Favorite Stevie-isms
 

As we all know whether Stevie’s singing live or in the studio she sometimes mispronounces words or they are just plain unintelligible altogether. I like to call them Stevie-isms. It's so cute - like she has her own language and she repeats some of them in multiple songs. I’m curious as to what some of your favorites are or ones you’ve noticed over the years that stand out. I personally love “drownded in the sea” (as opposed to drowning) from The Nightmare. Also, there’s been debate over her saying “smell of nag champra” as opposed to the correct pronunciation, “nag champa” from Illume. I know some of these may be controversial as to what she’s actually saying and what the correct pronunciation is but let’s start some controversy!

Favourite Stevie-ism:
"Well, I..."
"Well, you....."
Well, baby....."
"WEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLL"

Well, it's all about the wells! :wavey:

I dare someone to count the number of times Stevie says baby in her songs. I guess baby is a pretty general word though. My favorite baby is Gold Dust Woman live "baby baby baby baby baby baby, you can't see me now..."

:laugh:, that's her trademark ! I'll think of mine. I just love the way she, like, tells the story : "And the man said, hold on, baby the night is comiiing", "he said", "she said", 'the said, women, they will come"... I've noticed a lot of Stevie-ism, but God, I can't remember now !

Ha ha love the "he said", "she said". It's definitely her trademark to speak about herself or her many alter-egos (Lily, etc.) in the 3rd person.

ohmygod, yes! she can string anything together with "WELL"

i also love how she pronounces different words:

like "ay-way" instead of "uh-way!":laugh:

and...when she talks: "You know!":)

Isn't that the only word left in "Stand Back" these days????!!!!????!!!!

I like the "Well, Well" in Eo17. :thumbsup:

Stevie's newest song entitled "Well, Well" and the chorus sings:
"She says well baby but he says well well baby baby baby...":lol:

I hated when she sang "well" in every line. Luckily, that was mostly in the Klonopin years when her creativity was way down.
I like the way she pronounces musicians, like musi-sins, instead of musi-shuns.

:laugh::laugh:

Oh well...

That sums it up. Thread closed. :woohoo:

That sounds like 'Imperial Hotel'
:lol:

No way! I think it was the opposite, I think the WH and RAL years were her well-iest.
By the time she got to the little blue pills stamped with a 'k', she was no longer ad-libbing.

"When I See You Again????" JK! :laugh:

"Here Stevie! What the matter girl? Did the baby fall down the WEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL?"

Imperial Oh Well.

:laugh::laugh: good one!

Does anybody remember what Stevie was asked when her response was "when pigs fly!"? I can totally hear her saying that but can't for the life of me remember what it was in response to. I want to say she was referring to Lindsay Lohan playing her in a bio-pic but I think her response to that was "over my dead body" which is pretty funny too.

This doesn't really have to do with Stevie-isms but since it's my thread I can be off-topic. So here's my issue - it has always been important to me when it comes to Stevie's songs to know who wrote the music and who wrote the lyrics. For some reason the song is not quite as special if it wasn't all written by her. The nicksfix songs and lyrics section is a great resource for this type of into and on some songs it says "music by..." or "words by..." but on others it says "written by Stevie Nicks and so and so" but doesn't discern between who wrote the music and who wrote the lyrics or if they worked together. Does this make sense to anyone? For example, under I Can't Wait it says "written by s. nicks, r. nowels, e. pressly" but doesn't say which one wrote the lyrics and which one wrote the music. Of course I know that she wrote the lyrics and not the music but for many others I don't know. It's really annoying!

Well, you know, I'd have to say that out of all my, you know, favorite Stevie-isms, "you know" would have to be one of them. You know? Even though it drives me, you know, well, insane.

I like "make the guitar sound more sparkly". I think it was on the Mirage rehearsal tape?

Been singing "you know what I mean" all day. She also likes "like" a lot.

If you throw in "dream" a few times you may just have her greatest hits..

but that's truly the beauty of Miss Nicks. If any pop artist out there today sang repetitively lyrics like that, it would, chances are, be considered annoying...:sorry:

has listening to "Bombay Sapphires" inspired you to change your signature???":shrug:

Haha very true, I personally love the repetitiveness of her lyrics. Very mysterious. Every time I try to watch a live bootleg of her, my friend says "well, well, well", mocking her, and gets annoyed and walks out hahaha.

And what would make you think that? :confused: I actually haven't listened to it today. Just have it running through my head all day.

Ha! Ok how's this? "She says well baby but he says well well baby baby baby dream on silly dreamer like a gold gypsy".

I've never found it annoying but rather endearing. Not only is her repetitiveness mysterious like you said but it has defined her image and created the "character" that is Stevie Nicks. I believe the themes that constantly re-appear in her lyrics are part of a continuous story of characters in a world that she has created.

I couldn't have said it better, I love dwelling on why there are similar lyrics in Angel and Sweet Girl or Illume and Destiny Rules. And you're remix of "Well, Well" has become Crystal Visions Part 2 :laugh:

lolz when you posted "you know, what i mean" i was like BOMBAY SAPPHIRES!!!!!!!

then i noticed you changed your sig to its lyrics haha

You are so right! I'm just a tad obsessed with Bombay Sapphires :nod:

Thank you! That's really nice. And yes, I also love dwelling on pretty much anything Stevie.

How could I forget this one - "hit it". She loves hit it. I think she says hit at least 20 times on RAL. And hit what? The stage? You? Lindsey? Nowadays when artists sing/rap "hit it" it takes on a whole new meaning. :lol:.

I also love hit it.