‘The Voice’ landslide! Stevie Nicks superfan edged out by pop novice who’s never heard of Fleetwood Mac
Rocker Olivia Rubini gave her opponent Jackie Romeo a pre-Battle Rounds crash course in all things rock 'n' roll... but perhaps she taught Jackie a little too well.
As The Voice Season 25 Battle Rounds continued apace Monday, Team Legend’s Olivia Rubini — a ‘70s-obsessed, Klute-coiffed music producer’s daughter who grew up on Laurel Canyon folk-rock and auditioned with Linda Ronstadt’s “Long Long Time” — let out a squeal of delight when she learned that her Battle song assignment was “Edge of Seventeen” by her idol, Stevie Nicks.
Meanwhile, Olivia’s opponent, pop balladeer Jackie Romeo, had a more amusingly muted reaction: “I’m so excited to… um, learn this song?”
Yep, that’s right. Jackie didn’t know “Edge of Seventeen.” In fact, the 20-year-old was entirely unfamiliar with the classic catalogs of both Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac. (“Oh, that’s gotta be Stevie Nicks, right?” Jackie asked innocently when presented with a photo of Mac’s famous witchy woman in all her shawl-swathed glory.) Olivia was understandably aghast, and Jackie admitted it was “definitely scary to have someone as your Battle partner where like, rock is their whole thing.”
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