Stevie Nicks Shares Video for New Abortion Rights Anthem “The Lighthouse”: Watch

Stevie Nicks has launched a topical new single titled “The Lighthouse.” She wrote the track within the wake of the Supreme Court docket’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. The observe arrives with a music video that includes footage from quite a lot of ladies’s marches and abortion rights rallies, in addition to a fleet of protesters carrying indicators with slogans like “Maintain Abortion Authorized” and “Get Mad” as Nicks leads them in a march on the seaside. Watch the visible beneath.

“I wrote this track a couple of months after Roe v. Wade was overturned,” Nicks mentioned of “The Lighthouse in press supplies. She continued:

It appeared like in a single day, individuals had been saying “what can we, as a collective drive, do about this….” For me, it was to write down a track. It took some time as a result of I used to be on the highway. Then early one morning I used to be watching the information on TV and a sure newscaster mentioned one thing that felt like she was speaking to me ~ explaining what the lack of Roe v Wade would come to imply. I wrote the track the subsequent morning and recorded it that evening.

That was September 6, 2022. I’ve been engaged on it ever since. I’ve typically mentioned to myself, “This can be a very powerful factor I ever do. To face up for the ladies of the USA and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the lads that love them.”

That is an anthem.

Nicks wrote “The Lighthouse” with Magnus Birgersson and Vincent Villuis. She co-produced it with Dave Cobb and Sheryl Crow, the latter of whom additionally performs bass and guitar on the observe.

Nicks was not too long ago introduced because the musical visitor for the October 12 episode of Saturday Evening Stay, which might be hosted by Ariana Grande. The night will mark Nicks’ first efficiency on the present since 1983.