Stevie Nicks has released a new single, “The Lighthouse,” currently being celebrated by all the usual suspects as an “anthem” to abortion rights, female empowerment, and individual freedom. The song was purportedly written shortly after the U. S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago, and Nicks has been working to “perfect” it ever since.
Musically, it’s a tedious affair, with Nicks singing the same three notes, falling within the melodic range of a fourth, for most of its monotonous, plodding, 5-plus minutes. Visually, Nicks is depicted in almost religious terms — there are a few fleeting flashes of an area behind her that looks, alternately, like a church and a surgical area — as some sort of goddess or prophetess, a wise and experienced older woman ready to dispense the truth today’s young women so sorely need.
The video for the song opens with several definitions of “lighthouse” (“guide,” “beacon”) overlaid on a scene of waves crashing against rocks. Then the camera zooms in on an actual lighthouse, and what do you know, there is Nicks inside the lighthouse lamp, dressed in black, swaying back and forth, long blonde hair flying in the wind as she prepares to guide today’s young women away from the darkness of personal responsibility and into the freedom of sexual license.
The rest of the video shows various images of pro-abortion demonstrators, women marching for “rights,” and the like. A particularly chilling moment depicts a beautiful, young pregnant woman bathed
