Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' is the viral antidote to Trump
that’s sent Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 hit “Dreams” back into the upper reaches of streaming charts this week.
It’s Fleetwood’s drum roll that opens the soft-rock classic from the band’s Grammy-winning, gajillion-selling “Rumours” album — as instantly identifiable a percussive flourish as John Bonham’s bone-rattling intro to Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” or Phil Collins’ epic beat-drop from “In the Air Tonight.”
But anybody who knows “Dreams” — which took off online after a TikTok user with the handle Doggface208 posted a clip of himself skating to the song while guzzling from a full-size bottle of cran-raspberry juice — knows that it really belongs to Fleetwood Mac’s most iconic member, 72-year-old Stevie Nicks.
Written as she and her bandmate Lindsey Buckingham were ending their famously stormy romantic relationship, the indelible “Dreams” might be Nicks’ finest showcase in a career that stretches over five decades. The lyrics, addressed to a guy going crazy “in the stillness of remembering what you had,” are haunting and precise; the melody captures a couple’s intimacy even as it evokes the loneliness to come.
“Now here you go again / You say you want your freedom,” she sings right at the top, and already we’re knee-deep in these people’s messy personal history. “Well, who am I to keep you down?”— somehow OMG and DGAF at once — makes it small wonder that folks are using “Dreams” to soundtrack their cute little cranberry-juice videos.
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