A viral, skateboarding TikTok star triples sales of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’

I'm happy that the dude made some money off of it. Hey, why not?

“I want to be able to pull up those black velvet platform boots and put on my black chiffon outfit and twirl onto a stage again.”

This is getting old, dear.

DId I ever mention to you I'm a gypsy witch?

I could have twirled.

Can someone explain the hype over this video? Is everyone just bored because of covid?

Dreamsh!

R5 it just has a chill vibe. Nice Idaho scenery, cruising on a skateboard, listening to Fleetwood Mac. Plus I think a lot of younger kids hadnt really heard of Fleetwood Mac before this

The Gen Z’s have never heard real music before. They’re used to that Eilish skank and her whisper-talk shit.

Their sales and streams climbed even higher since this was posted.

Someone said the band should write him a check for making them relevant again and introducing them to Gen Z.

The song is two chords (F major and G major)

R9 Mick Fleetwood and Stevie are waaaaaay too greedy to do something like that

R9 Mick Fleetwood and Stevie are waaaaaay too greedy to do something like that

R11 I think you meant Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey.

I hope Lindz is getting a cut!

R11 Stevie is not known for her generosity. This is a woman who took songwriting credit on a song she did not write for screwing up one word in the lyrics.

R15 the screw up added to the song being iconic

R16 Does Stevie really need money more than Sandy Stewart? Diva behavior is obnoxious in real life.

I watched this video and have no idea why it is viral. It’s just a middle aged dude on a skateboard lip syncing to Dreams ,whilst drinking cranberry juice (and probably vodka).

What song is that, R15 and R16?

R17 no. She’s rich.

[quote]What song is that, [R15] and [R16]?

Seven Wonders

“Even though ‘Go Your Own Way’ was a little angry, it was also honest,” she wrote in the liner notes for the 2013 reissue of Rumours. “So then I wrote ‘Dreams,’ and because I’m the chiffony chick who believes in fairies and angels, and Lindsey is a hardcore guy, it comes out differently. Lindsey is saying go ahead and date other men and go live your crappy life, and [I’m] singing about the rain washing you clean. We were coming at it from opposite angles, but we were really saying the same exact thing.”

However, bandmate Christine McVie wasn’t impressed with Nicks’ original demo. “When Stevie first played it for me on the piano, it was just three chords and one note in the left hand,” she told Blender. “I thought ‘This is really boring,’ but the Lindsey genius came into play and he fashioned three sections out of identical chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that there’s a thread running through the whole thing.”

“It was most difficult for Lindsey because Stevie was the one who pulled away emotionally,” founding member Mick Fleetwood added. “He would say, ‘I’m doing this for her and making her music, but I can’t have closure.’”

“Even though ‘Go Your Own Way’ was a little angry, it was also honest,” she wrote in the liner notes for the 2013 reissue of Rumours. “So then I wrote ‘Dreams,’ and because I’m the chiffony chick who believes in fairies and angels, and Lindsey is a hardcore guy, it comes out differently. Lindsey is saying go ahead and date other men and go live your crappy life, and [I’m] singing about the rain washing you clean. We were coming at it from opposite angles, but we were really saying the same exact thing.”

However, bandmate Christine McVie wasn’t impressed with Nicks’ original demo. “When Stevie first played it for me on the piano, it was just three chords and one note in the left hand,” she told Blender. “I thought ‘This is really boring,’ but the Lindsey genius came into play and he fashioned three sections out of identical chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that there’s a thread running through the whole thing.”

“It was most difficult for Lindsey because Stevie was the one who pulled away emotionally,” founding member Mick Fleetwood added. “He would say, ‘I’m doing this for her and making her music, but I can’t have closure.’”

This is like that gospel queen making Patti's Pies go viral.

Mick Fleetwood made a TikTok just to join in on the challenge this video started

Dreams is number 2 on ITunes, was number 1 for a week before Van Halen took that spot. It’s now number 9 on Spotify, now getting around 767k streams a day on that Platform.

White Women who like Fleetwood Mac are always fat, divorced, wineaholics who hate on Buckingham like he's their ex-husband (complete with new, younger wife) .

R18 I dated a guy with an MBA who worked in branding who insisted that everything that goes "viral" has a secret marketing campaign behind it. The resurgence of Betty White a few years ago was one of the examples he used.

I think he's right.

How does he explain away attempts at going viral that fail to succeed?

That idea makes no sense r28.

I can post something online and it go viral and I didn’t even expect it to.

out of all the random internet people getting money thrown at them, this guy, I ain't mad.

R28 things can go viral organically or silicon valley will take $$$ to pump up views to create hype. Facebook, YouTube, etc are largely unregulated in what they present to viewers (customers). Just ask Taylor Swift about all those views she got on YouTube after her new album was a disappointment.

So why was Katy Perry's album such a flop?

Good marketing can turn an ordinary rock into gold, but a turd will always be a turd.

[quote] Plus I think a lot of younger kids hadnt really heard of Fleetwood Mac before this

[quote] The Gen Z’s have never heard real music before.

[quote] Someone said the band should write him a check for making them relevant again and introducing them to Gen Z.

You're all wrong about this. Fleetwood Mac have actually been popular with Gen Z (or at least its more hipsterish, retro-minded subset) for a while. I even suspect that's one of the reasons why this TikTok went viral (though its virality has now made them [italic]even more[/italic] popular with the youth, of course).

Ocean Spray gave Cranberry juice-sipping skateboarder a new truck filled with cranberry juice products.

R36 he won't have a urinary tract infection any time soon.

R35- Exactly. Just look at the sales of the FM inspired novel "Daisy Jones & the Six" by Taylor Jenkins Reid. That book alone introduced a new generation to Fleetwood Mac. Soon to be a netflix series with the Presley girl.

The reunion tour also garnered a lot of notice- Gen. Z remembers their parents playing Silver Spring in the 90's when it had its resurgence.

[quote]Gen. Z remembers their parents playing Silver Spring in the 90's when it had its resurgence.

No. The OLDEST Gen Z were born in 1996. They don’t remember this.

R39 1998

[quote] “Even though ‘Go Your Own Way’ was a little angry, it was also honest,” she wrote in the liner notes for the 2013 reissue of Rumours. “So then I wrote ‘Dreams,’ and because I’m the chiffony chick who believes in fairies and angels, and Lindsey is a hardcore guy, it comes out differently.

Embarrassing. She’s so lame. And I’m a Millennial lesbian who is known to occasionally enjoy Lilith Fair, saying this.

I just pity this woman; or should I say, this capitulating cosplaying handmaiden unicorn princess. She sounds about as empowered and mature as Billie Eilish, despite being old enough to be her great grandmother.

This is yet another reason to hate the current crop of teens. I’m just...tired.

R38, Sam Claflin will play Billy Dunne a character that is based on Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks is obviously Daisy Jones.

R35 Fleetwood Mac was one of the favorite bands of the "I don't like trap music, I listen to 'real music'" kids a while back. After Bohemian Rhapsody came out, it became Queen.

^^R43 indeed. Same deal as that trend when every annoying poseur hipster around my age (class of ‘11) would incessantly hype The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bobs Marley & Dylan, Nirvana, and Radiohead; because, clearly, enjoying diverse contemporary genre such as nu-metal, trip-hop, EDM, crunk, visual-kei, and post-rock was for sheeple, geeks & losers.

R44 Kids have always liked The Beatles. Fleetwood Mac was considered mom music until it got the Glee bump.

I know lots of late 20 and into 30s people who attended Fleetwood Mac concerts in recent years. They become nostalgic for their parents' music after a certain point of rejecting it.

It’s not about nostalgia. I am 32 and love Fleetwood. I was introduced to their music through Glee and have listened to them since.

I’ve heard some of their songs prior but never knew it was them.

I'd rather jack.

I want that cholo inside me quite deeply.

Sales of Ocean Spray cranberry juice also went up, and Ocean Spray gave the guy who made the video a new cranberry colored truck with the bed full of bottles of Ocean Spray cranberry juice. That video happened because his vehicle broke down and he had to skateboard to work. So it made his life better.

R38 More proof that the appeal of Fleetwood Mac is the "story" rather than the music. Let me guess the plot, the girl is talented, beautiful, pretty much a perfect Mary Sue and the guitarist boyfriend is a tanlentless asshole who is keeping her down. Our heroine is freed from his chain when she becomes more famous than everyone else, she didn't even need to learn an instrument she's just that perfect. Everyone is jealous of her and the lame no talent men (and ugly woman) are left in the dust. Did I get it right because that's the narrative Stevie Nicks fans like to sell.

R51, you forgot about all the cocaine!

Their story didn’t sell millions of albums and singles

If there's a feminist narrative in Fleetwood Mac, it would definitely be Christine McVie's story. The underappreciated queen of the Mac.

Oh please. Everyone knows who the star of the group was.

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Did I miss anything?

R56 Why Do You Type Like This? Are You German?

R51, “Daisy Jones is free-spirited, glamorous, a gifted songwriter and a talented singer. She’s also reckless and potentially self-destructive, with a dangerous addiction to drugs and alcohol. [...] Billy is a musical genius, a rock star, or a control freak. [...] They can’t stand each other—Daisy reminds Billy too much of a fast-paced lifestyle he no longer wants, and Daisy refuses to let Billy boss her around. And yet, their collaboration leads to the band’s breakout single and kickstarts their rise to the top”

Stevie and Karen during the covid lockdown

Dreams had an uptick after this went viral as well.