Ben Ratliff sweats Prince’s indie cred in his review of Prince’s performance this weekend at the desert music festival Couchella. More importantly:
“Creep.” Prince covered it, letting the opening chords cycle for a while as he waited offstage. Screaming the chorus through the song’s slow-going apex, Prince got an indie arena-rock sound exactly right: a tolling, almost orchestral tension.
And luckily Glenjamn posted it on YouTube so we could all hear it for ourselves.
Glenjamn has a lot of concert footage on YouTube. If you’re into that kind of thing, check out his page.
I’m glad everyone likes Prince again, I was starting to feel like the only one!