Stevie Nicks is a big fan of this modern pop superstar, but she wants him to please stop swearing

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In their imperial phase of the 1970s, Fleetwood Mac were anything but prudish. This is, after all, the band that reflected on thanking their cocaine dealer in the liner notes to their classic, world-conquering album Rumors. Stevie Nicks, for example, only turned her drug addiction on its head when her doctor told her that she was close to suffering a brain hemorrhage due to drug abuse. She already had a hole in her nose as a result. She took the advice seriously.

But that doesn’t mean Nicks, a legend of rock ‘n’ roll excess and one of the finest songwriters of her generation, doesn’t draw the line somewhere. And this sentence comes just before people start cursing too much.

As documented in the 2018 book The 10 Commandments: The Rockstar’s Guide to LifeNicks explained that she became a big fan of Canadian alternative R&B superstar The Weeknd, but she had one major gripe that affected her enjoyment of the Blinding Lights and Starboy superstar’s music: He cursed too much.

“I play The Weeknd’s records one by one when I’m in my bathroom getting ready to go out or just spending time with myself,” Nicks explained. “He’s brilliant. And his voice could have been straight out of 1975, he could have been like Stevie Winwood. He’s beyond talented.”

But here, Nicks laid out the advice she would give Abel Tesfaye if they ever came face to face. “If I met him,” Nicks said, “I would probably say, ‘You say words over and over again that I’d rather not say.’ I think they are unnecessary. But even though I think a lot of your songs are extremely dirty, I still like them a lot, so I refused you!’”

So that’s what The Weeknd said. Stop swearing, man, Stevie Nicks doesn’t like that. Just say “shit” like my mom always did, she said it didn’t count.