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There are moments in cultural history where it feels as though the baton of responsibility is being passed. Where an icon of one era taps a future star on the shoulder and says, it\u2019s your time now. <\/p>\n
After Stevie Nicks<\/a> had dominated the cultural discourse for the 20th century\u2019s last few decades, they wondered who would fill her shoes in the new millennium. But, I don\u2019t think anyone expected it to be Destiny\u2019s Child.<\/p>\n In a bizarre crossing of genres, Nicks granted pop three-piece permission to sample her monster hit \u2018Edge Of Seventeen\u2019<\/a> for their new age hit \u2018Bootylicious\u2019. It was a firm marker that music had moved into the new millennium and Nicks was no longer the queen of groundbreaking music. <\/p>\n It was a necessary handover for Nicks, though, whose greatness in the previous century was marred by personal pain. Like a tortured artist, she poured every ounce of her own tragedy into the music she wrote for a generation, allowing us to lap up her pain and consequently encourage her to suffer more for the purpose of music. Some of her greatest musical moments were all born from her own suffering, be it on Rumours<\/a> or her later solo work, and she needed a well earned break.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a choice, and I chose it,\u201d she said, speaking to the life of an artist. \u201cBut at the end of this year I\u2019m taking a break. And that\u2019s when I make my amends. I mean, I have to think about when I\u2019m too old to be turning cartwheels and doing the splits onstage. I\u2019m gonna want all my friends then, and I\u2019m gonna need them. So I\u2019m not gonna alienate the whole world just to be very famous.\u201d<\/p>\n There was one artist, who Nicks saw traverse each cultural decade with adaptability and ease, to ultimately become the world\u2019s most famous pop star. But while we saw cultural acclaim, Nicks saw the real life suffering that built such a public presence.\u00a0<\/p>\n