Love that 70s hair!
Posted on 11/09/2021 2:27:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
Stevie Nicks is very particular about certain things in her life. She has to put her mattress on the floor whenever she’s feeling overwhelmed by fame and wants to return to simple times. There have to be rainbow lightbulbs in her home, as well as “fabulous” sheets. A photo of her and George Harrison has to be on her at all times when she’s on tour, as does her expensive massage chair.
However, there is one thing that Nicks is the most particular about, excessive cellphone and computer use. If you’re around Nicks, don’t expect any technology to be around. When she’s talking to you, there are no screens allowed.
Stevie Nicks performing in Santa Barbara, CA, 2010. Stevie Nicks | Dr. Billy Ingram/Getty Images Stevie Nicks thinks technology is ‘obnoxious’ Despite her recent fame on Tik Tok, Nicks isn’t a big fan of cellphones and other technology like computers. During an interview with the Associated Press, Nicks spoke at length about her distaste. She doesn’t like how they’ve “taken over the world.”
“I believe computers have taken over the world, I believe that they’ve really in many ways, ruined our children, I believe that kids used to love to go out and play, I believe that social graces are gone because manners are gone because all people do is sit around and text; I think it’s obnoxious,” Nicks said.
When the interviewer asked what Nicks does when a person she’s with goes on their phone, Nicks said, “I’m going to put my hand on your hand and I’m going to say, ‘Turn it off. For now. Just give me an hour of you. I really want an hour of just you and your heart. I don’t want you talking to somebody else while we’re having lunch.’
“It’s love, you know, it’s relationships. I don’t want love and relationships to be lost, and I feel that’s what’s happening,” Nicks concluded.
Nicks’ views on technology haven’t gotten better over the years. She still dislikes it so much that she doesn’t even own a computer and has no cell service on her cellphone. In 2020, Nicks spoke to the LA Times on a landline. “She has a personal line that she dances around when it rings, wondering ‘Who could it be? Is this a two-hour call? Is this going to be a tragedy?’ and an emergency line to which her assistant attends,” the Times wrote.
“She does not have a computer,” they continued. “She does have an iPhone, but it doesn’t have cellular service and she uses it only as a camera. Despite her distaste for social media, Nicks has gone viral a few times in recent months.” They’re talking about Nathan Apodaca’s viral Tik Tok in which he skateboards chugging a bottle of cranberry juice, listening to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.”
In 2015, Nicks told Us Weekly (per Music News) that she used to take photos, mostly selfies, using her Canon digital camera, but considered getting an iPhone, not to use as a phone but as a replacement camera.
“Nothing compares to the old Polaroids, but I always have my Canon digital camera. It’s scratched to death!” she said. “I have thousands and thousands of ridiculously unimportant selfies that I took while trying to learn to be a photographer. I might actually give in and get an iPhone, though. Not to use as a phone, I just need a better picture-taker.”
Of course, nowadays, it would be dangerous, especially for a celebrity, not to carry a cellphone. So, Nicks does carry around her little flip phone in case of emergencies.
“I’m super old-school,” she continued to Us Weekly. “I have a red Nokia flip phone for emergencies, I call it the ‘fire phone’ because I had to be evacuated from the Latigo Canyon Fire in Malibu a few years back. I was alone and terrified, so I thought, okay, I need to get an emergency little cell. Otherwise, I’ll only talk on the phone if I’m near a landline and really have the time.”
Still, Nicks is more concerned about having a pen on her than her phone. How else could she jot down everything and anything that comes to her mind? She could be inspired to write the next “Rhiannon” at any moment. If she didn’t have a pen, she’d forget all about it. Maybe someone should teach Nicks that she can write her inspirations down in Notepad.
Four abortions, including one with the child of Don Henley, who might have been very talented. But career and drugs came first. Priorities.
SHe’s in that class of people who will forever wonder what happen
Why in the world would anyone want his own personal computer? They’re just toys for hobbyists and nerds. Me, circa ‘83/84 timeframe.
Then around ‘92, they came into my office, unplugged my trusty DEC VT220 and plopped down a generic IBM PC. Even though I had 20 years experience as a programmer, I was totally lost. Completely skipped the DOS generation.
Then in ‘94, John introduced me to the Internet (pre-browser) and I said now why in the world would any businessman want to use that?
I still don’t think this personal computer stuff is feasible.
She’s right about half of it.
The smart phone has two functions - one healthy and one unhealthy.
On the one hand, it replaces or enhances many legitimate activities that we would do anyway, such as reading, research, staying informed, telling time, communication, entertainment, etc.
To the extent that these activities are essential, it is not a bad thing that people use a smart phone to do them instead of some other device, like a book, a library, a wristwatch, a telephone, a newspaper, or whatever.
But when it becomes “too easy” to, say, Google a question, we encounter a problem: the relative difficulty of doing all those chores in the past served as a boundary between our time of doing chores, and our time spent with nature - with people.
Most people spend too much time on their smart phones because it’s just too easy.
Another example of this effect is eating. We have made eating too easy. It was healthier when we had to hunt and gather to eat. I doubt anyone that had to do that ever got fat.
So the smart phones are making us the mental equivalent of fat.
I’ve despised Don Henley for a long time because of his politics. Now even more.
Love that 70s hair!
I’ve despised Don Henley for a long time because of his politics. Now even more.
If you can find anything on line at all, there’s a little story about him and 2 underage girls and drugs....many years ago.
Lighting projections? Oh. Headlights. Not that I was looking.
I saw what you did there.
This from a woman that had someone to blow coke up her arse.
I have new respect for her.
My android has most “apps” disabled. I do use the Seven Seas: Camera, Calculator, Clock, Calendar, ‘Corder (voice recorder), Contacts & Communicators (the last one is phone & text, so I’m not as much of a luddite as I’d like to be)
Nor is half the country, evidently
She’s getting older too.
I thought she was just some goofy stoner dropout girl from Arizona, but then I found out that her father was a big corporate mogul, so she has less excuse for everything.
Dear Ms. Hannah, ( the author of the piec we),
Yyour idiotic sign off quip about the use of an electronic notepad versus a pen and paper demonstrates everything Ms. Nicks said went in your ear and out your rectum!
The best thing about pen and paper is that it is personal, unackable, and cannot be erased with a push of a button!!
I would politely, non-violently completely disagree with that...😀
It was the 70s. High beams were popular then (as we both remember).
There was a concert special for HBO from her 1981 Bella Donna Tour that opens with her father coming on stage and introducing the crowd, "Please welcome, my daughter, Stevie Nicks."
I later learned that her father chaperoned her on this tour to try to keep the drugs away.
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