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Prince: 'stop trying to force Ed Sheeran and Katy Perry down our throats'


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7 minutes ago, StrawberryBlond said:

If these excerpts are from his private diary, then private they should remain. It's awful to think someone can read your private thoughts after you're dead. Unless a diary has recorded illegal activity or at the very least, highly immoral activity, then maybe it should be made public. But thoughts about singers artistic output should surely be of no one's business after you're gone. So saying...

Yes, he's quite right. I don't quite know when he said this, but I'm assuming 2014/2015 as Ed didn't start taking off in the states until that time. He seemed to have a good idea of what the public was feeling considering that Katy slipped right up just afterwards and Ed's latest album is struggling to connect in America bar the collab with Justin. It sometimes seems like these artists have always had just as many haters as fans, which tells you that a large section of the public must be tired of radio coverage of them. Radio is fast becoming outdated, even DJs aren't in control of who's played anyone, what's played is what's paid for. Who gets paid is down to how aggressive the label wants to promote them and how much they're willing to pay radio to play them and radio play counts towards charts in America. And YouTube views are now incorporated too, which is another way labels can manipulate the game to their advantage with recommendations and fake views. But so saying that...

Prince may have been very talented but he was also very arrogant. Trust me, many called him one of the greatest artists of all time and he believed it too. He was the kind of singer who'd get bitter if anyone bettered his success or got too influenced by him and suchlike. He abused DMCA takedown notices like crazy (even though he released his 2007 album in a UK newspaper for free once) and didn't even want anyone recording him singing a cover of a Radiohead song even though Radiohead said they were fine with it. You have to realise that he called himself many different stage names, including The Artist Formerly Known As Prince and even an unpronouncible symbol. That says it all. He once said about MJ that his album was called Bad "because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for pathetic." I think that confirms he was very jealous of other artists success. I was watching back old clips of interviews with him and the egotistical stuff he came out with...I don't wish to speak ill of the dead, so I won't say anything.

He had 5 #1's and 14 top tens in America. He was very successful at his peak and even once said "I've got more hits than Madonna's got kids." He obviously didn't want to be super commercial to get success and wanted to make the music he wanted and use his tastes to direct what the public liked as opposed to making the music the public demanded at that moment in time. I have the feeling he became put out when music started shaking up in the 90's (his last #1 was in 1991 and his last top ten was in 1994, his career went downhill after that) and artists were setting whole new trends with styles he wasn't interested in emulating. So he maybe wondered what they had that he didn't.

Finally someone says what I was thinking. These were his private thoughts and should’ve remained that way. How he thought back then was his business and he didn’t express this opinion out in the open. I agree it’s strange that privacy seems to disappear when you greet death. 

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VOLANTIS

Why are we going through a dead man's notes?

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6 hours ago, Glamourpuss said:

I get why he'd say that. He was a real musician and very multi-talented. 

Alot of these manufactured pop stars can't write a song or even play one instrument and some aren't a real artist either.  

KP writes her songs

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That's true but he always had sth negative to say about other artists. Never liked him.

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Guillaume Hamon
8 hours ago, RAMROD said:

He accused Gaga twice for paying for her accolades.

Twice? :/ 

I only remember the woman of the year award...

What was the other one please? :) 

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10 hours ago, A Hybrid said:

also he’s a dead man, let’s also not say this is 100% his words and believe what the media says without questioning.

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Smother Em Eh

He’s right but they really didn’t need to make this public. It makes him sound bitter. 

RIP Legend

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Economy
11 hours ago, letsgetdirrty said:

I have to agree with him. They’re both the kind of artists that strongly depend on the radio to find success and as soon as the GP loses interest in them, they completely flop because they don’t have a loyal fan base... it’s happening with Katy already and it’ll happen to Ed eventually 

Katy yes

 

But Ed has quite a few girl fans

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Ed's inclusion is kind of odd. Like he would said that pre-Divide when Ed was big but not THAT big and THAT overplayed.

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Battle 4 Ur Life

He's shaded Gaga as well...look it up

salty af.

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Battle 4 Ur Life
11 hours ago, River Phoenix said:

Does he like Gaga? Anybody knows?

Nope. imo he just liked himself. at least it seems so.

11 hours ago, yxi said:

He dragged Gaga back in the day too.

this. he even blocked me on twitter. lmao.

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