Amanda Fucking Palmer

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She also cashes $35k any time she nominates a 'thing' she does on Patreon.

Could be picking up a ukulele.. could be taking a shit whilst flashing her armpit hair..



At least she's abandoned her awful disability stereotyping thing which upset a lot of people including disabled feminists - a group of people she openly laughs at..



http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/02/09 ... m-ableism/

http://hoydenabouttown.com/2010/03/02/n ... da-palmer/

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Another new song.

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This is from a Bowie tribute concert in NY a couple of days ago. AFP, Jherek Bischoff, Anna Calvi and the Kronos Quartet.

Lots more from the same concert on YouTube if you are interested in more Bowie.

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She is doing a Prom! Yes, Prom as in The Proms at the Albert Hall, the “David Bowie Prom”, on July 29. Doing the whole of her recent EP of Bowie featuring the a string quartet Quartet. Makes a lot of sense as the EP on its own is quite a retrospective of his work, from Space Oddity to Blackstar. But presumably there will be more to fill out the whole concert.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e63p6q

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Time for some folk music. She’s made an album with her dad, here is the the first track off it. Great song, great video.

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Not the first time she‘s done Purple Rain – she did a concert inspired by the song and album in 2012 – but this is an entirely new version of it, another classical music tinged cover with Jherek Bischoff like the Bowie covers EP Strung Out in Heaven. And just as good IMHO.

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Live NOW on FB

https://www.facebook.com/neilgaiman/vid ... =2&theater

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Not the first time she‘s done Purple Rain – she did a concert inspired by.....

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I forgot to mention, proceeds from the sale of it go to a charity, the Elevate Hope Foundation, founded by Sheila E. You can buy the track/make your donation here:

https://amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/track/purple-rain

Not that it matters. Still amazes me, we have threads here supporting artists, performers, creators of all sorts, from the poor to the very rich, but only AFP gets criticised, for just doing her job. We don’t bemoan other people making a living off what they are good at, so why her?

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I really like Prince and Prince (insane as he was) actually wanted a law brought in to stop people covering his songs.

It just seems like really poor taste to elevate your profile by covering the recently dead's songs despite him being emphatically clear that it's something he didn't care for.

David Bowie would probably be more at ease with what she did with his work while his corpse was barely cold but can't she just spend the money she's getting from Patreon making new things? Both of the people she's grave robbing here had little trouble coming up with material and wrote some big hits not only for themselves but others too.

She's been hugely inventive in getting to a point where her financial independence means she has creative freedom. Just a shame she can't be genuinely creative rather than quirking up someone else's material.

It's semi-pro Stars In There Eyes. Ymmv

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It just seems like really poor taste to elevate your profile by covering the recently dead's songs despite him being emphatically clear that it's something he didn't care for.

He didn’t? Then why did he allow it? His songs, he could have just refused permission. And I doubt it elevated her profile especially, given how many other people have done the same (‘the best’ which suggests there were even more), including the actually newsworthy Boss:

The best Prince covers: from Bruce Springsteen, Sufjan Stevens and others

If you don’t like it fine. I do. I think this and the Bowie covers are excellent. Not just straightforward covers but highly original arrangements (and I have and like even more the originals from Bowie and Prince). Someone else thinks so as they’ve invited her and Jherek Bischoff to the Albert Hall to perform at a Bowie Prom this summer.

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You can't stop people doing cover versions. Prince wanted compulsory license provision for songs removed from US statute.

What Palmer is doing is perfectly legal it just pisses all over his wishes hot on the heels of his death. He wouldn't be too thrilled about those other cover version either, if he were still alive they would have been pulled from YT. But none of those people got $35k to make them or are selling them online are they?

In fact just before he died Palmer wrote this, Amanda Palmer vs Prince, moaning that Prince got videos of her band covering all of Purple Rain in it's entirety pulled from YouTube:

http://blog.amandapalmer.net/20160315/

You've got to admire the hubris of equating her self to Prince ("I'm yin to his yang!") but this isn't a tribute, it's a tit for tat fuck you.

And this for charity? She got $35k to make that song and as with the Bowie covers (another $35k!) the charity donations aren't forever (she's explicit in saying all proceeds go to charity for now). She's also using this in her tour which is ticketed. And if you want to claim her patreon money covers actual costs go and look for music industry responses to her breakdown of costs for the her kickstarter campaign.

To be honest I don't even mind all of that. It's the dissonance between her venality and presentation of herself as an artist when she's barely a step up from Mike Yarwood.

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That Purple Rain cover is surely an Andy Warhol tribute isn't it? She's put her name on it but actually it was done by a hormonal teenager Palmer found at her local sixth form college. Crude and clumsy.