Last month, the legendary duo reissued their 1973 album ‘Buckingham Nicks’, making it publicly available for the first time since its original release. Now, the former Fleetwood Mac members have appeared on the Song Exploder podcast to discuss their iconic track ‘Frozen Love’, in an episode comprising two separate interviews, as NME reports.
In her segment of the episode, Nicks described the song’s themes, saying it’s about “two people that were in love, that had a lot of differences and saw the world slightly differently, but had this like relationship that seemed to be, like a gift.”
She went on to compare them to classic literary romances. “I like to think of it as Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations. A modern-day love affair, tragedies. Because nobody really loves happy songs. Certainly, I didn’t, and neither really did Lindsey.”
After Nicks wrote the song, she said that she gave it to Buckingham to further develop, with him explaining: “I don’t think she craved my input on that level, and nor did I crave hers on production or instrumental level, either.
“She understood that I was transforming things for her, and I understood that I wouldn’t have had anything to transform without the beautiful centre that she’d given me.”
She then went on to clarify a frequently misheard lyric, “Hate gave you me for a lover”, saying she originally wrote it as, “Fate gave you me for a lover.”
“When I hear myself sing that line, it sounds like I’m saying ‘hate,’” she said. “So, that’s not good. I’m sorry, Lindsey. I’m calling him later.”
