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Prince Interview in Wired, 09/2004 Prince is featured in WIRED again. This time its an interview.
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They don't call it PROGRAMMING 4 nothing!
Christ, Prince... give it a rest. Purple Fact #542: Prince can make a Weeble™ fall down. | |
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squirrelgrease said: They don't call it PROGRAMMING 4 nothing!
Christ, Prince... give it a rest. 
you know he's paranoid about everyone. all the media wants is money there's no secret or programming about that! | |
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neokyle said: ....NPG Music Club (www.npgmusiclub.com) members pay a one-time $25 fee to access music videos, concert footage, and chat rooms where they can gab with Prince and his band.
 We can?! Maybe I need to start hanging out in the chat room over there!  I read in the Tracks magazine interview that he logs on to "check fan feedback" or whatever, but I assumed they meant the message boards!My site:
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CandaceS said: neokyle said: ....NPG Music Club (www.npgmusiclub.com) members pay a one-time $25 fee to access music videos, concert footage, and chat rooms where they can gab with Prince and his band.
We can?! Maybe I need to start hanging out in the chat room over there! I read in the Tracks magazine interview that he logs on to "check fan feedback" or whatever, but I assumed they meant the message boards!Thats what i read as well, first i herd that prince hangs around the chatroom, maybe he has a undercover name, be afraid, verry afraid | |
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Prince is only able to release albums independently and sell music through is website because he has such a huge fan base. He could not have gotten such a huge fan base without being part of the WB corporate machinery for many years. His anti-corporate strategy won't work for new artists or 99% of established artists. But he doesn't get it. | |
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RupertZ said: Prince is only able to release albums independently and sell music through is website because he has such a huge fan base. He could not have gotten such a huge fan base without being part of the WB corporate machinery for many years. His anti-corporate strategy won't work for new artists or 99% of established artists. But he doesn't get it.
So how do certain authors gain such a huge fanbase? Word-of-mouth, which creates demand, and to keep up with the demand, the publisher prints more of the product. Good musicians really don't need the "corporate machinery" -- word of mouth does wonders! Believe me, I see it all the time. Heard of The Da Vinci Code? Now how many of Dan Brown's books are in the Top 10? ALL of them! Same thing happened with Janet Evanovich -- word-of-mouth, and a few books into her career, people started buying them up (including the "back catalogue") based on nothing more than word-of-mouth. [This message was edited Mon Aug 23 19:56:44 2004 by Snap] | |
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Snap said: RupertZ said: Prince is only able to release albums independently and sell music through is website because he has such a huge fan base. He could not have gotten such a huge fan base without being part of the WB corporate machinery for many years. His anti-corporate strategy won't work for new artists or 99% of established artists. But he doesn't get it.
So how do certain authors gain such a huge fanbase? Word-of-mouth, which creates demand, and to keep up with the demand, the publisher prints more of the product. Good musicians really don't need the "corporate machinery" -- word of mouth does wonders! Believe me, I see it all the time. Heard of The Da Vinci Code? Now how many of Dan Brown's books are in the Top 10? ALL of them! Same thing happened with Janet Evanovich -- word-of-mouth, and a few books into her career, people started buying them up (including the "back catalogue") based on nothing more than word-of-mouth. [This message was edited Mon Aug 23 19:56:44 2004 by Snap] Prince on the chat? Well i havent seen him yet. Mystery man show yourself!!! | |
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squirrelgrease said: They don't call it PROGRAMMING 4 nothing!
Christ, Prince... give it a rest. I totally agree with P. I worked in radio for 5 years and know for sure that they intentionally PROGRAM certain music for certain audiences. They don't let the people decide. They tell u what 2 listen 2. I know P may say this in a lot of interviews, but he is trying to reach the masses and each magazine that he is talking with is reaching a different audience. Keep it up P. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
U 'gon make me shake my doo loose! Check out my new Avon site | |
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daPrettyman said: squirrelgrease said: Christ, Prince... give it a rest. I totally agree with P. I worked in radio for 5 years and know for sure that they intentionally PROGRAM certain music for certain audiences. They don't let the people decide. They tell u what 2 listen 2. I know P may say this in a lot of interviews, but he is trying to reach the masses and each magazine that he is talking with is reaching a different audience. Keep it up P. Actually, I know exactly where you're coming from. My beef is that Prince is sounding like a broken record with his pseudo-conspiracy theories. Prince want's to be an independant artist in an increasingly corporate realm, and I wish him much success in this. Most of my favorite artists are on labels that no one has heard of. Prince gave a good fight for years from inside the heart of the monopolizing beast, to no avail. Great music or not, he's never going to get genuine rotational airplay from his position, and he knew this when he jumped ship. This doesn't mean he can't be number one at the bank. He just needs to keep his loyal fanbase happy, by giving them what they crave. No bitching about "the man" needed... no radio play necessary. Purple Fact #542: Prince can make a Weeble™ fall down. | |
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RupertZ said: Prince is only able to release albums independently and sell music through is website because he has such a huge fan base. He could not have gotten such a huge fan base without being part of the WB corporate machinery for many years. His anti-corporate strategy won't work for new artists or 99% of established artists. But he doesn't get it.
Yes, he does get it... he has said during this Musicology Tour that new artists cannot do what he does... that they need the record companies to get much-needed 'attention.' I think he's just trying to let the new artists know that they have power & need to gain control over their product as early in their career as possible. | |
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Snap said: So how do certain authors gain such a huge fanbase? Word-of-mouth, which creates demand, and to keep up with the demand, the publisher prints more of the product. Good musicians really don't need the "corporate machinery" -- word of mouth does wonders! Believe me, I see it all the time. Heard of The Da Vinci Code? Now how many of Dan Brown's books are in the Top 10? ALL of them! Same thing happened with Janet Evanovich -- word-of-mouth, and a few books into her career, people started buying them up (including the "back catalogue") based on nothing more than word-of-mouth.
Some books come from nowhere and gain prominence by word of mouth, but your examples are not examples of this happening. Both Evanovich and Brown are beneficiaries of MASSIVE publicity campaigns from the MASSIVE publishing companies they are signed with. They ARE engaging books and they ARE passed from friend to friend and benefit from good word of mouth, but it's not like these books were self-published and slowly took the reading public by storm. Publishers can manipulate/exploit popular tastes just as well as the music industry can. | |
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