I don't get what's going on at the moment. Is a new album due? Are there any tours on the horizon? Is Prince working with other artists? I've never known such a quiet period in my whole Prince-life!

I may be missing something, I've not been paying much attention recently... can anyone help? What's Prince been up to/about to be up to?

To answer your questions, don't know, don't know, don't know.

It's believed that an album is due out sometime in the Autumn... but nothing officially confirmed.

It is very quiet, there are very few Prince sightings at the moment. I wonder if we will never know what Prince was upto at this time, or whether in retrospect in a few years time it will all be pieced together and make sense...

he is resting and trying to enjoy life at the moment...although i imagine that it is not easy for him to do-

does this make sense to anyone but me?

Resting and trying to enjoy his life at the moment? whynot
At least he is not shouting that he has 500 songs in the vault

Hey if he wants to take his time with this next album, thats cool with me. He mentioned he knocked out Musicology rather quickly.

Tom said:

hence the shitness of it.

i think he is entitled to a much deserved rest.

Did ja see the musicology tour? Do ya know how many cities he did. Shooooot my feet are still hurting and i didn't perform. (ok, one night i did) LOL

I really don't think it takes Prince a year to make an album, in the sense of constantly working on it. He's never worked like that. He knocks out a track in a couple of days, and then he's onto the next one.

He may well just be taking a break. But putting out an album isn't that tiring unless you choose to do lots of promotion and tour with it - and Prince has done that before, putting out music with very little fanfare.

Right now I'd happily him just put out some music and not bother with the promotion - especially if it's all in the USA and I'm not going to get to see it anyway!

As much as the slow periods make me a little and blue, I'm grateful for it now. Not only could I not go to anything, anywhere, I also could not buy a new release....

I can't wait to be through with school

Now actually!



God knows what he'll come up with...I need a dose of Camille in my life

GlitterStream said:

Hey, Lovesexy was knocked out pretty quickly too.

Enigmoid said:

LoveSexy is more cohease than Musicology! Prince did LoveSexy with his heart...not to be a commercial hit like Musicology!

MikeMatronik said:

Erm, yeah...

My point was that GlitterStream felt that the reason Musicology was a bit uninspiring was because it was 'knocked out quickly'. Hence, I pointed out that Lovesexy was also knocked out quickly and is a work of genius.

Prince knocking albums out quickly is no measure of how good or bad that album will become. That was my point to GlitterStream.

Prince resting? Don't make me

It'll be interesting to see what's next.

After his first brush with commercial success (1999), he followed it up with even more, huge global success (Purple Rain). He then followed that up with a willfully obscure album.

After his next commercial success (Batman; as good as 'Sign' is, I don't think it can be considered as a commercial success by 'Prince album' standards) he followed it up, yet again, with something spiritual and obtuse (Graffiti Bridge). Diamonds and Pearls was followed up with the album which, to me, seemed like a way of stretching the popularity he'd regained with the D&P album.

And last year, Musicology brought him back into the public eye, at least in the U.S.

Now, I'd love to see a repeat of history where the US success of Musicology which echoed the popularity of 1999 in terms of 'did well in the US but was ignored in the rest of the World', was now going to be followed by an even bigger global popularity and put Prince's name back in the public eye internationally (don't tell me that there's not one person here who'd love to see Prince back selling ridiculously high numbers of CDs).

Anyhoo, my point here is that Prince has never been predictable when following up commercial successes. I wonder what's going to happen after this last one?

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Enigmoid said:

I know...sorry!

MikeMatronik said:

No worries. The written word is a pain sometimes. The person writing it doesn't always express themselves quite right and the person reading doesn't always read it as it was intended. I think this is the reason why most online arguments occur.

Enigmoid said:

Especially when English is not my mother language...

MikeMatronik said:

Your English is fine and certainly better than most Orger's Portugese...

metalorange said:

It's true that he "knocks out a track" in three days or less, but that can be a blessing or a curse. In the early days, before he had Paisley Park and stardom meant he could do whatever he wanted, he was recording tracks thinking of the next album. Over time, because it was so easy, he has become habitual. This means that he was less focused and less selective in what he chose to record. It's great to have complete freedom, but it means nothing if you don't have the drive and the discipline. I for one am glad Prince appears to be taking his time, though it is most likely an illusion. The basic album is probably completed, but I hope that doesn't stop him from replacing some tracks if he comes up with something more compelling. The time he is taking is still a very good sign..

Aerogram said:

Hmm... But Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic was the first album of new material since NPS and that didn't exactly bode well

You can never tell what's going to happen next... Arntcha glad you're a P fan?






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Enigmoid said:

I hate the not-knowing. I'm getting so bored of P I'm going deeper and deeper into NIN, Gary Numan and other industrial artists. Help me. Bring back the funk to me.

Enigmoid said:

I couldn't be more pleased to be a Prince fan. Obviously, one can only predict. I'm just glad it's taking longer for once. Prince is great but he could afford to take his time once in a while, just to see what happens.

Well I guess it will be a case of 'Prince took his time over this album - and it shows, it's fantastic' or 'He took a year - to produce that...'

metalorange said:

Damned if he does. Damned if he doesn't.

BoySimon said:

I think that most people on here should stop being gay for Prince...for fuck's sake he's not a god, just a very talented musician. Go get a life of yer own and quick dreaming of sucking the man's balls every 2 sex.

rando310 said:

What a F.A.

Enigmoid said:

I thought you didn't much like that album.

Cloudbuster said:

I don't. But you can't deny it's genius.

The Mona Lisa is an amazing painting but it doesn't do much for me either.

By the way, your shit stinks.