[Macfan4life]

I was in the car today and Gypsy came on. It made me think about the song. Stevie was really on a creative roll coming off epic and poetic songs like Sara and her huge solo album that was still charting singles when Mirage was released. Gypsy is like Sara in that its not a typical pop song in that it has no chorus. Its pure poetry crafted into a fantastic melody and one of the best vocal bridges in music history. Gypsy was a monster video. Stevie could do no wrong having 2 #1 albums back to back solo and with the Mac. You would think so much more was yet to come but sadly Gypsy was the high water mark with her in the band. It was her last self written Mac song to be released as a single. That would be impossible to believe if someone would have told you that in 1982. Stevie did hit it big with one of her biggest solo songs the following year but the Mac era was over. By the time Seven Wonders was released, Stevie just came off a solo album where most of the songs were co-written or written by someone else. The next Mac album in 1990 no Stevie songs were even released as a single. I suppose in theory Say You Will counts as a self written single but it never charted. Its really surreal to think that Gypsy was her last written Mac single and hit in the States (Paper Doll charted in Canada).
Really shocking and sad. Drugs really took momentum off her career.