1) I haven\u2019t heard most of his music, like almost everyone else, though what I’ve heard I’ve liked, like almost everyone else.<\/p>\n
2) He had a lot of talent.<\/p>\n
3) It\u2019s probably in bad taste to release his unreleased music posthumously. He didn’t release that music for a reason- is it because he didn’t want<\/em> it released? Personally, I have always disliked posthumous music releases. They seem exploitive to me.<\/p>\n 4) Why is it that lady killer types seem to always have obvious- and often very public- feminine sides? It\u2019s weird. I\u2019m thinking now of Bowie, Prince, me, the whole \u201cglam rock\u201d scene, the metrosexual models of the early oughts, etc. It\u2019s kinda illogical, isn\u2019t it? Yet, there it is.<\/p>\n 5) I wish that black American musicians had stuck to their roots and not sold out to whites as much as they did. Prince, to me, seemed so much more authentic than the pop musicians that fill the ranks of \u201crap music\u201d who make white music for white peoples\u2019 benefit.<\/p>\n 6) Prince was more talented, overall, than Michael Jackson. Thriller<\/em> was primarily a producers\u2019 album.<\/p>\n 7) Prince had a lot of style. You can tell that he was a master of his craft because was popular, yet unique- he was his own genre. Usually, artists that sell tens of millions of albums have their style copied endlessly by others for profit reasons. Yet, almost nobody copied his- perhaps because others thought they would look bad in comparison.<\/p>\n 8) Hmmm\u2026 something negative. He should have done something to prevent the selling out of Black America. Once whites moved into black neighborhoods and forced crack and \u201cgangsta rap\u201d on them, blacks were finished. Prince, and others, like Jackson, should have stood up and demanded that whites not do this. It is because they didn’t that the black race in the US has been so defeated, humiliated and destroyed.<\/p>\n 9) I need to think of something else that\u2019s negative. Mmmmm\u2026 let me think. I didn’t like his stance on mp3\u2019s.<\/p>\n 10) Last thing- the reason that everyone is upset now is because the pop musicians of today can\u2019t remotely compare to him, talent-wise. They just can\u2019t. If Prince had had a worthy successor- especially a black one- people wouldn’t be so distraught. But, he doesn’t. So of course people are upset. They\u2019re looking at the past now because the future of pop radio looks so barren. We have Taylor, of course, and she\u2019s talented, but she\u2019s no Prince, and the same can be said of every pop star I can think of that has emerged in the past 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1) I haven\u2019t heard most of his music, like almost everyone else, though what I’ve heard I’ve liked, like almost everyone else. 2) He had a lot of talent. 3) It\u2019s probably in bad taste to release his unreleased music posthumously. He didn’t release that music for a reason- is it because he didn’t want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}