The 1996 Song Stevie Nicks Thought Would Be Forgotten Forever

Stevie Nicks has always treated her songwriting as something precious. Throughout her career, both in Fleetwood Mac and in her solo career, she showed great attachment to the songs she wrote, especially when she felt that some of them did not receive the attention they deserved. This feeling was not without reason. One of the most famous examples is Silver Springs, one of Nicks' greatest compositions, which ended up being left out of Rumors and only appeared as a B-side. For her, seeing an important song left aside was almost an artistic injustice. The 1996 song Stevie Nicks thought would be forgotten was Twisted. The track was made for the soundtrack to the film Twister, released in 1996. Although soundtracks can immortalize songs, Nicks felt that, often, a song placed in a film simply disappeared. She believed that when a song went on a soundtrack, it ran the risk of never really being heard properly by the public. At that time, Stevie Nicks was going through a difficult phase. The album Street Angel is not remembered as one of his strongest works and is often seen as a less inspiring moment in his discography. Still, Twisted emerged as an important piece in his artistic reconstruction. The song also marked a rapprochement with Lindsey Buckingham, his former partner in Fleetwood Mac. This happened shortly before the band's reunion in The Dance, a phase that would help reposition Nicks in the eyes of the public and critics. Twisted fits well with Stevie Nicks' emotional universe. The lyrics speak of dark forces, chaos, turbulence and the feeling of being swept away by something bigger, images that speak to both the film Twister and the singer's personal moment after her complicated phase with the use of Klonopin. Although it didn't receive the attention that Nicks would have liked, the song showed that she still had creative strength. The track acted as a bridge between an unstable phase and the path that would lead to the album Trouble in Shangri-La, released years later. For Stevie Nicks, Twisted deserved another chance. Therefore, she made a point of rescuing the song in Songs From the Vault, giving the track the opportunity to be rediscovered outside the context of the soundtrack. The story of Twisted shows how Nicks never saw her songs as disposable. Even when a song seemed lost in a film project, she continued to believe in its value. And in the case of Twisted, that instinct was right: the track remains an important portrait of an artist trying to find her own strength.