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Good. This is very off topic stuff.

by voidz 10y ago

Shengbo 10y ago
There's usually a bunch of off topic stuff on the front page at any given moment.
wmccullough 10y ago
What the hell is the matter with you?
bryanrasmussen 10y ago
An extremely popular and innovative musician, media presence, and successful businessman whose success can be said to be boundary breaking in lots of ways and whose views on technology as it relates to the musical business has often been contentious, has died. And it's off-topic for hacker news because?
- dave2000 10y ago
  Because prince has done nothing in the last 25 years; his best stuff is closer to the moon landings than to today, and because when people look back at the '80s they're not going to longer too long on his music. Best description I ever read was "probably a reincarnation of one of Jimi Hendrix's pubic hairs".
  - Terretta 10y ago
    You are uninformed. Look up Musicology on Wikipedia. My company at the time supported Prince's webmaster in innovating an astonishingly ambitious online fan club UX, giving he and fans a direct dialog, that sold tickets through his own web site (not ticket master) for a package of interaction with him, digital downloads, intimate concert venues, and physical album, so innovative his approach garnered a lifetime "Webby" award in 2006. Here's press from the beginning of NPG Music Club: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-becomes-online-retailer-selling-his-songs-from-his-site.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-...
    - dave2000 10y ago
      Yeah, I know about that but I'm not interested in businessmen unless they also make interesting music, and Prince only released a couple of songs I didn't dislike. Also, he wasn't the first to do what you describe, and had a confused attitude to the internet, including the whole radiohead thing which revealed him to be something of an idiot.
      - Terretta 10y ago
        http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480830/prince-obituary-life-work-musical-genius http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480830/prince-obituary-l... http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/prince-death-music-streaming-internet/ http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/prince-death-music-streaming... He published his first interactive CD-ROM in '94, so built electronic user experiences pretty early.
  - bryanrasmussen 10y ago
    You betray your preferences with the second paragraph. I haven't really followed him in the last 25 years but I have to assume, just on things I've read from people who are more musically accomplished than I am, that his best stuff might be more recent than that. Also I've seen videos in the last day that are also highly convincing to me that he has done some good stuff more recently. Finally I did not focus exclusively on his music in my comment as I think there is probably a lot of worth about Prince - as a businessman and as an innovator (production techniques etc.) - that might be good to have the hacker news community analyze.
    - bryanrasmussen 10y ago
      case in point about stuff he did that had nothing to do with music that might be really relevant to Hacker News https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/ https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/ but some reason not front page material.
      - Terretta 10y ago
        NYT material though: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music-technology-distribution.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music...

Good. This is very off topic stuff.

by voidz 10y ago

Good. This is very off topic stuff.

Shengbo 10y ago

There's usually a bunch of off topic stuff on the front page at any given moment.

wmccullough 10y ago

What the hell is the matter with you?

bryanrasmussen 10y ago

An extremely popular and innovative musician, media presence, and successful businessman whose success can be said to be boundary breaking in lots of ways and whose views on technology as it relates to the musical business has often been contentious, has died. And it's off-topic for hacker news because?

dave2000 10y ago
Because prince has done nothing in the last 25 years; his best stuff is closer to the moon landings than to today, and because when people look back at the '80s they're not going to longer too long on his music. Best description I ever read was "probably a reincarnation of one of Jimi Hendrix's pubic hairs".
- Terretta 10y ago
  You are uninformed. Look up Musicology on Wikipedia. My company at the time supported Prince's webmaster in innovating an astonishingly ambitious online fan club UX, giving he and fans a direct dialog, that sold tickets through his own web site (not ticket master) for a package of interaction with him, digital downloads, intimate concert venues, and physical album, so innovative his approach garnered a lifetime "Webby" award in 2006. Here's press from the beginning of NPG Music Club: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-becomes-online-retailer-selling-his-songs-from-his-site.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-...
  - dave2000 10y ago
    Yeah, I know about that but I'm not interested in businessmen unless they also make interesting music, and Prince only released a couple of songs I didn't dislike. Also, he wasn't the first to do what you describe, and had a confused attitude to the internet, including the whole radiohead thing which revealed him to be something of an idiot.
    - Terretta 10y ago
      http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480830/prince-obituary-life-work-musical-genius http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480830/prince-obituary-l... http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/prince-death-music-streaming-internet/ http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/prince-death-music-streaming... He published his first interactive CD-ROM in '94, so built electronic user experiences pretty early.
- bryanrasmussen 10y ago
  You betray your preferences with the second paragraph. I haven't really followed him in the last 25 years but I have to assume, just on things I've read from people who are more musically accomplished than I am, that his best stuff might be more recent than that. Also I've seen videos in the last day that are also highly convincing to me that he has done some good stuff more recently. Finally I did not focus exclusively on his music in my comment as I think there is probably a lot of worth about Prince - as a businessman and as an innovator (production techniques etc.) - that might be good to have the hacker news community analyze.
  - bryanrasmussen 10y ago
    case in point about stuff he did that had nothing to do with music that might be really relevant to Hacker News https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/ https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/ but some reason not front page material.
    - Terretta 10y ago
      NYT material though: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music-technology-distribution.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music...