Prince shouldn't write songs & produce music alone anymore.

ChimChimBadass said:

I think that attitude, of just hiring a producer when you want a hit and basically turning upto the studio to add vocals, is exactly what's wrong with music these days. The music should be driven by the artist not the producer, which is often not the case anymore. Personally, I'd rather not have a record by some 'in' hit producer with Prince just singing over the top even if it was a hit - I've always loved the fact the records have always been Prince's personal vision, for better or worse.

It's not like Prince has not contradicted himself in the past, like not playing his hits again or not using a major label record company.

He seemed to launch his comeback in '04 playing alongside Beyonce - who is EXACTLY like these American Idol kids . . . singing songs that others wrote and playing no instruments. I don't see where he draws the line anymore . . .

I know he's most likely not interested in the TALKING part of the show, but Barry Manilow did it and had a #1 album to show for it. Queen did it, and they now have 4 songs in the iTunes Top 100 downloads.

So American Idol DOES do a great job at promotion, and he'd have a new generation of fans to show for it.

Anx said:

I'm sure there were plenty of folks that had no idea and still don't know that these were Prince projects...

Nobody is pretending to write their own songs on American Idol... They sing live... Come on, I mean these guys are singing or at least trying to sing Freddie Mercury tunes... their performances are going to be compared to one of the greatest vocalists ever... their talent, or lack thereof is out there for everyone to see... How is that a pretense?

The pretense is that these kids are expecting to be treated as an established pop icon just because they won a karaoke contest.

Despite their "lack of talent", Prince's girl group performers were given personas, characters, choreography - they were trained to have some kind of stage presence. It wasn't about having great melisma or holding a note really loud for a long time. It was about putting on a fun show. How is THAT pretense?

Anx said:

Some of them may be expecting that... some of them won't. I wouldn't call that pretense. That's just false expectations.

Don't you think Vanity expected to be treated like a star just because she was given step-by-step instructions from Prince?



It is a pretense because they did not start every show by saying: "We didn't write these lyrics, we didn't choreograph these moves and we didn't write the music."

On Idol, nobody has any doubt that the singers had nothing to do with the music... It's all out in the open.
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He's just so fuckin' pissed off about the fact that the AI winner will sell more copies than 3121
I think Fantasia Barrino first LP was a better record than 3121, i don't care who wrote the songs and who produced them, only the final result matters.
Prince shouldn't write songs & produce music alone anymore.
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Sorry if the headline offends you but this whole Prince not doing American Idol
because he doesn't want to talk or inter-act with the kids on the show is
really sad. Don't get me wrong I love Prince and his music but I really think he feels like he's God almighty himself sometimes. Why does he feel like he is above talking to people who admire him. If he would have went on American Idol and was really cool with all the kids,showed his wit,sense of humor and showed 30 million people watching at home that he isn't as weird as most people see him as and then did a killer performance on there, his album sales would have sky rocketed back to #1.

If he didn't want to do the show because he doesn't like the show that would be totally fine but not going on because he might have to talk to the contestants is really sad.

Sorry if the headline offends you but this whole Prince not doing American Idol
because he doesn't want to talk or inter-act with the kids on the show is
really sad. Don't get me wrong I love Prince and his music but I really think he feels like he's God almighty himself sometimes. Why does he feel like he is above talking to people who admire him. If he would have went on American Idol and was really cool with all the kids,showed his wit,sense of humor and showed 30 million people watching at home that he isn't as weird as most people see him as and then did a killer performance on there, his album sales would have sky rocketed back to #1.

If he didn't want to do the show because he doesn't like the show that would be totally fine but not going on because he might have to talk to the contestants is really sad.