Stevie Nicks once advised Katy Perry not to have ‘rivals’: ‘It’s ridiculous’

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The New Yorker and discussed her life in the spotlight.She told reporter Tavi Gevinson that she ran into Perry, 34, at the Corinthia Hotel in London back in 2012 and the pair talked about rivalries in the industry as well as how making enemies is not worth one’s time.“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 Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said. “And 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 “California Girls” crooner then name-dropped Taylor Swift with whom she was rumored to have feuded with in their early years.“She said, ‘Well, there’s like, the Taylor Swift army and there’s like, the Katy army and there’s like—’ And I was like, ‘That’s just bulls—,'” Nicks added. “‘You have to just walk away from that.

Don’t carry that around in your mind because then they’re winning the game.'”However, Perry explained in a 2019 interview how she and Swift, 32, decided to move past their beef.