Stevie Nicks urges musicians to use their platforms to encourage people to vote

30 October, 2024

Stevie Nicks attends the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony - Press Room at Barclays Center on March 29, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

Stevie Nicks has urged musicians to use their platforms as a way to encourage people to go and vote.

The rock icon and former Fleetwood Mac member appeared as a guest on MSNBC’s talk show Morning Joe and opened up to Mika Brzezinski about why she thinks her musical colleagues should be encouraging more people to vote.

After being asked by Brzezinski “What can others, female rockers, singers, icons, are there any who you can name that can do more at this moment, isn’t this the moment when we should be leaving it all on the stage?,” Nicks responded: “Well you know, if you really think about it, no matter who really wins, it’s not over. Right, I mean the government, whatever, we have to figure out a way to bring back Roe v. Wade.”

 

She continued: “I mean we all had to pick causes, this the cause I chose but you know what, in the 50s, 60s and going into the 70s, everybody was writing protest songs, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, so I would say to all of my musical poets that write songs, write some songs about what is happening like I did. Yes, it’s scary. I mean there was a point where I was going like ‘I’m pretty terrified to put this song out’ and then I thought to myself ‘You know what? At 76, years old, ‘Really?’ So I’m putting this song out and I’m loving putting it out because I do think people are listening to it.”

The song Nicks was discussing is her new track ‘The Lighthouse‘, which she has described as “the most important thing I ever do”. The song is a rousing call to arms for women to reclaim their reproductive healthcare rights in the US and beyond.

“What is your warning to all of us right now?” Brzezinski asked the singer in her interview to which Nicks replied: “For me it was like read the words, listen to the song and vote. No matter what.”

The ‘Landslide’ singer mentioned that she never voted until she was aged 70 and calls that one of her regrets which is big since she doesn’t “have many regrets.” She added: “There are so many reasons, you can say ‘Well I didn’t have time’, this and that. In the long run, yeah you didn’t have an hour? You didn’t have an hour of your time that you could have gone and voted?”

“If you’re going to vote in an election, let it be this one,” said Brzezinsk with the rock icon adding: “Let it be this one.”

In other news, Nicks recently shared that going through with her pregnancy in 1979 would have “destroyed” her career with Fleetwood Mac.

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