I scanned through the W magazine article with Britney and it said something about her doing "sinead o'connors" song ( *smirk...whatever I bet britney doesn't even know who wrote the song)
"Nothing compares to you"
Please tell me this isn't true

tell me it's a joke. Please...?

I dont know, I didn't have time to read the whole article, but I do know I saw the song title in one of the paragraphs
maybe someone can find it
[This message was edited Sun Jul 13 9:34:08 PDT 2003 by CRYSTALBALL]

Hang on, we are nowhere NEAR April 1st. Is this some kind of SICK JOKE!?

If she does, I'll assassinate her in the name of upholding good taste


TheLodger

Shameful!!!

Prince really doesn't like her as an artist, so i doubt he'll give her permission.. but then again..

(johnny bravo voice) n o o o o o o o o o!!!

brownie20 said:

As Prince so laments you do not need permission to cover a song you just have to pay the artist money.

But then again Prince has remade plenty of songs in recent years and in some occasions (Machine Gun) did not give credit or pay money. This is one issue where prince is a bit of a hypocrite. It's okay for him to cover but not for other artists.

lovemachine said:

when did PRince remake Machine Gun?

lovemachine said:

He gave the mastertape of the MachineGun cover to the
Hendrix family.

lovemachine said:

but he has also been stated as saying he has turned down many proposals to cover his songs as well..so i guess it just depends on his mood that day

brownie20 said:

But what I am saying is that if the artist wanted to they could legally remake any Prince song they wanted to with or without his permission. Some artists show respect and ask his permission but they are not required to.

LadyCabDriver said:

It was a download from year 1 of the NPGMC. Prince called it "Habibi", but it was clearly derived from Machine Gun.

IstenSzek said:

I thought Prince covered "Purple House" (Red House) for that project.

lovemachine said:

No, the MachineGun song was originally covered by Prince
back in 1999 and that's when he donated the mastertape to
the Hendrix family to do with as they saw fit and whenever
they chose to release it.

I think that "Habibi" was just a remake, based on the same
song. Knowing Prince he probably figured since he'd donated
that mastertape, there'd be no harm in covering his own
cover of a song. Something like that.

CRYSTALBALL said:

I don't own any of her albums but I've noticed that she does one cover every album but usually they are clasic rock songs like "The Beat Goes On", "Satisifaction" and "I Love Rock and Roll" (as done by Pat Benatar, apparently!) and this seems like not only an odd choice but it just won't work at all. Why not cover anything else (even a different Prince song)? This is not up your alley at all. Leave it alone, please! Hey, maybe she is covering that song "Lay Your Hands On Me". That might not sound so bad (Compared to her cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U")

VinnyM27 said:

Better yet, let her cover "Troy". Let's see her moan and
groan her way out of that one.




"YOOOUUU SHOULDA LEFT THE LIGHT ON"

IstenSzek said:

Y'all, I'm covering "Troy"! Yeah, it was a great song!

wasn't there another cover song she did, and in an interview she gave the wrong artist's name? i can't remember exactly but i think it was "i love rock n'roll" and she stated pat benatar as the singer...hmmm...

did Prince ask Bonnie Raitt or Sheryl Crow for permission before he slaughtered their songs?

AaronSuperior said:

CRYSTALBALL said:

AaronSuperior said:

OKAAAYYY!!!

i've often wondered the same thing. remember when he went on the tangent about peeps covering music (about 2 years ago). there was a big ole article up in the old website talking about how it is offensive to re-record material, even if it is done as an homage. my question was always "well, what's your excuse for the emancipation album, p?"...(another) hmmm...

AaronSuperior said:

Great point!

she sang nothing compares 2 u at some talent show when she was nine. here's the link to the article if you want to read it. http://www.style.com/w/fe..._page.html

I don't know if this is true or not, but I bet that if this ever got back to him, St. Paul would laugh his ass off


Anyway, if she really likes that song and wants to sing it, more power to her

CRYSTALBALL said:

what do you expect? Not many people her age know who wrote that song. But she actually is quite a Prince fan though; there was some special on MTV about her everyday life that my niece was wtaching, and while she was exercising "dirty mind" was playing in the background, so...

And while I really do wish she'd stop making music altoghether, she can actually carry a tune

well, i tried...really tried to read this interview...but she is just so damn boring! i'm sure she is a great person, a wizard of math and all that shit, but...who cares?

IstenSzek said:

I can't even imagine how truly awful this would be