If Stevie Nicks didn't know about the "Me, An Intellectual" joke, she does now.
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for more social media and trending news daily. In late March, Twitter user @bottled
fleet posted this tweet: "Fleetwood Mac's music is so boring,
you can't even dance to it. Me: An Intellectual:"
That video has 133,000 retweets and has been viewed over 6 million times.
Seriously, if I knew that all it took was a Fleetwood Mac song to get 6 million
views, I would have jumped on this train way back when. The song is "Dreams" from
Fleetwood Mac's landmark 1977 album "Rumours."
And the song charted at number 14 on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs list. Not bad
for a 40-year-old song that Stevie Nicks notably wrote in about 10 minutes. The
meme appears to be single-handedly responsible for the tracks 36%
increase in downloads and 24% increase in streams. And "Rumours" is now
13th on the Top Rock Albums chart. But Fleetwood Mac's been around the block
and they've had some incredible hits that have done really well, so they're
probably not all that impressed by this situation. In 1977 to 1978, it set a
Billboard record for most weeks topping the Billboard 200 by a group. It's actually
a little surprising that people still need to even buy "Rumours" cause it's sold
like 40 million copies. It's probably sitting around in your parents
basement right now. Go find it. Put it in the comments if you find it. And it's not
the first time that a meme has rocketed an old song back into the mainstream. The
song "For The Damage Coda" by Blonde Redhead has been used in "Rick & Morty" as the
theme music for "Evil Morty."
That season one episode aired in 2014, but when the song was used again in a
season 3 episode in September 2017, it blew up.
It inspired several memes among the show's fandom and inspired some pretty
interesting covers as well.
We've been unable to track down the source of that
colorguard video, but we really do think it could make any song danceable. Like
the licensed songs we use for our videos!
I'm not sad cause it looks like the memes really created some more Fleetwood Mac
heads. @juliaacosta777 says: "I literally downloaded the song right
after I saw this meme a week ago." Chris Hayes says: "Have had Fleetwood Mac's
Dreams in my head ever since that viral tweet and literally nothing I do will
chase it out." So "Rumours" is having another big moment. The "Dreams" resurgence
comes right on the heels of a renewed interest in the Fleetwood Mac song, "The
Chain," which is featured on the "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" soundtrack.
Hey. My band also covered that song two years ago when we were on KEXP. Let's
take a look.
What old song would you like to bring back and see memed? Let us know in the
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