I wonder if the author Adam Tod Brown is here on the org.

Good to see Prince get so much respect and recognition on Cracked. They write about him quite often.

http://www.cracked.com/bl...ampaign=NV

Some of the comments in the comments section on Facebook are pretty harsh though...someone says how come that some people have never heard of him. I think in hindsight, Prince should have been a bit more mellow with his anti Youtube stance. I know many teenagers who listen to the Beatles, Nirvana, Hendrix, The Ramones....yet they can´t name more than two Prince songs.

Great article.

I'm wondering, who on here actually has one of the floppy discs that was sent to journalists so they could use his symbol/name in print?

KoolEaze said:

Some of the comments in the comments section on Facebook are pretty harsh though...someone says how come that some people have never heard of him. I think in hindsight, Prince should have been a bit more mellow with his anti Youtube stance. I know many teenagers who listen to the Beatles, Nirvana, Hendrix, The Ramones....yet they can´t name more than two Prince songs.

Well plenty of Prince's music was on Youtube and was avalible to buy even on platform sites. He was only off of the major ones for a year and half. Pleny of people brought his music last year after he died and now the music is on all the platforms.

If you do not know his music now you really do not want to know it. In addtion, if you like a lot of those rock acts you named it is unlikely you will like Prince's music. It is not all rock and we still live in a segregated musical landscape.

Pleny of people never heard of the following bands many black people know.

Isley brothers, Commodores, Bar-Kays, Zapp, and Parliment/Funkedelic. It does not mean anything to me if they cannot name two songs by any of these bands.

KoolEaze said:

To be honest, I never understood why Bowie's death had more of an impact than Prince's. A year later, and I see TONS of kids wearing Bowie shirts, listening to his music, and yet he is a much older artist than Prince I thought it would be the other way around. Prince seemed liked he attracted a more diverse and multi generational crowd. And Prince also has received a lot of cred from hip hop/r&b artists not just from back in the day but today as well. Like I know the streaming thing is a big part of it, but most of the people I know weren't streaming Bowie, they were going out and buying Ziggy Stardust and Blackstar, like how they bought Purple Rain . No disrespect to Bowie..but honestly what gives?

khill95 said: