Popcast: Remembering Prince

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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New York Times culture critics discuss Prince’s music and impact.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your purple mountain majesty of music news and criticism.
0:05.8	I'm your host Ben Ratliff. all the things people say
0:15.0	country facey
0:18.0	and my black away and my straight
0:19.2	oh yeah
0:22.0	country Percy Controversy.
0:23.0	Do I believe God.
0:27.0	Do I believe for you.
0:29.0	Controversy. And you're hearing controversy by Prince Rogers Nelson.
0:45.0	One of the songs that neatly summarized who he was and what he was about.
0:52.0	Prince died yesterday at the age of 57. and we're here today
0:52.6	yesterday at the age of 57 and we're here today with several writers from the New York Times
0:57.2	John Caramonica music critic John Pirellis music critic Wesley Morris
1:01.8	critic at large let's talk a little bit about Pirelous Music Critic, Critic at Large.
1:03.4	Let's talk a little bit about our response,
1:06.6	our first feelings, and maybe what we did yesterday.
1:09.6	Yeah, I mean, you know, the news obviously first came via T. M. Z. and I really had a
1:14.6	flashback to Michael Jackson's passing because T. M. Z. had reported that and
1:18.9	was very early on the reports of Michael Jackson's. And especially there were maybe an hour and a half
1:25.4	at that time where other outlets were reporting
1:28.0	that he had not died.
1:29.3	But T.M. Z. was like, no.
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