Prince - Press conference by musician stating he shall be known as Prince again (2000) Reaction
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Prince really grew as a speaker as he matured.
It's like night and day from his first interviews. proud of him!
Prince was making sense on the radio. DJS only playing playlists, and they still do that to this day. Sometimes the songs they don’t play on the radio are the best ones.
there's deff alot of politics in radio sadly.
What you're talking about with major artists getting together to do their own thing was exactly what Prince was talking about when he sat down with Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Babyface, and LA Reid to discuss working together to create a new system. I wonder what their potential objections were to that or why it didn't pan out. Prince saw what Jay Z was initially trying to do with Tidal and put his weight behind him with that. Tidal was the only streaming service that Prince licensed his music to (aside from one single "Stare" that he released on Spotify as well). He also did a weekly "Purple Pick of the Week" where he would either release a new song or live recording or put together a playlist of some of his favorite songs from current artists with a short write up on why he liked each of them. He also did an exclusive release of the acoustic album "Oui Can Luv" that he recorded with Andy Allo and only had it on Tidal for like 12 hours or something like that before taking it down, so if people ever wanted to hear it, they would have more urgency to sign up for Tidal. Stuff like that. When he had the NPG Music Club in the early 2000s, he also had a blog that he would post stuff to that is probably in the lane of what you're wanting with him talking about word meanings and industry stuff and all that. He was working on a memoir when he passed, but only wrote about 50 pages (mostly about his childhood), but the co-author did a great prologue to include information about Prince's vision for the book and those type of discussions. He literally said he wanted to end racism with that memoir. Always had lofty goals. 😂 I think what you're talking about with artists having more say in how their music was released and all that was around the time that 360 deals became popular, so the record companies were getting a cut of the revenue from tours, merch, etc. and not just the physical album sale. Prince talks about that in the 2009 interview he did with Tavis, which is also phenomenal and had this same type of open feeling to it as this press conference did. Anyway...Prince shade is always the best kind of shade. Lol. He really wasn't holding back here. He recorded an album called The Slaughterhouse around this time that was eventually released on the NPGMC website that has the same level of shade throughout. 😂 Here's a link if you want to check out some of the blog posts Prince wrote for his website: https://princeonlinemuseum.com/npgmusicclub/2001/freedom/commentaries/20010827singlestandard.html The entire Prince Online Museum site is pretty cool and you can look back at all of his websites and actually interact with them to explore the different features. Some of the earlier ones aren't supported by current flash player plugins, but the one I just linked is. There are 8 blog posts at that link that you could read through on your own time if you want.
Here's a quick preview of just one of the sections in one of those blog posts: A Planet of Power It is hard not 2 draw parallels between such historical double standards and 2day’s continuing hypocrisy at all levels of power. Everywhere u look, the official claims of honesty, democracy, generosity, equality, etc. r most often CONtradicted by on-going behaviors and actions — or inaction — that clearly demonstrate that political powers act, not as if they had been instituted by the people 4 the people 2 secure their “unalienable rights,” but as if their responsibility were 2 protect other 4ms of earthly power. Rather than acknowledging a single, universal reality — a planet that is warming up and drying up, an entire continent that is dying of incurable disease, stock markets where kids in suits enjoy roller-coaster rides on other people’s hard-earned money, unproven technologies that r imposed upon people by private corporations, cattle that is being fed foods made out of the remains of their own — historically, and 2day more than ever, the “reality” is whoever is in power (politically, financially, militarily) at the time. The real reality, however, is that, as long as people claim that they own other people’s creations, claiming, thus, thru those creations, that they own other people, those SYSTEMS of power will remain in place, 2 the benefit of a handful of “owners” and the detriment of everyone else.
Bro...the way I've been sitting here all week waiting for this to drop. 😂 I appreciate you!
lmao