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>> "Tensions between artist and label first came to a boil in early 1994, when he decided to drop the name Prince and asked that people start identifying him by
by k-mcgrady 11y ago
>> "Tensions between artist and label first came to a boil in early 1994, when he decided to drop the name Prince and asked that people start identifying him by an unpronounceable symbol--thus disassociating himself, in a most burdensome way, from the guy who recorded some of the most popular and acclaimed albums of the '80s."
I might be wrong but my understanding is that it was a way to get around his contract with his record label (not to disassociate himself from past material).
- sangnoir 11y ago> I might be wrong but my understanding is that it was a way to get around his contract with his record label My understanding is that it was a hack to make life difficult for the label while fulfilling the letter of the contract in order to prod them to release from the contract. I think marketing his music became a headache for the label, and DJs ended up calling him "the artiste formerly known as Prince"