Katy Perry, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie.Photo: Eric McCandless via Getty; Gregg DeGuire/WireImage; Ian West/PA Images via Getty
Stevie Nicksknows the importance of being confident in your standing as a woman in the male-dominated music industry.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer opened up in a new interview about her longstanding friendship withChristine McVieas the only women inFleetwood Mac, and her advice toKaty Perrythat reflected a pact she and McVie had made years earlier to support each other.
Nicks, 73, told Tavi Gevinson in a lengthy interview published inThe New Yorkerthat she once ran into Perry, 34, at the Corinthia Hotel in London circa 2012, and was surprised to hear the singer ask about rivalries.
“She said, ‘So Stevie, who are your rivals?’ And I said, ‘I don’t have rivals.’ And her big blue eyes got bigger and bluer,” she recalled. “And I said, ‘No Katy, I don’t, and neither do you. You areKaty Perry, you’re who you are, you do what you do and you’re great at it. I’m Stevie Nicks, I do what I do and I’m great at it. We don’t have rivals. That’s just ridiculous.'”
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According to Nicks, the “I Kissed a Girl” singer at first rebuffed the advice, name-droppingTaylor Swift, with whom she was rumored to havehad some bad bloodat the time.
“She said, ‘Well, there’s like, theTaylor Swiftarmy and there’s like, the Katy army and there’s like—’ And I was like, ‘That’s just bulls—,'” Nicks recalled. “‘You have to just walk away from that. Don’t carry that around in your mind because then they’re winning the game.'”
Fleetwood Mac in September 2018.JB Lacroix/WireImage
Nicks said that she and McVie “instantly” became best friends after meeting, and that although their personalities were different, “sometimes opposites attract.”
“She’d go, like, “You’re like such a girly girl.” And I’d be, like, “Well, I guess I am, but at the same time, I think I’m pretty hardcore too, Christine,'” she said. “We met in the middle… I would say to her, ‘Together, we are a serious force of nature, and it will give us strength to maneuver the waters that are ahead of us.'”
source: people.com
