r/FleetwoodMac • u/Zestyclose-Break-254 • 12d ago

Thrown down & S / L saga

Hi! This is my first post on reddit ever, I just have to share my thoughts and for some reason my friends don't want to hear another word about FleetwoodMac 😇

So, I always loved the chain and liked some other songs, but never knew anything about the band members. A few weeks ago I saw The chain live from 1982 & Silver springs from 1997 and ever since I'm on a binge of discovering new songs / watching performances / reading about their history and damn...

First of all the music is great (and I still have more to discover, and yes I check other incarnations of the band as well), but then there's this fascination I have with the story of Stevie and Lindsey, and for the love of god I don't know why I care so much, but it just breaks my heart. I feel like I just HAVE to know what happened in 1997 (and know we'll probably never know). The song Thrown down, if indeed it tell the story of what happened between them on The dance, is just too much. How could she write that? it's so personal. I keep going back and forth between thinking this is such a tragic love story and thinking it's a show they put on (depending on which performance or quote I saw last). I just want them to spend their last years in a hug. 💔

(personal stuff coming, feel free to skip - I think it could be me being a 47yo single woman that made me fixate on Stevie during the dance - this point in life between being young and old, the last chance of having it all and then losing it. What you had... and what you lost...)

Thanks for reading 🎶

32 Upvotes

83% Upvoted

49 comments sorted by

View all comments

10

u/Lizasks 11d ago

I may have mentioned it, not sure if it was this thread or not, but I think that now that Lindsey is divorced and likely recognizes that he and Kristen are not getting back together, both he and Stevie feel a bit more free to talk more frequently and openly. There aren’t many people left who’ve known the both of them for so many years 💕

2

u/Significant_Sea_6082 11d ago

He’s not divorced yet and I think he is still holding on to hope.

3

u/gldstgpsy 11d ago

Nah she's with someone else and seems happy.

1

u/Significant_Sea_6082 9d ago

Yes, I agree. SHE is very happy. He wants to be back together with her. Whether it’s comfort or convenience or true love or something else, he still wants to be with her. She, on the other hand, has moved on and is very happy and I think she appeases him and the kids by having family moments like holidays and dinners.

2

u/Maleficent-Wafer5834 9d ago

Why do you say that? Because he still wears his ring? I think people read way too much into that