As you know:

Prince did a live version of "Creep" at Coachella Festival 2008,

Now Radiohead has a new song out called "Lotus Flower".

Is this just...... coincidence?

btw. I really liked Prince's version of "Creep",

it was a huge surprise to hear him play this classic rock song.

A he did this song good...... even tho the Radiohead fans hated him for it, on Youtube before it was removed by you know who....

i think they did that out of fun and a little wink at Prince

As soon as I saw that title I thought.. MMM HMM, GOTCHA

I don't think it has anything to do with the whole Creep thing.

And, Lotus Flower is an amazing song.

FYI.

I took it as mere coincidence, with the amount of songs Prince has written,

it's inevitable that the same song/album title will crop up from time to time...

Absolutely brilliant album by Radiohead by the way, check out the video to Lotus Flower,

there's a funny version going viral of Thom Yorke dancing to All The Single Ladies by Beyonce,

well worth a watch!

I'm sure it's a coincidence. In fact, I'd bet that not a single member of Radiohead is aware of the existence of a Prince album by that title.

thedance said:

As you know:

Prince did a live version of "Creep" at Coachella Festival 2008,

Now Radiohead has a new song out called "Lotus Flower".

Is this just...... coincidence?

It's not the same at all.

Prince spelled Lotus Flower with a 3.

Completely unrelated.

Duh.

given that way radiohead work on songs for years and keep going back to old drafts etc

chances are that their song was around since well before prince released the album.

great song by the way. i've been listening to this album 2 times a day since friday

paisleypark4 said:

i think they did that out of fun and a little wink at Prince

As soon as I saw that title I thought.. MMM HMM, GOTCHA

It could be related to the artist Flying Lotus. Thom Yorke worked with him on his amazing "Cosmogramma" album. And the new Radiohead album has some stylistic similarities to "Cosmogramma".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogramma

It's an amazing record; I just picked up the vinyl recently on advice from a friend, and it's one of those albums you really have to delve into.

NoVideo said:

It could be related to the artist Flying Lotus. Thom Yorke worked with him on his amazing "Cosmogramma" album. And the new Radiohead album has some stylistic similarities to "Cosmogramma".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogramma

It's an amazing record; I just picked up the vinyl recently on advice from a friend, and it's one of those albums you really have to delve into.

LOVE Flying Lotus.

To add to this - one of the tracks that didn;t make it onto the new Radiohead album was called "The Daily Mail". This was the newspaper that gave away Planet Earth in 2007. Also the deluxe version of the new Radiohead album is called a "newspaper album".

NoVideo said:

It could be related to the artist Flying Lotus. Thom Yorke worked with him on his amazing "Cosmogramma" album. And the new Radiohead album has some stylistic similarities to "Cosmogramma".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogramma

It's an amazing record; I just picked up the vinyl recently on advice from a friend, and it's one of those albums you really have to delve into.

Yeah that!! It's inspired by Flying Lotus, it even has a similar sound to his music.

The only reason Prince spelled Lotus Flow3r with the 3 was so that when he brought up his lotusflow3r.com site it would not be confused with the lotusflower.com site.... and another law suit!!

Or because it had 3 CDs.

Illuminations said:

The only reason Prince spelled Lotus Flow3r with the 3 was so that when he brought up his lotusflow3r.com site it would not be confused with the lotusflower.com site.... and another law suit!!