Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 hit “Dreams” has been making an appearance in lots of viral videos on social media these days.
The song was featured on their 11th studio album Rumors. “Dreams” was the album’s second single released on March 24, 1977.
It was released as the third single in the U.K and is the band’s only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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You might have heard the song recently resurface on social media sites like TikTok.
It went viral in a video made by Nathan Apodaca showing him drinking some Ocean Spray Cran-Rasberry juice and riding his skateboard down an Idaho highway and lip-syncing to the song.
I don’t use this verbiage often but this is a whole vibe. simple as that pic.twitter.com/NfdLsgLkxu
— DrewFrog (@DrewFrogger) September 25, 2020
People started streaming the song after hearing it in the viral video and it ended up on charts on Spotify and Apple Music in some countries.
It also went into rotation on some Top 40 U.S. radio stations. Apodaca’s post was seen more than 24.7 million times.
@stevienicksAfternoon vibe. Lace ’em up! ##Dreams ##FleetwoodMac ##CranberryDreams @420doggface208♬ Dreams (2004 Remaster) – Fleetwood Mac
Fans of the video started sending Apodaca donations and he ended up taking in more than $10,000.
He says he’s going to give half to his mom, buy a new RV, and fix his busted car (the reason he was riding around on a skateboard).
@mickfleetwood@420doggface208 had it right. Dreams and Cranberry just hits different. ##Dreams ##CranberryDreams ##FleetwoodMac♬ Dreams (2004 Remaster) – Fleetwood Mac
Apodaca’s video even spurred Stevie Nicks, who sings the song, and Mick Fleetwood, the band’s co-founder, to do their own viral TikTok videos featuring the song.
Each of those videos also received millions of views.
When Lanie Gardner saw the song creep back into the charts, she knew she had to cover it.
The alternative pop artist, whose YouTube channel has more than 60,000 subscribers and 3 million views, said that Fleetwood Mac is one of her favorite bands of all time and that “Dreams” is her “new favorite song.”
Gardner has been singing since she was 4 and started writing her own songs at age 12.
She aspires to create music “that saves people.”
Gardner gives a nod to Apodaca in her video by chugging a sip of cranberry juice before singing over a Sing King Karaoke track of “Dreams.”
That video had more than 7.5 million views on TikTok with five days.
The YouTube video has more than 1.7 million views.
She also gained 140,ooo new followers on TikTok and 200,000 on her other accounts.
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People even started posting videos combining Gardner and Apodaca’s video.
“One man, one song, one bottle of cranberry juice bringing so many people up” and I’m here for that vibe,” wrote one YouTuber.
But people are raving about Gardner’s gorgeous rendition.
“‘Dreams’ by Stevie Nicks is a very difficult song to cover, yet Lanie does it so beautifully. It’s almost like hearing it for the very first time all over again,” wrote one fan.
“I was around for the emergence of Stevie and have heard innumerable covers over the years. You young lady are the first capture the mix of rasp and goddess that was our dear Stevie. Well done,” said another.
“There will never be masterpieces created like this ever again here on earth. the mood these songs put you in from 60s/70s connects your mind and body to the simple most important things of life ….love,sadness, self-reflection and relationships,” and another.
You can watch Gardner’s version of this Fleetwood Mac classic in the video below.
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