours ^^
One of my favorite songs of all time! Lindsay's arrangements and Stevie's singing is everything!
This song to me is about losing something you really love. How many times in life do you find that one thing, or one person. Hence the lyric, "Lightning strikes... Maybe once, Maybe twice" (if you can be that lucky to have it strike twice). "She is dancing away from you now." But you still see her everywhere and in everything.
Love this song, and watching Lex jam out to it. They have so many amazing songs, Rhiannon is a must, and just too many to name right now 😅 All of Rumours, of course...
Love that Lex smiling the whole way through!
Brad, as a male I love this song. It's tiring hearing you be so analytical about every reaction I hear from you. Leave a little bit of your mind behind, open your heart and maybe you'll "see your gypsy".
Have you ever been around hippies?
@@billw6954 I have really nice people 😊
Beautiful comment @Harold Eisenstat 🕯️
Rock is often abstract. And Brad seeks logic and a direct message most often.
He’s the only reaction guy who reads all the lyrics. Just listen and enjoy the great music. C’mon man
God, I love Lex. She is a musical savant.
I love this woman... She still has plenty of gypsy in her... He kinda keeps her grounded... Gotta love it!
You should do Fleetwood Mac, "Rhiannon", live from the Midnight Special in 1976. It's a great live performance. The whole band was on fire for that song that night.
GYPSE was the singer's favorite vintage clothing store .. she used to love to shop there for vintage clothes which at that time would have been from the 20s,30s,40s, 50s.....
I haven't really listened to this song in thirty years. Since I WAS a child. Amazing. I wonder if this would be a hit in today's mumble rap milieu, though? I fear not.
Actually, because of a viral TicTok video their song dreams charted higher than it did when it was released…. proof people still want good music.
It's about holding on to your inner child. The one with big dreams and a bright future. It all comes down to you whether or not you keep that childlike wonder. I still see your bright eyes.
I'm a musician and this is my favorite song because of her power of genuine lyrics. Fleetwood is incredible, too. Lot of house funk un there
The story is about her missing her carefree days when she was a gypsy and not trapped in the cages of fame and fortune and her wanting to go back to the gypsy that se was and misses.
It’s also about her best friend dying of leukemia and how she lost her and can still see her friend’s bright eyes.
That part about the child she is referring to marrying her friends husband to care for the child. But they broke up which is why she brings the child up because loving the child wasn’t enough for them to stay together. They both love the child but don’t love each other.
So it has three stories in the song. About her carefree gypsy days, her friend dying/missing and mourning her, and the doomed marriage which was supposed to give the child a good home but never works out.
intricate knowledge of the band and their individual pasts does help. Fleetwood Mac is the first band to make me stop dead in my tracks and stare at the speaker the entire song as a child. I was 5-6 and it was 77-78 and it was Gold Dust Woman. This song needs followed by Sara.
Brad is the analytical one and Lex is the feels everything one. They compliment each other very well. This song is so good. They have some other great songs if you haven't listened to them yet...Landslide, Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way, Sara, etc.
To me, this song is about the randomness that people and opportunities come in and out of our lives. When the "lightning strikes", take advantage of the opportunity before it's gone.
I love John McVie's bass line. And Lindsey Buckingham's guitar work. Very unique.
Stevie is absolutely amazing live. Thankful for my hippie parents who basically raised us with all the great music. Got to see Stevie live with my Daddy and I literally ugly cried during many points of the concert.
I love the new sign! The light is adjusted perfectly in this video. Really cool.
You kids are so awesome I'm 58 was in this music up to my neck my Era... magical mystical hippy love connection hard simple to the point no jive... 70's was the best.. simple not so complicated.. bell bottoms platform shoes and wallabies even tho this was eighties in that spirit of the 70's..
Lexi gets it. I can tell she connects with the music, her description of the sound of her heartbeat and...well you heard her.
Much love
God bless 🕯️
I don't think Lex stopped smiling the entire song :) I don't know what the song means. But I've always liked it. When I listen to this song, I do it in the mind and style of Lex... just along for the melodic ride.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you may enjoy Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere” which was used recently in a Chevrolet television commercial. Also, the official music video of this song shows the story from the famous poem “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes. Another singer, Loreena McKennitt, put the poem to music in a song of the same name that is very beautiful.
Fav Fleet song with Christine singing
She's right. That is in her blood. Beautiful spirit.
The unbridled joy in lex's face just made my day
Their song "Dreams" is one of my fav jams of all time. Just a smooth vibe
"Gypsy" was released as a single in 1982. Their mind-blowingly successful album "Rumours" was released in February 1977 and since then is one of the highest selling albums. I think you could definitely describe Stevie Nicks as a 'hippyish' and Christine McVie and the rhythm section, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie (guess where the band name came from), were like older blues-playing 'hippies'.
A strawberry mouse or-soufflé of a song,and as beautiful.
Great review. Like the ending „Stevie Nicks is my spirit animal“. AWESOME!
My dad's first crush! Stevie Nicks just has the most amazing and unique voice. You know its her from the moment she sings her first note. True icon ❤️❤️❤️
She has explained the Velvet Underground was a store where hippies or cool people went back in the day to buy clothes and outfits for shows. It had a special decorated floor and a room with some lace and paper flowers. It was one of her fav places as a starving artist……so it made its way into one of her songs.
Brad good luck on analyzing the lyrics of 70s music. Lots of drugs involved.
For this man, her voice is irresistible. Too much.