Mick Fleetwood: This is how he finds his new life as a TikTok star

Mick Fleetwood
This is how he finds his new life as a TikTok star

Musician Mick Fleetwood is a little TikTok star.

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A TikTok user helped Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” achieve new success. Meanwhile, the band’s founder Mick Fleetwood is a TikTok star himself.

Nathan Apodaca (38) from Idaho uploaded a video on the TikTok video portal in September 2020 that went around the world. It shows Apodaca singing along with the song “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac after a car breakdown with a longboard and cranberry juice. The clip has been clicked more than 80 million times. As a result, the song rose to number one on the US iTunes charts 43 years after its release and hit the music charts again in several countries.

“No marketing person in the world could have come up with something so crazy. I thought it was great,” says band founder and drummer Mick Fleetwood (73) in an interview with “Welt am Sonntag” about the clip and the unexpected success of the 1977 song. “Nathan just did it spontaneously, anyone who watches it notices that, which is exactly why this clip had this effect.”

As a tribute to Nathan, whom Fleetwood was able to get to know better through video chats, the musician has now posted films himself on TikTok. Among other things, he has his own version of “Dreams” lipsync with cranberry juice uploaded. “I admit: I wasn’t standing on a skateboard in my clip, but had someone film me standing on the back of a golf cart,” reveals the musician.

His colleagues Stevie Nicks (72) and Lindsey Buckingham (71) have also uploaded similar TikTok clips, which are now all famous. He himself had no idea what he was getting into. He is grateful to the man from Idaho to this day. Nathan’s clip made millions of people laugh in times of the pandemic. “The world finally had fun again.”

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