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Prince Is All Work but No Pay
By Marc Malkin
Jan 2, 2007 4:23 PM



Move over, Oprah. Someone is moving in on your charity work.

Okay, maybe that's a bit of an overstatement, but Prince has apparently asked that any money made from "The Song of the Heart," his Golden Globe-nominated song on the Happy Feet soundtrack, go to charity.

Not only has he told Warner Bros. to donate his fee, he's even insisted that royalties on the record be given away, too. "It was just all about him being able to do it and giving back to the world," a source reports.

Prince was so inspired after watching the movie, I'm told, that he wrote the song in two days.

Obviously, Prince no longer has hard feelings toward Warner Bros. He famously changed his named to a symbol—and was thus called "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince"—in 1993 because of contractual disputes with the company's music label. At the time, Prince protested by appearing in public with the word slave scrawled on his face.

That's cool...I wonder what charity he has chosen and if it is something related to enviromental protection. The movie had an strong global warming message to it.

And I thought this was going to be about one of his many disgruntled ex-employees not getting paid!

That's great! ya Prince

Awww,c how cool he is???

That's good of him

Even tho this is under E Gossip, it is very true.

jseven said:

Including this part?



Since you've just put the kibosh on the whole "RS guy on Today says new Prince album and tour 2 days after Superbowl" thing in another thread, it would be nice to know there might be a possibility for Prince and WB to work together sometime in the future.

"move over, Oprah" ??
for what, one song

redflag said:

I was moreso speaking of the proceeds being given 2 a charity. It seems 2 me that the writer was stating opinion more than fact.

1 would hope Warners would come 2 an agreement with him because the funk that is on "Sign O The Times" and countless other works of his creation need a remastering just as bad as Britney needed some new knickers 4 the new year.

Good story.

Snap said:

oprah carity effort is misplaced!!

how u spend 40mil on 132 kids

the cost of doin business in africa like most third world countries is very little

its when most of the money is endin up for managin the project rather then benefitin the ppl

I'm sure that $250.00 will go far.

jseven said:

Thanks for clearing that up.

Good on him.

This is great news. Now where are all the people who've been ripping him a new on the Princefams.com issue at for this thread?

This just looks to me like Prince's way of saying he doesn't need WB's blood money. "Yeah, sure, I'll toss off a song for your penguin movie, I got a million of 'em...all different, too. Keep the change, bitchez. Owwah, etc."

I mean, it's nice of him to give the proceeds to charity, sure - but the whole thing reads to me like another example of Prince being badass.

Anx said:

I like that theory.

purplecam said:

They are at this moment huddled in conference trying desperately to concieve a way in which this news can be viewed negatively.

NewMr7 said:

if this thread turns into more "asskisser vs. naysayer" crap, i swear i'm going to set my laptop on fire and throw it out the window.

i thought this was another Kevin Smith thread.

DanceWme said:

!yeah!

Anx said:

well its' true.

wonder505 said:

this is SO 2002.

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Anx said:

are kidding, its even worse now.

wonder505 said:

Nah! In 2002 Prince bashing was the great Org past time! The shit was so deep around here then, you needed stilts just to pop in and check your orgnotes!