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The fact that there's a lady out there named Stephanie who insisted the whole world call her Lady Gaga and we're all just like, "okay." (lemmy.world)

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[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Could've picked something easier to pronounce, though.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 56 points 10 months ago

It was actually brilliant. Got everyone talking about him without really giving up ‘Prince’ in the public consciousness.

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I asked GPT why:

In the early 1990s, Prince was embroiled in a contractual dispute with Warner Bros., his record company. He felt they were restraining his creativity by not allowing him to release albums as frequently as he desired. In 1993, in an act of rebellion, he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, which was a combination of the male and female gender symbols, in order to free himself from his contract obligations to Warner Bros. Since the symbol had no pronunciation, he was often referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" during that period. He returned to using the name Prince in 2000, after his publishing contract with Warner Bros. expired.

[-] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

https://goldiesparade.co.uk/new-power-generation/#:~:text=Prince%20felt%20so%20constrained%20by,the%20contract%20and%20with%20Warner.

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