meow85 said:

let's take the approach of one person's gold is another's garbage theory: i personally love the whole 3121 album. 4 me it was a "yes mf's i'm still here kicking killer groove and sticking the funk in ur face" another person says it's pure bullshit. i personally think planet earth is a piece of shit, yet others hail it as a masterpiece and so on.

this inlays the problem of past glory compared 2 current output. i can only speak 4 myself and what i c other fans have been doing 4 years when it comes 2 his current material and what i feel is the solution 2 it all.

stop looking 4 the past glory and just enjoy what's in front of u now. if it's not ur cup of tea, it's okay 2 voice ur opinion but just b honest with it. i'm not calling u out, i hope ur understanding what i'm trying 2 say about it all. if someone keeps sitting "the 80's material" then b honest and say hey this is what his music meant 2 me and this is what i want 2 keep feeling. the industry has so much changed since that time and i'm honest when i hear his linn drum in his music 2day i want 2 slap the hell out of him and say STOP THAT SHIT..get a real drummer and go 4 it.

i'm all 4 calling out prince 4 dogging it, hell he's been dogging it on stage since musicology.

how can we as a fanbase just allow him 2 b without shackles if we r all wanting him 2 go in so many different directions?

L4OATheOriginal said:

Then how do explain a track like Future Baby Mama, a desperate attempt at "hip" lingo obviously misunderstood. Would a mature person be trying so hard to sound like they're 20? Or 1+1+1=3, where he announces "ain't no room to disagree" ? Someone mature in their spiritual outlook can allow room for dissent from others.

As for whether the Prince of old would have written a song like Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife, I can't say. Perhaps if he'd been getting married then he might have.

L4OATheOriginal said:

I think he should stop listening to us and go with what he wants. More than that, he should stop trying to have another hit album for the youngins. The young people -like myself -who do appreciate his sound will find our way here without his having a song at #1 on Billboard or bickering with Timberlake.

People beg for funk, he makes funk. People plead for rock, he makes rock. People throw themselves at his feet so he'll make a ballad, he makes a ballad. Maybe it's easier said than done, but I think he'd be better off as an artist if he just quite bowing to our demands. Prince needs to make what he feels like making. That, I think, is when we'll see him really shine again -when he's making art to please what's inside him instead of to please us.

Another thing that many fail to realize is that Prince has done everything that you can think of . So how do you know if Future Baby Mama was written in 1996 or 2006?

I would only like to add that the music played on the Gold Experience Tour was FIERCE. That did appear to be a man possessed by music. They were calculated concerts, for sure, but they were also alive. The Prince I had seen before and the one I saw after didn't compare. He then appeared free to me.

Another thing that many fail to realize is that Prince has done everything that you can think of . So how do you know if Future Baby Mama was written in 1996 or 2006?

well one has 2 understand what 1+1+1 is 3 is truly about 2 say that..God (being the 1st number) is first ..man being the 2nd number 1 and woman being the 3rd number 1

tho i don't like the song future baby mama, current lingo has been used in all forms of music, i doubt it if prince started writting songs at this point in his life using 1950's lingo

L4OATheOriginal said:

Nevermind that that is completely insulting and degrading to females...."Ain't no room to disagree" is a profoundly immature thing to say, especially when he makes a point of announcing this ass-backwards sexual hierarchy, knowing full well many, many people do disagree.

He's 50. You're trying to tell me it's not sad and desperate when a person his age starts throwing out "hip" lingo like that? It just comes across as trying way too hard to be cool.

Is it "future baby mama" that everyone is upset about????? I guess I'm missing something again.....that's a compliment where I come from. Saying "baby mama" is a nice way also of saying she's not my wife. My sister lives with a man she's been with for maybe 20 yrs... they aren't married... I call him my sister's children's dad until they marry. I'm still wondering where this thread is at...

Is it "future baby mama" that everyone is upset about????? I guess I'm missing something again.....that's a compliment where I come from. Saying "baby mama" is a nice way also of saying she's not my wife. My sister lives with a man she's been with for maybe 20 yrs... they aren't married... I call him my sister's children's dad until they marry. I'm still wondering where this thread is at...

Is baby daddy wrong????? same difference. No big thang from where I'm from...