I mean:

Releasing ATWIAD within 9 months after the succes of Purple Rain?

Posing naked on the cover of Lovesexy and offering 'difficult' music on that album, after he (european) succes of Sign of the Times?

Delivering a confused, chaotic, over the top sounding album with 'Symbol' after his commercial come-back with Diamonds and Pearls?

what do you mean is"it you"

is it you?

or is it not you?

of course he does, always been very ambivalent. his ego doesn't want to accept obscurity or the total compromise of the business. that's always been him, torn between all opposites, one of the things that makes him special.

He's just trying to do something new you know a lot of people are never ready for Prince.