Prince and Village People dive into Pirate Bay

WTF!!

who has been downloading Village People? C'mon, own up.

The Village People? Still Alive?

I don't want to condone Internet piracy or anything, but the Village People? Really, how much annual revenue are they losing to illegal downloads?

Would £20 cover it, do you think?

#It's fun to download at the Pi-i-rate bay, it's fun....#

*Yes, I know they don't host anything so you're not downloading from them

Mine's the one with the skull and crossbones on it and the matching hardhat.

Storm

I paid for 48hours on the Storm Botnet with the principle purpose of distributing YMCA to all and sundry.

If it wasn't free, it should have been !

Sorry

It's fun to stay at the r-i-a-a.

It's fun to stay at the r-i-a-a.

When it's over

So when your career is over as an artist, and the world has moved on, you have three choices to try and earn your crust, 1. write your autobiography/expose of the industry and hope someone is interested enough to buy it and even read it. 2. Flip burgers, get a regular job or 3. Sue everybody and anybody for Piracy?

The small purple one should join the village people and tour, I'd pay good money NOT to see them!

Joke alert, because that is what Prince and the Village people are these days.

Tour?

Erm, dunno if you noticed but Prince DID do a fair few live dates in London last summer. I went to one: rather good, perhaps a little inspired by James Brown and all that showy stuff, but still a good night out.

Sadly I've yet to enjoy the delights of The Village People at The O2...

Paris: cos I bet she'd be right at home at either gig.

What the hell?

Come on, this is a joke right? The Village People are loosing money on downloads?

YMCA comes free on every £2.99 cheesey karaoke CD

The best thing about Village People

Is The Amazing Christopher - if you can find a vid of his genius Why-Em-See-Ay (just in case YMCA is (r) (tm) (c) (p) (arse) oh damn I said YMCA. Oh no I said it again... )

The best clip is the one that's been yanked from YouTube by people angry at not being paid for people watching a clip of performing something to a tune from 30 years ago,sadly, even though they paid nothing for the clip that gives free promotion to their product.

Now there's an idea... how about people demand the record co's pay up for advertising when people do stuff like that... (and then I awoke and the dream faded)

@ cameron

ianal, but if iremember right, songs have 2 sets of copyright, one for the writer, and another for the performer. So if you sing YMCA, you need to pay the writer, if you play YMCA by the village people, you pay both.

Time for a rule change

The parasitic ( ie. non productive ) parts of the music industry Record Labels, BPI, RIAA has-been artists etc should be required to meet the same criteria that insurance companies use when assessing a claim:

If they cannot provide conclusive documentary evidence of their alleged losses - there is no case to answer

Seriously though....

When do people ever listen to The Village People. I can only think of a few occasions in any man's (or woman's) life when it's deemed acceptable:

1) Weddings

2) Karaoke (when VERY drunk though)

err...

3) Weddings? I don't think I mentioned weddings.

(Gotta choose Paris as icon here... doesn't her family own a couple of YMCA hostels? or something...)

YMCA sue village people for royalties on their organisation's name

Hilarity ensues.

Guilty...

I have to admit downloading one of the VP's tracks a few years ago. Purely out of nostalgia, to listen to it just the once. The title?

Macho Man - 12" version.

There was also a 7" version. And all of this before the event of the Little Blue Pill.

Mine's the leather one with the matching cap.

Re: Right Said Fred

You're forgetting "I'm too sexy"

(and according to Wikipedia, that fountain of knowledge, I'm too sexy 2007 - the Remix)

(also in brackets: fun but true fact: I was once neighbours with the bald guy from R.S.F. He had a dog. Dunno what kind, but it was small and furry).

(Final bracket note: if you were forced to, for the rest of your life, listen to either the Village People or R.S.F., and nothing else... which one would you go for?)

@Adam Reiniger

I'm guessing it was assumed that "I'm Too Sexy" was the mistakenly identified one-hit-wonder!

But you are forgetting Swan...

Mine's is the leather one with no shirt and the oil in the pocket

re: re: Right Said Fred

Right Said Fred were a group, so I can only assume that the "he" refers to Bernard Cribbins, who performed the song Right Said Fred. I seem to remember reading that Paul Weller's dad was very confused back in 1991 when he asked Paul what was number 1 in the US. He couldn't understand why those crazy Yanks would like Bernard Cribbins.

Bernard was not a one hit wonder either, also scoring success with Hole in the Ground and Gossip Calypso.

What About Prince Charles and Prince Philip?

They are Princes by title and by right, it isn't just a monicker they've nicked from somewhere. I'd like to see them sue the squiggle's ass off. Who would you rather watch? Little squiggly boy squeaking and squealing or Prince Philip proving the Royal Family does indeed have a sense of humour.

Anyone who chooses to name themselves after a squiggle shaped like a bogie doesn't deserve to be taken seriously IMHO.

@Adam Reiniger

I would choose to swallow my tongue and choke to death. Unless, of course I was in Hell in which case I would probably just come back as Philip Rose's catamite.

@bws - Wrong Film

Dude,

Sorry to be anal, but Marlon Brando does says "the horror ... the horror..." in Apocalypse Now. He wasn't in The Deer Hunter.

I really hate Internet pedantry, so I'll stop now.