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🗣️LONG BECAUSE IT IS MEANINGFUL TO ME: SKIP OF YOU DO NOT CARE TO READ ME BLAB A STORY ABOUT MYSELF. Tysm.

🖤31 years ago, My mom wanted to name me Crystal. But my dad (THANK FKING GOD) wasn’t having it… he said he had heard Sara come on the radio speakers when he went to go tell our family in the waiting room that my mom had a girl. So Sara it was. My parents both love Fleetwood Mac.

🎶Anyway here I am 31. Named Sara. (NO H’s!!!! ) Love Fleetwood Mac. Saw them once(with mom and dad of course!) and that show is still my favorite concert EVER. First vinyl I bought was Rumors. Then greatest hits

💎I love this song so passionately I can feel it in my bones from the first note… is it considered a Hidden gem? Underrated? Iconic?

📝Today, I Still love the song. I pick it apart when I’m bored to try to find the best shortest lyric that stands out the most.

🐣I want the tattoo to be small chicken scratch script.not sure where… and maybe ad a small outline icon if it fits

🌻To imagine what fits for me: I am a glorified hippie flower child. Born in the wrong decade. Boho vintage style. Crocheter, photographer, love sun and water. I Have been told I even look like younger Stevie. (Not trying to brag like a loser just pointing it out)I wear a black bucket hat to concerts a lot like the one she wore.

🤸Anyway here’s a few lines of the song I considered:

-stay with me awhile
-Drowning in the sea of love (I have a wave tattoo on my side already)
-Never change. Never stop
-build your house call me home (with outline of a basic house symbol)
- poet of my heart (with heart )

❤️ Wow I’m rambling but side note— One of T Swifts songs I think has the most amazing short lyric that is so powerful
“To live for the hope of it all” - looking for something like that .

Over the years, I’ve heard of a few songs that became hits that Stevie was offered but passed on for various reasons. The list I know of is below along with who ultimately recorded it. Total Eclipse of the Heart and Bette Davis Eyes get mentioned frequently because similarities of the singers’ voices, but from what I can find, they weren’t actually meant for her. Any others?

Call Me (Blondie)
Purple Rain (Prince)
These Dreams (Heart)

Maybe its just cause I never recognized what made it so great intially when I heard it first time. Its so spacey, so many layered vocals to sound heavenly, so many vocal runs from stevie. So few traditional choruses in most songs. Lyrics that read more like running poetry than a traditional song. It was very musey, the pulse of the music moves with a persons inner mechanisms and thinking that's wild in nature. The wild Heart feels like a personal expressions of this persons sincerest thoughts.

But I love love love every song on this album and the outtakes and soundtracks from around this time.

The pink /red / purple hue of the album cover imparts on listeners or at least makes me think of a chanteuse singing in a dimly lit bar. That specific hue go so well with the classic look of a figure so forlorned over lost loves, singing in a seedy bar in the 50s. but also gives modern day lounge singer, kind of neon, kind of matching with the synths and 80s drums all over the place.

The strawberry blonde hair to match the multi-colored background. The robes and beret, multiple stevia's in one shot make me think of an illusion of a witch. Each with distinct faces that show a different face from different disappointments experienced from love. Really equating feminine empowerment to the spirtual, thoughtfulness that the inner power a witch emulates that is what makes being a wiccan empowering. Stevie was a feminist figure through and through on every album. Her witch persona was more of a "I have the power to cast a spell on you by making you think with my poetry that will tether and destroy you inside and reawaken your soul to treat women right". That empowering angle commonly used in history, the 70s and resurfaced around the 1990s. Stevie style really made an impact by the early 90s, with how emotional her work is, how alternative her singing style can be to express sorrow and pain.

The lyrics of this album are generally about sad love, finding self love, being let down by love but still going back for more with the damned wild heart.

I love it all but most of all is the lyrics, music and variety in sound but a strong thematic and musical throughline to the whole album.

Its so synthy. Very spacey, like you are hearing the pure, unaltered thoughts of a person so transfigured by love, so defeated and needing to express their constant state of moving emotions. If anyone falls, Stand Back, Nightbird, I Will Run to You, and Sable On Blonde. All very spacey, all very moody pieces about a persons need for self-love, learning to be alone, learning to deal with the hypocrisy like a Nightbird (a diametric opposite of birds behaviors).

Then so many organs and layered vocals like this is gospel music. Wild Heart, Gate and Garden, Enchanted, Nothing Ever Changes, Beauty & the beast.

The vocal work is beyond. She sounds so broken heartened using imperfections that come through from her singing voice, as well as technical perfection. Beauty and the Beast really emulates what I am talking about here but every song her vocal performance is so specific to the emotion of the lyrics she expresses. Bjork, Lana Del Rey , are artists who did this. Can't think of an album or artist released before this record. This was a new style to music really only heard in folkpop. But Wild Heart is more modern, dancey than regular folk pop. Wild Heart lyrics are similar to folkpop artists but sonically closer to dancepop. Every song is very danceable. Kind of a heartland rock, danceable vibe, not like a Madonna dancepop record, but more like country pop you heard in the 90s but I digress. Its very influential style of singing. Very gospel-oriented. Theres so much yearning and intentionality to choices that's is so so fun. If you add I Sing for Things, Violent and Blue, Garbo and Destiny its an even more heavenly experience to the album.

The "Ghost Record" was announced a year ago. What is going on with this project? It's been forever since we had a new studio album from this legend.

If you've ever met stevie in person share how it was like pls🥰

Out of Stevie Nicks’s full solo discography—from albums to the deeper cuts most people overlook—what songs do you find yourself returning to the most?

Not the singles, but the ones that feel like hidden emotional anchors.

For me it’s Italian Summer, Destiny, and Thousand Days 🥀

This is my first ever post on reddit so bear with me- 
Okay so I’m a younger fan (not saying my actual age) and I have a general question for you all- is paper fan mail still acceptable in 2026? There's a very low likelihood that I'll ever be able to meet Stevie in person and I'd love to be able to tell her how much I love her music (that’s why I want to do it- not for like anything in return but just to tell her how much I love her music as a younger fan) but writing paper fan mail in 2026 feels… wrong. Based on what I know of who she is, I think she’d be okay with it, but I want to clarify. Any thoughts or help from the older generations?? Thanks!!