Red Mosquito

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ok, I'm definitely over all the incessant live covers of Prince songs now.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ok, I'm definitely over all the incessant live covers of Prince songs now.

Listen to Prince cover Even Flow. It'll restore all faith.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I would rather Bowie and Prince die than Kanye.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I stand by my statement.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ok, I'm definitely over all the incessant live covers of Prince songs now.

Listen to Prince cover Even Flow. It'll restore all faith.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ok, I'm definitely over all the incessant live covers of Prince songs now.

Listen to Prince cover Even Flow. It'll restore all faith.

You got it backwards. I'm tired of other bands coming out of the woodwork covering Prince songs, not the other way around.

Birds in Hell wrote:It seems crassly opportunistic to me too.

"Listen to Bruce Springsteen's stunning Purple Rain cover!" and so on.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ok, I'm definitely over all the incessant live covers of Prince songs now.

Listen to Prince cover Even Flow. It'll restore all faith.

You got it backwards. I'm tired of other bands coming out of the woodwork covering Prince songs, not the other way around.

No, I totally understood. I was giving you an alternative that would ease your pain, friend. Flipping the scenario and filling your red heart with purple joy!

Hearing Prince cover anyone will make listening to anyone covering Prince easier.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:It seems crassly opportunistic to me too.

"Listen to Bruce Springsteen's stunning Purple Rain cover!" and so on.

Maybe. But I don't think the spirit of what the artist is doing is opportunistic. It's genuine tribute, I think. I hope. Maybe the way the media is "covering" it or posting click bait like what you mentioned above. But I think the artists doing the covers right now are coming from a place of sadness, mourning and community.

William Bloke wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:It seems crassly opportunistic to me too.

"Listen to Bruce Springsteen's stunning Purple Rain cover!" and so on.

Maybe. But I don't think the spirit of what the artist is doing is opportunistic. It's genuine tribute, I think. I hope. Maybe the way the media is "covering" it or posting click bait like what you mentioned above. But I think the artists doing the covers right now are coming from a place of sadness, mourning and community.

And in fairness to Bruce, he often starts with a cover, it's kinda his thing. His throwing Purple Rain out there is almost expected, no?

Concerts are about emotion. Seeing a great like Bruce pay his respects to another great like Prince, I'm cool with that.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ok, I'm definitely over all the incessant live covers of Prince songs now.

Listen to Prince cover Even Flow. It'll restore all faith.

You got it backwards. I'm tired of other bands coming out of the woodwork covering Prince songs, not the other way around.

No, I totally understood. I was giving you an alternative that would ease your pain, friend. Flipping the scenario and filling your red heart with purple joy!

Hearing Prince cover anyone will make listening to anyone covering Prince easier.

oh, i can get behind this. and that even flow cover is >>>>>>>>>>> the original.

durdencommatyler wrote:

William Bloke wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:It seems crassly opportunistic to me too.

"Listen to Bruce Springsteen's stunning Purple Rain cover!" and so on.

Maybe. But I don't think the spirit of what the artist is doing is opportunistic. It's genuine tribute, I think. I hope. Maybe the way the media is "covering" it or posting click bait like what you mentioned above. But I think the artists doing the covers right now are coming from a place of sadness, mourning and community.

And in fairness to Bruce, he often starts with a cover, it's kinda his thing. His throwing Purple Rain out there is almost expected, no?

Concerts are about emotion. Seeing a great like Bruce pay his respects to another great like Prince, I'm cool with that.

Exactly. I really love seeing great artists respect other great artists in that way. Especially someone you know had a real impact on their life.

McParadigm wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

William Bloke wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:It seems crassly opportunistic to me too.

"Listen to Bruce Springsteen's stunning Purple Rain cover!" and so on.

Maybe. But I don't think the spirit of what the artist is doing is opportunistic. It's genuine tribute, I think. I hope. Maybe the way the media is "covering" it or posting click bait like what you mentioned above. But I think the artists doing the covers right now are coming from a place of sadness, mourning and community.

And in fairness to Bruce, he often starts with a cover, it's kinda his thing. His throwing Purple Rain out there is almost expected, no?

Concerts are about emotion. Seeing a great like Bruce pay his respects to another great like Prince, I'm cool with that.

Exactly. I really love seeing great artists respect other great artists in that way. Especially someone you know had a real impact on their life.

Exactly. It's nice to see people respond publicly. People who know him from the ways he looked, and the different ways he looked, and different things he said. there are a lot of things to remember him by.

Chris_H_2 wrote:i don't need to see/hear chris martin perform raspberry beret with a bunch of 8th graders. it serves no one but him.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:i don't need to see/hear chris martin perform raspberry beret with a bunch of 8th graders. it serves no one but him.

I thought Coldplay broke up.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:i don't need to see/hear chris martin perform raspberry beret with a bunch of 8th graders. it serves no one but him.

I thought Coldplay broke up.

He just said Chris Martin, not the whole band.