"I do like my wine"
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"I do like my wine" lands with the kind of breezy candor Christine McVie made feel effortless: a small sentence that smuggles in a whole worldview. The phrasing matters. "Do like" is gently emphatic, a polite British insistence that doubles as a wink. It sidesteps confession and melodrama; it’s not "I need" or "I can’t stop", not even "I love". It’s preference framed as personality, the way a seasoned performer talks about indulgence without letting the audience turn it into scandal.
Coming from McVie, the line reads as a thumbnail of Fleetwood Mac’s larger mythology: pleasure, escape, excess, and the professional composure required to keep making immaculate pop while the backstage narrative keeps threatening to eat the music. Wine becomes a socially acceptable shorthand for coping and celebration at once - a controlled vice you can name in public without surrendering your dignity. It’s also a subtle assertion of autonomy. Women in rock were routinely pushed into saint-or-sinner storylines; McVie often resisted that binary by staying dryly ordinary, even when the circumstances were anything but.
The intent feels less like provocation than boundary-setting: yes, there’s appetite here, but it won’t be packaged for you as tragedy. In a culture that demands either inspirational sobriety tales or glamorous self-destruction, McVie offers something rarer - a human-scale indulgence, delivered with the calm of someone who’s written hits and doesn’t need to oversell her own legend.
Coming from McVie, the line reads as a thumbnail of Fleetwood Mac’s larger mythology: pleasure, escape, excess, and the professional composure required to keep making immaculate pop while the backstage narrative keeps threatening to eat the music. Wine becomes a socially acceptable shorthand for coping and celebration at once - a controlled vice you can name in public without surrendering your dignity. It’s also a subtle assertion of autonomy. Women in rock were routinely pushed into saint-or-sinner storylines; McVie often resisted that binary by staying dryly ordinary, even when the circumstances were anything but.
The intent feels less like provocation than boundary-setting: yes, there’s appetite here, but it won’t be packaged for you as tragedy. In a culture that demands either inspirational sobriety tales or glamorous self-destruction, McVie offers something rarer - a human-scale indulgence, delivered with the calm of someone who’s written hits and doesn’t need to oversell her own legend.
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