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Beside, if he did make the type of album everyone wanted (synths, guitars, depressed and horny) how would it sound coming from someone who's 46/47 as opposed to a 26/27 or 36/37 year old Prince? Age has absolutely nothing to do with it. Marvin Gaye was in his forties when he made his last album before he died, which was much more raunchy than any of his previous stuff. Tina Turner was on up in age when she made her comeback in the 1980s and she was one hard rocking sister. Cher is getting to be an old senior citizen herself and has made so so many comebacks it ain't even funny. Her last comeback "Believe" was a hard jamming house track that could kick the ass of anything else on the radio (which doesn't take much). You're only old if you think you are old. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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fartman said: EvilWhiteMale said: If his music sounds like shit to me, I'll be honest and express my opinions about it. End of story. if u find something shite ur honest and say it is shite....thats very rare ----- You must not come this board often. This dude shits on everything. | |
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EvilWhiteMale said: laurarichardson said: After everything that has happend this year you sound like a total fool or someone who simply is not a fan anymore. I think the decisions that P has made in the last year have been great. I don't want to see a 46 year old dude butt cheeks. That said unless you have access to P's music vault you really don't know what is coming. For over 25 years people keeps saying this guy is finished yet he always comes back with something great. In addtion, it takes balls to stand up to the music industry machine and come out on top. I am not sure why you don't see it that way. If his music sounds like shit to me, I'll be honest and express my opinions about it. End of story. ---- If you don't like the music fine. Your not P you don't have sell CD's in a crappy music marketplace. He does. So have your opinion but if P wants to appeal to public it is going to be commercial all the way. You also said that he had no balls. This is just wrong and not factual. It takes balls to stand up to industry and come out on top. | |
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No matter if the music is amazing or crappy, we still cling to it. Prince has only one person to impress and that's himself. He could release 5 more albums that would blow us all away, but he'd still be beaten down for not putting out another SOTT type album.
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NouveauDance said: It's pop music not a spiritual quest for enlightenment.
4 some, sure.
Liking an artist's music doesn't mean you have to blindly faun over everything they release. Saying "X album is rubbish", or "I don't like X album/period/song" is not a bad thing, it's an objective criticism - It's allowed, it doesn't make you any less of a fan. BUT eye hazard a guess that with u, Nouveau, like many others, Prince needs 2 deliver more than just "pop music". If he didn't, y would u not CONsider Musicology a classic pop album? The Rainbow Children, N.E.W.S. and Musicology r all classic Prince albums but 4 entirely different reasons, just as Dirty Mind, 1999 and Purple Rain r...perhaps U r n a different space 2 when u 1st discovered those albums. Xpectations naturally change. More often than not, it is whether u have it n u... | |
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Anji said: NouveauDance said: It's pop music not a spiritual quest for enlightenment.
4 some, sure.
Liking an artist's music doesn't mean you have to blindly faun over everything they release. Saying "X album is rubbish", or "I don't like X album/period/song" is not a bad thing, it's an objective criticism - It's allowed, it doesn't make you any less of a fan. BUT eye hazard a guess that with u, Nouveau, like many others, Prince needs 2 deliver more than just "pop music". If he didn't, y would u not CONsider Musicology a classic pop album? The Rainbow Children, N.E.W.S. and Musicology r all classic Prince albums but 4 entirely different reasons, just as Dirty Mind, 1999 and Purple Rain r...perhaps U r n a different space 2 when u 1st discovered those albums. Xpectations naturally change. More often than not, it is whether u have it n u... Dear God, you're a piece of work aren't you! Anji - King of the Fams! 'Nothing is bad, it's just how you look at it' - This is true - so if nothing is truly bad, nothing is truly good - it's all about perception. TRC, SNOOZE and Musicology aren't classic Prince albums, you were just in that space when you discovered them. | |
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That's not what eye said.
2 name a few: Emancipation, NewpowerSoul and Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic r not classic Prince albums. Try again, Nouveau. | |
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Anji said: 2 name a few: Emancipation, NewpowerSoul and Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic r not classic Prince albums. perhaps U r n a different space 2 when u 1st discovered those albums. Xpectations naturally change. More often than not, it is whether u have it n u... | |
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Anji said: That's not what eye said.
2 name a few: Emancipation, NewpowerSoul and Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic r not classic Prince albums. Try again, Nouveau. Exactly. | |
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laurarichardson said: fartman said: if u find something shite ur honest and say it is shite....thats very rare ----- You must not come this board often. This dude shits on everything. Posting a comment like that makes you look as if you don't come to this board too often. "You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." "
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laurarichardson said: If you don't like the music fine. Your not P you don't have sell CD's in a crappy music marketplace. He does. So have your opinion but if P wants to appeal to public it is going to be commercial all the way.
You also said that he had no balls. This is just wrong and not factual. It takes balls to stand up to industry and come out on top. What he did required no balls. He has nothing else to lose, so he can play around as much as he wants. No one really expects anything spectacular from him anymore. He just came up with a brilliant marketing strategy. Besides, I was really referring to him having no balls musically. His music is safe and family friendly, and that's shit. "You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." "
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Eh, what do you guys know..... | |
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EvilWhiteMale said: It's pretty much true. Sad to say.
Between burning himself out, becoming a JW, getting older, and becoming family friendly, he's just worth attention from time to time. He's not in the right mindset for creating good music. He's lost his edge for creating new and edgy stuff. He's lost his balls. Larry has them hanging off the end of his bass. LOL... but I hope it's not ture. VOTE....EARLY | |
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There is a chance Prince will never make another great album again. However, it would be dumb to believe there is no chance at all he could do it. This is a guy that was practically written off a little over a year ago, most famously by Alex Hahn. Very few would have believed Prince would have a year like 2004. Remember, he was the king of bad moves. So he did surprise many by doing what most thought he couldn't do, which is actually be productive and seize opportunities.
So I say if you want to put your money on the usual aging legend scenario, go ahead, but as for me I'm prepared to be surprised again. It could be his next album or maybe it's just going to come along ten years from now. I just know that, given Prince's talent and history, it would be foolish to write him off again, especially so soon after he proved so many people wrong. | |
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Anji said: 4 PurpleKnight2 xperience:
"N*E*W*S" in Review What follows is a hybrid of sorts; part review, part listing of my favorite musical moments, part general observations, part thinking out loud as to the possible story locked inside this musical work. And it seems somewhat logical to do it this way, as this album sounds like a hybrid of live improvisational jamming on loosely sketched-out blueprints and after-the-event studio wizardry that brought it all into a cohesive, deliberate, mostly premeditated whole. "North" Highlights and Musings: 1) I like its overall unforced, serious-but-laid-back, organic charm. 2) So smooth and chilled out that it makes for the perfect antithetical complement to the album's feverish closer. 3) It feels spot on at nearly 14 minutes. Not like a 4-minute track stretched out beyond purpose, or even 3 or 4 pieces molded together like we'll hear later. 4) The near flawless nature of the composition that seamlessly melds the worlds of jazz, ambient, funk and rock. This is a very original piece that beautifully preps the vibe for what's to follow. There are certainly traces of "North" in past Prince music, but he's never been this successful or natural in pulling it all off. 5) The little quirks that are added here and there, like being able to hear the clacking of Eric Leeds' sax keys at one point. 6) The train-whistle synths at 1:00 that signal the oncoming sax. 7) The way the conflictive sounds of the mystical strings and the gravel-throated guitar intertwine at 3:10. 8) The anguished guitar that peeks and pokes about before becoming "North's" stunning centerpiece at 6:19. 9) The calming piano at 8:58 that caresses us back to health after the onslaught of melancholy. 10) Leeds' sweetly coaxed butterfly sax notes at 11:38 that appear to give rise to the north wind. 11) The barren north winds that blow us out of the experience. A cry from a whale or a wolf can be heard in the distance at 12:43 and again at 13:14. It feels cold and lonely here. Snow blowing, causing a whiteout. Waves crashing against the icy shore. We long for some warmth, energy, neighbors, kinship. "East" Highlights and Musings: 1) The musical changes and transitions, the challenge, the complexity and the experimental vibe of the entire piece. Nothing Prince had done previously -- outside of perhaps the avant-garde "Cutz" from "Kamasutra" -- could have prepared you properly for this. 2) The "steel-drum" sound that eventually persuades the snake-charming flute out of its comfort zone. Are the natives being seduced out of their homeland? 3) The drum breakdown that foretells of building strife. 4) The angered metal guitar thrusts like that of a powerful army surging forward to stomp out rebellion, matched by oriental key figures that build in fervency and incite anxious, circling, hornet's-nest guitar, and a sax that answers in kind. The pieces most troubling, most hostile, most intense moment. Colonialism pushing eastward? Communism forcing its hand in China and southeast Asia? Perhaps just the general and constant unrest in the region? 5) The nice transition from the powerful entangled sounds of west-meets-east-without-an-invite through the use of funk guitar that leads us straight into a wall of modern jazz, and later fusion with intensified sax that's matched by gurgling organ and more funky guitar. 6) The irresistible combination of chicken-scratch guitar at 10:03 and the deeply funky baritone sax that it conjures. 7) Perhaps the sounds of the last gasps of a once great army's influence slowly being deflated at 11:07. Listen in particular to the sounds at 12:02, that's the same aggressive rock surges heard earlier. But this time they come across as weakened and in retreat. Is this the resistance giving out or the occupying force? 8) The standup electric double bass solo that stirs memories of the middle-marker breakdown in John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme". The aftermath of war? Digging out from under foreign rule? 9) Bringing the piece to a sober place of mourning with only the sad, lonely strings of the sitar. Perhaps grieving the current war-torn nations of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, to name but a few? "West" Highlights and Musings: 1) The opening 3:30 that nearly packs the aching, bittersweet beauty of "Purple Rain" or "Just My Imagination". I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to hear this turn up on a future project as a fully structured gospel/blues/rock/soul anthem. 2) After the harsh complexity of "East", starting the "West" off in a more soulful and accessible direction seems just what the doctor ordered. 3) At 3:58 is that Columbus and his boys that can be heard sailing west in search of riches or the slave ships bringing over the human riches that will build much of the west? 4) The striding and soulful neo-Madhouse groove that is the "West's" mid-section, delivering a strong sense of purposeful adventure. It feels as if we're on a journey into the unknown, yet still confident and hopeful of what lies ahead. 5) Eric stepping proudly forward at 7:36 and delivering a statement funky enough to inspire a hip-hopper who has never even cracked a jazz album. 6) The way in which at 8:31 the groove immediately turns deadly serious with the introduction of Prince's shrieking guitar that later gets squeezed out urgently in energetic licks of stinging pain until the whole piece slows down and settles in a dark place of utter depravity. Is this the slavery era in America and some of its aftermath? This section just shreds the soul. It's like you're being chained and whipped. One of the most starkly poignant passages in Prince history. 7) You almost get lost in each piece but there is always something at the end to snap you back to reality. On "West" it's the drum rolls and sitar strings that signify the passing of another time and space. It feels as though we've mined everything we can out of this experience and so we knowingly shift our attitudes towards one of parting. But you can 't help but feel a great weight and regret for that which has passed as we roll onward to the pieces final movement. "South" Highlights and Musings: 1) Is that the Mothership landing on the "South" (or perhaps Prince's version of Parliament's Mothership, a whale with it's soothing, discerning, cognitively omnipotent sounding cries, howls, whistles and songs), sent to deliver the enslaved from pain through the healing and understanding power of music? This could perhaps signify the staggering contribution to 20th century music of Black Americans that came directly out of the pain of hundreds of years of slavery. Music that has been and will be helping people of all races, cultures and creeds in good times and in bad for hundreds of years to come. Perhaps there'll never be another artistic period so astonishing as the one which saw the creation of jazz, blues, R&B, soul, funk, disco/dance and rap, with huge contributions in gospel, rock & roll and eventually a majority holding on that which becomes pop. 2) It's almost as if the Mothership is sending a perceptive beam of inspirational energy directly to Rhonda's bass, moving her fingers to the fore with a bass line that sets the tone for perhaps the funkiest moment of our entire journey. 3) The section of long lament that is encouraged by the still fluttering Mothership. Could this signify the brutally prolonged struggle from 2/3rds human status to equality? And this too shall pass. 4) About 8:44 when the piano enters and the slow, mournful dirge starts to deliberately build into modern jazz ecstasy, eventually made climactic with the inclusion of dueling other-worldly guitar and sax exhalations at 10:00 that reach Charlie Parker-like spirituality. This just might be the album's watermark. Upon first listen I was disappointed that Prince did not go completely interstellar on guitar. But upon further reflection of the piece as a whole, the explosion is perhaps tempered properly at just beneath boil until complete freedom and equality is a reality for all (North, East, West, and South). 5) The moody and bittersweet strings encountered at 12:00 that softly move us toward closure on waves of breathtaking emotion. 6) The piano that offers a solemn serenade to the purring Mothership poised for liftoff (or decent back into the hidden depths of the ocean). We've come a long way. We have a long way to go. Can we all come together or will we continue to fight and hate? Is this the end or merely the beginning of a whole new era? General Highlights and Musings: 1) The most amazing overall impression I get from listening to this album is that Prince has finally found his natural instrumental voice. And the result is a wonderful fusion of all that he was and all that was before him. It's no longer like, "Oh, listen to the amazing ability of the rock/pop/soul man trying his hand at new things. Isn't that nice and different and good for a rock/pop/soul man?" Now it's like, "Oh, this makes complete sense." 2) Perhaps this project was inspired in part by Prince jamming with his band on his last tour (see: "Tokyo", "Copenhagen", "Nagoya" and "Osaka" .) 3) There are many wonderfully toned keyboard synths scattered throughout this work. Think 70's soul with a 21st century freshness. 4) The production is so right on that even the sound effects come across as purposeful. None of that plastic quality that has at times tainted Prince's sound. 5) I like the silence at the end of each track that acts as a palette cleanser before each new taste. 6) A couple of the transitions - especially the first one out "West" -- are not as wonderfully inspired as the pieces they connect. But that flaw diminishes somewhat with familiarity. 7) A very visual/cinematic work. I can see a interpretive dance piece being produced for this music. And of course it would include Prince, his band and a string section laying low and playing live in the orchestra pit. 8) Defies categorization. To call "N*E*W*S" jazz is no more accurate than calling "SOTT" funk. There is truth in both labels. But there is also great disservice. 9) No doubt a terrifically talented quintet of world-class musicians. Everyone of the five players gets their time to stretch and shine. But Prince and Eric are most definitely the show. If Eric's part was mostly his own voice -- and I suspect that it was -- this is a strong candidate for the greatest contribution/collaboration to a Prince project ever. 10) There are many small details scattered throughout that keep the experience richly rewarding. And the journey is a diverse one, allowing for plenty of time to think, plenty of time to relax, plenty of time to fret, plenty of time to groove, plenty of time to regret, plenty of time to expect, plenty of time to feel, plenty of time to hurt, and plenty of time to heal. And as is true almost always with Prince, no matter how angered, troubled, depressed or stressed the music gets, he always finds a way to end it with some level of hope and resolution. Summation: "N*E*W*S." is a mature, nuanced, progressive, exhilarating work of art. Many years from now it perhaps gets viewed as the stunning achievement that it is relative to Prince's oeuvre; or at the very least, the path that led Prince into territory that kept him an important voice in music well into his seventies. Brendan wow that was an awesome read...i love this cd thanx for sharing this | |
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EvilWhiteMale said: laurarichardson said: If you don't like the music fine. Your not P you don't have sell CD's in a crappy music marketplace. He does. So have your opinion but if P wants to appeal to public it is going to be commercial all the way.
You also said that he had no balls. This is just wrong and not factual. It takes balls to stand up to industry and come out on top. What he did required no balls. He has nothing else to lose, so he can play around as much as he wants. No one really expects anything spectacular from him anymore. He just came up with a brilliant marketing strategy. Besides, I was really referring to him having no balls musically. His music is safe and family friendly, and that's shit. Honestly, what is "having balls musically"? We live in wall-to-wall shock culture, and every time you hear one of those "original" acts, it sounds like a poor imitation of what it sounded like when there was actually some boundaries still to be broken. | |
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Aerogram said: There is a chance Prince will never make another great album again. However, it would be dumb to believe there is no chance at all he could do it. This is a guy that was practically written off a little over a year ago, most famously by Alex Hahn. Very few would have believed Prince would have a year like 2004. Remember, he was the king of bad moves. So he did surprise many by doing what most thought he couldn't do, which is actually be productive and seize opportunities.
So I say if you want to put your money on the usual aging legend scenario, go ahead, but as for me I'm prepared to be surprised again. It could be his next album or maybe it's just going to come along ten years from now. I just know that, given Prince's talent and history, it would be foolish to write him off again, especially so soon after he proved so many people wrong. Perhaps, you may have a point. | |
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Aerogram said: Honestly, what is "having balls musically"? We live in wall-to-wall shock culture, and every time you hear one of those "original" acts, it sounds like a poor imitation of what it sounded like when there was actually some boundaries still to be broken. I'm talking about balls as in some agressive, hard hitting shit, not this sissy crap he's doing. The music doesn't have to be controversial, just harder hitting in some kinda way. "You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." "
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False..
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EvilWhiteMale said: Aerogram said: Honestly, what is "having balls musically"? We live in wall-to-wall shock culture, and every time you hear one of those "original" acts, it sounds like a poor imitation of what it sounded like when there was actually some boundaries still to be broken. I'm talking about balls as in some agressive, hard hitting shit, not this sissy crap he's doing. The music doesn't have to be controversial, just harder hitting in some kinda way. Like The Gold Experience? That's the last Prince album that really hit me in that way you just described. Emancipation had that ambition to it too, but it was way more flawed. Nothing he's done since '96 has sounded quite so urgent though. [Edited 1/12/05 2:23am] The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Since I consider Musicology great, I'd have to say false. If you're talking great in terms of sales, I guess we'll have to leave that to the Ushers and Ashlee Simpsons of the world.
Besides, greatness is in the ear of the beholder. Or something to that effect. Prince might make a CD that even his most hardcore fans can't get into, yet you and a handful of others may think it's the best work he's ever done in his whole career. But I do understand where you're coming from, and if you haven't been real impressed with any of Prince's work since the Gold Experience all I can say is that as long as Prince is breathing, anything's possible. | |
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It's not that I haven't been impressed with anything since TGE, but just that every album since has been way too flawed.
Emancipation is an album I consider to have absolute greatness on it, but for amazing songs like The Love We Make and Soul Sanctuary, there's songs like Da, Da, Da and The Human Body to put up with. TRC is the same way for me. Some songs on it like Sensual Everafter and Everlasting Now are truly great, but then it's marred by stuff like overly preachy lyrics, and really bad songs like Muse and The Work. The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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PurpleKnight said: It's not that I haven't been impressed with anything since TGE, but just that every album since has been way too flawed.
Emancipation is an album I consider to have absolute greatness on it, but for amazing songs like The Love We Make and Soul Sanctuary, there's songs like Da, Da, Da and The Human Body to put up with. TRC is the same way for me. Some songs on it like Sensual Everafter and Everlasting Now are truly great, but then it's marred by stuff like overly preachy lyrics, and really bad songs like Muse and The Work. There you go... I think TRC is a great album, but I can´t stand that horrible song called Everlasting Now...I love a lot of the other songs, like Muse 2 the Pharao, Family Name , Last December, Everywhere, The Rainbow Children, Mellow, She Loves Me 4 Me, especially the music and the vocals on Digital Garden, I guess I like everything on it except for The Everlasting Now and ´1+1+1=3..I just can´t listen to those...I´ve tried, but I just don´t get into them.. Sensual Everafter is cool, but somehow a bit like porn background music...I mean, I really like it, but it has some porn feel to it... Even non-fans think so the first time they hear it .. To each his own. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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Man, that's what I love about Sensual Everafter! It's a sexy instrumental storyteller of a man making love to his woman. Even its climax sounds like the musical equivalent of an orgasm. I think that's the point of it. The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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PurpleKnight said: Man, that's what I love about Sensual Everafter! It's a sexy instrumental storyteller of a man making love to his woman. Even its climax sounds like the musical equivalent of an orgasm. I think that's the point of it.
So we agree, right ?? Does sound a bit like porn music, doesn´t it ?? And we both like it. TRC is one of my favorite albums, even though I can´t stand the two songs mentioned above... But this one is nice, just like the rest of the album ...TRC is one of my favorite albums.... " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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KoolEaze said: False.
Remember people said this when Sign of the Times came out, they said it before Batman sold millions of units, they said it before Diamonds and Pearls came out, they said it before The Most Beautiful Girl In The World came out, and they said it before Musicology came out..OK, he gave away cds at concerts, but even without the giveaway cds it would have gone high in the charts with the tour alone, and that is without any real hit single and minimal promotion . They also said it before the Gold Experience came out, and that could´ve been a hit if it wasn´t for the war with Warner Bros. Remember I Hate U made it to position 11 in the pop charts without any real promotion behind it and a very cheaply shot video. Take all his releases from the early nineties ( after the name change) and compile different albums or release other singles from those albums and you have some hits. Or better yet, re-release some of those excellent tracks with proper promotion and he might be up in the charts again ( lots of wasted opportunities, like Shhh, I Hate U, Acknowledge Me, Right Back Here In My Arms, The Undertaker album, a decent live album or DVD etc. etc. etc. ) Keep in mind that , on top of all the WB fuss, he also made some strange decisions and went through a lot of pain that would´ve made other people give up everything completely...instead, he´s still releasing music, doing fantastic shows, makes music like Osaka, Tokyo, The War, Family Name, Everywhere, Last December, to name just a few.. He could be in a totally different position considering all the drama of the past years. So I , personally, am quite happy with the current situation and think that he´s still got it in him. Another good thing is probably the influence of his wife, she seems to be very familiar with his body of work, and that´s a good thing. Things are getting better I guess, we´ll just have to wait and see. Also keep in mind that Prince´s musical peers and competitors/ rivals are either no longer there to challenge him or have been replaced by talentless acts like Usher etc. There´s simply noone to chalenge him creatively, except for DÁngelo and so on, and even that is debatable since D´Angelo makes cool music but borrows a lot from others, especially from Prince. The lack of challenge is a huge and mostly underrated factor..in the 80´s you had all kinds of competitors, from pop to rock to RnB, but todays music is different. just quoted and repeated my own post from earlier on to show what I think about some people thinking Prince does not have the balls to come out with groundbreaking music anymore....I think he still has it in him...it takes big balls to do and achieve what he has done and achieved...at least he´s a shining example of courage....this is a truly daring artist, even when his music sounds tamer, his approach is still fascinating,it takes some courage and balls to risk your 20+years career to change your name and go through all the drama and so on ..and come out as the victor. So, somehow, the "Sacrifice of Victor" seems to make some sense now Just wait and see... The ride is still fascinating and unexpected things still happen... " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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EvilWhiteMale said: laurarichardson said: If you don't like the music fine. Your not P you don't have sell CD's in a crappy music marketplace. He does. So have your opinion but if P wants to appeal to public it is going to be commercial all the way.
You also said that he had no balls. This is just wrong and not factual. It takes balls to stand up to industry and come out on top. What he did required no balls. He has nothing else to lose, so he can play around as much as he wants. No one really expects anything spectacular from him anymore. He just came up with a brilliant marketing strategy. Besides, I was really referring to him having no balls musically. His music is safe and family friendly, and that's shit. ----- He is 46 years old do really want to see him running around his briefs. Everybody has to grow up it happens get over it. If you really think bucking system takes no balls than you really are out of the loop or in a state of total denial. As far as not having balls musically he may have done everything that he could possibly do. All artist hit that wall. He is still a great performer and every CD has a few gems. | |
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EvilWhiteMale said: Aerogram said: Honestly, what is "having balls musically"? We live in wall-to-wall shock culture, and every time you hear one of those "original" acts, it sounds like a poor imitation of what it sounded like when there was actually some boundaries still to be broken. I'm talking about balls as in some agressive, hard hitting shit, not this sissy crap he's doing. The music doesn't have to be controversial, just harder hitting in some kinda way. Exactly. It seems P has gotten too lazy and too busy with making appearances on award shows nowadays . Hopefully, our hooded and heeled friend from MN will get his shit back tight and stop worry about mass appeal and get back to what's real. I truly miss the musically challenging I don't give a fuck Prince compared to the now tame and lame Disney Channel Prince. Basically, all we can do now is hope that his Gemimni side will come out and he will come back to his true self musically. [Edited 1/13/05 6:33am] | |
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Throughout Prince's career he has expressed his life through his music.
If his life was out of control, his music was out of control. Prince is continually evolving (just like you and me) and so will his music. I have not loved all of his stuff but i can say that i have liked most of it. I think that his music will continue to change as he ages and OUR taste in music will continue to change as we get older. I guess I said all that to say "FALSE" Prince will and has released great albums. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 | |
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