"I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now"
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Buckingham’s “good karma” isn’t incense-and-crystals spirituality so much as a musician’s way of narrating a late-life plot twist. Coming from a guy whose public mythology is tangled up with Fleetwood Mac’s romantic wreckage and immortalized breakups, the line lands as a quiet revision of the persona: not the tempest in the studio, but the person who finally got a stable home mix.
The intent is disarmingly simple - to announce domestic milestones - yet the phrasing does extra work. “Also” signals he’s adding this to an existing story the audience already thinks they know, as if he’s saying: yes, I’m still that guy, but the headline has changed. “For the first time” is the needle drop. It admits delay without apology, reframing what could read as instability as timing. In rock culture, settling down can sound like surrender; Buckingham codes it as arrival.
Then there’s the soft hedge: “some kind of.” He won’t fully claim cosmic justice, because that would tempt the universe and invite cynicism. Instead, he borrows “karma” as a secular charm - a way to imply balance after years of chaos, heartbreak, and public scrutiny, without litigating the past. The subtext is gratitude with a guard up.
Context matters: Buckingham has long been treated as both virtuoso and cautionary tale, the architect of meticulous sound who lived inside interpersonal volatility. By pointing to marriage and kids, he’s not just sharing happiness; he’s asserting credibility as a whole person, suggesting that stability can be its own creative fuel - not a threat to the art, but a different kind of power source.
The intent is disarmingly simple - to announce domestic milestones - yet the phrasing does extra work. “Also” signals he’s adding this to an existing story the audience already thinks they know, as if he’s saying: yes, I’m still that guy, but the headline has changed. “For the first time” is the needle drop. It admits delay without apology, reframing what could read as instability as timing. In rock culture, settling down can sound like surrender; Buckingham codes it as arrival.
Then there’s the soft hedge: “some kind of.” He won’t fully claim cosmic justice, because that would tempt the universe and invite cynicism. Instead, he borrows “karma” as a secular charm - a way to imply balance after years of chaos, heartbreak, and public scrutiny, without litigating the past. The subtext is gratitude with a guard up.
Context matters: Buckingham has long been treated as both virtuoso and cautionary tale, the architect of meticulous sound who lived inside interpersonal volatility. By pointing to marriage and kids, he’s not just sharing happiness; he’s asserting credibility as a whole person, suggesting that stability can be its own creative fuel - not a threat to the art, but a different kind of power source.
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| Topic | Marriage |
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