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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
The night after Prince died, Spike Lee organized a "block party" in Brooklyn to celebrate the man's music. Some CNN reporter on the scene called that hit song "I'll Die For You". Earlier that day, Wolf Blitzer called Prince's hugest hit "Purple Haze". Multiply that for the whole amount of news they report on and, potentially, in the worst case scenario, every goddamn thing they say could be incorrect. And, relatively speaking, CNN (well, CNN International, which is the one I watch) is one of the less fucked-up major networks there is!
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Holy fuck, are you fucking serious?
That is utterly shameful for SO many reasons. First of all, "Purple Rain" wasn't even a #1 single, so there's no way it qualifies as one of his hugest hits in the technical sense. If Wolfy was talking about the album, then yes, of course, but he still got the name wrong. Not to mention the fact that you'd have to be a goddamn mummified corpse to not know the immediately that "Purple Haze" is Hendrix. This displays not only a lack of knowledge about Prince, but a lack of knowledge about pop culture in general that is frankly disturbing for someone Blitzer's age.
And it's just a crime against art to leave out the "4 U," but I'd forgive it if that was the only part of the song's title they got wrong.
How fucking absurd.