{"id":504,"date":"2007-02-12T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2007-02-12T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T20:48:14","slug":"why-did-prince-cover-foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/why-did-prince-cover-foo\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Prince cover Foo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like many people was pretty surprised when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=toRX519osTI\">Prince covered the Foo Fighters song &#8220;Best of You&#8221;<\/a> during the Super Bowl half time show. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/news\/articles\/1551990\/20070208\/prince.jhtml\">The Foo Fighters were just as suprised <\/a> as you and me because Prince wasn&#8217;t happy a few years back when the Foos covered his song Darling Nikki on an Australian release.  He even said to Entertainment Weekly that he didn&#8217;t appreciate the Foos (or anyone else) covering his work, and that Grohl and company should &#8220;write [their] own tunes.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, was Prince covering the Foos because he&#8217;s a fan or because he wanted to flip them the bird?  Regardless of why Prince did it, it was <em>awesome.<\/em><br \/>\nVia Jessie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like many people was pretty surprised when Prince covered the Foo Fighters song &#8220;Best of You&#8221; during the Super Bowl half time show. The Foo Fighters were just as suprised as you and me because Prince wasn&#8217;t happy a few years back when the Foos covered his song Darling Nikki on an Australian release. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[241,431,511],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-foofighters","tag-music","tag-prince"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}