’70s Chart-Topping Ballad Goes Viral With Gen Z

The Chicks - Landslide (Official Video)

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Landslide - The Petersens (LIVE)

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Dixie Chicks Cover "Landslide" on the Howard Stern Show (2006)

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Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (1975)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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Nicks wrote "Landslide" while in Aspen, Colorado, inspired, while looking at the mountains, by the thought that everything in her life she'd been building could come crashing down at any time. It became a tale of love and life artfully woven behind the metaphor of a snowy mountain avalanche.

It was never originally released as a single ("Over My Head", "Rhiannon" & "Say You Love Me" were the album's three top 20 hits), but is considered one of the most known and cherished songs of the band's decades-long career. ...

[Verse 1]
I took my love, took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills
'Til the landslide brought me down

[Verse 2]
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm

[Chorus]
Well, I've been afraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
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I may actually like the Peterson's version best.

But I think that it's a bit interesting that Gen Z takes to this very reflective song written about her changes:

"Nicks told the New York Times, "I wrote Landslide' in 1973, when I was 27, and I did already feel old in a lot of ways. I'd been working as a waitress and a cleaning lady for years. I was tired."

"Nicks concluded, "Landslide' was the decision. When you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills,' it's the only time in my life that I've lived in the snow. But looking up at those Rocky Mountains and going, Okay, we can do it. I'm sure we can do it.'"

A sign of optimism from the Stare kids would be promising... not that they have much to be happy about. I remember that when I was their age, we had the assasinations of RFK, JFK, and MLK, then Nixon and Vietnam.

We weren't very optimistic, either. We just used other drugs than TicToc.

... A '70s chart-topping song has found new life with Gen Z listeners ...

Yeah, I've read that Gen-Z seems to be taking an interest in the 70's music.

And, aside from the articles I have read, I have also noticed that as i disperse my record and CD collection among the Gen-Z in my family.

@#5

To wit ...

Gen Z Loves Retro Culture
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... "I'M SO EXCITED!" the 18-year-old college freshman was saying. "I can't believe I'm finally going to see Stevie Nicks!"

She and a friend had just bought tickets for a fall 2023 concert featuring Nicks"the former Fleetwood Mac singer"and Billy Joel, rock stars of the 1970s and '80s. Some young people in Gen Z, now between the ages of 11 and 26, have taken a passionate interest in the music, arts, culture and fashions of eras before they were born"the 1970s, '80s, '90s, early 2000s. ...