It could be interesting but how many rumours have we heard about a new album? Also, the magazine seems to be really angry for no reason.

SquarePeg said:

But yet no one talks about how the industry was practically giving away cd singles for $.99 a few years back to pump up the chart positions of people like Mariah Carey, Usher, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, and all those Bad Boy Records related groups.



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starbass said:

it's true - just look at his concert draws from last year...just plain embarrassing!

I'm kinda over the acoustic album thing, and it seems (as a whole) that the record buying public is as well. An album of new material would be a better idea. We've been hearing about this thing for months, so if it is actually happening, I'd rather he just get it done with.

Blah. I don't wanna hear old hits...I wanna hear new music!

laurarichardson said:

your absolutely right:thumbsup:

starbass said:

Me get a life? your the one flipping out over a small statement. If you read it it is more of an editorial than a "news" piece which is what it was presented as. I think you need to grow up, drink some prune juice and let the go!!!!

everyone needs to chill out and play nice, or at the very least take the mudflinging to orgnotes.

Ifsixwuz9 said:

all those Bad Boy Records related groups.



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All major labels were guilty of that (although, by the time Britney came out, the sell through single was on it's last legs and she's only had a handful in America). Also, toward the end, they stopped charging 99 cents for them. Mariah Carey, however, was terrible with it. Nearly all of her singles were only about a dollar and it clicked why they were. However, at least people had a choice! Now, there is none. Radio is much worse but I see something like downloading singles as very legitmate...they all cost the same, right?

The Truth was a good album, so if thats any indication, an acoustic album would be great.

starbass said:

yeah....a $94 million dollar-richer 80s has been...

meanwhile, how's that 9-to-5 workin for ya?

I don't think the article is biased against Prince. He just says he didn't like the Musicology concert give-away promotion, but that Prince is perhaps leading the way as far as one-off album deals are concerned.

One-off album deals are the future - just as happened with actors and the movie system. An artist can do a great album and then produce rubbish albums safe in the knowledge that the record company will be forced to promote it whatever. This way artists are forced to bring their best work to the table everytime, and the companies are forced to put all their promotion effort into them to ensure their own profits and keep the artist on board. Everybody wins.

An acoustic album would sell, but it hardly represents a lot of effort by Prince. He could go into a studio and have it finished in a day or 2. It would be nice to think that it would show off his guitar skill, but actually a lot of his songs are based around quite simple repetitive rythms.

It would be better to market a new album with a free acoustic hits album as an extra - the best of both worlds.

klhk said:

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No your statements are not credible. Put down the weed and pay attention.

No lawsuits or courtdays during the WB years.
Wb/Aol sold WB music. The new owners have not really gotten the new WB off the ground. So at this time there is no WB for P to really go back to.

CD sales or still down and have been for the last five years or so.

metalorange said:

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One-off album deals are the future - just as happened with actors and the movie system. An artist can do a great album and then produce rubbish albums safe in the knowledge that the record company will be forced to promote it whatever. This way artists are forced to bring their best work to the table everytime, and the companies are forced to put all their promotion effort into them to ensure their own profits and keep the artist on board. Everybody wins.

Co-Sign. This is going to be the things are done to maximize profits and put out better product.

You know what? This nasty b*tch is just like all those other a*s wholes out there who only say that his biggest hits and albums make any kind of a difference. I'd punch this MF right in the face if I ever saw it.

SEXYMF2002 said:

Thank you for saying this. Some of these clowns who insist on living in the past are really sad.

Acoustic greatest hits, while not a stretch for his songwriting/hook writing talents, could be interesting. I for one loved the acoustic set of the musicology tour. He's an incredible guitarist, one of the best ever. I'd buy it. Then I would hope for a Prince "blues" album. Then after that a Prince C & W album. Then a Prince comedy album. Prince doing standup. Think about it. He's got a great sense of humor.

PurpleRein said:

You are smoking some outlandish shit.

did this jackass (the author of this moronic article) really refer to Fiona Apple as a true musician in the same article in which he declared Prince's music no longer relevant? What a baffoon. He should stick to covering Barry Bonds steroid use since no one else is.

metalorange said:

I think it will be a LIVE acoustic album. I hear he had LOADS of fun sitting there, playing the audience. I am sure it made him look at his own material in another way.

HamsterHuey said:

I think it was stated quite awhile back that it would be studio rerecordings.

GangstaFam said:

i'm startin to doubt the whole re-recording idea...

GangstaFam said:

I havent been participant in all of those discussions. I often bow out as soon as the die-hard fans start monologing...

But from what I heard (probably through other channels) I just assumed that the joy he had playing the material live would result in a live album.

I know I like that idea more than an acoustic studio album... that was half the charm of songs like Cream, his bantering to the audience, him playing the audience.

I do not mind what he puts out. I'l get it no matter what, as I always do.

laurarichardson said:

Woman, nevermind the pot, my point is P needs a label but his reputation and album sales are f***ed up. No one really wants him.

HamsterHuey said:

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i'd love to hear an acoustic album of prince's hits. i'd love to hear an album of new music. i'd love it if he released neither and just put out the musicology live DVD. i'd love it if he did an album of sitar and yodelling. actually, i would especially love that.

Acoustic albums traditionally don't sell all that well. I'll be amazed if Prince is really considering this in both a business and artistic sense.

I really wouldn't mind though.

- It seems that he enjoyed the acoustic medley of Musicology tour