A few Nightbird reactions, which rarely gets reacted to on YouTube

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Her vocal on Midnight Wind is one of the best of her career. This was the song Stevie came into the studio to sing with John. Her singing on Gold was a fluke. They did it spontaneously for fun and thought it sounded good and kept it.

Absolutely agree.

I personally hate Nighbird. I am not a fan of drum machines but for some reason this drum machine is especially annoying with its synthetic beat. The opening keyboard is dreaded and the chorus is confusing to sing. That is Sandy singing not Lori. The SNL live version is leaps better with real drums and with Lori. Its not the most creative musical track. IMHO it sounds like someone hit the casio keyboard button for a beat and randomly started playing.

Yep.

I would not really call Nightbird a hit. You never hear it on the radio and songs that peak in the mid 30s are seldom heard again.

Yep. Not a hit, not a memorable song. Some of her dumbest lyrics...literally about her eye makeup. "sometimes the real color of my skeeeeeyun/my eyes without any shadow" Could have been a really neat song, but... Drugs mess with your mind, kids. This was the start of the downhill slide with Stevie where she was really not writing music anymore and latching onto others like Sandy to give her tracks to put vapid lyrics to. (Recall she even said in multiple interviews that she and Sandy were the "new Rodgers and Hammerstein" ) This was the beginning of her slide into thinking any words she farted onto the page were Shakespeare and no one was going to tell her otherwise. Again, decent vibe, but don't listen too closely