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Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie and Taylor Swift.
CNN –
Legendary songwriter Stevie Nicks thanked a fellow artist.
During a concert this week in Atlanta, Nicks thanked Taylor Swift for a song expressing Nicks’ grief at the death of Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie.
“Thanks to Taylor Swift for doing this thing for me, which is to write a song called ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid,'” Nicks said in a video from the concert that has been shared widely on social media. “That’s the sadness I feel.”
McVie died in November 2022 after a short illness. She was 79.
Nicks told concert-goers, “As long as Chris was around, we didn’t even have to make a phone call across the world.”
“We really weren’t phone buddies,” Nicks said. “Then we went back to Fleetwood Mac and walked in and said, ‘Little sister, how are you?’ It was like never a minute had passed in our entire 47 years, never an argument.”
“So when there were two of us, we were both alone, kids, we always were,” she added. “And now I must learn to be alone, child, alone. So you help me with this. Thank you very much.”
“You’re On Your Own, Kid” is one of the tracks on Swift’s 2022 album Midnights.
Then she sings: “Cause there were changes with the bridges burned/Everything you lose is a step you take/So make the Friendship Bracelets/Take the moment and taste it/You’ve got no reason to be terrible/You “Bist auf on your own boy/Yes you can take it/You’re on your own boy/You always were.”