Stevie Nicks - Stevie Nicks Finally Embraces Modern Trappings

Deeshere · #1 09-18-2013, 09:25 AM

by WENN

Singer Stevie Nicks finally decided to get with the modern world and buy a cell phone after cheating death in a fire.

The Fleetwood Mac star enjoyed a life free of modern technology including the Internet but realised she needed to catch up after escaping a blaze in Malibu, California.

She has now turned her back on her Luddite ways by purchasing a cell phone and agreeing to kit out her home with a broadband connection and a laptop.

Nicks tells British magazine Stella, "I had to escape a fire in Malibu a couple of years ago. That's when I realised I had to have (a cell phone). Now I do have a cell phone... Just 'cause (sic) I don't like the Internet doesn't mean that everybody's gonna stop using it. So I'm starting to think: 'You know what? Am I just punishing myself? I might has well know how to do it.'"

http://www.contactmusic.com/story/st...ppings_3870795

Uh Oh, Guess I better be careful about what I post here from now on, cause Stevie's going to start trolling The Ledge and I might start getting some nasty PM's .

Lee · #2 09-18-2013, 09:33 AM

All I can say is it's about time.

Lee

Macfanforever · #3 09-18-2013, 10:37 AM

Wow .I did not know about that.

Will it looks like she beat me to it.I cant stand cell phones do to the annoyance of how people use them.Also I cant see the screen with my eye problem.

Yes cells are great for emergencies only.

I would like to get a good size tablet that I can see.

I had a Tracfone and the update time ran out on it and I never renewed it.

goldustsongbird · #4 09-18-2013, 11:31 AM

I bet it's a 1995 Nokia.

applebucked · #5 09-18-2013, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

I bet it's a 1995 Nokia.

Where do you even get them these days?

goldustsongbird · #6 09-18-2013, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by applebucked

Where do you even get them these days?

Here, apparently! http://www.retrobrick.com/index-2.html

I googled retro cell phones. They call the Nokia 9000i an office in your pocket. Overall pocket, maybe.

I have to know, are they just reporting on this now, or did she need those few months to decide? I can just see her agonizing over laptops at Staples.

applebucked · #7 09-18-2013, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

Here, apparently! http://www.retrobrick.com/index-2.html

I googled retro cell phones. They call the Nokia 9000i an office in your pocket. Overall pocket, maybe.

Does she even know that place?

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I have to know, are they just reporting on this now, or did she need those few months to decide? I can just see her agonizing over laptops at Staples.

Or she could have gotten a Mac.

You know, for Fleetwood Mac.

bombaysaffires · #8 09-18-2013, 02:47 PM

she's got one, but she doesn't know how to charge it/turn it on/make a call etc

In one interview she wanted to turn on the disco ball in her house and had to yell for "KAREN!!!" to come and do it for her.... god help her with a cell phone, let alone a smartphone like an iPhone with a virtual keypad.

goldustsongbird · #9 09-18-2013, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by applebucked

Does she even know that place?

Or she could have gotten a Mac. You know, for Fleetwood Mac.

"Even if you don't want to surf the web, owning a Mac is like being in the army. You have to do it."

applebucked · #10 09-18-2013, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

"Even if you don't want to surf the web, owning a Mac is like being in the army. You have to do it."

Sounds like a Stevie thing to say.

About time for her, though. John is the most technology savvy of the bunch, while Mick and Lindsey use (and probably love) their iPhones. Don't know the extent of Christine's computer knowledge, but she isn't really a Luddite like Stevie, the last time I heard (she at least knows how to turn the thing on, type emails, and browse).

bombaysaffires · #11 09-19-2013, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by applebucked

Sounds like a Stevie thing to say.

About time for her, though. John is the most technology savvy of the bunch, while Mick and Lindsey use (and probably love) their iPhones. Don't know the extent of Christine's computer knowledge, but she isn't really a Luddite like Stevie, the last time I heard (she at least knows how to turn the thing on, type emails, and browse).

Yeah I would think for the guys who have kids it would be hard not to be more exposed to new technologies and trends (even if they weren't personally interested in keeping up which it sounds like they are).
Maybe Stevie's neice and goddaughters etc are helping her see the value in some of this .....