Wed 7 Jul 2010
Let’s Party Like It’s 1999!
Posted by anaglyph under Hmmm..., Music, Stupidity, Technology
[22] Comments
The internet is over.
Yes, dear friends, you are all living in denial. According to the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince, and now known as Prince once more, the internet is just ‘a hip fad like MTV’ and is now outdated.
And running with his new-found insight, Prince is breaking all the boundaries and taking the extraordinary steps of releasing his new music album only as a CD! Genius. He’s chosen to do this through the innovative new distribution conduit of the newspaper! What a visionary!!
Prince is my hero, I know who to follow know during the Zombie Apocalypse
I guess that makes sense in your strange brain.
I dunno. MTV always seemd a little light on th porn to me.
Hahahaha. No doubt why it failed.
Carving pumpkins can be fun
But clean the mess up when you’re done.
If you don’t then I will know
That’s right, I’m looking at U, Joe.
While he’s at it, I suggest he distribute the CDs via carrier pigeons.
Further genius! I wonder if Prince is looking for a manager, because you are definitely the man for the job!
“From happ’nin to has-been,”
I say, ‘Net majority,
Aint Prince, on this one,
Th perfeckt authority?
Signs o’ the times…
Prince was a hero to most but he never meant HTML to me!
The King
Can’t you de-royal him or something?
To me, more than anything, it shows he *gets* the net.
When was the last time anyone you know downloaded a Prince album? Probably when he came up with the TAFKAP crap. When was the last time *kids* downloaded one? Most wouldn’t be seen dead listening to him. But this one-release CD it likely to be his most shared album ever.
When was the last time you remember people all over the net talking about a celebrity saying the net was cool? Doesn’t happen, everyone knows the net’s cool. But a celebrity saying the net’s DEAD? Everyone’s talking about him!
Yeah, Prince gets the net all right, and knows JUST how to push its buttons.
I like you’re reasoning Dewi, it reminds me of that thinking in publicity: “If you’re going to tell a lie, make it a big lie.”
Hmmm, he has a whistle and a light and he’s attracting attention. Guess you’ve got to make bold moves in the twilight of your career…
The King
Hmm. That’s as may be, but I think that even if it is intentional then he’s a twat. Look at it this way: he probably doesn’t need the money, so he’s taking a gamble on getting a trickle of record sales on the back of leaving a lasting image of being a drongo.
Personally, I’d rather go out looking like I had a clue. (Even if I didn’t).
And further to that – history doesn’t remember how many records you sold.
To be honest, I’m almost certainly giving him far more credit than he deserves, yeah.
More likely he’s just another entitled pillock with no connection to the real world, parroting whatever his handlers have told him to reassure him.
A pillock — thats like a Polish pharmacist, ainit?
Prince has never really been much of an innovator. He’s a good pastiche artist and opportunist and has written a few great songs but his main problem is that he thinks he’s Little Richard reincarnated. He was at his best in the 1980s when he wasn’t trying to be a ‘phenomenon’ and just writing his music. He totally lost me when he started playing the pouting ‘I’m hard done by’ recording artist.
I hate to break th news to ya, Revrend, but apparently he still moves us.
>>Prince as a musical genius
Yeah… a musical genius who managed to continually write two good songs and ten shit ones on every album he made. Which probably amounts to two albums of excellent music over three decades. Not a bad track record, but it needs to be seen in context. He’s also made some fairly sizeable turkeys – who can forget ‘Under the Cherry Moon’ (try as they may).
And I guess Prince (or anyone else) won’t actually be ‘following Jet on Twitter’ since the internet is over.
Take cover! Here come the reinforcements!
…at the end of the day, they’re gonna say: ‘Yeah, there was this band called the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and this guy named Bob Dylan…’ And the rest of us? We’re just gonna be footnotes.
Welcome to the insight of your true worth, Salieri.