Iconic artist PRINCE passes away at age 57

[FullLipsDotNose]

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Prince's death was covered immediately in the Czech Rep - main news on a news site I follow, main news on a music site I also follow, interviews with a reviewer to whom he was an inspiration... I think some radios played his music, too. At least those that I've come across since he passed away.

 

[max000]

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Hungary.

Generally I think he is most popular in the US. Then the UK. I don't think he is THAT popular in continental Europe and even less so in Eastern Europe.

This explains why i am not seeing the global outpouring of public grief MJ's death triggered. The news media/music media loves Prince. They are fawning telling when they became Prince fans, the phone conversations, visits to his paisley park estate, attendance at his private concerts. Prince courting of the media is paying off big time.Throw the media a bone, and they are yours forever.

 

[maja]

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I can't believe that the world has lost yet another music icon. I'm not a Prince fan but he was great and it's just so sad that so many so incredibly talented people have to leave this planet so early. I'm sorry for all the fans. It feels like a deja-vu these days..

RIP Prince.

 

[Smooth72]

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Funny how Obama and the White House was quick to make a statement about Prince but not MJ. They distanced themselves from it.

 

[Psychoniff]

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^You've been reading my mind. I said the same thing in another thread.

 

[CherubimII]

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Funny how Obama and the White House was quick to make a statement about Prince but not MJ. They distanced themselves from it.

I think President Obama didn't want to make the same mistake by hesitating, as he did in the case of acknowledging the genius of Michael Jackson.
Plus, remember this is President's Obama's last year. Now, he does not give a damn about his critics.

 

[Ms. BlueGangsta]

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I think President Obama didn't want to make the same mistake by hesitating, as he did in the case of acknowledging the genius of Michael Jackson.
Plus, remember this is President's Obama's last year. Now, he does not give a damn about his critics.

Don't give him a pass.
Let's be honest Obama just doesn't like MJ.

I also thanked your post by accident, but hey have a free thanks. :yes:

 

[barbee0715]

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I think President Obama didn't want to make the same mistake by hesitating, as he did in the case of acknowledging the genius of Michael Jackson.
Plus, remember this is President's Obama's last year. Now, he does not give a damn about his critics.

I agree with you. Although it made me mad at the time, Obama had only been president for six months when Michael died-he hadn't said anything about anybody at that point, and I think he was asked about it deliberately since they're both black. He probably chose his words carefully because he didn't know what reaction he would get and everybody was already gunning for him. Don't forget that while the Congressional Black Caucus held a moment of silence, other senators were on TV denouncing and trouncing Michael. The media still hadn't realized that people did NOT want to discuss that old scandal stuff and wanted to mourn and love him-so they were still bringing up the bad stuff.
I think it was this, that made Obama just go ahead afterward and say whatever HE wanted about artists or kids being gunned down on the streets, or whatever-even though he got flack for it. Politics be damned.

 

[Ms. BlueGangsta]

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I agree with you. Although it made me mad at the time, Obama had only been president for six months when Michael died-he hadn't said anything about anybody at that point, and I think he was asked about it deliberately since they're both black. He probably chose his words carefully because he didn't know what reaction he would get and everybody was already gunning for him. Don't forget that while the Congressional Black Caucus held a moment of silence, other senators were on TV denouncing and trouncing Michael. The media still hadn't realized that people did NOT want to discuss that old scandal stuff and wanted to mourn and love him-so they were still bringing up the bad stuff.
I think it was this, that made Obama just go ahead afterward and say whatever HE wanted about artists or kids being gunned down on the streets, or whatever-even though he got flack for it. Politics be damned.

I kinda understand what your saying, but he still didn't have to bring up MJ's "sad personal life" as he called it.

 

[Ms. BlueGangsta]

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This explains why i am not seeing the global outpouring of public grief MJ's death triggered. The news media/music media loves Prince. They are fawning telling when they became Prince fans, the phone conversations, visits to his paisley park estate, attendance at his private concerts. Prince courting of the media is paying off big time.Throw the media a bone, and they are yours forever.

^^^^
This

Michael hated the media and paid them dust, so the American media (not saying that foreign media didn't drag MJ too but the smear campaign in America was much worse) drug his name through the mud for his whole life, but people saw Prince as more "down to earth and "less eccentric" then MJ so the media loves him and is showing nothing but love for him unlike for MJ where some people took his death as a chance trash him again because nothing is funnier then making fun of MJ even if he's dead. *rolls eyes*.

When MJ died there was a mass outcry because anyone who truly knew Michael saw it as a horrible end to a somewhat tragic life.
Many people saw it as the media finally getting the best of him.


Thing is why would MJ want anything to do with the media when it caused him nothing but grief.
He was darned if he did and darned if. He didn't.
Don't let the media in and you've got something to hide, let them in and they make something out of nothing.

Prince right now seems like a media darling, and instead of mourning Prince I see more people using Prince's death as just another opportunity to belittle and take shots at MJ (Nancy Drew for example).

I'm not saying that Prince should be trashed after his death like MJ was (because no good person deserves that).
It's just an example of the lengths people will go to to hate on MJ, and how they had it out for him.

It really makes no sense to me. :no:

 

[Prometheus77]

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What saddend me more is that Prince and Michael were clean living, never got fat, not drunk (Beyond a few glasses here and there), never smoked never did any major drugs (Okay Prince tried ectstacy once in 1987 and MJ had sleeping pills and painkillers near the end), but both were vegans took care of themselves and their reward was death in their 50s, early to middle age in todays life, yet some of the nastiest people I know are in the 80s and 90s and still alive and kicking. What is wrong with this world.

Maybe is this obsession with healthy living, vegetables, teetotalling and being a vegan thats doing it. Because I know many overweight, meat eating, heavy drinking guys who are still full of beans in their late 70s. Even I can admit that Prince looked very frail in the end, and was a very skinny man who hardly ever ate and slept. Dying in your 50s is way too young, yet I bet a big overweight guy like Meatloaf will make his 80s and look at the drug addled Stones, still alive and kicking in their mid 70s. How isit vegan Prince dies at 57, but drug addled Keith Richards is still kicking at 72 and does not look he has aged much since his late 40s?

Sorry I have to ask. I am entereing stage 2 of mourning - Anger (Sorry) because I feel the health czars and the fat shaming kick is wrong, people follow their rules and die young.

So get what you're saying. I had that thought/question pop up many times in the last 7 years

 

[HIStory]

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I think Barack Obama hesitated with the acknowledging of MJ because of the allegations. He is always trying to be very PC and trying not to offend anyone and I think he was not sure how people would react to it. Prince is safer (ironic because back in the 80s MJ was considered the safe one out of the two).
On the other hand a couple of years ago Michelle Obama released a "favourite work out songs" playlist and Unbreakable by MJ was on her playlist.

But to be honest, I don't care if Obama likes or doesn't like MJ. MJ doesn't need Obama's approval and whether Obama or the US media likes him or dislikes him, it won't stop millions and millions of people all around the world LOVING the man. It never did. Not even in his darkest hours.

 

[Ms. BlueGangsta]

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But to be honest, I don't care if Obama likes or doesn't like MJ. MJ doesn't need Obama's approval and whether Obama or the US media likes him or dislikes him, it won't stop millions and millions of people all around the world LOVING the man. It never did. Not even in his darkest hours.

In a nutshell.

 

[Amaya]

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Yahoo? Oh no, the internet itself is a very racist place in comments section. Any and everywhere.

I have an illness that involves me having to read youtube comments and actually engage with stupid people (in regards to various things in general).
It goes no where.

I'm working hard to avoid the comments section anywhere, or at least just leave whatever comment I have and move on.

I'm trying to do the same. I actually installed a Firefox add-on that makes it where Youtube comments won't show up at all, because it's full of toxic, disgusting, often hypocritical asshats that I don't want to read anything from, yet at the same time I can't look away because of how baffling and awful they are. Having that add-on makes it easier, though.

This explains why i am not seeing the global outpouring of public grief MJ's death triggered. The news media/music media loves Prince. They are fawning telling when they became Prince fans, the phone conversations, visits to his paisley park estate, attendance at his private concerts. Prince courting of the media is paying off big time.Throw the media a bone, and they are yours forever.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the media's treatment of Prince following his death. A lot of the same stuff I'm reading and hearing about Prince are the exact same things that were said about Michael when he passed. Stuff like how "he did it better than anyone else" and "he revolutionized music" and such. However, many reports and comments about Michael were laced with doubt and ridicule, all because of the allegations and his outspokenness against the media, among other things. Prince, thankfully, was never accused of such awful things nor did he bash the media. Lo and behold, the media's response to his death has resulted in overwhelmingly positive tributes and recollections, without innuendo.

 

[HIStory]

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Prince cremated, private memorial service held

By Ralph Ellis and Melissa Gray, CNN

Updated 0148 GMT (0848 HKT) April 24, 2016

(CNN)Prince's remains have been cremated, the pop superstar's publicist said Saturday.
Yvette Noel-Schure provided no information about where or when the cremation occurred or where the remains would be placed.

A private memorial service for Prince was held Saturday at the Paisley Park compound in Chanhassen, Minnesota, where the musician lived and worked, as a crowd of fans gathered outside the fence, some wearing purple, the musician's favorite color.

In a statement, Noel-Schure said, "A few hours ago, Prince was celebrated by a small group of his most beloved: family, friends and his musicians, in a private, beautiful ceremony to say a loving goodbye.

"Prince's remains have been cremated and their final storage will remain private. We ask for your blessings and prayers of comfort for his family and close friends at this time.

"The cause of death remains unknown and it will be at least four weeks before we receive the results of the autopsy. An announcement will be made at a future date for a musical celebration."

Prince Rogers Nelson, 57, died Thursday at Paisley Park of unknown causes. The autopsy was conducted Friday at the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Ramsey, Minnesota, but it could be weeks before results are complete, spokeswoman Martha Weaver said.

Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, and brother-in-law, Maurice D. Stroud, arrived in cars at Paisley Park for the service.
Fans left tributes of flowers, balloons and signs in front of the complex. Some of Prince's family and friends gave out at least 15 round purple boxes containing Prince memorabilia like CDs, T-shirts and books to fans gathered there Saturday.

On Friday, the house staff delivered pizza to the fans.

Balloons and flowers also piled up at First Avenue, the downtown Minneapolis nightclub that became a landmark after Prince used it in the 1984 movie "Purple Rain."

Musicians, performers, public figures and others have paid tribute to the prolific performer since his death.

In London, President Barack Obama praised the music legend and said he and his staff listened to "Purple Rain" ahead of a meeting with the British Prime Minister on Friday.

Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said there were no obvious signs of trauma on Prince's body when he was found unresponsive in an elevator at Paisley Park.
Paramedics tried to perform CPR but were unable to revive him, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at 10:07 a.m., less than 30 minutes after sheriff's deputies responded to a medical call at the scene.


The last time Prince was seen alive was at 8 p.m. Wednesday when he was dropped off at Paisley Park, the sheriff said. He was alone in the complex when he was found, which Olson said was not unusual given Prince's private persona.
How Prince describes his music (1999 interview)


CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet, Michael Pearson, Frank Pallotta and Emanuella Grinberg contributed to this report.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/23/entertainment/prince-death-main/

 

[Soundmind]

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who takes Obama seriously any more but those who support him for his skin color. I will celebrate the day he leaves the White House. Putin has been taking advantage of Obama's passiveness and weakness for years now by interfering in many countries adding to the mesiries of their people. The worst decision was to give him a Noble Prize before he did anything to deserve one. But we know why they did that. The number of people killed during his precedency is staggering. Let's him leave. Any president will be better, at lease they will act like leaders; worrying about being " accepted" by "others" wont consume their thoughts nor govern their decision-making.

 

[barbee0715]

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the media's treatment of Prince following his death. A lot of the same stuff I'm reading and hearing about Prince are the exact same things that were said about Michael when he passed. Stuff like how "he did it better than anyone else" and "he revolutionized music" and such. However, many reports and comments about Michael were laced with doubt and ridicule, all because of the allegations and his outspokenness against the media, among other things. Prince, thankfully, was never accused of such awful things nor did he bash the media. Lo and behold, the media's response to his death has resulted in overwhelmingly positive tributes and recollections, without innuendo.

It's not lasting long-every night I get a slew of articles that will hit the newspapers tomorrow and they are either full of morons comparing Michael and Prince's work and why Prince is hands down the better musician (with some unbelievably idiotic arguments) OR
they're saying Prince died of a painkiller overdose of the same medication Michael died of-again, so far from the truth that I just gave up-I couldn't comment or respond to any of them-I'm sick and tired of this myth of Michael being a drug addled wreck full of percocet or demerol when it just wasn't true. Now they're adding Prince to this too.
I've had it.

 

[HIStory]

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It's not lasting long-every night I get a slew of articles that will hit the newspapers tomorrow and they are either full of morons comparing Michael and Prince's work and why Prince is hands down the better musician (with some unbelievably idiotic arguments)

The irony of this is that when MJ died no one talked about Prince. MJ's art stood on its own. He was never the "new this or that", he was never the alternative to this or that artist - he was Michael Jackson, period. He didn't need measures because he was the measure. I am sorry but when you constantly need to bring up another artist to praise someone that means the one you always bring up as a comparation IS the measure and not the one who you are trying to praise at his cost. IMO it's actually more disrespectful to Prince than to MJ and it is more diminishing to Prince than MJ and they don't even realize it in their zeal of bashing MJ.

The media have been trying to elevate Prince above MJ since the 80s. It's nothing new that he is more of a media/critics darling than MJ. But the audience have their own mind and they always LOVED MJ and will continue to do so. The media should move on already from this little petty pitting them against each other. It never worked and never will.

 

[Ms. BlueGangsta]

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The irony of this is that when MJ died no one talked about Prince. MJ's art stood on its own. He was never the "new this or that", he was never the alternative to this or that artist - he was Michael Jackson, period. He didn't need measures because he was the measure. I am sorry but when you constantly need to bring up another artist to praise someone that means the one you always bring up as a comparation IS the measure and not the one who you are trying to praise at his cost. IMO it's actually more disrespectful to Prince than to MJ and it is more diminishing to Prince than MJ and they don't even realize it in their zeal of bashing MJ.

The media have been trying to elevate Prince above MJ since the 80s. It's nothing new that he is more of a media/critics darling than MJ. But the audience have their own mind and they always LOVED MJ and will continue to do so. The media should move on already from this little petty pitting them against each other. It never worked and never will.

Preach!

Some people are reaching for the sky with some of the stuff they're saying right now.
The fact that they have to put MJ down to praise Prince shows their insecurity in Prince's greatness, and shows that Prince although amazing wasn't quite as good as MJ (no one is though, so Prince fans shouldn't be mad).

Michael was/is so unique and groundbreaking that he was never the next anyone, or measured up against anyone because after Thriller (and maybe even earlier) his only true competition was himself.

Michael IS the measuring stick, and EVERYONE ELSE wants to be the next MJ.

Additionally, I agree, it is disrespectful to Prince that even in death people still continue to compare him to, and pit him against MJ.
They should let him stand on his own.

 

[Ms. BlueGangsta]

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The media have been trying to elevate Prince above MJ since the 80s.

Who HASN'T the media tried to elevate above MJ?

 

[Psychoniff]

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The irony of this is that when MJ died no one talked about Prince. MJ's art stood on its own. He was never the "new this or that", he was never the alternative to this or that artist - he was Michael Jackson, period. He didn't need measures because he was the measure. I am sorry but when you constantly need to bring up another artist to praise someone that means the one you always bring up as a comparation IS the measure and not the one who you are trying to praise at his cost. IMO it's actually more disrespectful to Prince than to MJ and it is more diminishing to Prince than MJ and they don't even realize it in their zeal of bashing MJ.

The media have been trying to elevate Prince above MJ since the 80s. It's nothing new that he is more of a media/critics darling than MJ. But the audience have their own mind and they always LOVED MJ and will continue to do so. The media should move on already from this little petty pitting them against each other. It never worked and never will.

You have summed it all up right here!

 

[Psychoniff]

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who takes Obama seriously any more but those who support him for his skin color. I will celebrate the day he leaves the White House. Putin has been taking advantage of Obama's passiveness and weakness for years now by interfering in many countries adding to the mesiries of their people. The worst decision was to give him a Noble Prize before he did anything to deserve one. But we know why they did that. The number of people killed during his precedency is staggering. Let's him leave. Any president will be better, at lease they will act like leaders; worrying about being " accepted" by "others" wont consume their thoughts nor govern their decision-making.

Obama's a big fat joke!

 

[Psychoniff]

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It's not lasting long-every night I get a slew of articles that will hit the newspapers tomorrow and they are either full of morons comparing Michael and Prince's work and why Prince is hands down the better musician (with some unbelievably idiotic arguments) OR
they're saying Prince died of a painkiller overdose of the same medication Michael died of-again, so far from the truth that I just gave up-I couldn't comment or respond to any of them-I'm sick and tired of this myth of Michael being a drug addled wreck full of percocet or demerol when it just wasn't true. Now they're adding Prince to this too.
I've had it.

Prince Roger Nelson WAS a better musician than MJ, but he WASN'T a better vocalist/dancer/live performer than MJ....no way.

 

[Ms. BlueGangsta]

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Prince Roger Nelson WAS a better musician than MJ, but he WASN'T a better vocalist/dancer/live performer than MJ....no way.

Nobody can take Prince's skills as an instrumentalist away from him (he was amazing at that, and one of the best from what I know), but when it comes down to being an all around entertainer MJ definitely takes the cake. :yes:

 

[SheilaMJFan4Ever]

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I can't believe some of the utter nonsense I'm reading in this thread! Another extremely gifted and iconic artist has left us too soon and some of you can only whine about how the MEDIA (not Prince himself, mind you) was shading Mike when he passed?! REALLY?! How is disrespecting Prince's death going to change anything about how the media operates? He hasn't always gotten positive press either, plus I've already seen some trashy tabloid shit and he hasn't even been dead a week yet! I'm pretty sure if his autopsy shows anything other than a natural death (which is possible at 57.5 years old), the media will be all over it like vultures and that will be talked about more than his music. That would be a shame, just like it was with Mike.

 

[Ms. BlueGangsta]

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I can't believe some of the utter nonsense I'm reading in this thread! Another extremely gifted and iconic artist has left us too soon and some of you can only whine about how the MEDIA (not Prince himself, mind you) was shading Mike when he passed?! REALLY?! How is disrespecting Prince's death going to change anything about how the media operates? He hasn't always gotten positive press either, plus I've already seen some trashy tabloid shit and he hasn't even been dead a week yet! I'm pretty sure if his autopsy shows anything other than a natural death (which is possible at 57.5 years old), the media will be all over it like vultures and that will be talked about more than his music. That would be a shame, just like it was with Mike.

I totally understand what your saying, but as fans of MJ a lot of us are just tired of the media using every little thing as a chance to bash MJ.
I mean come on, one of the best artist the world has ever seen just died and the only thing a lot of people care about is bashing MJ, it doesn't make sense, and it's not right.

Prince should be the only one being talked or cared about right now, but the media doesn't get that. :no:
And honestly I think Prince's death is being disrespected by people constantly bringing up MJ in every article about Prince when there is no need to.

Prince can be lauded without MJ being brought up.

 

[elusive moonwalker]

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Certain posters have a history of baitin to get a reaction. The media are scum. Yet again they show their colours in the way they have reported on princes death not only acting like vultures interms of what happened to him inorder to get ratings and clicks but also how the media have used this sad event as another stick to beat mj with. Its insulting to princes status that certain media outlets feel the need to blatently lie (grammys 85) inorder to bring mj into reports or connect mj to princes cause of death inorder to get extra attention or just cause they want to hate on mj for the 10,000 time.just another example of the medias long running agenda when it comes to mj

 

[MidnightMoonwalk]

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I can't believe some of the utter nonsense I'm reading in this thread! Another extremely gifted and iconic artist has left us too soon and some of you can only whine about how the MEDIA (not Prince himself, mind you) was shading Mike when he passed?! REALLY?! How is disrespecting Prince's death going to change anything about how the media operates? He hasn't always gotten positive press either, plus I've already seen some trashy tabloid shit and he hasn't even been dead a week yet! I'm pretty sure if his autopsy shows anything other than a natural death (which is possible at 57.5 years old), the media will be all over it like vultures and that will be talked about more than his music. That would be a shame, just like it was with Mike.

Nothing wrong with pointing out the differences of the media's reaction. It's not that people want the media to bash Prince - it's that they shouldn't have bashed Michael, either. The news of Prince's death inadvertently brought back memories from 2009. And as this is a Michael Jackson forum, the subject is going to be analyzed from that point of view.

 

[elusive moonwalker]

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Very true.well said

 

[HIStoric]

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Honestly I really hope his Estate or whatever put his music out on Spotify. I want to actually explore his catalogue beyond the greatest hits collection I have sitting on my iTunes.