Is It Allright To Not Care About Prince?
There was a segment on a news program this morning suggesting that Prince was a spiritual figure, with a "cosmology" all his own.
Please.
I never paid a penny for a Prince album, or bought any of his songs on I Tunes. Never went to a Prince concert.
Heard on tv news this morning , from an "expert" - " I don't think the music business will ever recover from the loss of Prince."
I like six or eight of Prince's songs enough to pay attention when they come on the radio, and I know and understand that he was a phenomenal musician who is considered one of the greatest modern guitarists of all.
I also understand he was extremely popular.
But why is he, or anyone, an "icon" that deserves an extremely reverential and well, overly emotional, sendoff from this mortal coil?
He was an entertainer, a very good one, but that is still all.
There is a mass hypnosis that envelops people in times like this, egged on and promoted by media and social media who are intending to make money off the tragedy. If Donald Trump can juice ratings, so of course can the death of Prince.
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I tend to get more broke up when lesser celebrities die, those who struggled to find a voice in the vast media ocean.
I agree completely. Other artists, musicians and actors have died without anything close to the attention that the 24 hr news channels, and media in general, are giving this. Over the last decade, I've heard the name "Prince" uttered less than many of those others. And what if it turns out that this was just the irresponsible result of a drug addiction? If you are Joe Public and die under those circumstances, you generally aren't given much sympathy.
You have a good point.
"Prince" has not been a household word in recent years, to my knowledge. Now all of the sudden he is being presented as the biggest celebrity in the world. Our media is out of control.
Jeesus Christ!
I'm agreeing with Hal and John on the same article!
Must be something in the air, or I'm in the twilight zone or something. (I even gave them both thumbs up!)
(and hal, I KNOW Jesus had nothing to do with it)
Well they lost me when they started doing the whole Police Chief/Coroner/government speaker/spokesman thing for the slathering media much like Sandy Hook.....
All over the radio yesterday like it was the most important thing to happen in a decade. Two hour programs devoted to an official getting up and telling a slavering media crowd absolutely nothing they didn't already know, (which isn't much) and their questions of which they were already told they wouldn't answer.
WHY is crap like this something all avenues of the media think we want to hear? does anyone really want to see and hear the media/paparazzi being the rabid rats they are as they are collecting around the corpse? the government officials taking the advantage of being in the spotlight for their 20 minutes of fame. (and totally unprepared for it)
This is what happens when we have a "Media Event" news mentality.
Disgusting.
I will mention a couple of musicians who are fairly contemporaneous with Prince as far as time frame of their careers, and I would suggest both of these guys were/are at least as popular as Prince was.
Elton John and Billy Joel.
My guess is that if either of these two guys died suddenly, neither of them would get the wall to wall coverage in the tv and online media that Prince has gotten. They would get attention, sure, but not to the fawning extent that we are seeing today.
I wish I knew how to explain it. The only thing I can think of his Prince's 'eccentricity' and his crazy costumes.
John, it seems that you post an extraordinary number of articles complaining about the interests of others. It's amazing to me that you feel you are worthy enough to sit in judgment on others for caring about disease and mass murder and terrorism and crime. You do your best to embarrass and belittle those who don't share your 'who gives a flying fuck' view. You actually remind me of my father. He is a callously self-centered man who doesn't care about the concerns of others. But his deficiencies are symptoms directly related to Alzheimer's. What's your excuse?
This article is about the media over hyping of Prince's death.
It's amazing to me that you feel you are worthy enough to sit in judgment on others for caring about disease and mass murder and terrorism and crime.
ROFL.
Is It Allright To Not Care About Prince?
Yes. I don't. He was a flash in the pan (albeit a very, very good one) from the early to mid 1980's and people are acting like the Lennon died and his death was worth getting upset over. I guess the 24 hour news cycle has to run something other then politics. I mean I'm sorry he dead, RIP, condolences to friends and family, but he's been cremated and planted so let's get on with everything else.
If you ask Chinese youth about American Pop Star musicians the first name that comes to their mind is Michael Jackson. They've never even heard of Prince.