![]() I know from people who were friends with Prince that he cared very deeply about the competition with Michael Jackson, the rivalry with Michael Jackson. But Prince really meant it, didn’t he? It tapped into who he was and wanted to be. Sometimes musicians’ fights are driven by the press, or made up to sell albums or newspapers. Prince and Michael Jackson had a rivalry that was very real, at least to Prince. We spoke to Touré from New York the interview has been lightly edited for clarity. To try to make sense of a deeply complicated artist, Salon spoke to the critic Touré, who’s written widely on music and culture and is the author of “I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon.” For a musician who was intensely private, he was also someone we thought we knew, and he seemed like he would keep touring and making music forever. A day later, Prince’s death remains just as difficult to figure out: For anyone who grew up with his songs and saw him as a source of vitality, lust, genius and hours of head-spinning music, his passing is just about irreconcilable.
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