Stevie Nicks & Lana Del Rey Explain How Their Mystic Songwriting Processes Align

Stevie Nicks and Lana Del Rey share a penchant for penning catchy melodies with an air of mysticism, so it’s only natural that they made an “instant connection.” The Los Angeles Times recently profiled the “Summertime Sadness” singer, and the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman explained how their writing processes align.

“We both love writing songs more than anything: Sitting in a room with some candles and a piano and communing with our own channels that are going up to the spirit world and coming back down through us,” Nicks told the Times. “She’s a little weird, and she likes being a little weird. She’s a real artist. I think she should direct movies when she’s tired of all this.”

Given both artists’ associations with witchcraft, it’s unclear whether the shawl-vault owner means this literally. In a V Magazine interview with both artists, Nicks said, “We are witchy sisters and that’s it.”

The duo previously collaborated on “Beautiful People Beautiful Problems,” a track off Del Rey’s 2017 album Lust for Life.

In an interview with Flaunt magazine, the alt-pop star spoke about working with Nicks. “When I went through ideas of women that could really add something to the record, she was the one we kept coming back to,” she said. “‘Bonafide badass’ is a great phrase for her. She’s really real. And she’s still fucking touring, which baffles me. There are so few women doing that. You’ve got Courtney Love, who works, sings, tours… there’s not that many women who were making music in the ’70s or ’80s who still make music.”

LDR previously made headlines for supposedly casting spells on Donald Trump. “Yeah, I did it. Why not? Look, I do a lot of shit,” Del Rey told NME back in 2017.

The singer had cryptically tweeted a series of dates that aligned with a massive occult ritual aimed at the president.

“I’m in line with Yoko and John and the belief that there’s a power to the vibration of a thought,” she said. “Your thoughts are very powerful things and they become words, and words become actions, and actions lead to physical changes. I really do believe that words are one of the last forms of magic and I’m a bit of a mystic at heart.”

The recent LA Times story followed up on this attempt, asking if her spell had been effective. “No,” she said. “It’s slow, I guess. It takes three years to work.”

Her latest album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, recently peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and she’s already working on her next LP, White Hot Forever.

Earlier this year, Nicks was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.

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