Thinking of Prince today and always.
." Here, we see The Artist grappling with his record label and the new frontier of online music in an illuminating profile by Beth Coleman.
"My father gave me the name Prince," says the 41-year-old Artist of his famous moniker and the need to abandon it in order to reappear. He says that when people started using his birth name to refer to a media-made persona, it lost its personal resonance. The Artist pulled away from that alter ego—the Prince he used to be—to save himself."I'm telling you, the pimples go away, all the stress in your system leaves," he says."They weren't talking to me anymore.
But now the days of big-label milk and honey are over , and, millions of dollars later, the man formerly known as Prince explains that the whole trip was a shiny gold trap."Apollonia"—the goddess with the long hair and light skin who starred opposite him in Purple Rain—"and I slept under a hotel table waiting for the reviews of Purple Rain [the album]. We were so excited we couldn't sleep," he recalls.
What the Artist goes on to say is that wanting a monopoly on his lady had become the marital version of owning someone else's masters. From what he says, and from what others say, theirs has been an intensely romantic relationship, a kind of you-and-me-against-the- world vibe. But both felt it was starting to get weird."We were drawing energy from strange people around us. Strange words and numbers, bad contracts. We had to step away from that," he explains.
The Artist says that when he was in fifth grade, he was being bused to school in a rich, white Minneapolis suburb. He says that he used to hide his socks so he wouldn't have to get on the school bus."My mother said, 'You're going to get to that school and find some socks.' She couldn't have them calling me a nigger with no socks on." I ask him how much he thinks race plays into what's gone down with the label, with his life.
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