"Feel About You" is a song by Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie from their 2017 self-titled album. The song was one of the three co-writes on the album along with "Red Sun" and "Too Far Gone" and also features all Rumours era members of Fleetwood Mac with the exception of Stevie Nicks. Prior to the album's release, the song was released as a single on April 27, 2017.
| "Feel About You" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie | ||||
| from the album Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie | ||||
| Released | April 27, 2017[1] | |||
| Length | 3:28 | |||
| Label | Atlantic, East West | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie | |||
| Producer(s) | Lindsey Buckingham, Mark Needham | |||
| Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie singles chronology | ||||
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Background
editWork on "Feel About You" began in 2014 over a period of eight weeks at The Village Recorder, the same studio Fleetwood Mac recorded their Tusk album 35 years prior.[2] The composition started off with some musical ideas from McVie, but Buckingham later reworked some of the melodies and the groove, which was enough to earn him a co-writing credit.[3]
The final Pro Tools session for "Feel About You" encompassed 188 audio tracks, which included 44 tracks for drums and percussion, five tracks for bass, 14 tracks for keyboards, 26 tracks for guitars, 81 tracks for vocals, and the remaining tracks for audio buses and master tracks. The drums were a composite of takes played by Mick Fleetwood that were spliced together. Some of the kicks drums were looped and distorted, and a sampled kick drum was also added to play a four on the floor beat. Fleetwood also played some drum fills on a cocktail drum kit. Mark Needham used a Waves Soundshifter to tune one of the tom drums to align with the bass guitar, which was treated with compression and EQ. The bass guitar was recorded directly into the mixing console and utilised various plug-in such as a UAD SVT and UAD B15 amp simulator to accentuate the higher frequencies of the instrument. McVie's vocals were doubled and were processed with several plug-ins, including two Waves Audio compressors and two de-essers developed by FabFilter and Universal Audio. The backing vocals were hard panned and calibrated to that they would alternate from the right channel to the left channel.[4]
Following its release on Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie, "Feel About You" was played live on the album's accompanying tour.[5] The duo also performed the song on CBS This Morning that same year.[6]
Critical reception
editIn 2014, three years prior to its official release, the Los Angeles Times described the song as "a buoyant number with all the markings of a hit"[2] AllMusic wrote that the song's "Caribbean flavor is offset by a doo wop-esque lyric line behind Christine's breezy vocal."[7] Rolling Stone characterized "Feel About You" as a "bubbly pop-rock song similar to much of McVie's solo work and the material she wrote and sang lead on for Fleetwood Mac in the eighties".[1] Guitar Player was similarly complimentary of the song’s chorus, further calling it one of the album's highlights.[6]
Pitchfork appreciated the song's "crunchy beat and marimba hook", but felt that it failed to live up to the "immortally swoony 'Everywhere' from Fleetwood Mac's Tango in the Night album.[8] Spin was not receptive to the song's backing vocals and instrumentation, likening the "Kidz-Bop-ready xylophone riff and auxiliary-percussion" to a "children’s-show house band".[9] Uncut labeled the song as "vintage McVie, its pop nous and loved-up lyric slotting into place with a satisfying inevitability."[10]
Personnel
edit- Christine McVie – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
- Lindsey Buckingham – guitars, backing vocals
- Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
- John McVie – bass guitar
References
edit- ^ a b Spanos, Brittany (27 April 2017). "Hear Buckingham McVie's Bubbly New Song 'Feel About You'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ a b Lewis, Randy (2 May 2014). "Her fear gone, Christine McVie's muse soars with Fleetwood Mac reunion". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Graff, Gary. "Going His Own Way". For Guitar Players Only. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Tingen, Paul (September 2017). "Inside Track: Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie 'Feel About You'". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Lifton, Dave (30 March 2017). "Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie Announce First Concert Together". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ a b Maxwell, Jackson (5 December 2022). "Watch Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie's Impassioned TV Performance of "Feel About You"". Guitar Player. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Jurek, Thom. "AllMusic Review: Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Collins, Sean T. (12 June 2017). "Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Cook-Wilson, Winston (13 June 2017). "Review: Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie's New Album Will Please and Perplex Fleetwood Mac Fans". Spin. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Thomson, Graeme (9 June 2017). "Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie - Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie". UNCUT. Retrieved 3 April 2024.