No Hi-tech for Nicks aritcle

[skcin]

Got this thru the Stevie Nicks Chain - sorry if it's been posted already.

Herald Sun (Australia)

November 3, 2005

Section: Hit1 - FIRST

No hi-tech for Nicks

Claire Sutherland and Nui Te Koha

FLEETWOOD Mac rock chick Stevie Nicks has revealed that she despises, and refuses to join, the computer age.

Nicks, 57, says computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons.

``I don't have a computer, I don't have a cellphone and I don't have an iPod,'' Nicks tells The Back Room.

``I don't like them.''

Nicks says her 14-year-old niece is a teen caught in a technology trap.

``She is the closest thing I have to a daughter and I hate it when she's slumped over her computer.

``I'll ask her something, and she'll raise her hand: `Excuse me, I'm busy!' I hate that,'' Nicks says.

``That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her.

``And I tell her: `You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging, you burn your eyes and hump your back playing these stupid computer games.

```Don't you want to stand tall, and be beautiful, and have something to say? You won't if you're slumped over that box!'''

Nicks, who wrote her biggest tunes, including Dreams, on cassette, acknowledges the wonders of the world wide web.

``If this new wave had stayed the information superhighway, I would have been happy.

``Gosh, doesn't life fly by fast enough without wanting to sit in a dark room with a monitor and keyboard? It creeps me out.''

But why doesn't music legend and femme-rock pioneer Stevie Nicks have an iPod?

``I have 300,000 CDs. Believe me, there is plenty of music in my life,'' Nicks answers.

``But I will admit I sunk to doing my last demos on (a computer-generated) 16-track pro-tools. I didn't run it, though, I wouldn't know how,'' Nicks says, laughing.

Nicks performs, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, at Rod Laver Arena on February 18. Tickets go on sale on November 15.

300,000 CD,s huh? :laugh:

[bikerchic]

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's :shrug:

[jannieC]

Can you even imagine shooing Aunt Stevie away so you could IM with your friends?! :rolleyes:

[jkmaletic]

See - she's not afraid to "waste" $15 on CDs either! :laugh:

I guess from this article that Stevie is OK with internet use for information purposes, but for anything else it's a waste. This article made me laugh out loud. Can you imagine her standing there with her hands on her hips trying to get Jessica's attention while she's playing on the computer? Too funny.

Thanks so much for posting this article! :nod: I've had a bad morning so far and it made me laugh. :xoxo:

[strandinthewind]

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's :shrug:

Well, they are using them when they cannot do anything else but saty in bed or walk around on a limited basis :shrug:

Also, my FAV is "That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her. " ATTA GIRL :laugh:

I also totally agree with this: "And I tell her: You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging, you burn your eyes and hump your back playing these stupid computer games." I HATE it when the youngin's talk non stop on their cells while at dinner, etc. I mean why go to dinner with someone just to talk on the phone with somone else. That is just so insulting.

I feel old :laugh:

[LeighB04]

[QUOTE=jkmaletic]See - she's not afraid to "waste" $15 on CDs either! :laugh:


You don't really think she PAYS for her CD's, do you? Heck, I have thousands as well - one of the joys of being in radio....:nod:

[macfanken]

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's :shrug:


Hmmm... Stevie saying something that contradicts something she said or did earlier? I'm shocked! :shocked:

[reebokandlace]

Well...at least we know Jessie probably visits the ledge....

:wavey:

[danax6]

I so want to go through her 300.000 cd collection! :thumbsup:

And as I already said at SW: I thank Stevie for accussing me of having no social skills. ;)

[Jyqm]

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's :shrug:

I think her only objection to iPods was that she just doesn't need one as she has so many CDs. That was my justification too, until I moved and couldn't take my CDs with me.

(I just realized today, somehow in the process of ripping all my hundreds of CDs, I skippsed TOSOTM. Blast.)

[skcin]

Well, they are using them when they cannot do anything else but saty in bed or walk around on a limited basis :shrug:

Also, my FAV is "That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her. " ATTA GIRL :laugh:

I also totally agree with this: "And I tell her: You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging, you burn your eyes and hump your back playing these stupid computer games." I HATE it when the youngin's talk non stop on their cells while at dinner, etc. I mean why go to dinner with someone just to talk on the phone with somone else. That is just so insulting.

I feel old :laugh:

I do too. But I guess we are. Well, you are anyway.;)

And Jessie's, what, 14? I'm thinking she's not browsing The Ledge, for some reason. :laugh: Not exactly where the cool kids hang these days.

[strandinthewind]

I think her only objection to iPods was that she just doesn't need one as she has so many CDs. That was my justification too, until I moved and couldn't take my CDs with me.

(I just realized today, somehow in the process of ripping all my hundreds of CDs, I skippsed TOSOTM. Blast.)

LOL - I took me hours, but I did it one Sunday afternoon. Interestingly, a friend of mine actually went online and downloaded the cover art for the like 500 CD's she put in itunes - now THAT is going too far :laugh:

[Jyqm]

LOL - I took me hours, but I did it one Sunday afternoon.

One afternoon, huh? Lucky you. I did quite a few every day, but it took me damn near a week.

[bikerchic]

Stevie doesn't carry a "mobile" phone, because Karen carries it for her :laugh:

[SapphireSister]

Well...at least we know Jessie probably visits the ledge....

:wavey:

I highly doubut she would purposely subject herself to any more of her famous Aunt Stevie than she already has to endure.

[strandinthewind]

Stevie doesn't carry a "mobile" phone, because Karen carries it for her :laugh:

I was sooooooooo thinking that :laugh:

[jkmaletic]

Stevie doesn't carry a "mobile" phone, because Karen carries it for her :laugh:

Exactly. :lol:

[SapphireSister]

That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her.

God I love you Stevie :laugh: :laugh:

Is it just me or is this interview making her sound very old? Sometimes I forget there is a huge age gap between us. She really is from the old school.

[MacMan]

Have of this stuff doesn't even seem like she would say it... Probably a short conversion embelished ALOT and or taken out of context... just my opinion.

[David]

(I just realized today, somehow in the process of ripping all my hundreds of CDs, I skippsed TOSOTM. Blast.)Hahah!! Freudian slip?

[Richard B]

I have to remember to be careful reading all these articles. The less I know about Stevie's opinions, the better. She sounds impossibly annoying in this article.

[ELIUD]

Have of this stuff doesn't even seem like she would say it... Probably a short conversion embelished ALOT and or taken out of context... just my opinion.
I was thinking the same thing. Probably somebody interviewed her without using a taperecorder and jotted all her quotes down haphazardly. Everthing seems paraphrased. It just doesn't come across as her usual broken, scattered word usage at all.

[Neal]

I commented on this article on the SevenWonders board and offended someone with my opinions about the internet. So I'll keep my mouth shut here... :wavey:

[LilyRose]

I don't think it makes her sound old. I'm only 24 and I don't completely disagree with Stevie. I wouldn't want my kids sitting in front of a computer all day long when they should be outside riding bikes and running around. That's the reason my parents never bought me a Nintendo in the 80s...and I still have never played any video games.

I don't have an ipod either. For me, half the fun of music is having the album, artwork, liner notes, etc, in my hands.


Susie

[EnchantedSLN]

Have of this stuff doesn't even seem like she would say it... Probably a short conversion embelished ALOT and or taken out of context... just my opinion.

I was thinking the same thing. Probably somebody interviewed her without using a taperecorder and jotted all her quotes down haphazardly. Everthing seems paraphrased. It just doesn't come across as her usual broken, scattered word usage at all.

I thought that too. Especially the part about wanting to slap Jessi, and since when does Stevie say "gosh"? Could anyone actually find this on the Herald Sun website? I did a search but all I could pull up was the brief article about Stevie taking her mom's betting advice. I never got a Google Alert for it either... weird.

[Livia]

Maybe those a-holes at Undercover music, or whatever that site is, made it up. :shrug:

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=23642

[EnchantedSLN]

Maybe those a-holes at Undercover music, or whatever that site is, made it up. :shrug:

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=23642

Sounds weird, but maybe so. It's funny that such an anti-internet/technology interview with her would come out right after their little tantrum. The article lists two writers... a Google search of "Stevie Nicks" and "Nui Te Koha" turns up two results for earlier articles on the Herald Sun site, but "Stevie Nicks" and "Claire Sutherland" brings up nothing. Nor does searching for the title of the article. Fishy.

[Livia]

Sounds weird, but maybe so. It's funny that such an anti-internet/technology interview with her would come out right after their little tantrum. The article lists two writers... a Google search of "Stevie Nicks" and "Nui Te Koha" turns up two results for earlier articles on the Herald Sun site, but "Stevie Nicks" and "Claire Sutherland" brings up nothing. Nor does searching for the title of the article. Fishy.

I smell poop (again).

[BTFLCHLD]

i did a search and this is what i came up with

Search results

1 document matched your query .
no hi-tech for nicks
Herald Sun, 03-11-2005, Ed: 1 - FIRST, Pg: I24, 776 words , HIT
FLEETWOOD Mac rock chick Stevie Nicks has revealed that she despises, and refuses to join, the computer age. Nicks, 57, says computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons. ``I don't have a computer...

you have to have to pay/subscribe to obtain
full article...and im not interested in that service! :sorry:

[EnchantedSLN]

i did a search and this is what i came up with

Search results

1 document matched your query .
no hi-tech for nicks
Herald Sun, 03-11-2005, Ed: 1 - FIRST, Pg: I24, 776 words , HIT
FLEETWOOD Mac rock chick Stevie Nicks has revealed that she despises, and refuses to join, the computer age. Nicks, 57, says computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons. ``I don't have a computer...

you have to have to pay/subscribe to obtain
full article...and im not interested in that service! :sorry:

Huh. Well, nevermind then, I guess. But how did you search it?

[BTFLCHLD]

Huh. Well, nevermind then, I guess. But how did you search it?

http://www.newstext.com.au/?from=ninews_leftnav

search under "VICTORIA" with this "no hi-tech for nicks"

[Wildflower]

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's :shrug:

Oh puh-lease....

Assuming that there is ANY truth to this article:

What she allegedly said was "computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons."

I believe the term "social morons" would mean people who don't know how to communicate face to face or function well socially because they spend all their spare time sitting in front of a game console or on a cell phone (I'm surprised there was no mention of TV -- I think that is a major social inhibitor.) Keep in mind, there is a BIG difference between "social morons" and "morons."

However, I'm finding it hard to believe Stevie would use an insensitive term like "morons" in an interview....What someone (anyone, not just Stevie) may say to friends and terms they may use privately is totally different that what they might say if being interviewed or quoted in a published article. I wouldn't know if Stevie ever uses the term at home, but I doubt she would use it publicly.

As far as Stevie saying "Gosh", I wonder if she actually said "God" but they found that offensive to print, so they changed it.

[Livia]

This cracked me up - so while Stevie has a day off, Andrew's entertaining a Playboy bunny...

Herald Sun, 04-11-2005, Ed: 1 - FIRST, Pg: 025, 204 words , THEEYE
A SURPRISE guest in the Andrew McManus tent was Playboy model Lillian Mullen, who has been on the mag's cover eight times. She's in Melbourne for one week exploring business opportunities. McManus's major guest, singer Stevie Nicks, had a rest day be...

That's all I could cut and paste for free. :rolleyes:

[BTFLCHLD]

[QUOTE=Wildflower]Oh puh-lease....

Assuming that there is ANY truth to this article:

What she allegedly said was "computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons."

QUOTE]

that portion appears to be the header to the article
a summation of sorts from the writers...
there are no quotes used attributing those exact words to stevie :shrug:

FLEETWOOD Mac rock chick Stevie Nicks has revealed that she despises, and refuses to join, the computer age. Nicks, 57, says computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons.

[ELIUD]

I myself don't doubt the legitimacy of the article. Stevie has said before she doesn't like the internet. I can believe all the opinions in the articles are hers, but not some of the word usage. Like the words "gosh" and "moron" (which I agree the ariticle does not attribute as a direct quote) and then her saying she would like to "slap" Jessi, seems out of character.

[skcin]

I don't know where the Stevie Nicks Chain got it from, but I received it thru email from them. :shrug:

[jkmaletic]

I don't know where the Stevie Nicks Chain got it from, but I received it thru email from them. :shrug:

See what you started Paula! :mad: :] :)

[DavidMn]

I have to admit, I'm not quite as technologically challenged as Stevie is, but it heartens me to see that there's someone else out there that isnt a complete computer whiz like me.:nod:

[SapphireSister]

Don't you want to stand tall, and be beautiful, and have something to say? You won't if you're slumped over that box!

I had to go back and re-read...that's just fu*king fabulous! :woohoo:

[MacMan]

I don't know where the Stevie Nicks Chain got it from, but I received it thru email from them. :shrug:

It's posted on the legacy under "Save Jessi" or something like that.

[Johnny Stew]

"You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging...."

When my 16 year old cousin told me that her friends actually say "LOL," when they think something is funny in "real time," instead of PHYSICALLY laughing, I started to fear for the next generation.

[DavidMn]

"You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging...."

When my 16 year old cousin told me that her friends actually say "LOL," when they think something is funny in "real time," instead of PHYSICALLY laughing, I started to fear for the next generation.Youre kidding. That is frightening....:shocked:

[jannieC]

"You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging...."

When my 16 year old cousin told me that her friends actually say "LOL," when they think something is funny in "real time," instead of PHYSICALLY laughing, I started to fear for the next generation.

...I sometimes say BRB instead of "be right back"..... but I'm just kidding when I say it!

[Jyqm]

Hahah!! Freudian slip?

But I ripped Street Angel!

I actually like a lot of TOSOTM!

How long am I supposed to exist without the sweet strains of "Ooh My Love?"

[Jyqm]

...I sometimes say BRB instead of "be right back"..... but I'm just kidding when I say it!

Sure, you're kidding now.

I started saying "OMG" a while back. Highly ironically, of course. But it has now become a fully-embraced part of my lexicon.

Damn it all.

[StreetAngel86]

"You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging...."

When my 16 year old cousin told me that her friends actually say "LOL," when they think something is funny in "real time," instead of PHYSICALLY laughing, I started to fear for the next generation.

OMG u think that's weird? me and my friends are all in our early 20s, late teens and we all do that and we're not obsessed with the net or anything we've just been online for a long time [long for me is like since 98] i suppose it is a generational thing :lol:

but text msgs........could not survive without our mobiles :thumbsup: to a technologically challenged person they would all be in code because of all the sort hands but it's just normal for us.

some schools here encourage all work to be handed up via email and projects done via multimedia

why waste paper and kill trees when u can get RSI in ur right hand instead LOL

[dissention]

That whole thing was a hoot and a half. I loved it. Thanks, Paula.

[sparky]

I commented on this article on the SevenWonders board and offended someone with my opinions about the internet. So I'll keep my mouth shut here... :wavey:

Go ahead and offend, dude. I swear to GOD if I hear anyone saying something OFFENDS them again, I would like to track them down and bust their whiny ass with a snow shovel. Aren't we done with that offended thing yet ? Or did everyone just get out of an 8 year extended stint in a politically correct grad school ? People are so easily offended these days - they just ought to crawl in a box and live the rest of their lives out like veal.

[strandinthewind]

Go ahead and offend, dude. I swear to GOD if I hear anyone saying something OFFENDS them again, I would like to track them down and bust their whiny ass with a snow shovel. Aren't we done with that offended thing yet ? Or did everyone just get out of an 8 year extended stint in a politically correct grad school ? People are so easily offended these days - they just ought to crawl in a box and live the rest of their lives out like veal.

Your demeanor and, more significantly, your hair - are offensive to me and common decency, which are hardly ever equated :p :p :p

[sparky]

Your demeanor and, more significantly, your hair - are offensive to me and common decency, which are hardly ever equated :p :p :p

You just want me to come after your ass.

[strandinthewind]

You just want me to come after your ass.

better than in it

[dissention]

better than in it

I'm offended.

[strandinthewind]

I'm offended.

that it is not your's :shrug: