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So why was Prince so pissed of at Warners? Iam sure this question has been asked millions of times, and i have read that Prince was pissed off that WB wouldn't release "goldnigga" as it was too soon after "symbol", so is that why Prince started his public lashing at WB? | |
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thesexofit said: Iam sure this question has been asked millions of times, and i have read that Prince was pissed off that WB wouldn't release "goldnigga" as it was too soon after "symbol", so is that why Prince started his public lashing at WB?
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Warners wanted to release new material in a cost effective manner, an album every other year with singles and a tour. Prince wanted to deliver multiple albums per year and not tour to promote most of them. It's kind of funny he had a beef with them, when there was no proper US tour for any album between Purple Rain and Lovesexy. You could see why the record company would've been hesitant by that point to believe that Prince would promote something they put out.
Another interesting factor that I don't see mentioned much is the fact that it wasn't as simple as Warners not wanting to release the records that Prince wanted released. Warners was supposed to pay up 10 million per release by the early '90s, which makes it harder for a company to go from one Prince release a year to three. I wonder if that 10 million doller per release clause wasn't in the contract if Warners and him could've come to some agreement. Prince always wants to play the victim, but if you have a major contract like that where you've agreed to pay up a 10 million doller per album advance to an artist it's simply not realistic for that artist to all of a sudden decide, "Well, I've got three more albums I want to put out this year. Oh yeah, I'm not interested in promoting them either, that's your job. Yup, no tour. Now, where's my 30 mil?"  No Sonny T?
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thebige said: Warners wanted to release new material in a cost effective manner, an album every other year with singles and a tour. Prince wanted to deliver multiple albums per year and not tour to promote most of them. It's kind of funny he had a beef with them, when there was no proper US tour for any album between Purple Rain and Lovesexy. You could see why the record company would've been hesitant by that point to believe that Prince would promote something they put out.
Another interesting factor that I don't see mentioned much is the fact that it wasn't as simple as Warners not wanting to release the records that Prince wanted released. Warners was supposed to pay up 10 million per release by the early '90s, which makes it harder for a company to go from one Prince release a year to three. I wonder if that 10 million doller per release clause wasn't in the contract if Warners and him could've come to some agreement. Prince always wants to play the victim, but if you have a major contract like that where you've agreed to pay up a 10 million doller per album advance to an artist it's simply not realistic for that artist to all of a sudden decide, "Well, I've got three more albums I want to put out this year. Oh yeah, I'm not interested in promoting them either, that's your job. Yup, no tour. Now, where's my 30 mil?" Hmmm, interesting. So if WB would give Prince $10 million per album advance, and then Prince saying, "nah, i want 3 albus out this year", then in theory, he'd get $30 million? Yeah, no wonder WB said no. Prince is a twat. | |
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Actually at about that time the executives at warner changed he had previously worked with ppl and knew to get things his way
Unable to work with these new guys meant he went out in public to bash them |
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asg said: Actually at about that time the executives at warner changed he had previously worked with ppl and knew to get things his way
Unable to work with these new guys meant he went out in public to bash them Ha, Prince seems even more stupid then, if that was the case. | |
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