Stevie Nicks Would Have Strangled Nicki Minaj if She Were Mariah Carey

By On 10/09/2012 · 49 Comments · In American Idol

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It’s a good thing for Nicki Minaj that she’s not sharing the American Idol judges’ table with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks!

You may recall Stevie’s stint as a guest mentor on Season 11. The Idols enthusiastically namechecked the legendary singer afterwards as the best of the mentors. She did her homework, spent time with the kids and gave them really good advice.

Weighing in on Nicki Minaj’s recent meltdown directed at Mariah Carey Stevie said, “How dare this little girl! … If I had been Mariah I would have walked over to Nicki and strangled her to death right there.”

“I would have killed her in front of all those people and had to go to jail for it.”

The remarks were made poolside in East Hampton New York while promoting her new documentary, In Your Dreams.

While Stevie says she would audition for shows like American Idol, The Voice and X Factor if she and bandmate, Lindsey Buckingham, were starting out today, at this point she’d never be a judge. “If you stick me in the middle of a burning fire,” she says, “I don’t think I’d like it very much.”

Via The Daily

 
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  • elliegrll

    What couldn’t she help?  She didn’t physically attack anyone, like Nicks says she would.  Her verbal barrage was aimed towards the producers, telling them to handle the situation with Mariah.  I don’t think that Nicki asked anyone to excuse her actions.

  • Axxxel

    Maybe Mariah’s baiting, pushed Nicki’s hot button, or reminded her of some unpleasant thing  of her childhood… and she flipped out…  I have seen grown women flipped out on less than that…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PSHFTD4YV3QOE3INABJUXZSWMU hillstreetblooz

    *sucks teeth*

    Nicki dear… when you start blowing like this here, I’ll rain respect down on you…  Mariah earned hers by SINGING her and everyone else’s ass off… that’s why your own music ‘community’ ain’t got your back… they in awe and still blown away by her too… :)

    *slips off to shower to do my godawful Mariah Carey imitation with this song pumping*

    Mariah Carey – Emotions
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJEFrth27Q

  • Chris

    Then maybe she needs to be in the care of a therapist. 

  • Axxxel

    I do think she has some soulsearching to do… and hopefully next time when Mariah tries to push her buttons again… Nicki will just shrug her shoulders, thinking ” I know what you are trying to do, Mariah” and count her own blessings…

    Nicki cannot change Mariah’s habits, she can only change her own attitude… Oh well, it is just like one has to deal with a boasting mother-in-law who is not very pleased that one has married her son, because the son will now give more attention to his wife than to his own mother…

  • HermeticallySealed

    Because you know everyone was just waiting on bated breath for her opinion.  Really, was this really that big of a deal, Stevie?  Really?

  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    I don’t buy into “baiting.”

    I can see how it’d be hard to believe a successful professional in his or her 40s would bait a younger colleague to the snapping point, but I’ve had male coworkers try it. Apparently part of the thrill is watching the younger colleague seethe while brushing off polite efforts to stop the baiting. If the younger colleague snaps, then that person can be taken to task for being “unprofessional” and punished. It makes for a very unpleasant work environment, as there is no “correct” behavior that actually gets the bullying to stop.

    Honestly, I do kinda agree the people who get off on baiting might benefit from therapy. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    No, because everyone knows Stevie is joking.

  • Incipit

    Honestly, I do kinda agree the people who get off on baiting might benefit from therapy.

    Heh. Like Cowell, who was constantly baiting the AI contestants during his tenure, to get them to snap back? Most of the Hamsters learned quickly not to bite – some of them never did master their impulse control. His only excuse is that he was bored, and also, that he is a self professed Brat.

    But neither end of that behavior comes across as very professional. IMO.

  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    Heh. Like Cowell, who was constantly baiting the AI contestants during his tenure, to get them to snap back?

    Oh heavens, yes. Therapy on Cowell would be appropriate for a major motion picture, with the content of the flashbacks assuring that it gets an R rating.

  • standtotheright

    Singing has eff-all to do with whether or not one treats one’s coworkers well and represents oneself as worthy of the respect that would normally accrue over a long career.

  • Axxxel

    Contestants only had to endure 5 minutes in the room together with Cowell..  I thought those American Idol judges had to spend the whole day together during the auditions…

  • elliegrll

    I think that there’s too much history to show that what Nicki is rumored to have said is going to be viewed differently because of her race and because she is a rapper.

    No one knows if Nicki threatened Mariah or not, and we don’t know if she did, whether or not she was joking.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PSHFTD4YV3QOE3INABJUXZSWMU hillstreetblooz

    We’re talking about show business, the entertainment industry. Regular and normal ‘rules’ don’t apply to these people. Anyone who thinks they do is too naive to live. Respect in this world is a funny thing. You don’t have to treat your peers well, or even abide by the rules of ‘regular’ society in this business to be respected – How else and where else could (reformed) hardcore heroin junkies like Eric Clapton, Keith Richard, Pete Townshend still be lauded and respected? Respect comes from surviving, selling assloads of records, making lots of money for label and yourself if you’re smart or lucky, winning some awards along the way. Luckily for Mariah, she made her bones when you really had to be able to sing, so for me, that’s worth an extra measure of respect. Moreso than I give a JLo, who’s all faux diva bitchiness and attitude and entitlement without a scintilla of vocal or acting talent to back it up. She slept her way to the top, via Sean Puff Daddy Combs, – but when the shit got a little too real, and she didn’t need him anymore, she booked… The proverbial “Nice” guys and girls IMO don’t exist in the industry at the Mariah or at Nicki level. Neither got to where they are being ‘nice’. But I can still give them, especially Mariah, mad props and respect for surviving and thriving in the game – with some real talent there to back it up. But that’s just me.

  • standtotheright

    I get that the industry has optics and everyone in it has to think about them. Fine.

    But I’m not. I think it’s appropriate to compartmentalize between an evaluation of what one did for one’s personal career and what one does when one is a gatekeeper in the career of others. Respect for one doesn’t mean respect for the other.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PSHFTD4YV3QOE3INABJUXZSWMU hillstreetblooz

    I can get with that… I can’t even begin to imagine what life is or would be like in a world where many of the ‘normal’ or ‘regular’ rules in society don’t apply to you… a world where your ass is kissed all day, every day, 24/7. It can warp your worldview, and I’m sure Mariah’s and others worldviews are warped to certain degrees. People like that just may be some of the biggest a-holes on the planet, but for those 3.5 minutes or so it takes to listen to a single, or the hour or so listening to their genius on an album, or getting the chance to see them do what they do live, and in person, multiplied over the course of a couple decades… can warp a fan’s worldview too, lol…  I figure since I don’t have to sleep with them, or live with them, or put up with their shyte it’s all good – just sing, or play, and keep doing it well is all I ask, lol.

  • Incipit

    Axxxel,
    Five minutes, individually, every week for what, 15 weeks or more makes a difference to you? That’s ‘water on stone’ with a vengeance. But the duration of Cowell’s baiting behavior is not the point – the behavior is the point. (and certainly, Paula and the others spent days at the auditions with him too…and there are stories of that time.)

     
    Pointing out the missing impulse control on any so-called professional’s part, to bait, or to rise to the bait, doesn’t depend on who it is, or how long they interact in that way. There is no Silver Lining from artificial degrees of ‘worse’, IMO. It’s all regrettably self indulgent.

    JMO. Of Course.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5CTSGSGATMXQESVDDD7RWQRYXU Jane

    Personally, I wish Stevie Nicks actually was on this judging panel. 

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    I respect Stevie Nicks ad Queen Latifa.  I am still tying to figure out why Nicki was chosen as a judge.  I hope this move isnt theend to my favorite show.

  • http://twitter.com/ploonsh yes

    Nonsense. If I was being threatened by both of these ladies, you can be damn sure it’s Stevie that would make me panic and run away to hide somewhere in the woods. Nicki to me is still too much of an attention-seeking clown to be taken seriously. Stevie on the other hand is what I would call “passionately determined” and the sort of woman you DON’T want to mess with. 
    That being said, I think we can all agree that nobody in this goddamn drama actually really wants to kill anyone, neither should be taken seriously.  

  • Jordana33

    Exactly. So far, Simon has been very respectful towards Britney and hasn’t been leaking any damaging behind-the-scenes footage of her. He may tease her a little bit, but ultimately, he wants the viewers to like Britney. The complete opposite has happened with Nicki. She has a co-judge who baits her and takes every opportunity to let her know that her opinion isn’t respected, and she has a producer who doesn’t hesitate to show her in a bad light to the public. Let’s see how well Britney would handle that situation. 

  • standtotheright

    I am still tying to figure out why Nicki was chosen as a judge.

    Because she just received more American Music Award nominations (including in some pop/rock categories) than everyone else eligible except Rihanna, with whom she tied. More than Bieber. More than One Direction. More than Maroon 5. More than Katy Perry.  (And for the people who say she can’t sing, I’d rather hear her live than anyone else on that list. Maybe Maroon 5 would pull ahead if Levine promised not to use his falsetto or whistle.)

    Sure, the AMAs are formula-driven awards that rely on sales and airplay rather than an industry-wide critical evaluation, but that just means that she has a significant amount of current airplay and sales at which to point.

    The fact that she is a currently charting popular recording artist doesn’t mean that she can yell at her colleagues with impunity, just as the fact that Carey is an acclaimed veteran recording artist doesn’t mean she can snipe at her colleagues with impunity.  If they can’t do their temp jobs, their permanent jobs don’t matter.  But the producers wanted Minaj to represent rhythmic pop (and, it is sorely to be hoped, current hip-hop) just like they wanted Carey to represent vocal pop and R&B.

  • Jordana33

    No , because everyone knows Stevie is joking. btw, people would think the same if Mary J. Blige, who’s black, said it, in case anyone starts to play the race card.

    Nicki’s alleged threats probably weren’t serious either, but unless it’s friendly kidding, I don’t approve of public “death threats”, even if they are pseudo-threats. So IMO, both Stevie and Nicki were out of line. Their behavior has incited different reactions for whatever reason. People don’t bring up race because it’s a nifty tool for winning an argument or sidestepping the main issue (which is the implication of “race card”). They mention race because they perceive a double standard and wonder if there is a race connection. I’m sure many people have valid reasons for disapproving of Nicki that have nothing to do with race. But I’m also certain that there is a subset of people who allow racial biases (both positive and negative) to govern how they view others.   

    Maybe Mariah’s baiting, pushed Nicki’s hot button, or reminded her of some unpleasant thing  of her childhood… and she flipped out…  I have seen grown women flipped out on less than that…

    It’s possible. Nicki grew up in an environment of domestic abuse, so the experience probably left her emotionally scarred. Despite the Mariah and Lil Kim feuds, she’s still managed to establish a great relationship with many artists in the music industry. When it comes to collaborations, Nicki is one of the most sought after guest artists, across multiple music genres. No matter how talented you are, people won’t rush to work with you if you have a reputation of being difficult.

    Strange how Lil Wayne and her label haven’t come out in support for Minaj in all this – respect is all important in the hip hop world – I’d daresay Carey has more of it there than Minaj…

    I think it’s more surprising that so few artists are siding with Mariah in this feud. That video clip definitely portrays Mariah as the victim and Nicki as the antagonist. yet only Stevie, Queen Latifa and Mariah’s husband have publicly sided with Mariah. Maybe a lot of artists are familiar with Mariah’s tactics and are therefore reluctant to take sides.  

  • elliegrll

    Strange how Lil Wayne and her label haven’t come out in support for Minaj in all this – respect is all important in the hip hop world – I’d daresay Carey has more of it there than Minaj…

    I don’t think it’s strange that Lil Wayne hasn’t said anything. For the most part, aside from going off on twitter, Nicki hasn’t said anything either. I think that shows pretty good control, and an effort to squash the topic by not being childish and adding fuel to the situation. Lil Wayne didn’t speak publicly about Drake’s fight with Chris Brown either, except to say that things like that were bad for business.

    I won’t try to guess how other artists feel about Nicki, but whatever their feelings are, it hasn’t stopped a whole lot of them from asking her to appear on their songs. She tweeted that she’s been featured on 50 songs that are by other artists.

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