During the era of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift’s now squashed feud, Stevie Nicks revealed that she advised Perry not to get entangled in the rivalry.
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During an interview with The New Yorker, the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman reflected on a moment of wisdom she shared with the “Teenage Dream” popstar. “I always think of Katy Perry and I having this long talk at the Corinthia Hotel, in London… this is probably 10 years ago,” explained Nicks. “She said, ‘So, Stevie, who are your rivals?’ And I said, ‘I don’t have rivals.’ And her big blue eyes got bigger and bluer.”
The iconic artist added, “I said, ‘No, Katy, I don’t, and neither do you. You are Katy Perry, you’re who you are, you do what you do and you’re great at it. I’m Stevie Nicks, I do what I do and I’m great at it. We don’t have rivals. That’s just ridiculous.'”
The “Landslide” songstresses urged Perry to disregard the “Taylor Swift army” fighting with Perry’s fans who were adding more flames to the fire. Nicks recalled, “I was like, ‘That’s just bulls***.’” “You have to just walk away from that. Don’t carry that around in your mind because then they’re winning this game.”
Initially, Perry and Swift’s feud first surfaced in 2014, when Taylor told Rolling Stone that she wrote “Bad Blood” about a fellow Popstar who went behind her back. The Folklore artist said at the time, “She did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”
During an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2017, Katy shared her take on the feud, noting that Taylor “started” the controversy. “I tried to talk to her about it and she wouldn’t speak to me. I do the right thing any time that it feels like a fumble,” said Perry during her Carpool Karaoke segment. “It was a full shutdown and then she writes a song about me, and I’m like, ‘OK, cool, cool, cool. That’s how you want to deal with it? Karma!’”
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However, during the conversation with the talk show host Perry explained that she was “ready for that BS to be done,” and hoped she and Taylor could patch things up. A year after her appearance with Corden, Perry sent Swift an actual olive branch and shared her desire to collaborate with the “All Too Well” singer.
In June 2019, the two mega-stars finally put their feud to rest and showed the world that their relationship had been repaired when Katy made an appearance in Taylor’s ultra-vibrant, “You Need to Calm Down” music video.
In 2019, Swift told fans, “You know … we’ve been on good terms for a while. She sent me a really nice note and olive branch … like, an actual olive branch, to the Reputation stadium, tour awhile ago, and from that point on, we’ve been on good terms.”
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