Behind The Lindsey Buckingham Song That Expressed His Anger Toward Stevie Nicks

"'Go Your Own Way' was written almost as a stream of consciousness," Lindsey Buckingham said in an interview with Song Exploder in 2018. "I was sort of coming to terms with the fact that I may not be over this person, and at the same time, I'm aware that I've got to accept what's happened and move on." Apparently, the fundamental statement inherent within the song is that Buckingham was better off without his former paramour and that she should go her own way and "shack up" elsewhere. Straight to the point, straight through the heart. 

"It was certainly a message within a song. And not a very nice one at that," Stevie Nicks told Q Magazine in reference to the song's line, "Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do" (via Bogart Boogie Oogie). Despite the band being at each other's throats throughout the recording of "Rumours" — John and Christine McVie were also splitting up around the same time — painstaking efforts from Mac's producers kept things on track, as Song Facts reports, and the album hit record shelves in 1977 (per People Magazine).

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