Stevie Nicks’ ‘The Lighthouse’ Voted Favorite New Music This Week
Stevie Nicks‘ “The Lighthouse” tops this week’s new music ballot.
Music followers voted in a ballot revealed Friday (Sept. 27) on Billboard, selecting the rock icon’s recent tune as their favourite new music launch of the previous week.
The ballot introduced stiff competitors, however Nicks’ new tune introduced in virtually 72% of the vote. Voters this week selected “The Lighthouse” over sizzling new music releases from expertise together with Lady Gaga, The Weeknd and Playboi Carti, Rosalía that includes Ralphie Choo, and extra.
“The Lighthouse,” Nicks acknowledged upon releasing the monitor on Sept. 27, “may be the most important thing I ever do.”
“I have my scars, you have yours/ Don’t let them take your power,” she sings with expert restraint, with verses main as much as a dynamic refrain that urges listeners to “see the future and get mad.”
“I wrote this song a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned,” wrote Nicks in a put up on Instagram. “It seemed like overnight, people were saying ‘what can we, as a collective force, do about this…’ For me, it was to write a song.”
She continued, “It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me~ explaining what the loss of Roe v. Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night. That was September 6, 2022. I have been working on it ever since. I have often said to myself, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever do.’ To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the men that love them.”
“This is an anthem,” Nicks stated.
Among the brand new music trailing behind “The Lighthouse” on this week’s ballot is Lady Gaga’s Harlequin undertaking, nearing 18% of the vote, and The Weeknd and Playboi Carti’s new collab “Timeless,” with 3% of the vote.
See the ultimate outcomes of this week’s ballot under.