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(Credits: Far Out \/ Allen Beaulieu)<\/p>\n
Tue 6 January 2026 21:00, UK <\/p>\n
During his time in the spotlight, Prince<\/a> hated a lot of things about the music industry. <\/p>\n He hated a lot of musicians, too, and while one of his biggest selling points was how enigmatic he was, he rarely held back when it came to things he didn\u2019t agree with, even those within his own band or inner circle weren\u2019t immune to his harsh words from time to time, making him one of the most outspoken and standoffish legends to ever walk the stage.<\/p>\n Often, this was because he wanted things a certain way and wouldn\u2019t take no for an answer, and if he was ever faced with pushback for wanting to do something that couldn\u2019t be done, he\u2019d kick up a fuss, and a lot of the time, he also made it clear that he didn\u2019t have time for pleasantries, and if someone wanted his time, they\u2019d be lucky if they gained more than a dismissive wave of the hand or a look of disdain.\u00a0<\/p>\n At least, that was the case with the Flaming Lips, who experienced the wrath of the Purple One first-hand backstage at the Brits in 2006 when they tried to hand him a stack of their CDs. Apparently, his bodyguard found them a little while later, handed the material back, and said, \u201cPrince doesn\u2019t want these.\u201d Instead of earning a nice interaction, they were left with the mantra \u2018never meet your heroes.\u2019<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time someone has experienced a strange interaction with the pop-rock genius. It\u2019s also not the first time he\u2019s dismissed another artist\u2019s music, as we saw when he scathingly discussed how execs are constantly shoving singers like Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats, and \u201cwe don\u2019t like it no matter how many times they play it\u201d. <\/p>\n One of the most telling parts is when it came to Prince\u2019s attitude towards covers \u2013 he absolutely loathed them, and no one knew that more than Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor. According to reports, the pair had a rather heated encounter about Prince\u2019s song \u2018Nothing Compared 2 U\u2019 because he didn\u2019t want her taking it on, a common theme when it came to his material, as he felt that covers were one of the worst things<\/a> another artist could do.<\/p>\n In fact, the only cover he didn\u2019t seem to mind as much was Foo Fighters\u2019 \u2018Darling Nikki\u2019, and even then, he only seemed that way because he already liked and respected the band, and all things considered, it feels like uncovering something rare and special whenever Prince praises something or someone, which is why it feels especially poignant that he once discussed his love for funk legend George Clinton.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to Prince, Clinton\u2019s words meant more than anybody\u2019s, which is why he was especially touched when Clinton told him he liked his music. As he once recalled, \u201cNot long ago I talked to George Clinton, a man who knows and has done so much for funk. George told me how much he liked Around the World in a Day. You know how much more his words mean than those from some mamma-jamma wearing glasses and an alligator shirt behind a typewriter?\u201d<\/p>\n Most people would likely say the same, especially when it comes to being lucky enough to have their heroes praise their work and the weight that holds against nameless and faceless critics sitting behind a screen. But it feels especially charged coming from Prince, who was known to light fires in any given scenario if anyone so much as moved the wrong way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Allen Beaulieu) Tue 6 January 2026 21:00, UK During his time in the spotlight,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,206180,269,7794,16,15],"class_list":["post-679543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-george-clinton","tag-music","tag-prince","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115852935879008941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}