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Prince literally wanted us to call him a symbol with no explanation.
It took me years until I finally learned why he did that. It had something to do with the music industry owning his name. He reclaimed ownership of all his music and art and made a departure from the extortionate music industry.
Could've picked something easier to pronounce, though.
It was actually brilliant. Got everyone talking about him without really giving up ‘Prince’ in the public consciousness.
Never thought of it that way but yeah. Gave up his name without actually giving it up. Brilliant. That guy was savy as fuck. Also a genius.
I asked GPT why:
https://goldiesparade.co.uk/new-power-generation/#:~:text=Prince%20felt%20so%20constrained%20by,the%20contract%20and%20with%20Warner.
The comment is talking about prince.
I am le stupid
The unpronounceable symbol :
Hollow circle above downward arrow crossed with a curlicued horn-shaped symbol and then a short bar
(known to fans as the "Love Symbol")
I'm in awe of the outstanding quality of the symbols pic
24 x 28 pixels, 320 bytes, from Wikipedia...
Prince_logo.svg.webp
... if it really was SVG format it would be much greater quality.
They may have made the classic "let's batch-optimize all images for the web" or maybe using a CDN provider, either with wrong settings.
Yeah SVG would make it almost endlessly scalable.
Yes ... and I did not find the original SVG but I found this 800 pixels :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Prince_logo.svg/800px-Prince_logo.svg.png
From this :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)
Nice - i also found lots of prince wikis, but not the svg
I know now what to hear tonight, perfect
Maybe you know, did he want to be called "the artist"? And then everyone added "formerly known as Prince"?