laurarichardson said:

Regardless of the terms, signing a recording contract contradicts everything he claimed he was fighting when he was moaning about his Warner's deal. And if you think that Universal is signing him without any input whatsoever into the marketing of the records they will be releasing, you're living in a fantasyland (and that's to say they will not have any say in the content of the records, the packaging, etc., etc., which I highly doubt).

Ace said:

nah. he just won't talk about it. and it'll be added to the list of things interviewers can't ask him about. the man knows how to build walls.

Ace said:

That was the PAST!!! People change, situations change, outcomes change and decisions change...

purplecam said:

Hey...that was my line!

Anxiety said:

Co-Sign. He has been doing one-offs since he left WB. Although each deal has surmounted in the same specualtion as this one. I doubt this is any different.

I wish they had given more info about the album though.

Ha Ha!

Prince is great man. He just keeps on doing whatever the fuck he wants, no matter what he has said in the past.

superspaceboy said:

me too! i don't know why but i had this gut feeling for the last
year that it would DEF be a double disc package.

his first -specifically designed as such- double DISC album. but
i'm not so sure anymore after this press release. perhaps Prince
will clarify this matter for me later 2day at his own conference

sermwanderer said:

Sometimes this site scares me.

IstenSzek said:

Or even info on the rumored W&L collaboration ...I even heard rumblings of a revolution album (or maybe that's my wishful thinking...or someone posting fake info here). SOmething other than He's working with yet another company. Other than a new album is on the way and the new song (out WAY WAY before the release of 3121) slash video dorected by Salma Hayek.

I mean really, the statement could have been shorted to 2 sentences.

superspaceboy said:

indeed. i think this is the first single just to test the water a bit and
to mildly catch people's attention. probably hoping it will get a lot of
airplay over the holiday season.

there will probably be a second single first week of feb that will have a
faster beat and the album will then follow late march or early april.

i think they're going to go the Diamonds & Pearls route with this, pulling
2 singles from it before they release the album.

at least he's learned a thing or two from the Rave fiasco and got his vid
ready to go same time as the lead off single.

that was SUCH a wasted chance with The Greatest Romance. he just kept on
holding back the video until after the single and album were in the shop



as far as the Revolution stuff is hinted at here and there, i wouldn't
put my money on it. it's been said too many times now for me to really
fall for that.

perhaps some Wendy and Lisa stuff. But you know what he's like, he'll
have contacted them finally and they'll have recorded an album's worth
of top notch material only for P to stick it in the vault and hit at
it for years to come, though never releasing it.

Ace said:

iiiiirony alert mate.

can you dig it?
[Edited 12/13/05 13:42pm]

sermwanderer said:

Sorry, man - thought you were for real (there's no shortage of people on this site who will basically defend anything Prince does with similarly flawed logic).

liberation said:

Then why even pretend to be a fan if that is all you care about. His creativity didn't end during that era and he has grown as an artist so he should just play the same old stuff from back in the day. He is making music which is all any of us should care about and if you don't like it then you have the right not to purchase any of it. All the negativity around here is astounding and none of us have even heard one note. If it were you that all this negativity was about then what would ya do? Stop or continue to do what makes you happy and rich or dig a hole to crawl into. Let's just wait to hear what the man gives us this time and see if we can appreciate some if not all of it.

Full on quake? Puh-lease!

Ace said:

thats cool man.

I can understand Prince not having to answer to his ambiguities on NPGMC, its like a state controlled newspaper over there, but the org should be an open talking shop for his madness.

Who gives a rats ass about his deal. All that matters is whats on that record.

sermwanderer said:

Some would seem to prefer it that way over here, too. I'll say it again: I love a lot of the man's music, but that doesn't mean I don't call him on it when he's talking out of his ass.

VinnyM27 said:

And I'll just bet Warner Bros. is kicking themselves right about now. Tough stuff - eat it, Warners.

garnis said:

gotta co-sign this one here...

I give one rat's ass what label he works with -- other than WB -- afterall, it was WB that made our little hero, and I would shit a brick if he actually jumped back in the bed with those guys.

All I want to see is a well marketed album, and that really depends on what Prince does or doesn't do. We all seem to overlook the fact that WB made sure that there was plenty of access to the freakin' beats! So let's make it easy to get a buzz goin' for 3121!!!

liberation said:

YO! Stop living in the past!

Probably looking at the wrong thing on his "agreement." Dollar bet that regardless of what he signed, there was something in there about owning the masters and him making, like $5 per unit sold or something. That's what he's used to now . . . he wants that chedda . . .

As for the song . . . heard it on www.windowsmedia.com . . . it's a classic understated Prince ballad . . . which means it won't be a hit. It's not a bad song, but it ain't "got the rhyme to make you tell a friend . . ."

Disappointing, this guy. On one hand, I get it -- leading off with a ballad, I mean. With the exception of Musicology, the last fonky uptempo hits he led off an album with were "Gett Off" (D&P) and "Sexy MF" (Symbol) and that was in the early 1990s! I mean, it's hard for him to go wrong with the ladies with a ballad, but . . . "Te Amo" is kinda sleepy . . . zzzzz . . .

Teacher said:

compared to the dearth of information or ANYTHING we were getting all year? yeah. quake. so shut up already!

L3E said:

only thing that can be figured is that this song had a better vision 4 the video versus the remaining songs on the disc. this may be a fact that the video may actually inspire the masses to purshase (imagine that).

as 4 the "agreement", in a previous prince interview(s) he broke the word "con-tract down, and in moreorless better term/wording would be agreement. basically prince agrees to give them music until they piss him off.

any rumors on a tour??

Anxiety said:

DAMN!

poetbear68 said:

Or could it be the other way around, Prince is regretting leaving WB? I was just discussing this with someone the other day. And now it looks like he's gone back to a long-term deal with a record company...



1. New musical home...as opposed to NPG Records (or NPGMC)?

2. Exclusive recording agreement sure sounds like a record contract to me!

3. Use of the phrase "first release" in conjunction with the name of his forthcoming album, indicates that more album releases are planned.

So as I was saying, sure seems like Prince has gone back to a conventional record contract. Maybe he has agreed to self-finance the recordings in exchange for retaining ownership of the works?

Unless this press release is poorly worded or simply very wrong, the meaning is clear. Perhaps we'll get some clarification soon, and that might prove me wrong. I'll be watching with great interest!

Maybe some folks just don't want to accept that he may have gone back on one of his biggest "principles" of recent years? Again, I could be wrong, we'll see.

I saw alandail's post at NPGMC...still no answer as of now...I added my $.02, we'll see if they respond, or if the press conference clarifies things.
http://www.npgmusicclub.c...81#1156481

Edit/update: Okay, based on reports from the press conference, it IS in fact another one-album distribution deal, like with Columbia! Sure sounded like more in the press release, though.


[Edited 12/14/05 1:24am]

jone70 said:

thank ya kindly, i was waiting for that.

CandaceS said:

Personally, I was disappointed when Prince left WB. I always hoped one day WB would come out with a poster of its two most famous entertainers together...Prince and Bugs Bunny. Now that would have been a COOL poster.
[Edited 12/13/05 17:58pm]

Since hes with Universal records.. will he get his own rollercoaster or thrill ride at a universal theme park.. or possibly a theme restaurant lol


-Dolphinking23

i'm happy for Prince, he deserves this...Universal is everywhere on the globe and i'm happy that prince went with VH-1, VH-1 is not MTV(ican'tstandmtv). I wish him all the best.

Anxiety said:

you're welcome...i do my best.