Prince went on record saying that he made Around the World in a Day because it would have been too easy to have rewritten Purple Rain in a different key.

Imagine you are Prince and you decide to create Purple Rain 2, with similar clothes and image. You make a genuine effort to play the media game and even sing on "We are the World" avoiding one scandal that derailed the Purple Choo Choo.

Write a track listing for your Purple Rain 2. When would it have been realeased, and how well would it have done. Would you have released a real (not bat sh#t crazy) version of Purple Rain.

You can still release Around the World in a Day, Parade and Under the Cherry Moon, but the first thing you do is maxamize the hype of Purple Rain. Oh and you can cheat ( I will explain in a moment.

I prepared an example.

The Dance Electric

1) 17 days (see I cheated and held back one b side from Purple Rain)

2)Raspberry Beret (A hit that is the Take Me With U light ballad)

3) Electric Intercourse (from the cutting room floor of PR)

4) She's Always in my Hair (Classic B side can now be a potential A side)

5) America (The groove works, maybe the lyrics change here)

6) Moonbeam Levels (Write the wrong of a classic unreleased track)

7) 100 MPH (Prince does not share this track)

8) Extra Loveable ( Prince on the verge of grapes? -some lyric changes here)

9) The Dance Electric (Album close just like Purple Rain)

Have fun and see what you would have done as Prince.

Alright, since we're allowed to cheat, these would be my choices:

Hello

Girl

Extra Loveable

She's Always in My Hair

America

Pop Life

Erotic City

Electric Intercourse

The Dance Electric

xpertluva said:

Alright, since we're allowed to cheat, these would be my choices:

Hello

Girl

Extra Loveable

She's Always in My Hair

America

Pop Life

Erotic City

Electric Intercourse

The Dance Electric

lol but if he did the We Are the World event he would not have written Hello right?

1. Our Destiny

2. Roadhouse Garden

3. Possessed

4. Manic Monday (duet with Wendy or Jill Jones)

5. the Dance Electric

6. God (the Love Theme)

7. Electric Intercourse

8. Wonderful Ass

OldFriends4Sale said:

xpertluva said:

Alright, since we're allowed to cheat, these would be my choices:

Hello

Girl

Extra Loveable

She's Always in My Hair

America

Pop Life

Erotic City

Electric Intercourse

The Dance Electric

lol but if he did the We Are the World event he would not have written Hello right?

In my hypothetical, he still didn't do "We Are the World." I don't consider that a misstep!

xpertluva said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol but if he did the We Are the World event he would not have written Hello right?

In my hypothetical, he still didn't do "We Are the World." I don't consider that a misstep!

lol neither do I

I love Hello

THE DANCE ELECTRIC (release date: June 1985)

The Dance Electric

Moonbeam Levels

The Screams Of Passion (duet with Sheila E.)

Extra Lovable

that's all I got for now...let me think some more about this

I doubt he would've used any of the songs.

I always imagined him pushing the sound even further. How? He's the artist!

He had enough quirks and musical background to come up with something even bigger and better than PR IMO. Of course he never tried.

OldFriends4Sale said:

xpertluva said:

In my hypothetical, he still didn't do "We Are the World." I don't consider that a misstep!

lol neither do I

I love Hello

I love Hello too. I was just trying to see Prince's potential if he to quote Frank Zappa went "strictly commercial. My concept is that even if Prince did "We are the World." the groove of Hello and the song would have still come out of his brain at sometime. It is of course perfect as is, so maybe he has to turn have "We are the World" become a fiasco to give birth to this exact song. I like the angry groove on this song. The beat just slams down like a piano lid on your hands. Angry Prince is like a Purple Hulk. Ger him mad and he gets dangerously funky and starts tearing up S@#t. Even in ballads like "The Beautiful Ones" he is angry Prince.

How would this album have done if he would have played the media game do you think?

[Edited 12/31/14 15:29pm]

OldFriends4Sale said:

xpertluva said:

In my hypothetical, he still didn't do "We Are the World." I don't consider that a misstep!

lol neither do I

I love Hello

LOVE the Fresh Dance Mix

U see, words are like shoes
They're just something 2 stand on
I wish U could be in my shoes
But they're probably so high, U'd fall off and die
4 U words are definitely not shoes
They're weapons and tools of destruction
And your time is boring unless U're putting something down
What would life be if we believed what we read
And a smile is just hiding a frown?
Come now, isn't life a little better with a pair of good shoes?

[Edited 12/31/14 14:13pm]

The Dance Electric

Our Destiny

Roadhouse Garden

All day all night

Possessed

She's always in my hair

Traffic jam

moonbeam levels

The Dance Electric

Averett said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol neither do I

I love Hello

LOVE the Fresh Dance Mix

U see, words are like shoes
They're just something 2 stand on
I wish U could be in my shoes
But they're probably so high, U'd fall off and die
4 U words are definitely not shoes
They're weapons and tools of destruction
And your time is boring unless U're putting something down
What would life be if we believed what we read
And a smile is just hiding a frown?
Come now, isn't life a little better with a pair of good shoes?

[Edited 12/31/14 14:13pm]

Now where did u get that photo from? Purple pants also....hhhmmm; Like to see the full photo.