Would anybody like to see Camille return? Sounds like he popped up on the song Come On from NPS. Do you miss the Camille voice?

Deninately! The Camille album was the perfect funk/pop/rock/soul fushion to me!

Meloh9 said:

Hell no...
Anything Prince would record today under the Camille moniker would be a disgrace and a joke to the serious electro funk he isn't able to create anymore...
Camille's dead, let him rest, with Prince's current outlook on everything he would just ruin and tarnish Camille's rep...

Neversin.

Neversin said:

maybe? maybe not

Neversin said:

Agree wholeheartedly. I doubt very much Prince is capable of producing anything close to Camille today.

I'd like Camille 2 make a return but I also think Musically he wont do so good. I think it's safe 2 say Camille will only live great in the Sign 'O' The Times album.

YES! LOVED ALL THAT IS CAMILLE....

so I take it most people feel like Prince is not capable of making good music these days?

Camille is a legend!!!

Camille is awesome. no question.

but i don't think the Camille persona/voice fits Prince's present mindset, lifestyle, or where he is currently at musically. if Prince resurrected it today, i think the end result would be either silly, sad, or unsatisfying.

basically, what Neversin already said.

(although i do wholeheartedly believe Prince is totally still capable of creating incredible music. i just don't think the Camille persona fits into the picture anymore, or at this point in his life anyway)

Meloh9 said:

He still is capable, but it seems like he is no longer interested in electrofunk. Too bad, 'cause that's the type of music I have enjoyed most from Prince.

Meloh9 said:

He can still make good music -great music, even -but given his current attitude I don't think resurrecting much of anything he's done before would work.

The funk is still here, but Prince's self-restricting has taken away a lot of the fun, which is equally important.

meow85 said:

then why are the live shows so fun. is there something live that is missing from the albums? I just thought about the fact as I'm writing that a lot of early stuff was recorded live... He had me crackin' up at the Musicology show!
[Edited 11/25/05 12:37pm]

WEll, then if he DOESN"T WANNA BRING BACK SAY CAMILLE and his FORMER SELF WHAT THE HELL IS HE GONNA DO WITH HIS VAULT MUSIC? HE is going to just Have it Come out as BOOTLEGS? What is the PURPOSE of CREATING MUSIC and VIDEO THAT YOU WILL NEVER RELEASE? It's FOOLISH NOT TO RELEASE it NOW when he is STILL POPULAR. WHAT IS HE WAITING FOR? I DO WANT NEW MUSIC,but I THINK he should release the OLD STUFF ALSO.

i would love to see her return! i'm suprised that prince never released an album,featuring her?

"him"

The Camille persona abandoned Prince's confused mind and went on a pursuit for an artist with current mainstream appeal...one who would appericate it on a full-time basis rather than a sideshowact. At a time when hiphop seemed nothing more then a bunch of thuggish rappers sagging and grabbing they dicks, Andre Benjamin (Dre of rap duo Outkast) longed to be different. One night as Andre slumbered, Camille became one with his conscious, and Dre as the world barely knew him from rest of them rap singers, suddenly began dressing even weirder and acting even stranger than he had before...(most notably, his appearance on Slimm Cutta's "It's Okay" single) - many of hiphop listeners thought that Andre was either gay or on drugs - but, however, his new moniker (Andre 3000) was what Outkast need to go to that "next" level....
[Edited 11/25/05 17:52pm]

Prospect said:

Meloh9 said:

I have a Camille-related conundrum 4 any who would know- the 8 songs on the Camille record proper were 2 b If I Was Your Girlfriend, Housequake, Feel U Up, Rebirth of the Flesh, Good Love, Shockadelica, Rockhard in a Funky Place, and Strange Relationship. Camille gets vocal credit, also, on U got The Look. But even though Prince's voice on "Scarlet Pussy" is at regular speed, Camille gets songwriting credit on that particular track...

Given that the Camille album proper was meant for 1986, with U Got The Look surfacing in 1987, and Scarlet Pussy showing up in '88/'89 (can't remember the exact single release date), are we 2 assume that Camille lived on a little bit longer b4 being killed on the Lovesexy tour?

I know that U Got The Look was never intended as a Camille track, since it was sped up after the fact for Sheena Easton's part of it. I also know that Scarlet Pussy is one of those fascinating songs that can be played at 45 or 33 1/3 on vinyl and it still sounds like no 1 other than Prince.

So how do those 2 tracks fit in2 the Camille mythos? Please 4give my ignorance- I ask in order 2 learn.

therighteous1 said:

Edit: OK, scrap what I originally wrote, I can put it way more concisely:

The idea of Camille using only the 'sped-up' vocal begins and ends with the abandoning of the idea of the Camille LP itself.

Instead of the single LP idea, Prince decided to expand on the LP into the 3LP set Crystal Ball, which for a short-while was still attributed to Camille. So here, already, the Camille moniker is not confined only to the sped-up voice.

Then, Camille was also Prince's character in Graffiti Bridge, the songs from which were also not to be exclusively in the sped-up vocal.

Then, by the time of the Lovesexy tour, Prince used the Camille name to attribute the creation of both The Black Album and Lovesexy, both of which use various vocal styles, from sped-up, regular, and slowed-down.

So the idea that Camille is exclusively a sped-up vocal, or that it is one singular, linear idea and concept is bogus and too restrictive. The Camille persona and name was used for various projects and various purposes.


» NouveauDance
[Edited 11/27/05 3:19am]

Yeah sometimes I really do. I know alot of people who are not Prince fans find the Camille voice really obnoxious but I being a hardcore Prince fan it doesn't bother me. The only thing is I wish Prince would have sung "If I was your girlfriend" like he did in the movie Sign of the Times instead of the Camille voice.