1987 interview

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Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

i thought she married ed on oct 18th 1986... she probably dated various people between 81 when she broke up w dennis and 84ish when she got serious w ed. these people got around lol. i think if it were about ed, she would have said that.

That date is also stated on her wiki page. And Tango page says the album was recorded November 1985 – March 1987. So IIM could be about Ed if it was written early or before those days, but yes who knows. I remember in the Classic Albums Rumours video she said Songbird was about everybody and nobody, and that she doesn't write songs like Stevie, and that she wasn't well organized, if she got a spare bit of paper, she jot lyrics down, and keep them. I understood her songs aren't always about real or exact things; she could be a storyteller sometimes or the lyrics meaning may not be exact or accurate.

About 7Wonders, it's very unlikely that anything Stevie said then or now is reliable. I don't think Stevie remembers those days very well. Besides, we often find contradictions in her stories. But whatever the case, I really like the song. In fact, the only Tango songs I don't like are Caroline and Whattamattababy (the song starts well, but when she gets stuck with the whattamatta lyric, she ruins it).