Appreciation of "Everybody Finds Out..."

[bombaysaffires]

I think it's just a straightforward telling of one of Stevie's (many) clandestine affairs with a married/engaged/or otherwise already involved man. "She gets on a midnight plane" makes me think of Don Henley, who always used to send a Lear jet to pick her (or whoever was his paramour at the time) up and fly her to him. Stevie herself has described the romance of him sending that "little cranberry colored jet". Tom Petty also arranged for her (and her posse) to have their own private jet when she was touring around with him because, you know, "no girls on the Heartbreakers' jet" (or bus or whatever). She seems to have no trouble getting men to send jets for her. I thought I heard once that Prince had sent one for her too but that might have just been an unfounded rumour.

I find the lines "you can't have him/I do have him/most of the time" sort of interesting because she always used to insist in interviews that she would "never compete for a man" and yet clearly in all her relationships with entangled men she was, in some way, competing for them. ("don't give that to her/baby give that to me". different song, I know).


"you always know when something's wrong, my friend" always made me think of Tom ,more than Mick or Don or whoever else we know about-- but could be any one of the many, many men we don't know about.

"waiting for the day/when everybody finds out" does fit nicely with Mick, but again, with married/committed men, it could be anybody.

I just like that it gives a little window into not-so-innocent not-so-nice Stevie. She knows what she's doing when she gets involved with these type of guys and I think a lot of the time she just doesn't care that they have other entanglements. The rules don't apply to her, she's a "rock stah" baby. "When I want something/I get it".

This song is her at her catty best and though it would probably suck in real life, it makes for a fun song.