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Limelight is a company that helps artists, particularly independent, file the necessary paperwork to perform and release cover songs legally. Some of their employees put together a group response to Prince's interveiw on George Lopez.

Thanks for the link. Very bizarre. Prince doesn't want other artists covering his songs, but he lets his own versions go out of print or drift into oblivion. So I guess Prince's point is that he doesn't anyone paying to hear his music unless it's at one of his concerts?

electricberet said:

Thanks for the link. Very bizarre. Prince doesn't want other artists covering his songs, but he lets his own versions go out of print or drift into oblivion. So I guess Prince's point is that he doesn't anyone paying to hear his music unless it's at one of his concerts?

She, when Prince is covering somebody else's song (which he's done since Emancipation), its charity and bringing attention to their song. But when somebody else covers his, he doesn't exist anymore.

I think Prince would really suck at playing chess--he only sees about 1 step in front of him.

He did say at one point that, if we think he's crazy, we're probably right.

Where did these attention getters come from... Promotional Fail!!!

Crimson & Clover is a cover song isn't it??

Prince is a hypocrite,

isn't he??

If you listen to EVERYTHING he said ( a dying practice these days), he said it's cool if friends of his want to cover his songs. I.E. if they ask HIM for his permission. What he objects to is the COMPULSORY notion that there are practices in place where that isn't required of those intending on doing the covering. In other words, his creation, but not his control. Who amongst the creative here really have a problem with that position?

But of course, nobody here wants to comment on that part, not as juicy after all.

shayde said:

If you listen to EVERYTHING he said ( a dying practice these days), he said it's cool if friends of his want to cover his songs. I.E. if they ask HIM for his permission. What he objects to is the COMPULSORY notion that there are practices in place where that isn't required of those intending on doing the covering. In other words, his creation, but not his control. Who amongst the creative here really have a problem with that position?

But of course, nobody here wants to comment on that part, not as juicy after all.

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shayde said:

If you listen to EVERYTHING he said ( a dying practice these days), he said it's cool if friends of his want to cover his songs. I.E. if they ask HIM for his permission. What he objects to is the COMPULSORY notion that there are practices in place where that isn't required of those intending on doing the covering. In other words, his creation, but not his control. Who amongst the creative here really have a problem with that position?

But of course, nobody here wants to comment on that part, not as juicy after all.

Did he ask Radiohead for permission to play Creep live? They seemed to object to the way he blocked it from popular video sites.

^ haha very clever answer....

electricberet said:

shayde said:

If you listen to EVERYTHING he said ( a dying practice these days), he said it's cool if friends of his want to cover his songs. I.E. if they ask HIM for his permission. What he objects to is the COMPULSORY notion that there are practices in place where that isn't required of those intending on doing the covering. In other words, his creation, but not his control. Who amongst the creative here really have a problem with that position?

But of course, nobody here wants to comment on that part, not as juicy after all.

Did he ask Radiohead for permission to play Creep live? They seemed to object to the way he blocked it from popular video sites.

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SagsWay2low said:

electricberet said:

Did he ask Radiohead for permission to play Creep live? They seemed to object to the way he blocked it from popular video sites.

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I think we both know, SagsWay2low, that he wasn't talking about the occasional one-off cover live in concert. Obviously, from the Super Bowl and his performing a D-Train classic RIGHT AFTER THE INTERVIEW he'd have to be one whopping hypocryte to be talking about live covers in concert.

shayde said:

SagsWay2low said:

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I think we both know, SagsWay2low, that he wasn't talking about the occasional one-off cover live in concert. Obviously, from the Super Bowl and his performing a D-Train classic RIGHT AFTER THE INTERVIEW he'd have to be one whopping hypocryte to be talking about live covers in conce

sounds like prince to me! anyways after listening to his concerts for the last decade and a half i'm all for prince covers. AS LONG AS THEY'RE NOT BY PRINCE!!

Not one of his first contradictions, certainly won't be the last.

Geminis

^ Yeah I mean Prince has two sides. Of course he'll do something like this. Don't know why anyone will be shocked by ANYTHING he says anyway.

electricberet said:

shayde said:

If you listen to EVERYTHING he said ( a dying practice these days), he said it's cool if friends of his want to cover his songs. I.E. if they ask HIM for his permission. What he objects to is the COMPULSORY notion that there are practices in place where that isn't required of those intending on doing the covering. In other words, his creation, but not his control. Who amongst the creative here really have a problem with that position?

But of course, nobody here wants to comment on that part, not as juicy after all.

Did he ask Radiohead for permission to play Creep live? They seemed to object to the way he blocked it from popular video sites.

You dont need to ask permission to cover songs live. Shayde is completely right, I just wish people would stop reading between the lines and listen to what Prince actually said!

Timmy84 said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Timmy84 said:

^ Yeah I mean Prince has two sides. Of course he'll do something like this. Don't know why anyone will be shocked by ANYTHING he says anyway.

Prince has 2 sides and they're both horrible businessmen...

Yes, let's please do come to a Prince fan website and wallow in his shortcomings that have nothing to do with why we're fans.

Shall we revel in what horrible musicians Donald Trump or Bill Gates are?

I'm just sayin'.

shayde said:

samhabib said:

Prince has recorded tonnes of cover versions. And played mullions more live. He's talking nonsense. The issue is that some of the covers were bigger hits than his originals.

oh you cynic!!! lol. if it wasn't for sinead o'connor nothing compares 2 u would be another shit, forgotten family track, prince nicked sinead's string arrangement when he started playing it live.

shayde said:

i still think princes point is not so much about doing cover songs, but is more so when people do cover songs and dont make it clear whos song it is. theres a lot of kids that hear new versions of old songs on the radio and have no clue that its a cover. prince always clearly acknowldeges where a song comes from when he covers it. respect the origins and history of the music, to me thats princes point

I didn't hear him say anything about Bob Dylan when he (the backup singers, actually) covered his song on April 14th, 2011. Not that I really care, just adding my two cents.

LOL doesnt bother me the slightest, i cant stand Prince covers, im sorry, but i just cant take listening to someone singing his songs, and it aint his freakin voice!!! I'll make exceptions for Alicia Keys and Sinead O'Connor, who had beautiful well put & sanged P cover songs. But everyone else ugh plain bad, no wonder the man doesnt want ppl covering his music, they dont bring anything to it

But 2 be fair, his covers of The Delfonics songs, really bugged the crap out of mean, LALALA means i love you, come on prince, thats an untouchable

ItsGonnaBLonely said:

LOL doesnt bother me the slightest, i cant stand Prince covers, im sorry, but i just cant take listening to someone singing his songs, and it aint his freakin voice!!! I'll make exceptions for Alicia Keys and Sinead O'Connor, who had beautiful well put & sanged P cover songs. But everyone else ugh plain bad, no wonder the man doesnt want ppl covering his music, they dont bring anything to it

But 2 be fair, his covers of The Delfonics songs, really bugged the crap out of mean, LALALA means i love you, come on prince, thats an untouchable

You didn't like Chaka's?

samhabib said:

^ You know I'm right though Prince wasn't complaining when he was covering 'One of us', 'I can't make you love me' and 'Betcha by golly wow'. All on the same album.

For Real!

lPoeticl said:

ItsGonnaBLonely said:

LOL doesnt bother me the slightest, i cant stand Prince covers, im sorry, but i just cant take listening to someone singing his songs, and it aint his freakin voice!!! I'll make exceptions for Alicia Keys and Sinead O'Connor, who had beautiful well put & sanged P cover songs. But everyone else ugh plain bad, no wonder the man doesnt want ppl covering his music, they dont bring anything to it

But 2 be fair, his covers of The Delfonics songs, really bugged the crap out of mean, LALALA means i love you, come on prince, thats an untouchable

You didn't like Chaka's?

i feel for u? is that what ur refering 2? if so, its a give or take, never fancied the song to be honest, not even when Prince song it , Prince 1979 album is my fav, that song is the only one i dont really care 4 on it

ItsGonnaBLonely said:

LOL doesnt bother me the slightest, i cant stand Prince covers, im sorry, but i just cant take listening to someone singing his songs, and it aint his freakin voice!!! I'll make exceptions for Alicia Keys and Sinead O'Connor, who had beautiful well put & sanged P cover songs. But everyone else ugh plain bad, no wonder the man doesnt want ppl covering his music, they dont bring anything to it

But 2 be fair, his covers of The Delfonics songs, really bugged the crap out of mean, LALALA means i love you, come on prince, thats an untouchable

I was about to ask, "do you like Prince's covers?" Yeah his cover of "Betcha By Golly Wow" was... uh... yeah. Only other artist who did a great cover was Phyllis Hyman anyways.