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

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

Prince was right. Katy and Ed have been rammed so far down our throats over the last 6-7 years that the state of pop music has turned to sh*t. That tea scalded my mouth, king 

[Reginald 13,841]

1 hour ago, River Phoenix said:

Does he like Gaga? Anybody knows?

Prince died like 4 years ago. Him and David Bowie died back to back. It was a really dark time for me 

[Lilmonzter 2,864]

2 hours ago, xoxo Craig said:

Yes with Katy, no with Ed

I still listen to katy parry

But don't force down my throat through unnecessary radio play

You should do that for Gaga force her down other people's throat cause she is the cure 

Fact

[nodandsmile 10,627]

Nobody forced anyone to listen to anything! What they are doing may not appeal to you (I'm not even their biggest fan!), but they still have people who connect with their music and like what they put out. There were no reason to call names. There's nothing that I hate more than people who tear others down. Life's too short for that sh*t! 

[Prismatic Light 1,440]

Why are older generations so bitter about new artists? Calling specific names is just so rude and makes you seem only bitter and eventually envious about other artists success Honestly I can't with people like you being bitter about other artists having success, if you don't like them just ignore them omg, I don't like edd neither but I'm not complaining because he is famous, like, move on And this trend of belittling and bashing Katy and Edd down has to stop 

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[Rio 5,088]

3 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 

Ed Sheeran does NOT flop tho 😂😂😂

[Ziggy 11,850]

3 hours ago, Ryusei said:

Well the charts back then said something else  

being bitter about other‘s success is not a cute look legend or not

But...do you *really* want to hear Shape of You *again*? Even if you like it?

[Chesescake 4,003]

2 hours ago, River Phoenix said:

Does he like Gaga? Anybody knows?

No he doesn't like her

[Enzoooo 377]

2 hours ago, Bradley said:

I agree.

They should shove Liam Payne down my throat instead.

I agree with that statement very much 

[ice bear 1]

1 hour ago, xoxo Craig said:

Yes with Katy, no with Ed

taaaste 

[AJRocketMan 2,684]

4 hours ago, Ryusei said:

Well the charts back then said something else  

being bitter about other‘s success is not a cute look legend or not

It doesn’t matter. Prince knew better. He knew they were Debbie Gibsons and Bobby Browns and not Madonnas and David Bowies. Charts don’t validate art and artistry isn’t validated by commercial success. Don’t be a little chartster and use commercial success as an argument when it holds no weight.

[RickMonster98 7,462]

Ok but that's disrespectful. They are artists, just like he was an artist. A bit more of humility wouldn't hurt nowadays. 

[Guillaume Hamon 6,498]

People saying Prince was bitter seing their charts success... 

If he was pissed off to not be  as high as them in the charts then why was he not even trying the charts game?   

Even the Grande/ Drake/ Cardi B wouldn't get chart success with the music not made for radios he did since... Even before Perry or Sheran became famous.

[StrawberryBlond 14,862]

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.

1 hour ago, Guillaume Hamon said:

People saying Prince was bitter seing their charts success... 

If he was pissed off to not be  as high as them in the charts then why was he not even trying the charts game?   

Even the Grande/ Drake/ Cardi B wouldn't get chart success with the music not made for radios he did since... Even before Perry or Sheran became famous.

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.