You decide the next concept of the album,amount of songs,choice of singles,tv appearances/promotions,touring-all of it.

Note-While some of you will say "Prince should do whatever he wants to do",which really is the truth, I'm aiming this more towards to ones who get a little frustrated over Prince's choices of promotion (or lack of it).

Bollywood.

I'd tell him to drop the Jehova's witness thing, and return to nasty Prince. I'd then release a solo (no backing band or special appearances by Sheila or Maceo) album of about 11 tracks, starting with some funk, but getting nastier, angrier and more guitar-based towards the end of the album, before dropping a 'Purple Rain' style rock ballad at the end. I'd have him make some killer videos, and go on tour, but refuse to talk to the media. We want bad ass Prince back!

A rock album for sure.

I even have the tracks picked out.

The album is called "The Queen in Red"


1. The Queen in Red - Hard rockin romp of a song
2. Frankly Mr. Bansky - an homage to the popular pop artist
3. I know it's Rover - a song about a dog. Strange song. Melancholy.
4. Never had No One Clever - song about his women. Also Melancholy
5. Cemetry Plates - a song about death inspired dinnerware.
6. Big Mouth Strikes a Pose - a song with alot of flamboyance and panache.
7. Larry in a Tutu - A PoomPoomPoomPoom jab at his best friend.
8. There is a Sale that Never Goes Out - A strange love song that is also depressing. Prince sings, "And if A double Decker bus, kills the both of us, to die as your bride, is such a heavenly way to die. And if a two ton truck, smashes into us, to die in Vera Wang, well, the pleasure and privilege is mine..."
9. Some girls are blacker than others - Basically Pussy control for African American Women only. He sings, "From the Ice age, to the Dolomite age, there is but one concern....."

Here's the format for your new album, to be released after the Superbowl:

1. Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful - This will be a lot like the demo you released, exact same vocals, but longer and more funk. There will be a rap in the middle, ala Incense and Candles.
2. This track will be a rock number, much like Fury. It will open with a blistering guitar solo, a scream, and then you will launch into uninhibited rock.
3. This track will be reminiscent of Muse 2 The Pharaoh, but you'll say some really cryptic things about God and it will be hailed as the new "Jehova's Witness song"
4. Spoken word over some strange sounding drug programming
5. Synth. LOTS of synth.
6. Number 5 will meld into this track, and it will be an uptempo electro track... I want people to say it's "techno" even though technically it won't be
7. A new studio version of Glasscutter, the demo you released on NPGMC
8. Acoustic song
9. Another rock song, something that sounds like it's from Chaos and Disorder
10. This track will be mainstream hip hop and it WILL be played on the radio. We will pay for it to be on every pop radio station and the video will be played on MTV CONSTANTLY. Teenagers will love it, and you will come back into the limelight as being one of the hottest artists
11. Musicology style funk number, with a reference to the dearly departed James Brown
12. Urban style closer, similar to 3121 (the song). At the end will be a spoken word section with you and the Twinz voices overlapped. You will say "Welcome to the Dawn" at the very end. This will close the album.

We will promote you a lot, you will go back on Ellen, The View, Late Night shows, etc. Your face will be everywhere on tv, you'll be on MTV, and you'll do a lot of televised performances.
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I would make Prnce release a box set of all of his unreleased material called VAULT. The box would look like a vault and it would include posters, lyrics, and concert videos. There would also be unreleased albums included such as "Dream Factory" and "Crystal Ball."

I would have Prince release transcribed guitar music books as well as the 7CD Sampler set that was never released.

I wouldn't expect Prince to be on MTV or a big hit among teenagers - it's just not realistic... So, he needs to cater to his long time fans who have been waiting patiently to hear what he's been hiding.

2the9s said:

YES!!!! i could see it now!

Imago said:

you are so wrong.

Okay, this would be my idea for the next Prince album:

Title:

Malfunktion

The Concept:

Rock star's fall from grace. Chronicle of a celebrity's decline from his creative and commercial peak, through his wilderness years, his brief comeback and his final career-ending humiliation.

Track Listing:

1. "Hit Man": a throbbing funk workout waxing nostalgic about his glory days. ("I used to be a Hit Man/I'd kill whole crowds back in the day/Now my trench is hung/My song is sung/And I ain't not nothing to say.")

2. "My Kingdom For a Whore": a raunchier Cindy C. dedicated to Mayte. ("My kingdom, my kingdom, my kingdom for a whore/She took my name and my number/She took my juice and my thunder/And now she bangin' Motley Crue?")

3. "Wardrobe Malfunktion Part 1": a soft delicate ballad about mooning people. ("My sales were down, it was easy to see/So I showed my ass on MTV")

4. "My Name is Awesome": A pumping, high octane, party jam about how awesome he is. ("I know pop, I know soul/I know funk and I know rock/I've faked my death so many times/People thought I was 'pac")

5. "Oreo": A self-hating Black man anthem that mixes all the genres it names. ("I went rock and I went platinum/I went psychedelic and I filled stadiums/But once I went hip hop and neo soul/They threw me nothin' but crumbs/Ohhh-reee-ohhhhh/Ohhhh-ohhhhh")

6. "My Bass": A frenetic fusion jazz spoken word lament about fan expectations and the prison of celebrity. ("Sometime I throw my bass in the air/and I don't care where or whence/I play my bass like the President plays/His dumbass constituents")

7. "All The Investors Love U in Las Vegas": Update of the original from 1999. ("I'm rich/I'm famous/And all the investors Love U/In Las Vegas")

8. "Computer Bald.": ("Where is my hairline?/Where has it gone?/Somebody please please tell me how this wig goes on/'Til I find a righteous weave/Computer Bald.")

9. "Wardrobe Malfunktion Part 2": the big moment on the world stage that went horribly wrong. ("I made the Superbowl crowd dance and dance/But then Usher came up and pulled down my pants/I guess my big comeback has come and gone/Cuz I didn't have my jockstrap on")

i'd be like "prince, go on an extended holiday whilst i have some people
come in here to remaster your back catalogue. and whilst we're at it, we
shall stroll through the vault and release a series of discs with lots of
unreleased tracks. say, a two disc set for every year since 1980".

don't forget your lipgloss prince. see you when you get back

padawan said:

you are so fuckin wrong

IstenSzek said:

ouch...

I think U got what it takes

christos7 said:

yeah, prince needs someone to tell him off. it's like
yo prince, either you listen or i'll go bunifa on yer
ass man



http://www.youtube.com/wa...wyoCViD71s

http://www.youtube.com/wa...zM6qJ3ZbGw

I would get him in the studio with Wendy & Lisa so they can finish off / update old unreleased Revolution material, and mix it with some newly recorded material. It would be a 2-disc set called "Open Book" and it would include tracks like Moonbeam Levels, In a Large Room with No Light and other key unreleased revolution gems, along with other unreleased material. The older stuff would essentially stay unchanged, but with perhaps some remixing and some new additions here and there to make it sound fresher and more contemporary.

We'd all fuck it up and piss off all the fans.

I wouldn't get involved until after you guys handled the music recording, promotion and stuff.

Then I'd come in and re-introduce Prince to the wonderful world of Flash streaming video!!

Only this time, instead of using it to show us videos we've already seen a billion times, I'd show him how he can use it to his advantage by having his freaking live performances streamed online for those of us who can not be there in person! He knows good and well, we'd pay to see them!

Where the hell is the streaming video, man??

Spookymuffin said:

Adisa said:

We would - it's guaranteed! We'd do what we want and produce a throwback to the 80s, or another Rainbow Children, or another R&B album - there's absolutely not a chance in hell that something original would come out of it!

Spookymuffin said:

sitruk7 said:

Would you like to see me die and go to heaven???

There would be nothing but ice cold synthesized funk and a lot of pissed off artsy/fartsy fans.
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vainandy said:

i'm an artist
some may even consider me artsy fartsy
you dont make all of us mad.
@least not me.

vainandy said:

I would buy your Prince album, vainandy. And I'm sure at least you and I would love it.

But seriously, are we being asked to out Prince PRINCE? Those are mighty big shoes to fill! And I can't walk in high heels, either!

To tell you the truth, I'm very artsy/fartsy myself. I love modern/contemporary/futuristic art and decor. I draw (at least I used to). I took Art 1, 2, 3, and 4 in high school. I used to write a few rhymes in the early 1980s (I guess you could call them hip raps, just not set to music or anything. I did it mainly for fun...we used to play the dozens). I also love exotic food and clothes.

However, when it comes to music, I'm the last thing from artsy/fartsy.

I betcha I could out-Prince Prince. When I got through with it, it would sound so ice cold you would need a mink coat to keep warm. It would probably sound like a combination of "1999" era Prince, The Time, Andre Cymone, Jesse Johnson, Bobby Nunn, and Ebonee Webb all rolled up into one. Most of the singing would be in that sassy ass falsetto and there would be lots of screams. Prince would be hoarse when I got through with his ass.

Jakeasaurus said:

This needs more love. Don't you guys think this would be an awesome album?

vainandy said:

gotta love how that works, huh?
but hey, 2 each his own, it's all good

And also, growing up gay (and very much in the closet back in those days), the last thing I wanted to be was a weak "sissy". If someone made a joke that I was into ballet or symphonies, I would ask them how they would like an electric guitar shoved up their ass.

vainandy said:

daaaaayum