09-02-2013, 01:33 PM
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http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/03/18/prince-sxsw/
http://petapixel.com/2013/08/24/prin...heir-concerts/
http://www.spin.com/articles/prince-...cked-out-show/
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2. He Doesn?t Want You to Take His Picture
Prince was famously quoted last year declaring that ?the Internet is dead,? which reflects not just a disconnect from common reality, but an admission that Prince does not need to experience reality the way that the rest of us do. Declaring the Internet ?dead? did little to hurt his bottom line (no one is certain what he was paid for his SXSW experience, but speculation puts it in the neighborhood of a cool million), and Prince doesn?t need to use a computer. If Prince wants to know something, he can just pay somebody to hang around him ready to google that shit for him at a moment?s notice. His disconnect from the reality of life for us commoners extends to cell phone usage, too. Despite performing at a show sponsored by a company that paid him to promote its new phones (the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy Camera) Prince banned the usage of cell phones during his set, to make sure that no one took his photo. The result was a crowd who kept their phones dark and in their pockets.
As anyone who?s been to a show since the dawn of the smartphone era can tell you, that never happens. Every show is full of people with iPhones, iPads, totally awesome Samsung products, sometimes even whole fucking laptops ? taking photos, tweeting, texting their friends about what an awesome time they?re having when they?re looking away from their phones, etc. But not at Prince?s show. At Prince?s show, you?re on his clock. Yeah, some people risked ejection to snag the occasional Instagram shot, or even managed to sneak a YouTube-ready video clip, but for the vast majority of the audience, this was a real thing happening live before them, to be experienced in real time and shared only when it was finished, and only then from memory. It may have been the most fully-engaged and present a SXSW audience was all week ? all because of his aversion to cameras, the Internet, and this modern age. Which he is apparently very successful at enforcing, so who exactly is it that?s out of touch with reality?
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