Video magic: "Gypsy" by Fleetwood Mac

I saw this for the first time - or the first time I can remember, anyway - last month on a red-eye from L.A. to Boston, really early on Christmas Eve-Eve morning after a night of fitful sleep during which I kept my ear buds in while The Darjeeling Limited played twice in a row on my little JetBlue seatback screen. I kind of have no idea what the hell's supposed to be going on here, but the video makes me like the song about a thousand times more than I did before. I think it's all the happy twirly dancing: It'd be so hard to pull off happy twirly video dancing these days, and almost no one uses sets with make-believe cliffside forests under cotton-candy-pink skies.

Anyway, a few observations:

-I'd maybe like my entire apartment to look a lot like Stevie's video bedroom. And then I could spend my afternoons staring wistfully into my big oval mirror while doing the splits.

-Thigh-high socks + flowy dresses = yes please!

-The flashback sequences segued into magical forestland really make me want to watch Annie followed by many episodes of Faerie Tale Theatre, if possible. And maybe The Dark Crystal?

-I deeply covet Depression-era Stevie's hat.

-I think the video's greatest strength is its handling of that "maybe once, maybe twice" coda. Stevie's lip-synching at 3:20 is just exhilarating, for instance. And the leaping lovers! But then they sort of lose me when the vocals end and all the stupid flashback choreography starts up.

-Dudes, I'm officially over Lindsey Buckingham. Give me Mick Fleetwood any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

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