Stevie Nicks is getting the Barbie treatment. The Fleetwood Mac rocker revealed Mattel’s latest design during her Madison Square Garden concert in New York on Sunday (Oct. 01, 2023), where she debuted a Nicks-inspired Barbie to thousands of adoring fans.
“I hope that you all love her as much as I do,” the glowing “Landslide” singer told fans in a video from the concert posted by Live Nation.
“Stevie Barbie,” as the singer called her, was a perfect encapsulation of the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and her bewitching style, modeling a spooky-chic black batwing dress that looked just like Nicks’ ensemble on the cover of the 1977 album Rumours.
The doll, which is part of Mattel’s Barbie Music Series, rocked Nicks’ signature platform boots and a golden crescent moon necklace while toting a tambourine tied with red, black and purple ribbons.
Nicks described her Barbie as “so pretty and so soulful and so real” in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday, telling fans she was overwhelmed when Mattel first approached her.
“Of course I questioned ‘would she look like me? Would she have my spirit? Would she have my heart,’” the “Dreams” singer wrote.
“When I look at her, I see my 27 year old self~ All the memories of walking out on a big stage in that black outfit and those gorgeous boots come rushing back~ and then I see myself now in her face,” Nicks continued. “What we have been through since 1975~ the battles we have fought, the lessons we have learned~ together. I am her and she is me. She absolutely has my heart.”
Preorders of the doll were priced at $55, and stock appeared to be completely sold out as of early Monday afternoon.
Nicks was asked about the possibility of Fleetwood Mac touring again in an interview with Vulture, and explained why the band couldn’t “go any further with this” after getting together in 2018 and 2019 for a 50th anniversary tour with Neil Finn and Mike Campbell standing in for Lindsey Buckingham.
“When Christine [McVie] died, I felt like you can’t replace her,” Nicks said. “Without her, what is it? You know what I mean? She was like my soul mate, my musical soul mate, and my best friend that I spent more time with than any of my other best friends outside of Fleetwood Mac. Christine was my best friend.”
Once again mentioning how Taylor Swift’s “You’re on Your Own, Kid” has helped her grieve McVie, Nicks recalled how she and McVie were “on our own” in Fleetwood Mac. “We protected each other,” she said. “Who am I going to look over to on the right and have them not be there behind that Hammond organ? When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to.”
As Nicks explained, the band’s set would also have to change drastically. “And her songs, you take out all of those songs,” she said. “Christine was the pop star. She wrote all those really super pop hits. None of the rest of us could write those songs. What would happen is we’d have to take the songs out, like we did when she actually retired for 18 years. We couldn’t re-create those songs. So we became a much more hard-rock band.”
McVie passed away on November 30th, 2022 from a stroke. Nicks paid tribute to her on that day with a handwritten note quoting Haim’s “Hallelujah.”
Nicks recently extended her solo headlining tour through March 2024.
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