Here are 11 of Prince's spiciest takes on contemporary pop culture included in his new book
“We need to tell them that they keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don’t like it no matter how many times they play it.” Photo: Michael Tran/FilmMagic/Getty Images We’d regard Prince as an authority on just about anything. During his life, the performer epitomized taste: enjoying the music of Miles Davis and Chaka Khan, performing in elegant gender-bending outfits, and winning an Oscar for his original Happy Feet song , along with his own iconic film career.
Maybe you’ve already heard Prince was not a fan of Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran. Talking to Piepenbring about the state of the recording industry, he said, “Monkeys and primates could sell music. With Clear Channel [a radio-and-media conglomerate, since rebranded as iHeartMedia], it becomes like Soylent Green — people feeding people to people. We need to tell them that they keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don’t like it no matter how many times they play it.
“It’s funny to turn on the TV and in America you just see white people playing the heroes. People who look like the creators of the show,” Prince continued. “That affects your self-image when you’re black and watching white heroes.” If only he could’ve seen Black Panther.A partial list of musicians Prince would classify as “alpha”: himself, Lenny Kravitz, Michael Jackson, and Beyoncé, whom he thinks we all need to appreciate more.
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