>>130071148
Prince offered his recorded music and his concerts
His home is now open to the public
He wasn't ever interested in "branding"
Even if he was alive he would be failing because his body was literally destroyed (hips,knees) and he refused to evolve to the next level of entrepreneurship that music celebrity now demands
Prince only saw himself as a songwriter/performer
So take what you can get from what he left behind. His gift was leaving so much behind.

Music in general does not offer the same allure that it did 40 years ago either. Compared to screens and vidya.
Prince, Beatles, MJ, its just all a small distraction at this point to input consumers

He died and his music was only losing relevancy as time went on. Guitar virtuoso should have been a shredder than a popstar

alternative type music (grunge, numetal, post punk, post hardcore etc) is what caught on mostly with zoomies, no place for pop soul rock like Prince

>>130071148
The aggressive sexuality of his music scares ascetic zoomies

im a zoomer, and i enjoy a lot of his stuff. i dont listen to him as much though as when i was in my teens

>>130073185
Didn't he literally have a song called Cum

>>130071148
not a zoomer but I always felt like Prince's music felt very dated compared to his contemporaries

>>130073284
He chose a lot of odd recording and instrumental making choices. It sounds best on cassette imo

>>130073039
why did you type up all this bullshit when there's an entire genre of viral youtube videos about Prince giving music business advice?

>>130071148
Prince's sound is very dated. These archaic sounds do not appeal to Zoomers who have grown up in an entirely digital world.

His inflated ego mixed with social retardation made him hated by most people, besides his fans and people trying to "make it" in the music industry. Sure, big time artists will publicly say they love him, but talk to any hired-hand that worked with him and you'll get a wildly different story. He was a dick to everyone he perceived lower than himself. We live in a world where kids will try to end the careers of artists over the most minimal problematic behavior. Prince was a junkie who beat his girlfriends (there's a 9 hour documentary about it that Netflix funded, but the Prince estate is fighting for it to never see the light of day). If that ever was released, zoomers would HATE him.

Though I can see the gender-bending eye catching for them. Still, he was a bit of a Luddite when it came to the internet, he refused to follow the changing music scene and it left him in the dust. Sure, a lot of his music is available now, but the time those needed to be heard to secure a new generation of fans has long since passed.

>>130073284
I think his 80s stuff is unique enough but for whatever reason, he opted to go in a more conventional R&B direction in the 90s. It's a good sound for him but not as otherworldly as his 80s material.
>>130073758
John Lennon still has fangirls and Kanye West is being half rehabilitated after going Hitler mode and confessing to raping his cousin. Unless that documentary was literally as you described, 9 hours of Prince pistol whipping his women like Big Pun, the music was good enough to get past Prince being a cunt?

I agree with a lot of what you said though in terms of Prince being autistic in his approach to the internet. He was both at war with a label and the bootleg scene that was coming out of Paisley Park. His music wasn't readily available for years outside of actually buying his CDs.

I'd like to add one thing: Jimi Hendrix is an artist who suffered a similar fate. Not only was his estate late to streaming, but they wouldn't even let the people making his biopic use his music in the film.

>>130071148
He’s just not very good

>>130074821
His live performances were much better than studio recordings. Most of his records sound flat with no real eq whatsoever. Live sound mixing was better and his improvised guitar solos were nuts

>>130071148
he has 21.4 million monthly Spotify.
I know that doesn't separate by generation
But still it's actual data, unlike what you supplied.

I wish people would research at least a bit before they make their unsubstantiated claims about some artist's popularity.

>>130074875
>m-maybe you listened to the wrong recording
Are you dumb? Prince is mid, save your copes for when you yourself listen to him, people already made up their minds about him, hes like beck, mid and forgettable orchestra man.

>>130074987
I didn't say you listened to the wrong anything, shit for brains. I said his live performances were better. Coping? About what? The man is dead and he still makes in 21 mill on Spotify. You sound dumb as fuck dude

>>130074886
>>130075003
OP is talking about zoomers nigga. Go ahead and try to say with a straight face that 21 milly isn't boomers and xers