What does your family think of Stevie and your being a fan of hers?
 

I started mulling this over when I saw another post by Ryan saying his dad thinks Stevie's a crack whore, and then decided to ask this based on my own experience.

My mom called me to let me know Stevie was on the Today show, and later on when I talked to her, she said, "Eh, she sounded flat on that first song and I turned the TV off half-way." Then she proceeded to tell me my grandma watched and didn't like the music and thought her hair looked ridiculous flying all over the place and was in her face.

To be fair, my mom's got totally different music interests and told me, "If you like her, that's great. You don't like some of the music I listen to - we all have our own interests and opinions" and then told me Stevie looked very good for her age, but maybe should consider cutting her hair.

OK...maybe I'm sensitive, but these remarks (esp. Grandma's) cut me like a knife! This isn't even a woman I know, yet my hackles get raised anytime anyone says negative things about her and I feel I have to rush to her defense. I spent 10 minutes trying to tell my mom how great she was this summer and that she sounded better in her concerts than on the Today show.

So why is this? I just find it odd that I'm so offended when someone puts down this lady who is really just a virtual stranger to me. Anyone else feel this way?

my mom really likes her.. she was the reason i got into Stevie and Fleetwood Mac in the first place.. One of her good friends invited her to see Stevie on the "Whole Lotta Trouble" tour in 1991. It was at that point that my mom rented "Live at Red Rocks" from the video store.. I watched it with her and the rest was history...

My dad on the other hand didn't like her at all... he used to say she was "demonic" and "evil".. :(

No need to defend Stevie
 

I do not believe you have any responsibilty to defend Stevie...she is a living legend...one of the all time top selling recording artists ever, and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The fact that Stevie still can pack most concert venues, and is asked to perfrom on the Today Show is testament to her on going success. There are tons of "classic rock" artists who are still out there performing and were extremely successful in the 70's and 80's but are really not relevant today. (Example...bands I love like REO Speedwagon, Styx, ZZ Top, Foreigner, Pat Benatar...are all great but are not nearly as popular as Stevie is today.)

Heres the deal...music is ART,...like a sculpture or a painting...it is an expression of the ARTIST...some ART appeals to certain individuals...and some does not. The painting I may choose to hang in my living room may not be appealing to you...but would I walk in your house and say it looks awful? Of course not.

Some people love genres of music I can't stand...like polka, or bluegrass. But I respect those artists, and would not be critical of someone who gets pleasure out of listening to them.

So...your only responsibilty is to love Stevie...cherish the music, the songs, and the lyrics...use her words to make your life more meaniningful and enjoyable...and if you can share it with others, then by all means do so. But don't worry what others think.

If we wanted to be "mainstream" we would be logged into MTV.com reading about Kanye West.

My mother can't stand her. She likes Lindsey the most (but that doesn't say a whole lot) and she tolerates Christine.

I think what finally broke the camel's back was "Candlebright." I had it playing when I took her to a doctor's appointment a while back and it just annoyed the **** out of her. She turned it off and asked me how I could listen to such a shrill, grating fool, and that Stevie's voice just pierces through her in the most unpleasant way.

Not that I gave a ****; I considered it my revenge for having to listen to the Eagles and the Beatles on a constant basis growing up. I hate both of them. o_O

When I first became a fan, and all I really had was "The Dance," it really drove my parents insane - because that's all I played, and I BLASTED IT.
It got to the point where my mom came knocking on my door and pleaded with me to play something else ANYTHING ELSE, just not Fleetwood Mac.
She also yelled at me to "Get your own music!," meaning that somehow I had no right to listen to the music of her generation.

Now my family just ignores it. They've resigned themselves to hearing it all the time, and to the fact that where once there were Nirvana posters, there now hang photos and posters of people who, in many cases, are older than my parents.

My Mom has been crazy for FM from the get go, though that's not how I became a fan. She had 45's like Tusk & Ebony Eyes, but that's about it. Mom loves that I love SN/FM, and she likes the fact that anywhere she goes and hears SN/FM she'll think of me. I've taken my mother to many a show, including the crazy $900 Dance fiasco. Dad, he's s'ok with it. Likes Chris the most I think, if he had to choose. The only major time I recall him most figuring how much I loved SN was him keeping hidden a full size advert for the Wild Heart tour. We were dirt poor and there was just no way in hell I could have gone to that =0( Him acknowledging that to hide it was in my best interest, as I'd have screamed a fit to go, shows he understands how much SN/FM means to me.

My newest conquest was my boss coming into work the other day and saying "you know Anita I'm haunted." "Anytime I hear SN or FM I think of you." Bwahahahaha. Another Victory! :blob2:

My family thinks I am completely nuts.

My family already knows that I'm completely nuts, even without knowing I'm a fan of Stevie and FM. :]

Well, yes. I supposed the Stevie/Mac is just the icing on the cake.....for some ;) :D

I started liking Fleetwood Mac from my mom, so she doesn't think I'm crazy. My dad never liked her or FM. He's a hardcore Eagles fan. My dad actually tells me if he sees she's gunna be on TV, or if she's in the newspaper. They just think it's insane that I insist on seeing the same show multiple times. Like, when I saw Stevie three times this summer. They didn't understand that. But it doesn't really bug them

More than half of my family are Stevie/FM freaks, especially my one aunt. When Belladonna came out I was in the fanclub and had up all the posters you got when you joined in my room. My mom made me take them down when her born-again boyfriend said Stevie was a witch!

My mom likes Stevie,she went with me to one of the shows on the last tour, and SHE LOVE IT , :D I said wow.my mom likes Kenny G, Kenny Rogers, Ray Price and Easylistening music and now country music, do to me and her boy friend. My dad no, he calls her miss monotone, with the same rhythm band, he likes the 50's tunes, and big band music.My Stepdad witch is no longer with us any more , did not like her music, he liked 50's oldies and big band music. one my sisters does not like her and calls her a druggie,she likes Pat Benater,Huey Lewis and John Mellencamp and my other sister says her music can be tolerated just little bit,and she likes Celine Dion,Josh Groban ,Easylistening flavored tunes,So it looks like my moms on my side on this one,She even remember watching Stevie on the HBO special with me when it was first aired on HBO in 1982.my mom also love Stevie's wardrobe.I wish I can turn the rest of my family to like Stevie. :shrug:

Uhhmmmmm - Stevie's a Rock Star.
Do you WANT your Mom and Grandma to like her? :laugh:

Have you ever seen the "Twisted Sister" video?
I'll bet you have a Stevie Nicks picture on your uniform....
(Or at least downloaded on your computer.)
The parents say, "WHO ARE you? Where do you COME from?
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO with YOUR LIFE!???"
And their kids say, "I WANNA ROCK!"

Was your Mom an Elvis fan????
I wonder if your Grandma said, "Well, I'm sure he's very NICE but. . . ."

:lol:

Anyway, in my case, my Mom is a fairly conservative Catholic
who has her own way of looking at the world, so she feels very
strongly that Stevie is a different person than her who has been
in a different environment than her and led a different kind of life.
Despite best efforts, I haven't been able to get her to sit through
all of "Live in Boston" - she claimed she was "too busy" but the
truth of it was she just didn't want to. But she did watch
"Beautiful Child" with me and liked it a lot, and a while back had
watched "Silver Spring" on "The Dance" and said "That was very
NICE!" As for the rest, she knows the story or at least has
inferred the general idea, but just doesn't care either way -
it's just simply not part of her "culture."
Managed to show my Dad "Live in Boston," and he liked it and
definitely saw how much talent they have, but I don't think he's
gonna be going out of his way to go to a concert! :laugh:
He did go out and buy a Greatest Hits cassette a few
years ago - so it's not like if he's oblivious.
As for my "fandom" they're like, "AHHH, whateva, least he's not
in jail!" :shrug: :laugh:

P.S. - in your Grandma's day, perhaps "ladies didn't ACT that way."
Something, I suspect, that Stevie is extremely aware of. . . .
"Rock on, GDW"

:laugh: , Ghost Tracker. I always thought my mom was a fan of FM because I remember finding a tape of theirs as a little girl, but I think it was just something my grandfather found and gave her and she never listened to it.

Anyway, I was thinking about this more after I posted, and no, I wouldn't want my grandmother to be a fan I guess. She wears polyester pants and has a tight curly perm, so that doesn't quite jive with the Stevie lifestyle, I'd say. (Nothing against my granny - she's just from another generation...)

My mom, on the other hand, can't stop singing the praises of Perry Como and Mel Torme. There's a bunch of others that I can't remember too. Their music just makes me yawn.

So I guess it really is to each his own. No one in my family could figure out why I went to multiple concerts either. :p

My mother is the one that started this whole obsession. She became a fan in high school when Rhiannon came out and has been one ever since. There was always FM/SN music playing when I was growing up, so the blame lies with her. :nod: