Stevie Nicks Releases First New Song in Four Years

This morning, Stevie Nicks offered her fans a taste of, potentially, a new chapter in her career. “The Lighthouse” marks the Fleetwood Mac veteran, Grammy Award winner and solo superstar’s first new song in four years, 2020’s “Show Them the Way.” Written as “a battle cry to current, past, and future generations of women” in the wake of Roe v. Wade getting overturned, Nicks’s words arrive like a balm of assurance: “Try to see the future, and get mad / It’s slippin’ through your fingers / You don’t have what you had.”

Nicks wrote “The Lighthouse” with Magnus Birgersson and Vincent Villas, and she co-produced it with Sheryl Crow and Dave Cobb. The songstress offered a statement on the song, which you can read below:

“I wrote this song a few months after Roe V Wade was overturned. It seemed like overnight, people were saying ‘what can we, as a collective force, do about this…’ For me, it was to write a song.

“It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me ~ explaining what the loss of Roe v Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night.

“That was September 6, 2022. I have been working on it ever since. I have often said to myself, “This may be the most important thing I ever do.” To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the men that love them.

“This is an anthem.”

Later this fall, Nicks will be performing on Saturday Night Live, and here’s to hoping she breaks this one out when she gets to Studio 8H. Listen to “The Lighthouse” below.