**New Single** - Secret Love

Originally Posted by SuiteShangriLa

Stevie is lookin fan-fricking-tastic!
the Secret Love song clip sounds awesome...but
what is that "chirp-chirp" sound on the clip at about 28 secs???
im gonna hear that every time now.

I think it is a wood block percussive sound they used there.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

this is what i dont get
if they WERE/ARE lovers
how is it a secret love?
it's a secret coz she's kept those feelings to herself even tho they're broken up?

No, it's a secret to the outside world, not to the lovers in the clandestine relationship.

Michele

[SuiteShangriLa]

Originally Posted by llb

I think it is a wood block percussive sound they used there.

yeah it is...after hearing the entire song, you hear it more at the ending too.

[SapphireSister]

I really, really like it. Do I love it? No, but considering the fears I've had this whole time in regards to Dave Stewart and the album being too country this alleviates part of the concern.

[Jondalar]

Yeah, I don't love it, but I really, really like it. And I'm not getting sick of it. I think the song gets better with time. Everyday and Say You Will, sorta made me go "That's nice" and move on. But this songs lyrics, make a deeper impression and I just think this is good, solid offering. It also sounds really good when bumped up against other songs. The dreamy quality of the song is hard to blow off, too. It's dramatic in all the right places, but that dreamy takes you in a different direction. The lyrics are excellent.

P.S. I only really got into Talk to Me after it was played on the radio a hundred times. That song didn't sound like a Stevie Nicks song, but it sounded good on the radio.

[SapphireSister]

Can someone please post an mp3 of the demo? Thanks.

- I've been listening to the song all day and I don't like it as much as I did at first, especially since someone said it was comparable to Every Day.

- Can you guys hear a Little Bella Donna in it? I was singing "You can ride high atop your pony..." and it almost fits.

-Another reason I don't like it as much is because it occurred to me (DUH) she could have chosen so many other demos that I would have preferred over this one and now it's taken another one's spot that I may have loved. Does that make sense?

[Etisl]

You know, I downloaded the single, and from the abrupt start and ending...I have a feeling this album is going to be continuous...kind of like Madonna's "Confessions on a dance floor"........

The way the song just creciendo's at the end makes my curiosity go...."Ooooh...what song must be next, the song right after this...?"

I was listening to "Secret Love" and "If Anyone Falls" back to back.......and her voice sounds like it did back then. She has really done a great job of singing in her best range.....not that low range like Street Angel or Say You Will.....

The emotion of this song and the way her voice sounds on it.... made my eyes water a little....and I thought to myself... "Yes, this is that pretty girl singing from Fleetwood Mac." It took my right back to her 70-80's energy. She sounds better than ever. I didn't think she could top TISL........but, from what I have heard so far..... I think Stevie has just put together a very special treat/gift for her fans, and for her new fans. I think the younger fans will finally get to hear how deep in emotion her lyrics can be. I hope they really connect to the words and feel...what she must have been feeling back then...

So one final question: "Secret Love......Is it about Mick, or is it about Lindsey?" I think....it might just be about Mick Fleetwood....

[MariaA37]

-Another reason I don't like it as much is because it occurred to me (DUH) she could have chosen so many other demos that I would have preferred over this one and now it's taken another one's spot that I may have loved. Does that make sense?

Agreed. Am I the only one who doesn't really care for this song?

So one final question: "Secret Love......Is it about Mick, or is it about Lindsey?" I think....it might just be about Mick Fleetwood....

I'm probably WAY off base here but I always thought this was about her unborn child after she had the abortion.

~Maria

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by Etisl

So one final question: "Secret Love......Is it about Mick, or is it about Lindsey?" I think....it might just be about Mick Fleetwood....

I think the song was written before she knew Mick Fleetwood.

Sometimes, when we're doing all this speculating, I think she may have been writing about other people - a friend, something she's overheard or even an exaggeration of an experience. So, we try to fit every single line into what we know about her life when she's created a song that at its heart is either someone else's story or an event we have no knowledge of whatsoever.

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by Etisl

from the abrupt start and ending...I have a feeling this album is going to be continuous...kind of like Madonna's "Confessions on a dance floor"........

The way the song just creciendo's at the end makes my curiosity go...."Ooooh...what song must be next, the song right after this...?"

Ooh! I would just flip out if she did a continuous album like that where all the songs bleed into one another!

Originally Posted by Etisl

I was listening to "Secret Love" and "If Anyone Falls" back to back.......and her voice sounds like it did back then. She has really done a great job of singing in her best range.....not that low range like Street Angel or Say You Will.....

The emotion of this song and the way her voice sounds on it.... made my eyes water a little....and I thought to myself... "Yes, this is that pretty girl singing from Fleetwood Mac." It took my right back to her 70-80's energy. She sounds better than ever.

It's funny... I did the exact same thing. I played Secret Love back to back with several of her earlier songs, and she does indeed sound very much like she did in the '80s. To me, she sounds kinda like a hybrid of the Rock A Little and Other Side Of The Mirror albums. I always knew Stevie still had it in her to sing at this higher, more delicate register vs the the deeper scream/belt she developed around the time of the Dance.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Etisl

You know, I downloaded the single, and from the abrupt start and ending...I have a feeling this album is going to be continuous...kind of like Madonna's "Confessions on a dance floor"........

The way the song just creciendo's at the end makes my curiosity go...."Ooooh...what song must be next, the song right after this...?"

I was listening to "Secret Love" and "If Anyone Falls" back to back.......and her voice sounds like it did back then. She has really done a great job of singing in her best range.....not that low range like Street Angel or Say You Will.....

The emotion of this song and the way her voice sounds on it.... made my eyes water a little....and I thought to myself... "Yes, this is that pretty girl singing from Fleetwood Mac." It took my right back to her 70-80's energy. She sounds better than ever. I didn't think she could top TISL........but, from what I have heard so far..... I think Stevie has just put together a very special treat/gift for her fans, and for her new fans. I think the younger fans will finally get to hear how deep in emotion her lyrics can be. I hope they really connect to the words and feel...what she must have been feeling back then...

So one final question: "Secret Love......Is it about Mick, or is it about Lindsey?" I think....it might just be about Mick Fleetwood....

This is my favorite post in this thread. I have been playing this one over and over like most of us have, and am VERY excited to hear the rest! She does sound REALLY REALLY good on this. ( I have never minded what other people cant enjoy about her "modern" singing, but on this she sounds great!) The STEVIE NICKS in peoples Dreams.

[jellyman10]

I think it's a poignant song and I think it's about Mick.

He's said in his book that they were off and on for more than a year, and I think this is about knowing they had no future together because it would blow FM apart. And if that seems daft sometimes -- how many of us would give up 'serious' love for 'a job'? -- remember that FM meant more to those two than it did to any of the others, and for different reasons.

If you've ever been in a situation where you're trying to stop relapsing into ex-sex, it makes sense I think.

As jwd said:
"Heavy, heavy night with lots of soul searching. That's how I'm hearing it anyway."

Or as Jerry Seinfeld said, "Breaking up with someone is like trying to knock over a coke machine. You can't do it in one go, you've got to rock it back and forth a little."

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by jellyman10

I think it's a poignant song and I think it's about Mick.

She wrote the song before she knew Mick. If what I've read is correct and she wrote the song around the time she and Lindsey joined Fleetwood Mac - assuming the song is about a true experience she had and not someone else's, then it's possible this song is about the guy she almost left Lindsey for in the BN days.

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

She wrote the song before she knew Mick. If what I've read is correct and she wrote the song around the time she and Lindsey joined Fleetwood Mac - assuming the song is about a true experience she had and not someone else's, then it's possible this song is about the guy she almost left Lindsey for in the BN days.

So much for my theory then! Excellent!

Is the guy you mention the same guy that she said 'Enchanted' and 'Destiny' were about? The one who 'wanted [her] but didn't try'? Are these songs all from around the same time, pre-FM?

Loz

[sorcerer999]

I was laughing to myself the other night while playing this song. I couldn't help but speculate that maybe (especially with all the rumours flying around) that Stevie ressurected this song because Dave Stewart is her "new" secret love!