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Prince Comforts Fans with Free MP3 Download

by Terrence O'Brien on November 12, 2007 at 11:57 AM

Prince Has Schizophrenia, We Think
Prince is schizophrenic. Really that's the only excuse we can think of. First he gave away his album for free, then he sued YouTube, eBay, and Pirate Bay for enabling people to share his music. Then the artist formerly known as "the artist formerly known as Prince" decided to sue his biggest fan sites for using images of his likeness... including those created with needle and ink on fans' skin.

Now Prince has had yet another PR seizure. First he tried to play nice with the people he is currently sending cease and desist letters to by offering up a new song, 'PFunk', to Prince Fans United, an organization formed by Prince fan sites being sued by the purple-obsessed musician. Of course, shortly after that, Prince's PR lackeys released a statement claiming the people behind Prince Fans United were "phony."

This story would be confusing enough if it ended here, but the elven funk deity quickly released another statement saying the previous "phony" statement had been released in error and that he was working with Prince Fans United to release a joint statement. Phew... that's a whole lot of statements.

Here's hoping Prince gets his act together soon... we're running out of snarky ways to refer to him.

From TMZ

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Tags: music, PR, prince, prince fans united, PrinceFansUnited

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