When Christie McVie passed away a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help but imagine the public reaction when her Fleetwood Mac bandmate Stevie Nicks eventually shuffles off this mortal coil. No doubt it will be far more intense.
In part that’s because Nicks is the more flamboyant artist, the scarf-draped mystic who commanded the stage visually while McVie held back. Nicks is also responsible for ‘Landslide’ and ‘Dreams,’ arguably the band’s most popular and beloved songs.
I thought I’d wrap up this first week of the new year by looking ahead to some of my plans for the blog in 2023.
Today’s SOTD has no relevance beyond its title, but it’s pretty decent considering I happened upon it by randomly searching “coming attractions” in Amazon Music. Nodaway is a band fronted by Nashville-based artist Chris Jobe and this track comes from their 2015 EP 500 Days of Whatever.
While no official announcement has been made, it seems likely Rihanna will grace us with a new album this year.
It has been seven years since the billionaire goddess last dropped an album — 2016’s career-best Anti — but her appearance as the halftime performer in next month’s Super Bowl suggests new material is on the way. Why take the country’s biggest stage with nothing to promote?
I scanned a list of upcoming 2023 albums and didn’t see a lot to get excited about other than the Lana Del Rey release covered earlier this week.
New titles have been announced by Sam Smith, Pink, Shania Twain, Gorillaz, and Margo Price, to name a few, but I won’t go out of my way to hear any of those.
It’s still very early, though, so I’m sure some more exciting titles will pop up on the horizon. How about a new Ben Folds album, if the universe is taking suggestions?
The title cut from Lana Del Rey’s upcoming album, featured yesterday, includes this verse:
“Harry Nilsson has a song, his voice breaks at 2:05 / Something about the way he says “Don’t forget me” makes me feel like / I just wish I had a friend like him, someone to get me by / Lennon in the back, whisperin’ in my ear / “Come on, baby, you can thrive” / But I can’t”
The song she’s referencing is Nilsson’s ‘Don’t Forget Me,’ which appeared on the John Lennon-produced 1974 album Pussy Cats.
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