World Mourns, Celebrates Prince

As far as the Internet is concerned, Prince's death is basically the only important thing that happened today. A sampling of the coverage and tributes:

• If it's tributes you're looking for, many celebrities have weighed in, and multiple news outlets are rounding up their words. Those outlets include the BBC, CNN, the Mirror, and Time. Even brands are mourning Prince, and Snapchat added a special geofilter to honor him.
• President Obama weighed in too; the AP has his statement on the "creative icon."
• The Toronto Star takes a look at the social media furor surrounding Prince's death, including stats like this: Within an hour of Prince's death, there were about 45,000 tweets per minute.
• In response to news of Prince's death, MTV canceled its regular programming and started playing nonstop Prince music videos, The Week reports.

• Quartz rounds up "the best weird stories" about Prince.
• A video of a teacher's emotional reaction to news of Prince's death has gone viral.
• The New York Daily News observes that Prince's "androgynous style" lives on in current pop culture, including Broadway smash Hamilton.
• And Quartz observes that Prince was "a pioneer of modern textspeak"—and yet there's no "Prince symbol" in your emoji menu.
• Mashable rounds up 13 Prince performances you can watch online. One performance getting called out a lot: his 2007 Super Bowl halftime show, which Deadspin calls "the best we've ever seen."
• But Prince wasn't just a musician: Check out five "magical" movie and TV performances or 10 unforgettable tweets.
• Here are some amazing pictures of a high-school-aged Prince.
• The New York Daily News takes a look at Prince's "super intimate" final show, while TMZ has audio of the 911 call reporting the medical emergency that would turn out to be his death.

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