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Funkmeimfamous said:

do not use the word "crack" when discussing a song called Future Baby Mama....

I love the song. It's smooth and edgy. The drum pattern is sick and the bass is ILL.

It reminds me of "Do Me Baby", and a little bit of "Somebody's Somebody".

It's an awesome song and I keep listening to it over and over!

such a stupid song title.....

the more i hear it the more i like it. i like the first line, "i heard it said my lovers look alike, could it be that i was looking for u"

see? even he knows there's the "prince-girl" type.

I decided to listen.. I think it was decent until that damn talking part came.. it totally entered itself into the standard r&b category...

Vocals? very young sounding prince.. he still has it vocally..

I am hoping a few songs enter experimental land.. this shit here is for the birds.

Sdldawn said:

I agree on the talking. Obviously, I would have preferred an instrumental break. Besides that, and the overtly layered vocals, I dig it. Like you said, his main vocals are killer and I like the understated but sweet melody, the old-sschool beat and the bass work.

I'll just cut and paste the message I posted from another thread, apologies.

Heard it for the 1st time.
True, it does feel like "When 2 R In Love"
But the torrid eroticism of the young adult Prince is now supplanted with his middle-age calm. I don't mean to sound negative though. Take it or leave it, this is the sound of Prince thinking loud as a man who has passed 40. You can actually hear his contentment through the lilting (and thoroughly infectious) melody of the verses (Chaka and Rufus's Sweet Thing might have been an inspiration for this song). It is however the song that comes closest to the best of his 80's ballads. The instrumentation (Linn and bass parts), at least, points to that direction, and not the 90's as previously noted. And one of his best vocals in a while. It may be the best one sung in falsetto since Journey to the Center of your Heart. His trademark harmonies which harken back to that first track from his first album are especially more evident here than with most of his recent R & B output. A lot of us prefer his more adventurous side, his unpredictable tendencies and (sometimes) excesses, but this is short and sweet Prince with just about everything in their right place. And it does deliver.

And thankfully the spoken parts are not "rapped".
This is not space-age electronic (and badly produced) or JB funkified (with synthetic horns) or anemic pop-rock (and Watchtower peddling) or impostured hip-hop (and ridiculous "rapping") or Stax-influenced (or coitus interruptus) or Latin-tinged (or lame excuse to use Sheila) Prince.
It's just good old Prince, period.

And it is a thousand times better than Guitar which sounds so much like 3121's Fury, albeit a dumbed-down version of it. Guitar is one of those rare instances in Prince's already mixed bag of a catalogue when the instrumentation doesn't seem to jive with the vocals. The "turn it up" part before the guitar solo sounds so undeserving of the fireworks that follow it. Why does he even use this little but not quite Camille voice of his? In my opinion, Guitar and Future Baby Mama are on two opposite extremes in the vocal department. The former being the worst and the latter being the best in a long time.
[Edited 6/27/07 21:49pm]

For those of you who haven't heard this song yet, I've uploaded it on my MySpace page at: [Do not stream bootleg snip - luv4u]


I basically recorded it from streaming radio by putting one end of a patch cable in the headphone jack and the other in the line in jack of my laptop and hitting record when the song came on, so the sound isn't exactly stereo quality, but it's better than nothing.

And don't laugh at my lackluster Myspace page. I started it a while back and lost interest in it.
[Edited 6/27/07 19:12pm]

Haven't heard it yet but I'm anticipating it. I hope it's good.

Rinluv said:

Click on the link that picassoface posted. He also has it playing.

I loved it! I think it's a hit!

such a stupid song title.. i hope the lyrics and singing isn't as rediculous as that...

What a horrible ghetto ass title. I hope the song doesn't sound like the title.