His Royal Badness, Prince Rogers Nelson has said nary a word on the passing of his musical rival, Michael Jackson.
Not that he's supposed to, but generally two masters in the same arena acknowledge each other in death, if not in life.
The two geniuses were musical opposites in their hey day, pushing each other to new creative heights.
"Thriller" was met by "Purple Rain."
"Bad" was countered with "Sign O the Times."
Prince was the do-it-all musician was Michael was the consummate performer.
You could be in both camps but you couldn't love both of them the same.
That's just how it was.
Now that one is no longer with us, the other's absence is stark.
4 comments:
You know what Craig, I was discussing Weird Al Yankovich's noticable silence the other night with a friend. This man made a career out of parodying Michael, and others, but hasnt said a word to the media. Thats, of course,if anyone has even asked him.
July 10, 2009 at 10:31 AMWow, yer right. Wierd Al def needs to say SOMETHING. He owes his career to the man! Good one. Hey, I notice you don't have openID on yer blog. You need to get that.
July 11, 2009 at 6:22 AMHey Craig - I was looking for your email. I wanted to know what an Open ID was so that I can get it.
July 13, 2009 at 12:32 PMOpen ID lets other people, in your case, people outside Wordpress, comment on your blog.
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