Stevie Nicks thanks Taylor Swift for writing song that captures how she feels about losing Christine McVie
23.05.2023 - 16:41
/ nme.com
Stevie Nicks has paid tribute and thanks to Taylor Swift for penning the song ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid’ – for capturing how she feels about the loss of late Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie.McVie passed away in November 2022, aged 79, leading to an outpouring of grief from her bandmates as well as the music world at large. It was later reported that she died peacefully following a stroke.During a solo show in Atlanta, Georgia last night (Monday May 22), Nicks gave a nod to Swift and one track in particular from her acclaimed 2022 album ‘Midnights’ for helping her to grieve for her late friend.Stevie Nicks thanks Taylor Swift for writing ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid’ because it’s how she feels after losing Christine McVie.
pic.twitter.com/6zgYD0tduk— Pop Base (@PopBase) May 23, 2023“Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing this thing for me, and that is writing a song called ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid’. That is the sadness of how I feel,” Nicks told the crowd“As long as Chris was, even on the other side of the world.
We didn’t have to talk on the phone, we really weren’t phone buddies. Then we would go back to Fleetwood Mac, and we would walk in and it would be like, ‘Little sister, how are you?’ It was like never a minute had passed, never an argument in our entire 47 years.”After cheers from the audience, Nicks added: “So, when it was the two of us, the two of us were on our own, kids, we always were.
And now, I’m having to learn to be on my own, kid, by myself. So, you help me to do that.
Thank you.”In February this year, Mick Fleetwood discussed the possibility of Fleetwood Mac performing live again given McVie’s death. “Right now, I truly think the line in the sand has been drawn with the loss of Chris,” he said during an
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