Stevie Nicks reveals the advice she gave Katy Perry about a pop star’s ‘Internet Armies’

Stevie Nicks he remembers the most valuable advice he ever gave Katy Perry.

legendary Fleetwood Mac the singer recently sat down for a extensive interview with Rolling Stone and discussed politics, death and the internet.

A special information about modern rivalries between pop stars already had took social media by storm.

“About 10 years ago, Katy Perry was talking to me about the internet armies of all the singers and how cruel and rancid they were,” Nicks told the outlet. “I said, ‘Well, I wouldn’t know because I’m not on the Internet.’ She said, “So who are your rivals?”

“I just looked at her,” the 76-year-old continued. “It was my look of steel. I said, “Katy, I have no rivals. i have friends All the other female singers I know are friends. No one is competing. Get off the internet and you won’t even have rivals.”

While the iconic singer certainly knows a thing or two about musical rivalries herself, Nicks became famous long before social media existed — and she didn’t have to endure them in front of millions of people like Perry did in her former feud with Taylor Swift.

Nicks previously spoke about this conversation with Perry in The New Yorker in 2022and said she advised Perry to “get away from it” because “they win” when the “Teenage Dream” singer said her “Taylor Swift army” was facing off against her “Katy army” online.

Perry and Swift they were audience friendly with each other iin the early days of social mediabut whispers of their beef grew louder as their respective careers blossomed, with Swift revealing in 2014 that her song ‘Bad Blood’ it was about another female pop star.

“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not.” Swift told Rolling Stone at the timenoting that this mysterious fellow singer crossed the line in 2013: “She did something so horrible. I was like, “Oh, we’re just honest enemies.” And it wasn’t even about a guy!”

“It was business related,” she added. “He basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. He tried to hire a bunch of people below me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you wouldn’t believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid it.”

A day after the interview was published, Perry he wrote on social media“Watch out for Queen George in sheep’s clothing…” – a reference to “from 2004”bad girls” – all of Swift’s comments, except for the confirmation, were about her.

In the end, Perry seemed to take Nicks’ advice and sent Swift an olive branch in 2019. Swift even featured Perry in one of his music videos at that time and they said they talked “for hours” after they ended their feud — and blamed “the media” for starting it.