Why does the press release from Universal contain such ridiculous errors?

http://home.businesswire....ewsLang=en



"A" Sign Of The Times? That's the first time in nearly 20 years that I've seen anyone call it that.



Really? Let's see:

http://www.findarticles.c...i_70198052



Since when does February 2001 belong to the "early '90s"?



Apparently, Prince invented the internet. Nevermind that George Michael and David Bowie had been doing this way earlier...

You might know a little too much about Prince methinks.

JPW said:

yeah but he makes good points. Universal more than has the resources to get it right the first time

XxAxX said:

i can see how they would make some mistakes on the online stuff,
and didn't he have a website launched back in 1997 (which still
is hardly the early '90s though).

anyway, beyond that, it is simply preposterous for them to call
"Sign o' The Times" "a sign of the times". that is like calling
"Sticky Fingers" "some sticky fingers".

Or calling Prince "The Prince".

damn typos.....you would think someone with half a brain would re-read what they are expecting to release....don't they know we're gonna be watching for everything....

The worst error was the part that said "Prince's career literally exploded in the 80's"

How the hell can a career "LITERALLY" explode?

What was Prince's first 'official' website? The Dawn? I can remember seeing the wedding photos on it, so it was online in 1996 at the earliest.

JudasSmile said:

you don't mean this do you..?
http://www.thedawnexperie...index2.htm

JudasSmile said:

something like that. but heck what we call the internet (that is the WWW.COM) thing was not well know at all before 95

PurpleRein said:

No. Prince used to have a site called The Dawn ten or more years ago. Wonder if he was the first major artist to have a website?

JudasSmile said:

there could not have been too many before that. (as far as www.com sites) netscape was not even "public" until 94 or 95.

Ok....the dawn..from 1998

http://web.archive.org/we...edawn.com/

Also, when did love4oneanother.com appear? Anyone remember?

JudasSmile said:

i think it was about 96 or 97. and the dawn was BEFORE 98. whoever said that is mistaken. I used to go there when i was at school and i graduated n 97.

IstenSzek said:

Purple Raining
Pearls & Diamonds
Chaotic & Disorderly
1998

Byron said:

it took me a while to register that one

JudasSmile said:

Sheesh. I frikking mention two web-savvy artists in my original post.

DavidBowie.com: "Record created on 06-Aug-1995"

Whereas TheDawn.com went live in early 1996.

Prince also has a habit of mentioning his new site on his CD, then abandoning that site months later. Isn't it idiotic that he let TheDawn.com slip from his hands? IIRC it was one of the sites that got a threatening email because they had put up photos of Prince.

My God, is this the original Bart Van Hemelen?

That brings back memories of the late nineties on prince.org ...

(Negativity - no. Did you have your minus sign today)

OhmyGod...you're so right...Prince is so over...

Is hearing what you want to hear, enough? Or no?

SlamGlam said:

He had Love for one another website, the dawn website (mostly about his marriage), npgonlineltd website and then npgmusiclub

BartVanHemelen said:

It was a test to see if you were still paying attention. They figure having you back here with Byron would be great viral marketing!

JPW said:

It's just Bart being Bart. Get used to it.

Aerogram said:

Emphasis on "viral"...