As the old saying goes, “you can fool a lot of people a lot of the time.
Boldly ending the song with more words describing orgasmic feelings towards an underaged person. He was no more than a baby then (I’m a few years older than you) my love. The entire song is bragging and gloating to the world about having a moment in time with someone on the edge of seventeen. Take the time to slowly read the lyrics from a realistic perspective. The first six lines of the song boldly describes orgasmic feelings or perhaps actual orgasms that occurred. It’s so obvious that this song is about lusting/desire towards an underaged person. Star-struck fans, take off the rose-colored glasses. Stevie Nicks is known to always conclude her live performances with a rendition of “Edge of Seventeen”. “Edge of Seventeen” was subsequently produced by Jimmy Iovine. This classic was written by Stevie Nicks in its entirety. Did Stevie Nicks actually write “Edge of Seventeen”? With Stevie Nicks appearing in the music video of the latter. Was also sampled by Destiny’s Child in 2001 on their hit track “Bootylicious”, This song was covered by actress Lindsay Lohan in 2005. Performed likewise on the Canada Top Singles chart. The song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and It served as the third single from her maiden solo album titled Bella Donna. This Stevie Nicks classic was released in February of 1982. However, after the devastating demise of Lennon and her uncle, she changed the song’s theme but kept its title. She liked the phrase and decided instantly it would make a good title for a song.Īctually Nicks wanted this song to be about the romance between Jane and her then husband Tom. Interestingly, because of Jane’s southern accent (which was very thick), Nicks assumed what Jane said was “the edge of seventeen”. Jane replied Nicks by telling her that she and Tom met when she was “at the age of seventeen”. During the conversation, Nicks had asked Jane when she met Tom for the first time. Nicks got the song’s title from a conversation she had with singer Tom Petty’s wife Jane Benyo. Both deaths occurred just days apart in the month of December 1980.īut where did the song’s title (“Edge of Seventeen”) come from? Little, if anything, to do with its actually subject matter.Īll in all, “Edge of Seventeen” is about the sadness Nicks felt after the death of her musical hero John Lennon and an uncle of hers named Jonathan. Personally, she was still deeply saddened due to the depressing effect hisīut again, Stevie is very-poetic in her approach. So ifĪ person is not aware of the actual history of this song, they may conclude itĪlludes to ideas which it does not. For instance, the title itself has In other words, whereas Stevie may not have known Lennon Was so close to Lennon that his death had a direct impact on his and Nicks’
Producer and lover at the time, music mogul Jimmy Iovine. Music legend who was a part of the Beatles, was a very-close friend to Nicks’ Was dear to her and a treasured part of her life. Whereas her uncle was not anyone famous, it is clear that he
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