Stevie Hates Computers

David · #1 05-22-2006, 10:56 PM

"I'm so against it. I don't have a computer. I don't have a cell phone. I don't have an iPod. I don't like it. I don't like it. ... I want to take the computer & throw it out the window. ... I hate it. ... I think it's causing people to be very closed & very unfriendly & very unsocial ... it creeps me out."

-- Stevie Nicks (Melbourne interview with Nui TeKoha, May 15, 2006)

The people who argue with me when I say Stevie hates computers might want to read this quote!

BTFLCHLD · #2 05-22-2006, 11:03 PM

I guess she wants to throw the imaginary one out the window.

jkmaletic · #3 05-22-2006, 11:14 PM

The Gemini that she is speaks again-

Didn't she just hand out a bunch of Ipods??

She's so funny...

catinthedark · #4 05-22-2006, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by David

"I'm so against it. I don't have a computer. I don't have a cell phone. I don't have an iPod. I don't like it. I don't like it. ... I want to take the computer & throw it out the window. ... I hate it. ... I think it's causing people to be very closed & very unfriendly & very unsocial ... it creeps me out."

-- Stevie Nicks (Melbourne interview with Nui TeKoha, May 15, 2006)

The people who argue with me when I say Stevie hates computers might want to read this quote!

i don't buy it. she's full of crap. she emails. she has talked about that, as have the people (like christine!) with whom she emails. there's no way she doesn't have a computer. i think, though i could be remembering wrongly, she was talking specifically about her niece on her computer when she said the part about taking it and throwing it out the window. as for the ipods... yeah, gimme a break. she crows on and on about them when she's giving them to vets. how does she know how great they are if she doesn't have one (or if she's never used one)? she said at one point she loaded all her albums onto them. she doesn't have one? riiight. and no cell phone? i'm not even going to dignify that one with an answer.

what a load of crap.

sparky · #5 05-22-2006, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by catinthedark

i don't buy it. she's full of crap. she emails. she has talked about that, as have the people (like christine!) with whom she emails. there's no way she doesn't have a computer. i think, though i could be remembering wrongly, she was talking specifically about her niece on her computer when she said the part about taking it and throwing it out the window. as for the ipods... yeah, gimme a break. she crows on and on about them when she's giving them to vets. how does she know how great they are if she doesn't have one (or if she's never used one)? she said at one point she loaded all her albums onto them. she doesn't have one? riiight. and no cell phone? i'm not even going to dignify that one with an answer.

what a load of crap.

Cat ? Marry me.

gldstwmn · #6 05-22-2006, 11:56 PM

What the hell could she have against an iPod?

estranged4life · #7 05-23-2006, 12:09 AM

after reading Stevie's view on computers I get the mental image of Lindsey Buckingham saying "Get that schizophrenic bitch away from me..."

paleshadow · #8 05-23-2006, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

What the hell could she have against an iPod?

"Question 134 - from Glenda Scott in Wartburg TN

Stevie,
I am a huge fan and I have seen you many times in concert. You are a huge influence on my life as well as any one who has ever heard your truly magical voice. My question is where can we as fans donate money to your IPOD for the soldiers fund. I think this is a wonderful thing and I really would like you to help you in this worthwhile endeavor.
Thanks and you are terrific!!!!!
Glenda

Stevie's answer:

Thank you Glenda, the Soldier’s iPod program is something very dear to me. We are in the process of establishing a non-profit foundation for people like yourself to make donations to. When we are up and running I will have all of the information posted on the Nicksfix."

Stevie would be the WORST spokesperson for any product because she is constantly contradicting herself.

Johnny Stew · #9 05-23-2006, 12:16 AM

How odd is it that Stevie would do an interview with a Melbourne journalist that was published just a week ago, when that tour was finished over two months ago? Instead, it seems to be a paraphrasing of this earlier interview (the 15th must've been a slow news day)....

No hi-tech for Nicks
Wednesday, 02 November 2005
By Claire Sutherland and Nui Te Koha
Herald Sun (Australia)

Fleetwood Mac rock chick Stevie Nicks has revealed that she despises, and refuses to join, the computer age.

Nicks, 57, says computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons.

"I don't have a computer, I don't have a cellphone and I don't have an iPod," Nicks tells The Back Room.

"I don't like them."

Nicks says her 14-year-old niece is a teen caught in a technology trap.

"She is the closest thing I have to a daughter and I hate it when she's slumped over her computer.

"I'll ask her something, and she'll raise her hand: 'Excuse me, I'm busy!' I hate that," Nicks says.

"That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her.

"And I tell her: 'You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging, you burn your eyes and hump your back playing these stupid computer games.
Don't you want to stand tall, and be beautiful, and have something to say? You won't if you're slumped over that box!'"

Nicks, who wrote her biggest tunes, including Dreams, on cassette, acknowledges the wonders of the world wide web.

"If this new wave had stayed the information superhighway, I would have been happy.

"Gosh, doesn't life fly by fast enough without wanting to sit in a dark room with a monitor and keyboard? It creeps me out."

But why doesn't music legend and femme-rock pioneer Stevie Nicks have an iPod?

"I have 300,000 CDs. Believe me, there is plenty of music in my life," Nicks answers.

"But I will admit I sunk to doing my last demos on (a computer-generated) 16-track pro-tools. I didn't run it, though, I wouldn't know how," Nicks says, laughing.

Nicks performs, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, at Rod Laver Arena on February 18. Tickets go on sale on November 15.
________________________________________________________________

I have to say that I do see her point of view, to a certain degree. Working in the library, I see tons of kids every single day, huddled in front of the computers updating their MySpace pages and IMing the friends who are sitting right next to them. Meanwhile, it's 75 degrees outside and sunny.
When I was a kid, sitting in my living room in front of the TV, my mother used to encourage me to go outside and play and interact with others. Really, what Stevie's suggesting isn't that much different.

paleshadow · #10 05-23-2006, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

How odd is it that Stevie would do an interview with a Melbourne journalist that was published just a week ago, when that tour was finished over two months ago? Instead, it seems to be a paraphrasing of this earlier interview (the 15th must've been a slow news day)....

Nice catch. She'll probably be mentioned in various media outlets this week since it's almost her birthday. I'm actually shocked that there hasn't been at least one "Happy Birthday Stevie" thread posted here already!

desertangel · #11 05-23-2006, 01:33 AM

Didn't Corey mention in one of her tour diaires that Stevie was taking digital pictures?

... that's not exactly techno-phobic behavior either.

I think Stevie was using her Verbal Bedazzler to enhance the particular statement she was making at the time. Gemini... truly!

Laura

David · #12 05-23-2006, 01:46 AM

Think of those days when you hate something you use that you ordinarily like. Maybe it's your car. Or maybe it's a computer. Ordinarily, you love your computer. But maybe one day you just hate the damn thing because you start thinking about all the hours you've logged on it & you think, Christ, what a waste!

Jyqm · #13 05-23-2006, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by jkmaletic

The Gemini that she is speaks again-

Didn't she just hand out a bunch of Ipods??

She's so funny...

By "funny," do you mean "hypocritical"?

Feck off, Nicks.

Johnny Stew · #14 05-23-2006, 03:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

By "funny," do you mean "hypocritical"?

Feck off, Nicks.

The paraphrasing in the blurb David posted, is unfair, IMO. In the longer article, we can all see that she's not disparaging something like iPods... she was simply saying she doesn't have one or really need one.

Obviously though, she sees how they can benefit someone who's not able to get up and change the CD in their stereo, and that's why she donated so many of them to the veterans' hospitals.

jkmaletic · #15 05-23-2006, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

By "funny," do you mean "hypocritical"?

Feck off, Nicks.

Exactly.

She is in her "freaky fifties" though.... that explains a lot.