In my opinion The Planet Earth cd is a Positive~Feel-Good album and I enjoy it very much so!
Prince has different flavors of music on this cd...
songs 2 dance 2, songs that send out Positive heartfelt messages, Beautiful~soul touching songs (Somewhere Here on Earth ) Fun-lighthearted songs....I love the Planet Earth cd
Thank U so much Prince

or Theology...

Or Volta

Maia7 said:

Well said, I agree completely.

Listened to it tonight. Didn't enjoy it as much as I could have, but he had me sold a couple of track in

Let's just say this is one album that makes me really enjoy his company.

or Magic.

Accujack said:

Thank u!

silverchild said:

Of course it's a flop. Virtually no one outside of this web site cared that it came out or is still talking about it. And stop making excuses for Prince. If his albums receive no promotion, he has no one to blame but himself.

I really find it hard to see why some fans don't like the album.

To me it sounds like great Prince. There are great melody's, songs with hooks, some great vocals, great guitar playing. It really is a great pop album.

If sales were the goal, why do u think Prince gave away 5,000,000? .....and no advertising or promotion?

Graycap23 said:

Everyone I know has a copy of this CD and not one of them bought it....how can u measure it's success by its sales?

I think it's a great album and if I had to pay for my free copy(ies) now I would.

Romeoblu said:

Yeah, I think it was a vast improvement in comparsion to 3121.
Haha, before I gave it a listen, I was praying that it wouldn't be modern sounding like it at all... I didnt like the album very much at the time.

Strangely, its made 3121 sound really good... maybe too good.

But I think the perfect description for this album is "contemporary R&B"
It is a pop album, but in some instances, it surpasses "pop"

I don't consider it a flop at all. The Prince fans have it so that's all that matters. I don't want the general public getting into him. They might tempt him to do more shit hop.

Some people can't see the forest because of the trees.

jaynoonan said:

Loved the performance if only for this cover.

Graycap23 said:

Hardly matters, because Planet Earth is obscured by a bunch of bears shitting in the woods.

it seems to only be a flop to anyone who's

a)agreed with mass complaints about prince half assing it. (to which i say, prove it. aside from "he jacked this part from this artist", i haven't heard anything that really constitutes it as "awful")


b) compares it to previous records as if that's the only way to critique an artists work. i can understand some comparison, but there has to be something outside of "this isn't Sign O the Times. I wanted Sign O the Times again."


c) can't fathom the idea that maybe it wasn't his best effort. for whatever reason, just because it didn't have some mind blowing statistic of sales, or didn't have 0193 music videos/promotion, it's awful. it all boils down to the music, which was pretty decent. and no one said it was his last album.

(sorry for double posting)
[Edited 11/4/07 10:49am]

happyhappy said:

I definitely agree with u and that's why I started this thread because it seems like alot of P fans on this org are just thinking Planet Earth is full of just cookie-cutter, pop junk. I think PE could've been better myself, but it is still a solid release and it shows Prince is just focused only on the music. And even though the sales are disappointing, that doesn't mean it isn't a worthwhile effort.

silverchild said:

yes, I agree on that.
I'm glad you started the thread for that reason. I was just getting sick of the bad karma around this album.

Sure, it could have been better... I'd like a better ending with a diff. premise... but I hadn't had that much fun with an album on the first listen in a very long time. As far as I'm concerned, it met my expectations (2b better than I thought 3121 was at the time) and it surprised me with a few gems that I'm glad he came up with (Mr. Goodnight 4 one).

Neither. It's definitely not his best, or even in my top ten favorite, but it's better than some of the more filler-based 90s material.

Graycap23 said:

I HEARD THAT Greatcap. Great feedback

I don't listen to Planet Earth much anymore. To me the whole album sounds like a lonely middle-aged musician is trying a little too hard to entice his future-baby-mama or future wife.
With lyrics like 'I got a lot of money and I don't want to spend it on me' he certainly has the attention of all the gold diggers, if that's what he's looking for. Since he likes pretty things he is willing to pay for the next pretty thing who chooses to be with him.
The lyrics to 'Mr. Goodnight', 'FBM', and 'the one u wanna c' also sound a little too desperate for my taste.
I don't think it's a bad album, but it's simply not my cup of tea.

Graycap23 said:

Because no one other than Prince fans would pay for the crap on that album after seeing/hearing the songs from it in promotion. Why advertise something that isn't that good? I sure as hell wouldn't. Prince still got paid from the newspaper--and it's a lot easier to get one person (e.g. a newspaper) to buy a "flop" than get thousands of non- or casual fans to buy a crap cd for $15-$18 instead of download it for free.

Wall said:

It's fuckin' hilarious b/c it's true.

I don't think it's a 'commericial' flop because there was any effort to make it a success. (Success meaning a combination of chart numbers, singles released/airplay and general buzz.) If Prince would have *tried* to promote it (other than giving it away in a lame ass UK newspaper) and seen the same results as we have now (e.g. not much airplay, no videos released, non-Prince fans don't even know he released an album this year) then that would constitute a commericial flop.

Personally (and as others have said), I definitely think the album is a musical flop. It is not a good album: the music (instruments only) is nice for about half the songs; but the lyrics are awful and the album overall is entirely forgettable. I haven't listened to it more than 5 times and struggle to even remember what the songs sound like. (And it has no funk.) Planet Earth is definitely not one of Prince's better efforts. I can't wait for the Planet Earth era to be over.


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[Edited 11/4/07 22:33pm]

DevotedPuppy said:

U do bring up an angle that I had not thought about. I wonder why Prince did NOT released the orginal version of the cd which was ready in Feb. 07? Good point.

I think he wants to sell all the songs to commercials... "The 1 U Wanna See" should be in a Ford truck commercial...

Not a flop.


Prince is part of a wave of artists who seem to be releasing albums to promote tours, rather than the other way around.

Let us not forget he packed 20 shows in London this summer, and distributed the album to millions of folks.


Planet earth is a safe, relatively catchy, non offensive, advertisement of Prince, probably designed to appeal to the broadest age group, cultural distribution, and overall demographic as possible. Not a route most Prince fans would care for him to take, but he took it. I would say it was a commercial success, but not exactly an artistic one.

BeautifulOneJem said:

the only saving grace 4 having the album. musicially it's not good and that makes it a flop.
[Edited 11/5/07 11:13am]

I'm not really concerned with lp sales as much as the musical content.

Being that the music and lyrics was so horrific for this lp ....the lp in general is a flop in my opinion. Worse lp he's ever made.