Talk:Sign o' the Times (song)

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Peace symbol bliss

If your browser does not display the ☮ peace symbols in this article, please read my explanations. All Mac OS X browsers work natively. On Windows XP, Firefox works but may require installing East-Asian fonts. IE6 fails even with proper fonts. Your Linux mileage may vary. -- JFG 04:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh come on

Wasn't the peace symbol just the style of his writing? Do you really think Prince actually meant the song to be called Sign (Peace sign) the Times? M.C. Brown Shoes 10:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep in mind, Prince later went on to call himself by the non-linguistic symbol for seven years. At least we can pronounce this album as "Sign of the times" even if it isn't spelled that way. --Metropolitan90 05:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Not only that, but even the Japanese release, which translates all titles into katakana, has the peace symbol instead of the word "Of". Check it: [1] --Matharvest 03:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thirdly, if you purchase the song on iTunes it is listed as "Sign 'O' the Times" War wizard90 04:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move

The peace sign is a stylized typography. Even on the Japanese cover, the ruby clearly reads オフ (o-fu). Chris cheese whine 12:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Music video

There was a lyrics video... AnonMoos (talk) 02:03, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain ^t/c 21:23, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sign o' the Times (song) → Sign "O" the Times (song) – Following the correction of Sign "O" the Times (album), this article on the title track should follow suit.Rhindle The Red (talk) 00:41, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose – there are three choices here: case of the o, one quote mark (or apostrophe) or two, single-quote or double-quote. The sources are quite mixed, especially on the first two, and are mostly not double-quote; see [2]. I can understand that if we're going to use quotes we'd respect our WP:MOS and make them double quotes. But the rest I don't get. It makes more sense to employ the strategy in MOS:TM, and select, from among the styles in use, the one that most resembles normal English. That's what we have now, and what a lot of other good sources do. The bad move at the album can be fixed after this is settled. Dicklyon (talk) 01:01, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support primarily per nom (the album article uses "O") but also per the single itself (the single releases use either Sign ‘O’ the Times or the stylised Sign “☮” the Times) and per User:Dicklyon's search results above (which show that the "O"/'O' version is also common in sources). — AjaxSmack 02:25, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Cover?

There is an instrumental track on Billy Cobham album "Picture This" that has the same theme. Is it a cover? Anyone has information? Emilpop (talk) 22:50, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]