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They probably don't remember Prince because of that time he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. I wonder why he did that...

Has anyone heard of Prince? Just saying.

Exactly.

Blinks while thinking of blues artists, soul artists, early rock artists who did this in the 50s/60s/70s…maybe someone writing this should study music history

You've embarrassed yourselves personally, npr, and journalism as a discipline.

Yall are ridiculous.

it seems so!

typical of NPR to erase the efforts of black artists. "give us money" so you'll do more shitty repoting like this? no thanks.

Purple Rain was kinda a biopic, and musical.

To be fair there were definitely MANY articles written about it back in the day when Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol (for seven years and, like, a dozen studio albums) and started performing with the word slave written on his face. That did not go unnoticed.

Paul McCartney would like a word

Really?

Go Taylor, but geez she is not the pioneer in this fight, as seen in the comments. Do young journalists learn how to research anymore? Then this crap gets published, AI farms it, and the cycle of ignorance intensifies.

"Taylor Swift turned..." yeah, sure, buddy

Yeah, you needed to do a little more research on this one.

Apparently Prince never happened

Omg turn 14

@npr.org Ask Aimee. www.stereogum.com/2021942/aime...

Where are the editors? There was life on earth before the writer graduated high school. I don’t care if the author of this piece is young. Maybe research a tiny bit before you write an article. Taylor Swift isn’t some pioneer for artist autonomy. Far from it! Start with Sinatra and Ray Charles.

is she actually? citation needed

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I’m-a let you finish, but seriously… Have you never heard of Prince? MC Hammer? Prince freaking changed his name to a symbol to protest not owning his masters. And no disrespect to Taylor Swift’s generic music, but Prince’s music was actually unique and brilliant. Do better, NPR.

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Nice that she now well established can bye them back. Those who are breaking out of looking for the next album may not be so fortunate.

I have to assume at this point that journalism majors just pay a fee and get handed a post-it note written in crayon that says they’re a journalist now rather than actually learning anything.

NPR you are staffed by idiot children. Do you not have any editors they can tell your supposed journalist to do even the smallest of homework or research, maybe about a man named Ray Charles?!?

George Michael (from 1993) would like a word. www.upi.com/Archives/199...

They’re beating your ass in the quotes. I dunno if you saw

Taylor Swift invented warm water...

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I remember when @npr knew what it was doing. Those days are long gone

She's not wrong for wanting to have her masters, but at some point there was a contract signed that specified who gets what, and she signed it, likely with a lawyer nearby. That said, it IS shitty that record companies hold artists hostage like that. It's a shit business. Source: I lived it.

This is so ignorant of context and history and musical knowledge. And so typical of gen z/gen alpha to lack all of that despite having easier access to it than any other generation ever. Sigh.

The writer is GenZ... So yeah... this tracks. That cohort really believes that history started the moment they started paying attention...

(taps fingers, checks watch) when does your money run out again

Really? I thought that was John Fogerty.

Standard whitewash from the white liberal trash rag

Ffs, read a book.

Finally TS forged a fissure in the stone hard wall of corporate control and she did it by being hyper successful. A lesson for us all.