{"id":107602,"date":"2024-09-27T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107602"},"modified":"2024-09-27T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:58:09","slug":"stevie-nicks-releases-song-inspired-by-fight-for-abortion-rights-dont-let-them-take-your-power-stevie-nicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107602","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Nicks releases song inspired by fight for abortion rights: \u2018Don\u2019t let them take your power\u2019 | Stevie Nicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Stevie Nicks has released a forthright new single, The Lighthouse, inspired by the fight to reinstate abortion rights in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Nicks wrote the robust, swaggering rock song in the aftermath of the June 2022 decision by the US supreme court to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/roe-v-wade\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling<\/a> that Americans had a constitutional right to abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cIt seemed like overnight, people were saying, \u2018What can we, as a collective force, do about this?\u2019\u201d Nicks said. \u201cFor 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 \u2013 explaining what the loss of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/roe-v-wade\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Roe v Wade<\/a> would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cThat was September 6, 2022. I have been working on it ever since. I have often said to myself, \u2018This may be the most important thing I ever do. To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters \u2013 and the men that love them.\u2019 This is an anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"59d5b594-fe39-4f8a-9144-040e607bf3a3\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\">\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-13aa88h\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lJDCYh5iWQs?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"Stevie Nicks - The Lighthouse (Official Music Video)\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">In the song, Nicks casts herself as the titular lighthouse, guiding women to campaign for their rights. \u201cI want to teach them to fight \/ I want to tell them this has happened before, don\u2019t let it happen again,\u201d she sings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The chorus is similarly a call to action: \u201cThey\u2019ll take your soul, take your power, unless you stand up, take it back \/ Try to see the future and get mad \/ It\u2019s slipping through your fingers, you don\u2019t have what you had \/ And you don\u2019t have much time to get it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Nicks is backed by Sheryl Crow, who plays guitar and bass as well as singing backing vocals. Crow also co-produced the song with 13-time Grammy winning Dave Cobb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The Lighthouse has been released amid a US election campaign where abortion access has been at the forefront of campaigning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Trump installed the supreme court justices who overturned the decision during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, and has boasted about it: \u201cAfter 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v Wade,\u201d he said in May. In August he said he had \u201cno regrets\u201d about the court decision, saying: \u201cThe federal government should have nothing to do with this issue. It\u2019s being solved at the state level and people are very happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Kamala Harris has repeatedly criticised Trump on the issue, characterising him earlier this week as \u201cthe person who said women should be punished for exercising a decision that they, rightly, should be able to make about their own body and future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">With abortion law now decided at a state level, 14 states have banned abortion with another 11 described as \u201chostile\u201d to it by the Center for Reproductive Rights. Research published this month by Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health found that doctors are being forced to provide substandard care by making women take unviable pregnancies to full term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Nicks, 76, has been using her music to focus on civil rights struggles in recent years. Her one-off track Show Them the Way, in 2020, was inspired by watching documentaries about the civil rights movement and has Nicks imagining performing at a political benefit attended by Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, John F Kennedy and others. She followed it with a cover of Buffalo Springfield\u2019s For What It\u2019s Worth, which was originally inspired by clashes between police and young people over LA curfew laws, and became synonymous with the anti-Vietnam war movement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"4ef1d15f-3ba9-4a59-b61d-06503346e283\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\">\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-13aa88h\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MWkZBQivP74?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"Stevie Nicks - For What It\u2019s Worth (Official Audio)\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The Lighthouse is a rare entirely new song for Nicks, whose last album of brand new material was 2011\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2011\/jun\/24\/stevie-nicks-in-your-dreams\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">In Your Dreams<\/a>. She followed that with new recordings of earlier demos, 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault, in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">She has continued to tour in recent years, including in a co-headline tour with Billy Joel in 2023 and 2024. She will be the musical guest on the 12 October edition of Saturday Night Live, where she is likely to perform The Lighthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">While her new song certainly rebukes Trumpism, Nicks has not explicitly endorsed Harris. Instead she has called for people to register to vote, and in a recent Instagram post she alluded to Swift\u2019s endorsement of Harris, writing: \u201cAs my friend Taylor Swift so eloquently stated, now is the time to research and choose the candidate that speaks to you and your beliefs.\u201d She signed off \u201cchildless dog lady\u201d in a nod to Swift\u2019s own characterisation of herself as a \u201cchildless cat lady\u201d, JD Vance\u2019s derisive description of US Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/sep\/27\/stevie-nicks-song-abortion-rights-the-lighthouse-fleetwood-mac\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevie Nicks has released a forthright new single, The Lighthouse, inspired by the fight to reinstate abortion rights in the US. 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