Stevie Joins The Voice
 

Via ABC News: July 8th, 2014

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Stevie Nicks is joining "The Voice" as an adviser to Adam Levine's team for the upcoming season.

Filming is currently underway on the show's seventh season. Nicks, the 66-year-old Fleetwood Mac singer, has been working with Levine and his 12 team members as they assign songs and rehearse with the contestants in preparation for the show's battle rounds.

Levine and Blake Shelton will be joined by Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams as coaches when the NBC show returns on Sept. 22.

The network says it will soon announce other advisers for this season.

Fleetwood Mac is set to embark on a 33-city tour starting Sept. 30 in Minneapolis, with Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and his ex-wife Christine McVie.

I'm So Excited for this!

This might be interesting.......Adam has frequently said he considers Stevie to be one of the best singers of all time, and Phillip Phillips said she was the best mentor on "American Idol", hands down!

Is she going to be on it for one show, or is it an recurring role? I think she will really do well as a mentor. Adam adores her, and I think some of their audience who may not be familiar with her, will also come to love her,especially for her unique way of phrasing her thoughts.

I avoided the show for several seasons, but eventually it started to grow on me. Very excited that she's doing this.

It was so nice for Phillip Phillips to give big props to Stevie. He's the real deal, very authentic and talented, almost like an old sage. He must have seen those qualities in Stevie.

Since the show is pre-recorded, will Stevie be on tour by the time the shows air? It's a good move on her part, keeping herself in the public eye. However, I hope she has time to work on her band's pending album!

This will be a good way to promote her new album.

I'm excited she's doing this. She'll be great. And from what I can remember, coaches are on multiple episodes.

Absolutely. :nod: She'll probably perform the first or second single from the album and on a show like this, that'll be good publicity. I can't wait!!! :]

This is so fun! But she looks atrocious in that video...sorry! It's the glasses!

She's gonna be such a busy bee!

Get that promotion, girl! :D Should be fun.

Stevie and Gwen omg ... **fangirl spazz**

Well, I'll just have to watch The Voice. :D
2014 is just a great Stevie year and I couldn't be happier.

This is such great news. "The Voice" is such an interesting show, way more fun to watch than "American Idol" or any of the other singing competitions. Even my parents, who are in their late 70's, watch this show and really enjoy it.
It's a far more kind show than the others. The coaches are nice, they all want each other to do well, it's just one big happy place.
I think Stevie will fit in amazing.

If Stevie were 30 years younger, Adam would be asking her out.

I realize this is an incredibly smart publicity move for Stevie & Fleetwood Mac, but I still can't help but cringe at it. To me, shows like the Voice are just beneath the iconic stature of someone like Stevie. Plus, Stevie has always been the one touting how important it is to leave some mystery of aura around oneself. A one off appearance on American Idol is one thing... but to actually be a part of the cast of a show? :sorry:

OMG couldn't agree more with every word. To me she sets the trends, she doesn't follow them. I hate seeing her on all of these shows.. and to be honest surprised she would ever consider it like you said! :(

I understand the sentiment but I think at this point, Stevie's legacy has been secured and it would take something a lot worse than The Voice (which I don’t particularly like) to maculate the iconic status she’s reached.

July 09, 2014 02:03:04 GMT, Ace Showbiz

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Stevie Nicks to Advise Adam Levine's Team on 'The Voice'

"The Voice" has tapped Stevie Nicks to join the show in season 7. The pop-rock singer/songwriter is set to be an adviser to Adam Levine, sharing her knowledge in music with his proteges.

The two have collaborated on the show back in the first season finale, when Nicks performed "Landslide" with Team Adam. Adam's contestant Javier Colon ended up winning the title.

Speaking of her past experience on "The Voice", the Fleetwood Mac member told Extra, "I won the first season, actually. I did! I flew in, barely made the show, no rehearsal, then Javier won. I looked at Adam and went, 'He won!' "

They went on joking about how Adam persuaded Stevie to join. "Bribery, begging, pleading," the Maroon 5 frontman said, with Stevie adding, "Presents... fur coat, some beautiful shoes, sheets."

"The Voice" season 7 will kick off Monday, September 22 at 8 P.M. on NBC. Blake Shelton also returns as a coach, joined by Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams on the panel.


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They're currently filming right now.....if the past is anything to go on, she should be on the show around three or four weeks.
As for it being "beneath" her.....get over it! New times require new marketing tools, and this is one of the best! Things like her appearances on "Idol", "Glee" and "American Horror Story" have gotten her more press (and sales!) than she's had in years! How many other 66 year old's can say that?!?
As for it cutting in to the recording of the new FM album......it was never....I repeat....NEVER....planned to be out in 2014....so nothing is "collecting dust!" Once again, this can only help things!

Exactly.

I'm not a big fan of these singing talent shows either, but they're popular and get huge ratings.
For Stevie, it's great exposure and smart business.

Jamie

‏@iowahawkblog Coaching contestants how to sing her note MT @EdMorrissey: Irony is dead. RT @CBSShowbiz: Stevie Nicks joining "The Voice" as adviser.

That was the only tweet you chose to share on the subject?

Anyway... I can understand where some are coming from, but I don't think this is "beneath" Stevie. In fact, it's pretty damn shrewd of her. These shows reach millions of viewers, and while The Voice isn't everyone's cup of tea (admittedly, I'm not one of its viewers either), it's not a tacky, bottom-of-the-barrel show by any means. So she's far from slumming. Meanwhile, this is going to result in amazing promotion for Stevie & Fleetwood Mac.

not sure why are you asking but i didn't see any others - that was the only one that came up in LB tweet-search (they were asking whether what we'll hear next will be that LB is judging american karaoke).

Great marketing indeed and far better than ANYTHING Warner's will do for her...
I would imagine the contestants will perform at least a couple of songs Stevie has written...
I gather the show is filmed in advance so if Stevie wanted to be really sneaky and smart she could try to have a few of the songs from her upcoming album performed for the show which sounds like it will air sometime around when 24 Karat Gold is due to be released...

No judgments -- it just seemed odd that, with the countless positive tweets on the topic, you bothered to share a snarky one. But, hey, if it's the only one you saw, it's the only one you saw.

The ONLY reason she is doing this stuff is for the promotion of STEVIE NICKS. Remember, she isn't selling records anymore and isn't getting "new" airplay. This is the only venue (TV) left for artists her age to promote themselves.

I hate these kinds of shows but it does keep her name in the trades and on the internet.

I wonder if Stevie will make the top 10 with the new album. 'In Your Dreams' debuted at #6 with 52,000 copies sold, and if the album sold that figure now then it would debut at about #4 as the top 5 sells a lot less than it did three years ago.

If she did then that would mean that she would have three consecutive top 10 studio albums which is quite impressive for someone who is also part of a band. :nod:

I agree. I, too cringed at this news. I realize that times have changed, but I love the romantic ideal of the travelling band riding around touring small clubs while they're trying to make it. And I know it's kind of silly, but I find these shows patently offensive. It just seems like an incredibly lazy way to pursue an ambition. You want to be a singer? Start a band and get out on the road. Maybe that's not how it's done anymore. Sigh.

And, furthermore, I believe it totally takes away from the "mystery of aura" that Stevie has worked all these decades to create. :distress:

The sad thing is The Voice really hasn't helped Christine Aguilera or Shakira that much. Their sales suck.

She does need to get her name out there for album though. She is 66 years old. Adam will take of her. He loves her.

BUNK!!! She's also doing it because she believes in paying it forward! Every single "Idol" contestant said she was the best mentor that they had all season, that she had really done her homework and really CARED!!! Both the casts of "Glee" and "American Horror Story" said she was nothing but gracious and an inspiration!
It blows me away how easy it is for so many to sit at a keyboard and think they "know" what motivates someone! Well, guess what??? You don't!

Uh.....hate to say it, but both Keith Urban and Blake Shelton are selling more records than pretty much everyone listed in the first group......combined!!!!! (And I LOVE almost everyone on that list!! Just that state of the industry today!)

Beautifully expressed. Thank you. It is about credibility. What's next? --touting the success of Justin Bieber as 'an artist' because he's "sellin' a lot of records"?

There's a big difference between the 1st group & the 2nd group...

The artists in the 1st group are legendary singers, songwriters and musicians while the "media personalities" in the second group are simply a corporate product and some are simply famous for being famous...

While Stevie continues to sing the praises of how great she likes working with Dave Stewart she is apparently unwilling to follow his lead when it comes to self promotion via social media...Yes she has a "verified" twitter with 43,000 followers but will Stevie take full advantage of being on "reality show" and tweet/use social media to keep her fans up to date about what is happening on "The Voice" ??? Most likely not...While it's great Dave is keeping us in the loop Stevie should be the one tweeting info not Dave...

Word.

We've all questioned her and Fleetwood Mac's management decisions at times, but this will be good for her and FM. Sadly or not sadly, it's all about exposure these days. People's attention spans are for sh*t nowadays.

As far as the tweet about it being "ironic" that Stevie is mentoring young voices, whatever. Stevie has one of those voices that some people just don't like, and some of those people even write on this board. I get that - for example, I never could stand Neil Young's voice. To each his own. But I'm pretty sure Stevie has enough fans to compensate for those that dislike her. :nod:

Jamie

Can I quickly put a word in for Keith Urban? I mean, yes, he's not 'legendary' and he's not the bestest thing ever but I wouldn't exactly just stick him straight in the 'corporate product' category, either. He's a good guitar player and not half bad at writing songs. He IS an artist even if he does pimp himself out to a couple of (singing) reality TV shows. It's money, it's publicity, it doesn't negate actual talent or artistry.

In terms of Stevie going on, she doesn't have a social media presence (which can help garner attention) and she's in her sixties; going on a show like this can only help her at this stage. She's gone on The Voice and American Idol before, even in a lesser capacity, and all it did was raise her profile. It's kind of sad that the business has come to this but it's not some measure of patheticness, an appearance. The 'aura of mystery' thing is just part of the image, and one which I don't think is ruined by occasional glimpses at the person/a on the telly, not being all mysterious but giving solid, helpful advice instead. Rather, it gets her name out there and that's all too important, if not for sales, then for her legacy. We've seen the term 'legend', 'popular', 'beloved', 'icon' etc thrown around a lot more recently, not just because of her age, but because appearing on various things - and being praised by those on those things - makes her more known. If she's careful about it, it just calls attention to HER, her image and her music. She's not suddenly going to be known by the majority as 'The Voice star Stevie Nicks'. It's (nearly) all for the legacy, exposure and the publicity. And why not.

It confounds me that some people here are referring to Stevie's 'smart business sense' and supposed shrewdness as if they were positive traits. What happened to the sweet little dreamer who only cared about art? I guess she simply morphed into a money-hungry egomaniac many moons ago or perhaps she had just been concealing that side of her character? If only she concentrated on the things that mattered and retained some dignity as a person. It's been a sad decline for the old girl.