Please take advantage, Estate!

Howard Stern has over 2.5 million subscribers. This particular video has been viewed by almost 600,000 people in 1 day.

Howard even starts the interview with Batdance.

The Estate should REALLY be taking advantage of this ABSOLUTELY FREE publicity.

Collab with Howard Stern. Collab with the Harris/Waltz campaign. Place ads (at the very least digitally) with some of these entities that seem to love Prince dearly. The Tonight Show. The Howard Stern Show. The View. The Sherri Sheppard Show. The Jennifer Hudson Show. Market more so you can make more money, so you can release more music, so you can make even more money, then over and over again!

Here's the entire video - https://youtu.be/pNbwMrBM...OJ4rKuTuMb

2.5 million? Is Howie still doing that thing where he acts like everyone who owns Sirius-XM (usually included as a stock feature in new vehicles) is subscribed specifically to/because of him?

I was literally one of the biggest Stern Show fans of the 90s and 00s but he's so irrelevant to contemporary culture this post almost seems like a joke.

If this was 1997 you'd have a point.

WhisperingDandelions said:

2.5 million? Is Howie still doing that thing where he acts like everyone who owns Sirius-XM (usually included as a stock feature in new vehicles) is subscribed specifically to/because of him?

I was literally one of the biggest Stern Show fans of the 90s and 00s but he's so irrelevant to contemporary culture this post almost seems like a joke.

If this was 1997 you'd have a point.

Yeah he's not so relevant with the youth of today but either way, it's still cool that Kamala always talks about Prince.

Well, the YouTube video of the interview has had 800k viewers in a day, so that's getting quite a lot of reach.

Howard Stern would have been one of the EASIEST person to "cancel" for all that he said and did in the past, and he knows it. That is why he did a complete turnabout and became lamer than Don Imus whom he used to mock. He tries waaay to hard to capitulate to the mob for fear they will come after him if he doesn't. This was cringe.

Howard Stern of 1994 would rather die than become Howard Stern of 2024, and everyone who followed him back then knows this is true.

Just sayin'...

You guys have made some thought-provoking points about Howard, but having said that, 2 days with almost 900,000 views is still a lot of eyeballs that the Estate could be marketing new music to, whether Howard is relevant or not.

What if instead of Batdance (or after), the Estate would have premiered some fresh NEW exclusive-to-Howard Prince track? VP Kamala would have certainly been down to play the track! She has gushed too many times about being a Prince fan to not want to hear it.

pdiddy2011 said:

You guys have made some thought-provoking points about Howard, but having said that, 2 days with almost 900,000 views is still a lot of eyeballs that the Estate could be marketing new music to, whether Howard is relevant or not.

What if instead of Batdance (or after), the Estate would have premiered some fresh NEW exclusive-to-Howard Prince track? VP Kamala would have certainly been down to play the track! She has gushed too many times about being a Prince fan to not want to hear it.

I bet she's never heard a single Vault track from the SDE's much less an actual (still) unreleased track. If anything, she's all about the hits. Every song she likes is probably on Very Best Of Prince.

djThunderfunk said:

I bet she's never heard a single Vault track from the SDE's much less an actual (still) unreleased track. If anything, she's all about the hits. Every song she likes is probably on Very Best Of Prince.

Yeah. I bet Trump could sing every word to Supercute or some shit by heart.

Rather, it's probably best to chill on pinning Prince onto politicians when his views could only be described as naive and facile at best, and typically more apolitical than political. And I do plan on voting for Harris.

I'm sure the estate will capitalize on this the way we all want them to - new $200 jackets with a Prince symbol cheaply embroidered on back

lustmealways said:

djThunderfunk said:

I bet she's never heard a single Vault track from the SDE's much less an actual (still) unreleased track. If anything, she's all about the hits. Every song she likes is probably on Very Best Of Prince.

Yeah. I bet Trump could sing every word to Supercute or some shit by heart.

Rather, it's probably best to chill on pinning Prince onto politicians when his views could only be described as naive and facile at best, and typically more apolitical than political. And I do plan on voting for Harris.

For the record, I think it would be a bad idea for the estate to embrace ANY candidate. I think it was Michael Jordan that said something about Democrats & Republicans both buy shoes when explaining why he wouldn't be partisan. The smartest play is to embrace neither because either way you risk alienating half your customers.

So, in the end we're in agreement as to how they should handle this one.

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I don't believe the Estate would be tying itself to a party by embracing an incredibly popular, but unabashed fan - even if that fan is a political figure.

Even if Prince was somehow tied to Harris, I don't believe most people take artists politics very seriously at all when purchasing the music they like. I would be willing to bet real money that every single person that has purchased music ever has in their music collection some music from artists they disagree on many political issues with and/or how they live their life in general. The music way more often than not overules artists' views.

This is about marketing the music, not the candidate. In this case, it just so happens that the candidate is a big fan and gets millions of views in a hurry.

And about what Michael Jordan said... that statement can be as much about someone not wanting to speak up as it is about who buys the shoes. (Michael Jordan appeared very reluctant to speak on social issues in general.) Or might have been just Nike marketers' position on the best way to sell their product (try to be as neutral as possible), not MJ's actual position.

IMHO, I think the Estate is missing out on a ton of free marketing/cross-promotion.

Even if it is bed sheets and guitar pics.

pdiddy2011 said:

I don't believe the Estate would be tying itself to a party by embracing an incredibly popular, but unabashed fan - even if that fan is a political figure.

Even if Prince was somehow tied to Harris, I don't believe most people take artists politics very seriously at all when purchasing the music they like. I would be willing to bet real money that every single person that has purchased music ever has in their music collection some music from artists they disagree on many political issues with and/or how they live their life in general. The music way more often than not overules artists' views.

This is about marketing the music, not the candidate. In this case, it just so happens that the candidate is a big fan and gets millions of views in a hurry.

And about what Michael Jordan said... that statement can be as much about someone not wanting to speak up as it is about who buys the shoes. (Michael Jordan appeared very reluctant to speak on social issues in general.) Or might have been just Nike marketers' position on the best way to sell their product (try to be as neutral as possible), not MJ's actual position.

IMHO, I think the Estate is missing out on a ton of free marketing/cross-promotion.

Even if it is bed sheets and guitar pics.

Well, of course it's about being neutral and not about the personal politics. If it was about personal politics I would make that my argument as Prince was not known to endorse candidates.

I am among those who separate the art from the artist and would not stop liking music because of the artists political beliefs, but enough people don't see it that way to make it wise not to tie politics to a product.

Kid Rock is an artist that used to have fans across the political spectrum but obviously has lost a great many of them along the way for endorsing a specific candidate that they did not like. It happens.