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Thread started 01/02/18 2:35am

SoftSkarlettLo
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Do the fans/ community approve of P song covers?

I make song covers of pop artists as a hobby. I plan and create Prince songs on GarageBand, an iPad app, then upload them on Soundcloud and Youtube.

Surprisingly, I receive hundreds, even thousands, of plays for the P songs and the comments are generally positive.

I still get the odd negative comment where someone will say "I don't want covers. I want Prince" or "What the f*** is this?"

I don't know if Prince fans are happy to hear covers or they are protective of the music like Prince himself was?
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Reply #1 posted 01/02/18 3:54am

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Some naughty fans believe they're entitled to tell musicians whether they're allowed to cover P's songs or not. So yeah, you're sure to get some shit from those nod

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While I don't necessarily fancy Prince covers save the occasional gem (and there's been some!), I don't mind people doing them, it's a free world and it's not my place to criticize fellow artists.

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Reply #2 posted 01/02/18 5:20am

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Go for it!

Prince was mostly protective of people making money off his name but I think even he could be convinced to allow people to do a cover just for the love of it. He'd probably query why you need to post it online though.

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