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Sam Adams
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Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
A: Yes, if the sentence begins “And your little dog”
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I didn’t end up writing quite as much as I envisioned about how great Die My Love is, but
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
yeah, it’s like they sneak up on you so all you can do is say “mmmf” and nod
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
in addition to being weird and gross, “How’s everything tasting?” disclaims responsibility for everything except what the food is doing in your mouth
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I mean, it was a *very* big deal to use a campaign song from a decade as recent as the 1970s. Treated as a real generational shift.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
yeah, Ocean Spray guy is a major data point
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
yeah, it was my hook for writing this. I liked the play but the sense of double vision going through Ken Caillat’s making-of memoir was pretty intense.
Why an Almost 50-Year-Old Album Keeps Hooking New Generations
In part because of a song that’s not even on the album.
slate.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I think it was partly too long and partly that it would have given Nicks too big a share of the album’s royalties for her male bandmates’ liking. But it wasn’t nice: Mick broke the news to her in the parking lot as a fait accompli.
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
as I explain in the above-linked piece, there is a simple answer and a complicated one, but I think the easiest explanation is: “Silver Springs”
Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs (Live) (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by Fleetwood Mac
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s not surprising that Rumours is still popular—it’s fucking Rumours. But it is surprising that it is *so much* more popular than once-unkillable contemporaries like Dark Side of the Moon or The Eagles’ Greatest Hits, fading monsters that Fleetwood Mac now runs circles around.
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM