My Anti-Stevie Customer

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

lol.

there are few things I will go down to the death over. family, friends and Stevie. 'nuff said.

I look at it this way Jason, if people dont like Stevie, Oh well their loss...

[ragandbone]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Please tell me the name of that record shop...so I can avoid it.

LOL Yikes.

I've been laughed at and made fun of my whole life pretty much for liking certain singers and celebs. Who cares what other people say. Yes, it hurts, but it's not that serious and we all know we have great taste in music.

I worked at a record store in San Francisco, called Aquarius and before that I worked for a corporate chain called Music Plus, down in LA. A lot of the attitude was a feature of the time in which I worked in those stores. The Music Plus gig was in the late 80's LA, and so there might have been tolerance for Stevie Nicks from the management, but probably not my coworkers, who were listening to the Cure. The Aquarius job was late 80's early 90's San Francsico, and the store had specialized in local punk(a few years earlier) new music, experimental, etc. For instance some of these artists were popular items to play, Daniel Johnston, Jane's Addiction, Nick Cave, Rova Saxaphone quartet, Tall Dwarves, maybe the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Liz Phair. I am having trouble remembering the displays, but I think you ge the idea. the climate wasn't right for Stevie Nicks, or Fleetwood Mac. And now it is. Yay!

[foxyluva]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

WHen I used to work at this gas station, Iplayed Fleetwood Mac and Stevie all the time on my boombox I had there. There was this one lady that ABSOLUTELY HATED Stevie, and would let me know every time she came in. Finally one day she said "This is the last time I'm coming into this store if I hear that BITCH again. I looked at her and said she is my favorite singer, and as far as I can tell when I'm working I can play whatever the **** I want. If you dont like it get the **** out. Then I said "On Second thought, get out of here anyway and dont ever come back. Understand.?" Never saw her again.

Come on people - you are telling me that I was too overprotective - have you read that!

And for the last time I will say in my defence that she was really rude about it (and I am generally thick-skinned). There is a certain line to cross and she crossed it. I have never been like that to anybody in years of fanship. I geuinely felt like an idiot for listening to SN for a split second...

And it wasn't like I started randomly shooting every FM/SN fact out to her, I just told her how Rumours is one of the biggest selling records of all time, and how influential SN has been to alot of todays female artists (I went into more detail) - but THAT WAS ALL

You guys are making me feel like a obsessive fan

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by foxyluva

Come on people - you are telling me that I was too overprotective - have you read that!

not me. you rock as far as I'm concerned. I've done it before and will do it again...

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

I look at it this way Jason, if people dont like Stevie, Oh well their loss...

very true.

[foxyluva]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

not me. you rock as far as I'm concerned. I've done it before and will do it again...

Thank You Jazz

I did not realise I was going to get such a negative response, its nice to hear that Im not alone in feeling protective of Stevie...

[ragandbone]

Originally Posted by foxyluva

Come on people - you are telling me that I was too overprotective - have you read that!
You guys are making me feel like a obsessive fan

No, I would never intend that, as I have snapped at many a customer, especially when I waited tables.

[jannieC]

I've been listening to people rag Stevie for 25 years. That's why I'm so obsessed with The Ledge- I now know people who acually LIKE her. Seriously though, I wouldn't get into it with anyone at work over it, but with friends I would.

I used to work for this girl who was SUCH a pain in the ass. She knew how I felt about Stevie and was dogging her out in the cafeteria one day. She was really into Ace of Base though, so I just chalked it to to the source, you know?

[foxyluva]

Originally Posted by jannieC

I've been listening to people rag Stevie for 25 years. That's why I'm so obsessed with The Ledge- I now know people who acually LIKE her. Seriously though, I wouldn't get into it with anyone at work over it, but with friends I would.

I used to work for this girl who was SUCH a pain in the ass. She knew how I felt about Stevie and was dogging her out in the cafeteria one day. She was really into Ace of Base though, so I just chalked it to to the source, you know?

I LOVE Ace of Base *goes to find "Happy Nation"*

[Sahara]

I think that was a really, really cool story. Fight the good fight! Yarr!

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by foxyluva

Come on people - you are telling me that I was too overprotective - have you read that!

And for the last time I will say in my defence that she was really rude about it (and I am generally thick-skinned). There is a certain line to cross and she crossed it. I have never been like that to anybody in years of fanship. I geuinely felt like an idiot for listening to SN for a split second...

And it wasn't like I started randomly shooting every FM/SN fact out to her, I just told her how Rumours is one of the biggest selling records of all time, and how influential SN has been to alot of todays female artists (I went into more detail) - but THAT WAS ALL

You guys are making me feel like a obsessive fan

OH I dont blame you at all. Like I said, I dont really care if someone doesnt like the same things I do, but when they instead of just saying they dont care for the artist, they cross the line by attacking her and me and calling her names, UH-UH.

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by paleshadow

I'm just not picking up on them being these rude awful people.

Rude, yes. Awful? Jury's still out.

It was rude of them to be ****ty (and they were ****ty, go back and read foxyluva's description of the incident) after being told that the person in front of them, helping them no less, is a fan of the music being played. Actually, maybe people should just keep their mouths shut sometimes, because you never know who you might offend unnecesarily. For instance, if I was in a record store, I probably wouldn't **** all over the music being played to a person who worked there because guess what? That person might be the one who played the music and well, that would just be ****ty wouldn't it? I don't like to hurt people's feelings, it sounds like these people couldn't care less about that and that's what's so blood-boiling about this whole thing to me.

That said, I'm used to people telling me I'm crazy for loving the Mac/Stevie, so it doesn't really bother me so much anymore, actually, I expect it and if someone says that they like them/her too (rare) then I'm surprised! My best friend thinks Stevie and The Mac are just people her parent's used to listen to, so therefore, they are ancient and insignificant. I suppose her heart is not large enough to let an eclectic group of genres/artists/styles into it, so that is her loss. She's the one missing out on all this great stuff.

And as Janet said, I'm just glad I found The Ledge so I can gush about F.M. with people who GET IT!

[Sahara]

Originally Posted by cliffdweller

I'm just glad I found The Ledge so I can gush about F.M. with people who GET IT!

Definitely. I think it's increased my interest and fandom, for sure.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Rude, yes. Awful? Jury's still out.

It was rude of them to be ****ty (and they were ****ty, go back and read foxyluva's description of the incident) after being told that the person in front of them, helping them no less, is a fan of the music being played. Actually, maybe people should just keep their mouths shut sometimes, because you never know who you might offend unnecesarily. For instance, if I was in a record store, I probably wouldn't **** all over the music being played to a person who worked there because guess what? That person might be the one who played the music and well, that would just be ****ty wouldn't it? I don't like to hurt people's feelings, it sounds like these people couldn't care less about that and that's what's so blood-boiling about this whole thing to me.

That said, I'm used to people telling me I'm crazy for loving the Mac/Stevie, so it doesn't really bother me so much anymore, actually, I expect it and if someone says that they like them/her too (rare) then I'm surprised! My best friend thinks Stevie and The Mac are just people her parent's used to listen to, so therefore, they are ancient and insignificant. I suppose her heart is not large enough to let an eclectic group of genres/artists/styles into it, so that is her loss. She's the one missing out on all this great stuff.

And as Janet said, I'm just glad I found The Ledge so I can gush about F.M. with people who GET IT!

Right on!!

[paleshadow]

Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Rude, yes. Awful? Jury's still out.

It was rude of them to be ****ty (and they were ****ty, go back and read foxyluva's description of the incident) after being told that the person in front of them, helping them no less, is a fan of the music being played. Actually, maybe people should just keep their mouths shut sometimes, because you never know who you might offend unnecesarily. For instance, if I was in a record store, I probably wouldn't **** all over the music being played to a person who worked there because guess what? That person might be the one who played the music and well, that would just be ****ty wouldn't it? I don't like to hurt people's feelings, it sounds like these people couldn't care less about that and that's what's so blood-boiling about this whole thing to me.

That said, I'm used to people telling me I'm crazy for loving the Mac/Stevie, so it doesn't really bother me so much anymore, actually, I expect it and if someone says that they like them/her too (rare) then I'm surprised! My best friend thinks Stevie and The Mac are just people her parent's used to listen to, so therefore, they are ancient and insignificant. I suppose her heart is not large enough to let an eclectic group of genres/artists/styles into it, so that is her loss. She's the one missing out on all this great stuff.

And as Janet said, I'm just glad I found The Ledge so I can gush about F.M. with people who GET IT!

After he told them he liked her they said "Sorry". Fox said it was in a snide way, but as I said in a later post that once you have heard something that you may take offensively(the mother and daughter talking to each other about how they thought the music was crap) it affects how everything else is heard afterwards. Saying "Sorry" is definately not rude. My suggestion is that maybe Fox interpreted it that way because he/she (sorry, I don't know Fox's gender) was already annoyed. In a LATER post after I suggested that maybe Fox reacted a little too much it was added that they also laughed after the appology. Sometimes that happens too, when the desired reaction isn't acheived in the retelling of an incident, the happenings of the incedent grow each time it's retold making the cenario worse with each retelling. Again, everyone's perception is different, as is how they react to situations.
I don't think it would be ****ty to go to a record store and say make negative comments about the music that was playing to someone I'm with. Why is my conversation anyone elses business? Furthermore, it's a record store and it's not the customers responsibility to reserve judgement of a paticular type of music, but it should be the employees responsability to put their personal opinions of what is good and what isn't aside (while at work, or unless specifically asked) in order to be professional and because they are selling to a wide range of musical tastes. Now, if they went into a record store that only sold Stevie Nicks music and talked trash, that would be different.
If Fox was a huge Lindsey Lohan fan and posted the same story in chit chat that the mother and daughter said she was crap, I think people would feel differently, but because this is a Stevie Nicks forum people are not as impartial.