iloveannie said:

TwiliteKid said:

It's called acting.

He's a showman on stage so despite being musician I think it's part of the act. I fucking love this version of the song though. The original just sounds so old and past it when I hear it now. Radiohead, cheer up yer miserable bastards. It could be worse, you could be Coldplay.

iloveannie said:

rdhull said:

umanbing said:

I think Prince's cover of Radiohead's Creep, at the Coachella in 08, was his most emotional performance since performing Purple Rain in the movie and at the American Music Awards live in 85.

Yo've been encased in carbonite since the 80's?

I don't think Prince was very emotional when he was covering that song, just a bit though; he's a showman, and sometimes, he acts...

pepper7 said:

More like he just forgot the words...

He changed the words on purpose to show a different perspective on the song (The point of view in which he sings is changed from Radiohead). At first I was put off-but upon actually listening to Prince's lyrics- he gave it a real interesting twist.

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kewlschool said:

pepper7 said:

More like he just forgot the words...

He changed the words on purpose to show a different perspective on the song (The point of view in which he sings is changed from Radiohead). At first I was put off-but upon actually listening to Prince's lyrics- he gave it a real interesting twist.

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I have to say I really disagree. Whether he deliberatley changed the lyrics or not is sounds clumsy and it doesn't really work for me.

Emo?!!!!!!!

Prince is 53 he doesn't do EMO!! That's for frickin teenagers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pepper7 said:

umanbing said:

pepper7 said:

I have to say I really disagree. Whether he deliberatley changed the lyrics or not is sounds clumsy and it doesn't really work for me.

Emo?!!!!!!!

Prince is 53 he doesn't do EMO!! That's for frickin teenagers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yes he does. I could give you a list of behaviors Prince has done that is very juvenile and teenagerish,

I often wondered if he cried when he wrote the Vikings song; I know I did after I laughed so hard.

why is it so hard to accept he didn't want to sing the same lyrics? anyone has the stupidity to accept radiohead is a better lyricist than prince & the band? No, na? so why the hesitation? guy has his own idea...he liked the song and didn"t want to sing the same lyrics...capice?

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nursev said:

Love it-best cover I ever heard! Listen to it all the time. That song belongs to Prince now.

Of course Prince did a very good cover of that song, but definetely, it belongs to only Radiohead for Ever!

This is their Trademark

When I heard Prince's version I was

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He completely butchered a classic song.

ganesh said:

nursev said:

Love it-best cover I ever heard! Listen to it all the time. That song belongs to Prince now.

Of course Prince did a very good cover of that song, but definetely, it belongs to only Radiohead for Ever!

This is their Trademark

That's why some folks think Radiohead is an overrated band that only makes depressing music...

it was dark but it wasn't as depressing as the radiohead version. he wasn't self depreciating when he did it which i thought was brilliant lol. The guitar solos are the most emotional parts of the performance but i don't really see it as an emo performance all n all.

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Mathiwn3 said:

ganesh said:

Of course Prince did a very good cover of that song, but definetely, it belongs to only Radiohead for Ever!

This is their Trademark

That's why some folks think Radiohead is an overrated band that only makes depressing music...

Well most people who think that only really know them for Creep.

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It's was a bluesman's take on the song...he was trying to turn it into the blues. Changing the words and getting overly emotional for a loose rendition is part of that tradition.

I doubt the song has any meaning to him, or that he understood it...he seems to miss the point of The Pixies infleunced soft verse, guitar break into the chorsu thing... but it probably was a Prince-esque message to someone he knew who used to listen to the song a lot. That, or the same motivation as doing a Foo Fighters song, where in his mind, he's making it his. based on some imagined vendetta.

Wasn't the deal with Youtube that they started to take down EVERY version of Creep, as if Prince owned it, including theirs?

treehouse said:

It's was a bluesman's take on the song...he was trying to turn it into the blues. Changing the words and getting overly emotional for a loose rendition is part of that tradition.

I doubt the song has any meaning to him, or that he understood it...he seems to miss the point of The Pixies infleunced soft verse, guitar break into the chorsu thing... but it probably was a Prince-esque message to someone he knew who used to listen to the song a lot. That, or the same motivation as doing a Foo Fighters song, where in his mind, he's making it his. based on some imagined vendetta.

Wasn't the deal with Youtube that they started to take down EVERY version of Creep, as if Prince owned it, including theirs?

Cee Lo is getting the same wet panty brigade up in arms over his rendition of "Imagine" last night on Times Square.

From Twitter.

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That cover was a trip to the butcher's shop.

By flipping the lyrics' antagonist, Prince robbed the song of its emotional meaning (transforming self-loathing into derision). Screaming and cooing couldn't rescue it. Neither could the solo.

It's a shame someone so resistant to covers of his music can't show respect to the songs he covers.