PRINCE: PREXIT, the EDIT
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He was clearly exceptionally talented and possessed a vision for his music that bordered on obstinacy: not only had he produced, arranged, performed every instrument and composed all but one song on his 1978 debut album For You, he had also somehow contrived to get a record contract with Warner Brothers that entitled him to complete artistic control, almost unheard of for a new artist.
But he was also a strange, shy, awkward figure, apparently unwilling to play the promotional game. His interviews were almost wilfully unrevealing; an early appearance on that venerable US music TV institution American Bandstand was such a disaster that host Dick Clark later claimed Prince was the most difficult artist he’d ever encountered on the show. How could anyone so apparently unwilling to play the game ever hope to make it?
But the strangeness and reticence that characterised his early interactions with the media were anything but a hindrance: he used them entirely to his advantage, turning himself into a genuinely mythic, unknowable figure in the process. His interviews were spectacularly unforthcoming about anything other than his music. He developed his own shorthand in which all his songs were written – U for you, “eye” instead of I – and at one point, he changed his name to a symbol: for a time, you were either supposed to refer to him as Victor or The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. “I am something that you’ll never understand.”
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He was clearly exceptionally talented and possessed a vision for his music that bordered on obstinacy: not only had he produced, arranged, performed every instrument and composed all but one song on his 1978 debut album For You, he had also somehow contrived to get a record contract with Warner Brothers that entitled him to complete artistic control, almost unheard of for a new artist.
But he was also a strange, shy, awkward figure, apparently unwilling to play the promotional game. His interviews were almost wilfully unrevealing; an early appearance on that venerable US music TV institution American Bandstand was such a disaster that host Dick Clark later claimed Prince was the most difficult artist he’d ever encountered on the show. How could anyone so apparently unwilling to play the game ever hope to make it?
But the strangeness and reticence that characterised his early interactions with the media were anything but a hindrance: he used them entirely to his advantage, turning himself into a genuinely mythic, unknowable figure in the process. His interviews were spectacularly unforthcoming about anything other than his music. He developed his own shorthand in which all his songs were written – U for you, “eye” instead of I – and at one point, he changed his name to a symbol: for a time, you were either supposed to refer to him as Victor or The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. “I am something that you’ll never understand.”
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