Stevie Nicks is recalling the single-most precious recommendation she ever gave Katy Perry.
The legendary Fleetwood Mac singer not too long ago sat down for an expansive interview with Rolling Stone and mentioned politics, demise and the web.
One specific tidbit about modern-day pop star rivalries has already taken social media by storm.
“About 10 years ago, Katy Perry was talking to me about the internet armies of all the girl singers, and how cruel and rancid they were,” Nicks instructed the outlet. “I said, ‘Well, I wouldn’t know because I’m not on the internet.’ She said, ‘So, who are your rivals?’”
“I just looked at her,” the 76-year-old continued. “It was my steely look. I said, ’Katy, I don’t have rivals. I have friends. All the other women singers that I know are friends. Nobody’s competing. Get off the internet and you won’t have rivals either.”
Whereas the long-lasting songstress actually is aware of a factor or two about musical rivalries herself, Nicks grew to become well-known lengthy earlier than social media even existed — and hasn’t needed to endure them in entrance of thousands and thousands like Perry did in her former feud with Taylor Swift.
Nicks beforehand opened up about this chat with Perry in The New Yorker in 2022, and mentioned she suggested Perry to “just walk away from that” as a result of “they’re winning” when the “Teenage Dream” singer rued that the “Taylor Swift army” was duking it out together with her “Katy army” on-line.
Perry and Swift have been publicly pleasant with one another in the early days of social media, however whispers of their beef grew stronger as their respective careers flourished, with Swift divulging in 2014 that her music “Bad Blood” was about one other feminine pop star.
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“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,” Swift instructed Rolling Stone on the time, noting that this mysterious fellow singer crossed the road in 2013: “She did something so horrible. I was like, ’Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.′ And it wasn’t even about a guy!”
“It had to do with business,” she added. “She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational — you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her.”
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Someday after the interview was printed, Perry wrote on social media, “Watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing…” — a reference to 2004’s “Mean Girls” — all however confirming Swift’s feedback have been about her.
Perry finally appeared to take Nicks’ recommendation, nonetheless, and despatched Swift a literal olive department in 2019. Swift even featured Perry in one in every of her music movies on the time and mentioned they talked “for hours” after ending their feud — and blamed “the media” for beginning it.
