Oh there's a meerkat
Your best years are well behind you, Prince. I can't see many people giving a rat's jacksy about your latest wankramble.
'The internet's completely over', declares petulant Prince
Purple rock geezer Prince has declared that the internetosphere has had its day, as he prepares to release his latest album exclusively on CD through UK newspaper the Daily Mirror. In a punctuation-light interview ahead of the unleashing of 20TEN in physical form, the Jehovah's Witness declared: "The internets completely over. I …
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Who?
Nope, don't know him...Is he a footballer or something?
What?
He was a pop star in the 80's..Oh that explains it.
Has-been looking for free publicity.
wasn't he also better known....
....as the artist formerly known as "non-ascii squiggle" ??????
I think it was Viz
... that said "The artists formerly known as Prince, will now be known only by his symbol..."
Then helpfully included a picture of a W next to an anchor.
Keep up at the back there!
Prince's former name has been assigned Unicode reference U+AC0C
RIS/DERIS
http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/u+ac0c
Oh, you meant it as a phonetic joke, and not literally. Right, I shut up then.
Other 80s musicians should retire too
U2's 'No Line on the Horizon' album should've been given away with fish-n-chip wrappers too, it was terrible album and similarly only a trailer for their '360° Tour'.
I saw U2's Rose Bowl gig on Sky1 the other day and thought ... these songs are so rubbish and unmemorable that Bono has to sing other songs/lyrics over the top of them to stop the crowd dying of boredom! Surely Bono knows in his heart that it's rubbish, perhaps that's why he threw his back out? I doubt Eno/Lilywhite told him 'No Line on the Horizon' is crap, wouldn't want to kill their cash-cow, but perhaps that's why they fired Rick Rubin from the album?
Someone should tell Bono, Prince and others about "quitting at the top of your game" / "leaving on a high"; 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb' should've been U2's swansong.
U2
Yup. Bono's a complete bellend. Sting's another. One of the things I miss about the post-Facebook world is the pictures of Sting looking like a twat group - seriously FB users, search for it and be amazed!
It was looking for free press.
You gave it free press.
If you feed the trolls, you get to keep them. EOM
Ironic he's now using newspapers
I think this is the second album that he's given away free with newspapers.
What is he going to do when the newspapers close down and go electronic?
How is anyone going to know about his next album if he has no website and there's no traditional publishing left to let more than 7 people know about it?
MTV was superseded by YouTube for technological reasons - it allowed people to watch what they want, when they wanted. Once a song dropped off MTV's playlist, you'd be lucky to see it once in a blue moon. And even when it was on the playlist, you'd have to sit through loads of crap before the songs you wanted came on. There wasn't really a proper market for buying videos, only the music.
By the same token, downloads have superseded CDs because of convenience. You don't have to go shopping and then manage all those discs every time you want to play another track. And both walkmans and discmans were a rubbish experience. The batteries didn't last long, and when you ran for the bus the music either cut out or wobbled like an old pub singer.
So this isn't a fad that people are going to get bored with. They're used to convenience and not having to put up with filler at a radio of 7:3, and will not go back.
Can anyone think of a next step after downloads? I can't. I can think of ways to streamline the process, improve the file formats and develop the software/device interfaces, but the basic principle of downloading music instead of buying physical media is surely a final step... until they invent a way to transmit the music directly into your brain!
@ AC
"downloads have superseded CDs" (sic)
Really ? The last time I checked, which admittedly was a few months ago, sales of physical media vastly out-weighed downloads.
Or do you mean illegal downloads, which is a completely unquantified and unquantifiable amount. It also, whether you agree with the full spiel from the associated music production companies or not, will limit the amount of new music eventually, especially if they have no real way to make money from what they are doing.
pedant check...
That's not what the word means. Superseded means it has rendered the old method or form obselete or antiquated.
e.g. Vauxhall have just launched the new Astra (think it's Astra G now) which supersedes the previous model. Obviously nobody would claim that there are more new Astras on the road than all the previous models though.
Downloads vs CDs
I'd certainly buy more legitimate downloads if they were consistently cheaper than the CD. Quite often the download is the same price/more than the CD, so I might as well express about 2 days of patience and have the thing delivered. Then file the "backup" somewhere safe.
I don't care if I'm not supposed to rip my own discs (lawlol) - if I'm not sharing the files (which I don't) then nobody should really care what I do with them.
Kind of...
MTV got substituted by YouTube because MTV no longer shows videos at all. It had started the slippery slope into crap programming ever since they started putting boy band videos; then they went heavier on the whole "reality show" thing, so much that they are no longer a "video channel" at all. They've lost the 'M' in 'MTV'.
While discmans were shitty, the latest batch of walkmans had anti-shock systems that actually worked. Running and jumping wouldn't wobble the tape; they were very damn resilient for what they were worth. Hell, mine is still in perfect working order after 12 years! I agree on the Discmans though. The mp3-enabled ones were better, but an mp3 player fares much better in this field.
Downloads? Hm... only if you count allofmp3, coz the eyeTunes store is way too overpriced for me. I do agree that I'm more likely to rip my legally purchased CDs and slap them on my Blackberry, but that isn't quite 'downloading'. And I'd rather own a physical BluRay disc than depending on a streaming service when my internet link might go down.
Actually...
...even the cheapest of the discmans as far back as 2003/4 had a cache to store a limited amount of music in case of jolts. Obviously you couldn't go jogging with them but they were quite effective. I had one that even had a circuit in it so you could power up rechargeable batteries between uses using the mains cable - great idea!
Oh and Prince is a knob!
Ow.
Ow. Ow. Ow.
I initially thought that it was prince that had eschewed the apostrophe as well as the internet. How wrong I was.
Pass the eye bleach, please.
"The internets like MTV."
huh? MTV is a one way platform designed to pipe corporate audio-visual feces directly into the homes of those who probably spell 'culture' with a k, and the internet... is not.
Who??
Prince? Faded pop star and psycologically unstable pint-sized prat decides to release an album through a paper with possibly the fastest falling circulation outside of Team England Supporters Daily. No doubt it will be available on p2p before the paperboy gets to school.
Yup, first class marketing.
oh wow
What a fucking idiot, thank goodness I can't stand his music either.
That twat formally known as...
HAHA!
Yeah these interwebz, they is so 1960's. Man, these inetwebtubez are like so old and stuff!
What a silly man. He should change is name to a symbol or something. I can think of a few appropriate ones. How about 8==
titular stuff
Shouldn't that be 8===D ?
btw, It looks much better in Comic Book Sans. :)
Just gotta love nobgags :)
I'll get me...
To quote Craig Charles ( Last Man on Earth tour ), "Ha ha! I love nobgags.....but my girlfriend won't wear one!"
Ooh how exciting
What a wonderful gimmick that would be even more wonderful if he hadn't done it all before, I suppose he's switched from the Mail on Sunday which is a step in the right direction.
A real shame, he used to be a brilliant artist who just seems to be gradually turning into a parody of himself...
Oh boy
A namby-pamby, has-been pop star with God tendencies.
And who listens to this twat?
They wont pay me an advance for it ....
...sos I'll give it away in... ...the DAILY MAIL!!!
Re: They wont pay me an advance for it
The customers will get it free but the paper will be paying Prince hansomely.
@"sos I'll give it away in... ...the DAILY" Mirror (not Mail)
He is saying these stupid, overly dramatic and controversial things (like a lot of celebrities (people often with a Histrionic Personality Disorder) who are in need of attention) so he and many like him can keep getting more attention and through endless self promotion they then go on to have big well publicised concerts which earn them an additional fortune. (There is something very two faced about this attention seeking behaviour where they say one thing but are really seeking attention through their actions).
Another example like him (i.e. a HPD attention seeking celebrity) is Lady Gaga who in attention seeking terms is like a female version of him with a lobster on her head or whatever). Its all about attention. Plus people who seek attention hold these very effective attention seekers up as their role models. (Which explains Lady Gaga's 10M facebook record).
Its an endless need for attention attention attention with them. (Take away people's attention on them and they go to pieces … which is when they turn to drink and drugs to suppress their troubling thoughts, because they can't cope with no attention).
So giving the CD away in the Daily mirror is also another way to get attention.
Also this giving the music away (how much is the mirror paying for this exclusive) does also show a business model that will work online where musicians give their music away as promotional material to then earn their living from performances in concerts (exactly as musicians have done for centuries). But then the music publishers won't like that as they are no longer needed and they could very well be part of his game plan with this CD release, as he has had battles with music publishers in the past (Sony) trying to get a bigger slice of the money, so by taking this action he is publicly bypassing the music publishers.
So on the surface it appears stupid, but its actually far more devious, two faced and manipulative once you see why they do the things they do.
Shorter version
"Prince just needs attention, like Lady Gaga"
I know it takes more time to write a short letter (according to Mark Twain), but you're taking the p*ss here.
My own opinion of Prince? Unprintable, but to adopt your longhand style, remove one "r" from "Repetitive Strain Injury" and you'll have some idea..
Shame...
... he made some classic tunes in his early days and now he's just another religious celebrity nutjob.
title
Oh, I'm pretty sure it'll be on the internet pretty sharpish...
For those who don't know
Prince was a pop singer who was famous at around the same time as Roland Rat.
Re: For those who don't know
Come on, he's a great and important musician. Hasn't done anything decent for years and is somewhat demented, yes, but credit where it's due.
Come on, he's a great and important musician.
"Come on, he *WAS* a great and important musician." - there fixed that for you.
Oh - wait, no I haven't heard his new album. Perhaps you're right after all....
Although since I won't be getting the DM, maybe I'll never know...
Correction
"he's a great and important musician"
I think you meant to type
"he *was* a great and important musician"
His modern day greatness and importance can be accurately gauged from the company he keeps i.e. The Daily Mirror... 'nuff said.
For those who don't know
Roland Rat was a "TV MegaStar" around the same time as Timmy Mallet's Wacaday show.
Yeahhhh
A title? Surely not
Indeed, it's all been downhill since Rat Rapping
dotdashdot
whereas Prince just wanted the fame and to do something with Gladys the gerbil, if rumours are to be believed.
Anyone remember the Prince two ribs schoolyard rumour?
Just checking....
were you talking about Prince or Roland Rat?
I admit Prince had a few catchy songs, and he has gone a bit loopy (About 8 of 10 on the Adam Ant scale).
Re: Credit where it's due
"Come on, he's a great and important musician. Hasn't done anything decent for years and is somewhat demented, yes, but credit where it's due."
Ms Bee is right - 'Rat Rapping' was fucking ace!
Re: Just checking....
Adam Ant is bipolar. I don't think Prince is.
Agreed Ms. Bee!
I saw him at the O2, and he *was* phemonenal.
But yes his recorded output of recent years has been throwaway bilge - we got a free CD of his last album at the gig, listened to it maybe 3 times, and that was ENOUGH!
His God comment at the end may just explain some of that downfall of course...
TAFKATAFKAP
Will become TACKAT. The Artist Currently Known As Twonk. As in "What a twonk!."
Well....
"Everything's been invented - science may as well give up"
"Who the hell is EVER going to need more than 640k of RAM?!"
I rest my case...
'petulant Prince is completely over', declares The internet
hmm?
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