emesem said:

When I hear "NPG" or "New Power" I just think cheesy, wanna be, faux, hip-hop, Tony M, Sonny T, Larry Graham, Doug E Fresh...just bad memories, man....

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Why the odd man out in your list?

Give me the power trio anyday, back on topic song NPG is cheesy. FW remix is an improvement.

Yeah, it's cheesy, it's corny, it's overproduced, it's dated, it tries too hard.

One of those wongs which "almost" ruin the credibility of the 90-92 era (Jughead, Push, The Flow, etc.)

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no they were not i liked the npg from the 90's.

emesem said:

We then get the song "New Power Generation" which was a new jack cheesefest...I mean was Prince trying to get a Pepsi ad?

I agree,that song sounds like a Pepsi commercial For his big,opening number in Graffiti Bridge,I think he should have came up with a better,stronger song."New Power Generation" is weak.

Every time I talk about "New Power Generation" I always say it like Arsenio Hall did back in 92. I never liked the name and I really can't believe he is still using it or at least the label "NPG" on his latest album.

I not only miss "The Revolution" but also "Paisley Park" and the cool Paisley Park logo on his albums from 85-88.

smoothcriminal12 said:

skywalker said:

Says smoothcriminal12. I kid. I kid.

But think about it.

The Revolution

The New Power Generation

Apart from the names being cool or not, it does make sense that after a revolution, powers being overthrown, there comes a new power generation... although woolly as... well.

teiemka said:

Why the odd man out in your list?

Maybe they mean Sonny T's vocals?

Funklov said:

Every time I talk about "New Power Generation" I always say it like Arsenio Hall did back in 92. I never liked the name and I really can't believe he is still using it or at least the label "NPG" on his latest album.

I not only miss "The Revolution" but also "Paisley Park" and the cool Paisley Park logo on his albums from 85-88.

It would be really cool to go back to Paisley Park as a "place" referred to on his albums and art.

NPG rocks....nuff said.

And the song itself is a bonafide Prince classic.

Militant said:

NPG rocks....nuff said.

Whose Nuff?

Nuff's Wrong!!! Ma Mam Ma Mama said Prince fucked up when he thought Graffiti Bridge was a good ideal! And Mama's always right!

but honestly ...2ETO (2 each their own)

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i feel so left out

such a fine line between wack

xCece said:

and cool:

emesem said:

such a fine line between wack

xCece said:

and cool:

I guess......... I like the song New Power Generation though

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I was never a big fan of the New Power concept. I even thought it was cheesy back in the Lovesexy days. The song is ok...love the Funky Weapon remix...but its still cheesy. Stupid band name as well. It never worked as well as the Revolution. Glad the concept died...but agree it lasted WAY too long.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

jfrost said:

emesem said:

such a fine line between wack

xCece said:

and cool:

The thing is, you are looking at these eras/pictures through 2010 eyes.

In the 90's, the styles Prince rocked in the 80's were (unlike today) waaaaay out of vogue, corny, and hella dated. The linn sounded tinny, the synths sounded cheesy. Phat beats were in, as were flat tops/mushroom hair, bold colors, baggy clothes and bold patterns.

Now in 2010, the 80's have come full circle and the dirty punk look of 1981 is very hip again. It wasn't always timeless though...

Prince has been a social activist since the 70's...and it's funny that this notion of "corny" is applied to the New Power philosophy, coz as he sings:

I can't help that what's cool 2 us, might b strange to you

His whole New Power Generation push made me really embarrassed to be a fan.

Thankfully Lenny came along and picked up the cool right where Prince dropped it.

Lemme ask some of y'all this question:

Those who think it's corny in 2010, you think it was corny when it was first out?

Also he's been running this New Power thing for about 20 years, much longer than "Revolution".

Maybe he feels comfortable doing the New Power thing.

Timmy84 said:

Lemme ask some of y'all this question:

Those who think it's corny in 2010, you think it was corny when it was first out?

I was never a fan when NPG started, but the name is stupid. The Revolution name is epic though.

Timmy84 said:

Lemme ask some of y'all this question:

Those who think it's corny in 2010, you think it was corny when it was first out?

Also he's been running this New Power thing for about 20 years, much longer than "Revolution".

Maybe he feels comfortable doing the New Power thing.

I thought it was corny then. It wasn't so much the name itself but the band, the first incarnation of it. It was like he was trying to be young and compete with the singers and rappers who were out at that time instead of just doing his own thing like he had been doing before then. I mean musically it was a interesting mix of Prince and... I dunno... 90s rap and hip hop dancing and the bop gun, and just crazy-ness, at least to me. It made him... common... or something. I dunno. With the rapping and those random dancing dudes behind him... wtf? Then it was around the time of the dispute with WB and everything was just all over the place.

The dancing dudes tho??? UGH. I HAAATED THEM. What the hell were there names again? Bony T or something? I'd actually take the hair swinging Twinz over those dudes.

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Onthereal said:

jfrost said:

We are the New Power Generation,

We want to change the world,

the only thing that's in our way is U.

I always liked this, but always had a felling that before he discovered JW, that he was setting up his next big earner....starting a religion. Great money to be made at that!

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I always thought the New Power Generation was corny with a capital C but like you, I thought he was planning his own religion. I could admire him more for starting his own religion instead of joining an organization founded by Charles Taze Russell. It's so unlike Prince to be a follower.

So much this.

jaybendy said:

Timmy84 said:

Lemme ask some of y'all this question:

Those who think it's corny in 2010, you think it was corny when it was first out?

Also he's been running this New Power thing for about 20 years, much longer than "Revolution".

Maybe he feels comfortable doing the New Power thing.

I thought it was corny then. It wasn't so much the name itself but the band, the first incarnation of it. It was like he was trying to be young and compete with the singers and rappers who were out at that time instead of just doing his own thing like he had been doing before then. I mean musically it was a interesting mix of Prince and... I dunno... 90s rap and hip hop dancing and the bop gun, and just crazy-ness, at least to me. It made him... common... or something. I dunno. With the rapping and those random dancing dudes behind him... wtf? Then it was around the time of the dispute with WB and everything was just all over the place.

The dancing dudes tho??? UGH. I HAAATED THEM. What the hell were there names again? Bony T or something? I'd actually take the hair swinging Twinz over those dudes.

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Hmm interesting lol

Timmy84 said:

jaybendy said:

I thought it was corny then. It wasn't so much the name itself but the band, the first incarnation of it. It was like he was trying to be young and compete with the singers and rappers who were out at that time instead of just doing his own thing like he had been doing before then. I mean musically it was a interesting mix of Prince and... I dunno... 90s rap and hip hop dancing and the bop gun, and just crazy-ness, at least to me. It made him... common... or something. I dunno. With the rapping and those random dancing dudes behind him... wtf? Then it was around the time of the dispute with WB and everything was just all over the place.

The dancing dudes tho??? UGH. I HAAATED THEM. What the hell were there names again? Bony T or something? I'd actually take the hair swinging Twinz over those dudes.

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Hmm interesting lol

Sorry. Was I rambling? Did that even make sense? I've had wine tonight, so my thoughts are a little jumbled.

Edit:

Tony M! That's his name! Just came to me!

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Dave1992 said:

I disagree. Whatever. No problem.

But never, NEVER - you listenin'? NEVER - mention the holy name of Sonny T in a negative sentense. 'kay?

Sentence.

And I'll up the ante, saying Sonny T never shoulda hollered his awful vocals through any mic on stage with Prince on any tour ever. And his vocals NEARLY ruin "We March" for me as well.

jaybendy said:

Timmy84 said:

Hmm interesting lol

Sorry. Was I rambling? Did that even make sense? I've had wine tonight, so my thoughts are a little jumbled.

No I see what you're saying. I didn't like that part, with the dancers and all. That was a weird era.

Timmy84 said:

jaybendy said:

Sorry. Was I rambling? Did that even make sense? I've had wine tonight, so my thoughts are a little jumbled.

No I see what you're saying. I didn't like that part, with the dancers and all. That was a weird era.

You do realize "those dancers" were the dudes on the catwalk dancing to The Time in Purple Rain, right?