Stevie Nicks Approves of Katy Perry song
 

The Huffington Post UK - By Caroline Frost

Katy Perry has received the support of a rock legend in her message for ex-husband Russell Brand.

Stevie Nicks, celebrated for her own anthems of expression and strong sentiment, pronounces herself full of admiration for Katy Perry’s song ‘Roar’ – an undisguised ode to survival.

“My favorite song right now... I'm so proud of her," says Nicks. "I think that is such a girl power song, and I'm so happy that she's sending out messages to ex-husbands - who needs them?"

Nicks is in London for the premiere of the documentary ‘Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams’, which charts the making of her most recent album, with producer Dave Stewart.

Recording took place in Nicks’ own rambling house in California, and she was, at first, reluctant to let the cameras follow her for the best part of a year… until she remembered something about the Travelling Wilburys being filmed together for their own documentary.

"You had Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison, there they are and you got to be with him. And, in the blink of an eye, two of them are gone. I thought that was stunning.

"And I thought, what if one of them had taken the vain path, thought 'makeup, hair, a drag,' and hadn't have done it, we wouldn't have that. So I felt we should all do that. We should all make our documentaries for our children, for our fans, for our friends, the people that we love."

The documentary catches Nicks singing closely with her former musical and romantic partner Lindsey Buckingham, with whom she has a famously chequered relationship, but whom she called upon for a moving duet called ‘Soldier’s Angel’.

Dave Stewart, also director of the film, confided that this reunion was the most awkward scene to capture on camera, but Nicks was full of praise for her Fleetwood Mac bandmate, whom she says "is the only person who could have done this".

“I sat down with him in 2011," remembers Nicks, "and I said, 'Do you remember when we joined Fleetwood Mac, how cute we were, how sweet, compassionate, funny we were, and we could walk into a room and be so charming and be our own little power couple? We have to go back to being those two people, or we should never do this again.'

"He looked at me and he nodded his head. And he listened to me."

The proof of the pudding is in the reunited Fleetwood Mac, starting the UK leg of their tour this weekend...

“That entire hour and a half that we spoke back in 2011 is on stage every night," says Nicks now warmly. "And he is a different person, and when we walk out on stage hand in hand, he is listening to me."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...n_3948261.html


I saw "In Your Dreams" when it first came out, and Lindsey was hardly in the movie at all. So unless they have added scenes to the movie now, Lindsey is in the movie for a total of about 5 minutes. I honestly only remember seeing him in 2 or 3 shots total. I loved the movie over all, but was very disappointed in how little he was actually in the movie.

I guess the awkwardness of their reunion and their conversations did not "translate" well on film.

She just loves these young artists.

Holy crap, Stevie's taste in modern music is just bad, bad, bad... :distress:

I agree .Hahahahaha.I did not want to say that right away because everybody knows on here that I not into todays type of music.LOL.

Maybe Stevie could take a break for a year from touring and IYD activities and teach these young artists to sing the right way with out the bells and whistles of computers, auto-tune,voice morphing and how to write a good song for once.

Stevie always wanted to be a teacher and she will get a chance do it.

I would love to have her as teacher of music.

If I was 17 years old I probably enjoy Katy P.Miley C and others.

I wonder what the rest of the band's musical tastes are. Certainly not as bad as hers, methinks. :lol:

I like Stevie and think her perspective is interesting enough but I'm getting kinda oversaturated on these "XYZ new song/artist has the Stevie Nicks stamp of approval" bits all the same. Not that there's a ton of them but I feel like there's quite a few.

i love it! we have the same taste in music but i like katy's new single dark horse even better.

Katy Perry should be tossed in a wheel barrel and dumped into the compost pile behind the barn.:lol::eek:

Hahahahahahahaha That made me almost fall out of my chair.

Oh come on. This is just Stevie trying to network like usual. Every time she pulls this crap, it comes off as desperate to me. Way to kiss ass Stevie! Those lips should be fully chapped now.

Yes, indeed. From Vanessa Carlton to Rihanna to Michelle Branch to Katy Perry. All have a good song now and then, but I would expect Stevie's music tastes to have far more substance than is actually the case.

Well ... didn't 1975-and-onwards Fleetwood Mac used to get dismissed as shallow, style-over-substance wannabes? "Real" acts wouldn't want to associate with them much either.

I thought about that too.

It's just strange to me that Stevie (I assume) thinks of artists like Katy Perry as being her modern contemporaries, because I find Stevie's material to have so much more integrity, substance and soul than an artist like Katy, whom I place more in the Madonna/Britney/Donna Summer category of music, whereas to me, Stevie is more in the Tori Amos/Joni Mitchell/Johnette Napolitano/Fiona Apple/Neko Case/Alanis Morrisette category of music.

It has always struck me who Stevie isn't talking about.

I could see Stevie rambling around her house to Neko and Alanis. Jagged Little Pill is a one-woman Rumours with extra dashes of profanity.

Miss mumbles Alanis Morrisette.I need a translator to decipher her music.



I love Donna Summer and Joni Mitchel . Tori Amos is ok.

Who's Johnette Napolitano and Neko Case.I'm not familiar with those two.I probably dont want to know. LOL.

I figure Stevie would be more interested in artists more her age then these kids like Katy,Miley and so forth.

Does she like Justin Bieber .