didn't he already come back in 2004?

he's a huge enormous star now. he's part of the establishment. he could putz around for the rest of his life and still be considered a major music legend.

comeback, schmomeback!

Prince does not have to make a comeback. What do he have to prove? In the last 2 years & still counting, Prince has been just as big as he was in the mid 80's.

Anx said:

Yes, and it's disgraceful that he's let himself go from someone who released demo tapes as a full album to this. It's almost as if he's been a hypocrite.



couldn't have said it better. When Prince just lets something fly, it's always so much better. All his truly great albums (not necessarily those held as great in the public eye) adhere to this.

Anx said:

I know, the chump. He's gone on and on about how restrictive the record labels are and how, for him, they are just business and not about music. Well now who's about business, Mr. Vegas? Eh?! Fucking idiot.

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Zogmuffin said:

I was surprised at him myself. I wouldn't mind seeing him there since it's a small venue but that's probably not gonna happen unless he stays until March or April.

As for New Year's Eve - Please - $1,000.00? Get real. That was an insult.

meow85 said:

One minute he's the bad boy of rock n roll, the next minute he's the Tammy Faye of Pop music.

VenusBlingBling said:

So true.

Outside of the US, Prince is dead. Anyone who says otherwise is disillusioned.

I know, I'm a british teenager. If he was big, my age group would be listening to him. They're not. They still think he's gay, and some think he's actually dead.

Also true about the Superbowl. What the fuck is that to any country that doesn't play American Football? i.e. the rest of the world. And no one else will see it, either.

I used to wish he'd come back big and show all of England how much he deserved fame, but having seen how he comes back I wish he never had. I wish he'd kept laying low and being viewed as this freak, because it kept his ego down, and kept him experimenting, which at least meant he was releasing something vaguely interesting, which now he most certainly isn't.

Spookymuffin said:

Prince still has a lot of fans and respect music press in the England. And I'm sure Prince could sell out a few concerts at Wembley Arena, if he could be botherd to promote his music, both past and present in England and Europe.

But I agree that the sad truth is Prince and is dead ie not a name of most of the public think of. Prince's last of albums in the USA have been successful, but in England they sunk without a trace. Prince hasn't been a high profile artist in England since 1994-95 when he was still with Warner Bros. I don't think Prince's performance at the SuperBowl will raise his profile that high in Europe as most of Europe as no intrest in American FootBall (as we call it in England).

Prince does not have to make a comeback. What do he have to prove? In the last 2 years & still counting, Prince has been just as big as he was in the mid 80's.

I f Prince cared about those outside of the US He probably would have been back over there by now! Aren't you forigners the ones he's threatening to sue anyway? Not the fansites in America!

does MTV even matter anymore?

wlcm2thdwn said:

it has nothing to do with him caring; the fact is that his shows would struggle to sellout in England if he played for more than 2 nights in any one place.
and he isn't suing websites because they're european; that's an unbelievably ignorant and stupid thing to say.

Spookymuffin said:

Ignorant and stupid but true

Spookymuffin said:

Ignorant and stupid but true

wlcm2thdwn said:

What the heck?! Don't let this become an "America against the rest of the world"- thing now. I hardly think that Prince thinks that way so unless you, wlcm2thdwn, have talken to the man himself it's a childish statement to make.

vainandy said:

I agree, to an extent.

In the UK shithop is not at all cool or successfull outside the chav community. It's the resurgance of Britrock in all its glorious forms that is doing amazingly over here; indie, punk, new rave - it's all quite awesome to be honest, I love that it's back - there's so many gigs on it's brilliant, but I digress. Prince could become shit hot again if he found his place. He'd get more respect and he'd make better music.

Zogmuffin said:

man that sounds so cool.. thats it im moving out there! a place where rock rules again? awesome!

Spookymuffin said:

Agreed. All or most of you people who say he's made a huge comeback think only of the US and forget to consider other parts of the world. Abroad, I practically never hear him being played on the radio, see his new videos on tv, read about him or anything. When I talk to people no one, except die hard fans, knows about his latest albums and singles that have been released since The Most Beautiful Girl In The World. And the Super Bowl is big in the US but that's it. No one in Europe cares about it.

Like Tina Turner's comeback in 1984. Or rather, does anyone here think that Prince will ever go back to being as big as he was in the 80's, in terms of publicity (worldwide), sold records, etc.? Why, why not?