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Wish we could have had one more Prince comeback One of my favorite aspects of watching Prince's career is the joy in seeing him come back big when so many counted him out. After Purple Rain, the ebbs and flows of his commercial career were legendary and almost unprecendented. A lot of musical artists get white hot and there is sort of a gradual deflation of their cutural currency. Prince was the biggest artist in the planet in 84 and then so many didn't follow him when his work became less pop and more, well whatever the hell he wanted it to be. The Rolling Stone Prince interview summed it up so well, Prince could have milked Purple Rain more, he could have released a song with the same guitar lick as "Let's Go Crazy" in a different key but instead he splashed a little psychedelic and avant garde on the masses and ATWIAD and Parade were considered commercial disappointments. Prince was counted out as a mainstream artist for a short period and then he released Sign O the Times with three Top 10 hits and a Best Album grammy. Lovesexy came next and the masses scurried again and then Prince released Batman soundtrack that rode the cultural wave to number 1. Grafitti Bridge underperformed as an album and completely crashed as a film but a year later Diamonds and Pearls gets the attention of the masses again. Fast forward through the turbulent 90s, with brief flashes of brilliance buried between battles with Warner Brothers and then in 2004 just decided, "Yeah, I'll think I'll come back again" and blew up the Grammys with Beyonce. Prince had basically disappeared from the charts for 10 years and by sheer will put himself back on people's lips. Prince could pretty much do it at will, all he had to do is wail on the axe, do a little promotion, and people would remember again just how talented he was. Prince never became a "has been", he would lay low for reasons that are his and come back at will. I think he enjoyed it and then grew tired of it again; I think he liked going into artistic hibernation knowing he could come back whenever he wanted to. At the end of the day, Prince's time on the Top 40 chart would have stopped, maybe not as soon as he voluntarily stopped it by alientating radio, but I think Prince could have kept coming back large at will well into the next decade. It would have been nice to see one more comeback. All good things they say never last... | |
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GottaLetitgo said: One of my favorite aspects of watching Prince's career is the joy in seeing him come back big when so many counted him out. After Purple Rain, the ebbs and flows of his commercial career were legendary and almost unprecendented. A lot of musical artists get white hot and there is sort of a gradual deflation of their cutural currency. Prince was the biggest artist in the planet in 84 and then so many didn't follow him when his work became less pop and more, well whatever the hell he wanted it to be. The Rolling Stone Prince interview summed it up so well, Prince could have milked Purple Rain more, he could have released a song with the same guitar lick as "Let's Go Crazy" in a different key but instead he splashed a little psychedelic and avant garde on the masses and ATWIAD and Parade were considered commercial disappointments. Prince was counted out as a mainstream artist for a short period and then he released Sign O the Times with three Top 10 hits and a Best Album grammy. Lovesexy came next and the masses scurried again and then Prince released Batman soundtrack that rode the cultural wave to number 1. Grafitti Bridge underperformed as an album and completely crashed as a film but a year later Diamonds and Pearls gets the attention of the masses again. Fast forward through the turbulent 90s, with brief flashes of brilliance buried between battles with Warner Brothers and then in 2004 just decided, "Yeah, I'll think I'll come back again" and blew up the Grammys with Beyonce. Prince had basically disappeared from the charts for 10 years and by sheer will put himself back on people's lips. Prince could pretty much do it at will, all he had to do is wail on the axe, do a little promotion, and people would remember again just how talented he was. Prince never became a "has been", he would lay low for reasons that are his and come back at will. I think he enjoyed it and then grew tired of it again; I think he liked going into artistic hibernation knowing he could come back whenever he wanted to. At the end of the day, Prince's time on the Top 40 chart would have stopped, maybe not as soon as he voluntarily stopped it by alientating radio, but I think Prince could have kept coming back large at will well into the next decade. It would have been nice to see one more comeback.  | |
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he never left "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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Was expecting that..."don't call it a comeback", I know. I only mean commercially to the masses, for most on this site he was a mainstay for decades, through the good times and the bad. All good things they say never last... | |
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He was in a great place professionally, in the middle of a successful and acclaimed tour. Which he was going to release a live album of. And then about to go into his next step which was the new album Black is the new Black and do some shows to back up the album. It was all laid out. He was in a great place with his career. Just bloody heartbreaking that hes no longer here. |
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Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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Agree. Prince always had a plan for the next thing and the next thing. Prince deciding in 2004 to do the Musicology Tour, to do so much promotion, to annhilate the RRHOF bought him several years of public good will and the ability to just be somewhere and have it be a big deal. 2004 was one of my favorite years to be a Prince fan because you could just feel the masses embracing him. The Super Bowl performance the same way. Prince's talent was always in a place where he just had to decide he wanted to be the center of attention and he could be. All good things they say never last... | |
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On the other hand, his sister said that Prince told her 2 years ago that he had done everything he needed to do on this planet, and so she had been preparing for his death since then. Seems kinda like he was too. | |
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Well that's the strange thing, Princes plans didn't seem to go with what his sister said or insinuated. But that's another story. Only Prince knows the real true. But Prince had made concrete plans for his professional life according to His new band members. All a bit strange to me. |
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antonb said: Well that's the strange thing, Princes plans didn't seem to go with what his sister said or insinuated. But that's another story. Only Prince knows the real true. But Prince had made concrete plans for his professional life according to His new band members. All a bit strange to me. I kind of beg to differ, Just because he made future plans, doesn't mean he'd be able to live to the day to see it's fruition. The man wanted to go out on his terms, working, living, breathing music. I think he wasn't willing to let whatever illness he had to prevent him from doing what he loved, and for that he's a big inspiration for championing through that huge dark cloud. . <3 Prince <3
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Well like I said , the full truth seems to have died with him.He died of a pain killer overdose. No mention of any thing else. He didn't have anyone close enough to him to get enough help till it was too late.You could go on and on. |
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Ironically by dying he made his biggest comeback ever | |
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Yep.
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He didn't have a top 40 hit for the last 20 years of his career..something like that. But he didn't need it and neither did we. | |
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He never left. Some people took him for granted. | |
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Beat me to it! "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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