according to Colbie Caillat, "‘Bubbly’ was not written about any certain guy in particular, but I missed having a crush on someone just because it’s so much fun to. You know, if you don’t like anyone, it’s always fun to have a crush. And there wasn’t anyone that I liked at the time, so I was remembering all the feelings that you get when you do like someone and they give you butterflies in your stomach. That’s what I wrote it about"
Natasha Bedingfield wasn't able to make it home for her brother's fourteenth birthday, so she wrote "Unwritten" for him, writing things she wished someone had told her when she was fourteen
"Back then she was just the cutest little hippie chick. Adorable! She was funny, she had a cute giggle. She loved music, she only knew about three chords on the piano but she could make about 30 songs out of them. Her quirky side was she was always thinking about herself. I learned not to ask how she was doing that day. You'd spend 10 minutes just listening to her talk about herself." —Ken Caillat on Stevie Nicks during the recording of ‘Rumours’.
“It starts in my toes, and I crinkle my nose. Wherever it goes, I always know, that you make me smile now. Just take your time, wherever you go.” ~ Colbie Caillat
So I have given this book a try… again I say it right at the beginning that I didn’t read the entire book just excerpts about members I‘m interested in (Omg, yes I only read the parts where he mentions Chris, stop looking at me like that!!)
I was very cautious about this book because I‘d read a weird summary of it which made me immediately assume it was full of shit but in the end, I think it was miles better than the CAH one. (See previous post!)
Ken Caillat was Fleetwood Mac‘s producer during the recording of Rumours in Sausalito and thus spent a lot of time with the band. His stories add up, they seem honest and are very sincere. There‘s no sensationalist energy really (which I was afraid of at first!!) You can feel that he really liked band members portraying them like a friend would. There‘s a lot of technical talk about the making of the individual songs which you gotta be interested in to enjoy but then again I skipped most of it. (Side note: with this book I‘m even sorry I skipped parts and I feel guilty for not reading it properly, to fully honor Mr. Caillat‘s work, but where‘s the time!?)
The split personality in any diehard fan of something of course wants ALLLL the juice details while at the same time wanting to respect the [in this case] band members privacy. Saying, I would be mad at Ken for gushing about them but at the same time I really wanna her about it ALLL!
Does that make sense to anyone but me?
Anyhow, so he does spill some beans but not too many and not in an unkind way. All in all — of what I’ve read — it‘s an interesting and most importantly decent recollection of the band that is Fleetwood Mac during those ominous and widely discussed Rumours recording sessions.
Conclusively, yes FMac fans should read it - all of it — properly — not just parts as lazy me did.
people are saying that hayley got lana'd on castles crumbling like uh did you not hear her verse she got a whole-ass verse which is better than most of her female collabs you guys just can't be happy with anything
Some records transcend their eras by soundtracking them. I mean check Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, another case of this, the platter distills the 70's with the sound and the story. You are familiar with the background by now – while the disc has so many others marks of the era, the story surrounding the LP might top them all at times, sadly. However, the tale wouldn't matter at all without the great tunes they had at that time. Moreover, some of these even gave them a sense of unity. For instance, you might think of the song on the link as a Buckingham piece, but McVie actually wrote that and her being the mediator showed there – she (unintentionally?) made the group put away their differences to mold the ditty together. Maybe that's why the thing sounds so cautiously optimistic …