The Story of Silver Springs - The Best Song I've Ever Written

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by jmn3

100%. And if there was another single on Rumours, IDWK was likely the right choice with SHN being the other option. It just fits on Rumours perfectly. Now Silver Springs is the best song she ever wrote? Of course she has to (as always, late) jump on the trend of that Dance performance gaining TikTok popularity. Is it better than Show Them The Way?

Keeping track of Stevie’s self-proclaimed best songs:
1. Edge Of Seventeen
2. Show Them The Way
3. Stand Back (says she stole it from Prince)
4. The Vampire’s Wife which she has not released (New Yorker Interview in 2022)
5. Touched By An Angel
6. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
7. Dreams (because it was the band’s only Billboard number one)
8. Silver Springs

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Keeping track of Stevie’s self-proclaimed best songs:
1. Edge Of Seventeen
2. Show Them The Way
3. Stand Back (says she stole it from Prince)
4. The Vampire’s Wife which she has not released (New Yorker Interview in 2022)
5. Touched By An Angel
6. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
7. Dreams (because it was the band’s only Billboard number one)
8. Silver Springs

She’s also claimed HAEWAFY is her greatest, most intense song.

[Villavic]

Coming up... she claims Silent Night is the best song she has ever written.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Coming up... she claims Silent Night is the best song she has ever written.

Does she realize that she comes across as completely insane to normal people?

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Does she realize that she comes across as completely insane to normal people?

Well of course the Silent Night comment was sarcasm . But seriously, if I had to defend her, which is becoming more difficult every day, and I have no interest in doing so, I would say that the years of substance abuse have seriously affected her memory and judgment. I wouldn't say she's insane but yes her mind could be seriously affected. It would be a very sad case.

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Well of course the Silent Night comment was sarcasm . But seriously, if I had to defend her, which is becoming more difficult every day, and I have no interest in doing so, I would say that the years of substance abuse have seriously affected her memory and judgment. I wouldn't say she's insane but yes her mind could be seriously affected. It would be a very sad case.

Definitely a possibility but I’m more inclined to think she’s been a spoiled and entitled brat her entire life. A rich kid who got everything they wanted and then found celebrity status and wealth unimaginable to 99.999% of people. She lives in a fantasy world where nobody ever dares put her in her place or knock her down a peg or two and call her BS out. I’ve found most senior citizens tend to have their worst attributes amplified as they age and become incredibly self serving/selfish. She had a major head start long before her 60’s and 70’s so it was inevitable.

Add in a decade or two of heavy drug (prescription and otherwise) use and it’s not too surprising she is how she is.

[sue]

Originally Posted by jmn3

Definitely a possibility but I’m more inclined to think she’s been a spoiled and entitled brat her entire life. A rich kid who got everything they wanted and then found celebrity status and wealth unimaginable to 99.999% of people. She lives in a fantasy world where nobody ever dares put her in her place or knock her down a peg or two and call her BS out. I’ve found most senior citizens tend to have their worst attributes amplified as they age and become incredibly self serving/selfish. She had a major head start long before her 60’s and 70’s so it was inevitable.

Add in a decade or two of heavy drug (prescription and otherwise) use and it’s not too surprising she is how she is.

While I agree with most of what you say.
I find your statement about older people a bit sweeping…I am a mature person and I think I’ve improved with age like fine wine, mellowed and well rounded.

However, what you think of Stevie is pretty much my opinion.
A spoilt little girl, who was used to getting her own way.
And when she doesn’t she takes her ball and bat home.

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

She’s also claimed HAEWAFY is her greatest, most intense song.

You know, I could almost see this given the story she surrounds the song with about Joe’s daughter. Her greatest? No. A song that brings up memories of a tragically sad story, definitely could evoke intense feelings.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by jmn3

You know, I could almost see this given the story she surrounds the song with about Joe’s daughter. Her greatest? No. A song that brings up memories of a tragically sad story, definitely could evoke intense feelings.

OH, I agree that is nowhere near her best song, but she has claimed it was, especially around 1998 when she did the Storytellers thing on VH1...

[BigAl84]

Oh 1998…when she felt self conscious talking on the Enchanted tour because she usually doesn’t talk that much….hahahah you just wait 25 years and see what happens!!!!