Bella Donna
 

I have been obsessed (and I mean obsessed) with

Bella Donna (title track)
How Still My Love
Kind of Woman
Wild Heart
If Anyone Falls
Sable On Blonde
Nightbird
Beauty and Beast


(that's my little playist)

Bella Donna especially. To me she writes about her life changing, drugs, fame, trying to find direction (Northern Star) trying to come in out of the darkness... It's so personal, so beautiful, and so authentic. I love love love this era. Still mad at her for various reasons, but not when this music plays. :) AND YOU NEVER THOUGHT IT COULD!!!!!!!!

For years and years, The Wild Heart has been my least favorite solo album (yes, even behind Street Angel! :eek:), but the reissue has been in my car since release day.

Some songs formerly considered clunkers imho ("Nothing Ever Changes", "Gate & Garden", "I Will Run To You") have started to grow on me...

Nothing Ever was my favorite for a long time. :thumbsup:

Nothing Ever Changes and I Will Run to You are two of my favorites- I think they're underrated, so I'm glad to hear they've grown on you!

Yes I agree with your description of Bella Donna. I would just add its a song about finding inner strength and your confidence. I had an incredible Bella Donna moment once. About 1983 or 1984 I was at an amusement park with my friends. It was night and all the lights on the rides were on. There was a full moon in the sky and it was summer. There was a little lagoon in the amusement park with benches around it. I cant remember the circumstances why I was alone on a bench near the lagoon. Maybe my friends went to ride a ride I did not want to ride or something. But I am sitting there and they are playing music over the loudspeakers and I kid you not......the song Bella Donna comes on. It was a surreal moment for me. A surprise song (not some top 40 hit), I was alone with a full moon and I was just beginning my teenage years. This summer night and this song is something I will always remember. I got to listen to the entire song before my friends came back. It was like magic. When the song started I thought someone was playing a joke on me. Looking up at that big full moon hearing "don't you know that the stars are a part of us."

My favorite lines:

And the woman may be so awestruck and the woman may truly care.. but the woman is so tired...... so the woman disappears......come in out of the darkness

No speed limit.....This is the fast lane....it's just the way that it is here

And the lady if feeling like the moon that she loves

Don't you know that the stars are part of us

I also like the beginning about the trapeze and pony and she calls it phony. To me she is calling out the glory hounds in life and how unauthentic people are in this life.

And the lady's feeling like the moon that she loves. ;)

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YES to all of this! Hearing Bella Donna live on this tour has been truly amazing. I get chills every time I hear her sing it - such pure perfection.

You nailed it.. that's my fav part, too. There's a lot of sorrow underneath all this. Because to me she is saying that she no longer is Stephanie and that person is gone. And I can feel that sorrow in her voice, in the music, in the words. It's perfection.

I think also the phony part is somewhat autobiographical. Not that she's calling herself phony in a bad way. She's just saying that "you'll never scare me, because I know you." Also, agree it's a nod to fame.. and the attributes of being famous.

She's being very real about it.

Bella Donna makes me cry. :'(

I never paid much attention to this album until the re-release, and man, is this album BEAUTIFUL...

My top:

1. Think About It
2. Bella Donna
3. Outside The Rain
4. The Highwayman
5. Edge of Seventeen

The order may seem strange but I can really relate to these first 4.

It makes me cry, too. Think About It was written for Christine McVie. Love the lyrics.