I feel so sorry for prince when I think of the emancipation album.

So many people have a bad opinion of this album, I personally think it rocks, there is some great songwriting on there, of course what lets it down is the producing.

My point is that our princy put his heart and soul into this album, 3 disks of mostly good material followed by poor sales and lukewarm reviews. No wonder he has given up trying to do a quality album after this. I feel that this episode messed up his creative streak. If I met him I would love to tell him what a good job he did on that album, despite the flaws.

I would be hard pushed to find any other artist who could release 3 disks of material of that quality..probably none.

Anyone have views on this??

I think it's provoked a lot of debate!! I think he released this album to weed out the pop fans from the music fans.

mackopolis said:

Quite the opposite.

Despite it's length, it was an attempted commercial comeback. All the promo, the videos, appearances, interviews, etc - It was Prince making a commercial sounding record to promote to the masses, to get an independent hit away from Warners and regular record contracts.

Just like Rave (which bellyflopped even faster) and just like Musicology, third time lucky.
[Edited 8/18/05 1:33am]

Parade (commercial)

mackopolis said:

Yes, that whole thing sounded like a WHAM! record indeed.