Now they condole all again. On Facebook and Twitter, on Instagram and other social media on the Internet. Million people, where Prince and his songs have meant something, post memories, photos and impressions of concerts, there is a global mourning ceremony, and it is very touching.
Unlike most recently with David Bowie, Lemmy or Glenn Frey, the Internet community, however, has a lot to show imaginative to make their electronic waiting, because there are hardly any pictures, videos or even songs that you could share.One of the greatest pop artist and music pioneers the past 30 years is almost invisible on the net. But he himself has made.
The fight for control of his work was Prince always at least as important as his musical output and the protection of his private life.
His battles with and against record companies , Internet services (including YouTube, Ebay, Pirate Bay), and even against his fans are as legendary as contradictory – and they brought the once admired pop genius the reputation of being cranky, a control freak, the Internet six years ago spectacular for “completely over” declared, after all music, video recordings and photographs, the subject of his copyright, withdrawn from the market.
2007, three years earlier, he had published the song “pfunk” ., a musical invective of his most loyal fans who had come together against the crunch policy of their idol to the Fan Club Association Prince fans United
a line was in the seven-minute radio tirade: “the only reason you say my name is to get your 15 seconds of fame “. It was as if Prince today’s usual Facebook condolences, which are indeed often criticized as a vain self-expression, was already anticipated.
So exhausting the vagaries of the artist were Prince for those who really only his work wanted to celebrate, because she loved him and revered, important as his efforts to deal appropriately appears in retrospect with rights in the age of vain culture.
How do you manage to finance life and art, while record sales worldwide shrink and rich revenues from the popular Internet streaming just for a cup of coffee? One question that currently many musicians, especially newcomers will be.
Prince she put back in the early nineties, when he spectacularly docked with his label Warner.
emancipation of a superstar
“slave” slave, he wrote at that time on the cheek, and wanted to publicly denounce how much he felt subjected by the record company. Even in 2015, when he found a final home at Jay-Z künstlerkontrolliertem streaming service Tidal, he brought this attitude reiterated: “record deals are like slavery,” he said on the occasion of his album “HitNRun” – and advised young artists from getting in to issue the hands of a label.
From the perspective of Warner Bros. Like the spectacular rearing of their greatest artists have then acted like a very unfair affront, because after all, the record company the maladjusted Prince, who took 1978 funk and rock had in a new to convict type of pop, for years the rod held. Today, it is rare that a label holding an artist over several unsuccessful albums away, alone through faith in his potential.
Four years and as many albums it took to Prince in 1982 with “1999″ finally a landed hit again two years later, he was a much copied style icon and had created with “Purple Rain” a modern classic. For Warner, the bill was paid off.
As the new superstar wanted to negotiate its contract terms new, fair enough, made him the record company set up his own label. In Paisley Park Records appeared, via distribution deal with Warner, not only his own albums, he could also take advantage of its own artists under contract, including Sheila E. and the radio veteran George Clinton.
It was confusing
But Prince was not satisfied. It bothered him that the rights lay on his behalf at Warner, and could make the company with his music, what she wanted. “Prince”, he felt that was no longer his own name, so it was only to “Slave”, then to “icon” or “Love Symbol” eventually “ T he A rtist F ormerly K nown A s P rince “- TAFKAP.
It was confusing. Musically, because Prince did not manage to break away from his contract with Warner and fulfilled its obligations with obvious disgust and contempt by stocked albums like “Come” or “The Gold Experience” with archive footage, and so mediocre they sounded then also.
As of 1996, hired Prince then with his own new label NPG (new Power generation) times at EMI on ( “Emancipation”), sometimes with Arista ( “Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic”), Redline Entertainment ( “the Rainbow Children”), MP Media ( “NEWS”), Columbia ( “Musicology”) or Universal ( “3121″).
By the way appeared via NPG Music Club, which later LOtUSFLOW3R called ( today www.princevault.com), even several albums (including the triple-album “Crystal ball”) on their own, for which one could determine the price partially self.
For Prince, although he was going hard against piracy and bootlegging, never was an enemy of the Internet, on the contrary: Its more or less successful experiments, to use the network as a self-marketing platform, must be rated as a pioneer. They inspired bands like Radiohead and ultimately current stars like Rihanna and Kanye West, also to abandon traditional forms of distribution
Even with giving away music Prince had no problem. In 2007 came the split with Columbia because he had decided to leave his album “Planet Earth” in the UK enclose the newspaper “mail on Sunday”, a thousand times and now. He only had unfortunately told his label None. Similarly practiced Prince 2010 with the album “20th”.
All’s Well That Ends Well?
“art official age” and “Plectrum Electrum” to coincide appeared, Prince then returned in 2014 even in the short term back to Warner. Requirement for temporary reconciliation was previously obtained agreement that Prince from Warner the rights and master tapes back got his eighties selling albums.
All’s Well That Ends Well? Not quite, since suffered from the legal disputes of the nineties not only the image of Prince, he could also artistic never again build on its long run of success of “1999″ (1982) to “Love Symbol” (1992). Given some then being evil vergniedelten and verdudelten albums (remember “Chaos And Disorder”, “MPLSound” or “Planet Earth”), the kuratierende hand a record company would perhaps have been quite helpful.
On the other hand, is exactly in the anarchic, the unfiltered and freedom of Prince’schen outputs his charm. So it was the artistic process this radical irrational genius, treble, bass, Madman and remotely related, including, always close. Closer than you could ever get him through a posted Facebook video or photo.
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