the inner view

the recent tavis smiley interview

of prince on pbs shed light

on more than music

although i found the interview

2 be respectfull,

some chose 2 criticize the well spoken

speech of tavis and question

whether or not prince was wearing

a hair piece

the bigger issue of prince saying

he wants to raise the level of his

listener's consciousness with his music

seemed 2 be lost in the mist

i applaud both tavis and prince

4 trying 2 spread positivity and empowerment

2 the people

is this from npgmc or are these your own words?

sosgemini said:

That's interesting, Sumtymes.

I mean, the focus on Prince's wig is symbolic. Here's a man who has an honesty problem. I mean, we love his music, but he doesn't exactly have a track record that supports trusting his word, does he? I mean, look at all the cancelled projects over the years, or the justified grumblings of NPGMC members. Who's behind that? Prince, chasing his whimsy.

So, OK, he wants to raise his listeners' consciousness. Fine. But, first, a recap. He artfully dodged Tavis Smiley's question about his name change by discussing Anita Baker and her masters. But, his original explanation of a dream and such, a spiritual awakening, blah blah blah... All that was a smokescreen to cover the fact that dude just wanted out of his contract. Right? And, he said it would be forever. At best, I think the most honest summary might be this: It was an exercise in desperation and ego.

But, wait, he said Mayte was his soulmate, too, right? Remember all those grand declarations of past lives and peace and raised consciousness?

So, you have an artist who goes back on his word all the time, talking about how he wants to raise our consciousness. Well, he's spent the past decade raising our consciousness about the evils of the music industry, but he hasn't been so successful at melding a consistent string of melodies and chord progressions into anything approaching a HIT. And, please, don't raise Musicology as a return to form. Even that song's melody is nonexistent. How many times is he going to rehash James Brown?

So, there was the whole thing about the Moors. Family Name. I find more revelation in James Earl Jones' performance in "The Man" or in Herbie Hancock's soundtrack to "The Spook Who Sat by the Door." That made me look at musical keys vis-a-vis revolutionary art differently.

But, Prince? He's going to raise our consciousness again? I can hardly wait. He's been doing such a great job.




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[This message was edited Sun Feb 22 17:59:24 2004 by ThreadBare]

ok..i know that this is wrong for me to ask...but Prince had on a wig??

Rhondab said:

ok..i know that this is wrong for me to ask...but Prince had on a wig??

sumtymes said:

TheFrog said:

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