Comment on 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."

TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • TeaHands@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Could’ve picked something easier to pronounce, though.

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • chepox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He chose an unpronouncable symbol because it allowed him to break his recording contract.

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      • TeaHands@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I seeee! Never heard the finer details of that whole thing (I was young and not super into his stuff anyway). Smart guy though by the sounds of it!

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  • Drunemeton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    goldiesparade.co.uk/new-power-generation/#:~:text….

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  • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The comment is talking about prince.

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      • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I am le stupid

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The unpronounceable symbol :
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  Hollow circle above downward arrow crossed with a curlicued horn-shaped symbol and then a short bar

  (known to fans as the “Love Symbol”)

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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m in awe of the quality of the symbols pic

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    • A_A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      24 x 28 pixels, 320 bytes, from Wikipedia…

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      • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They may have made the classic “let’s batch-optimize all images for the web” or maybe using a CDN provider, both with wrong settings.

        Yeah SVG would make it almost endlessly scalable.

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• someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe you know, did he want to be called “the artist”? And then everyone added “formerly known as Prince”?

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