i guess not many people on this thread like this song that much, I wonder if Prince reads these threads.

Prince its not too late! Dont put CB on MPLSOUND,! people will appreciate it more as one of your long lost bootlegs! PS (and while your at it, please also think seriously about NOT putting never be another like me on MPLSOUND).
[Edited 1/20/09 10:21am]

i guess not many people on this thread like this song that much, I wonder if Prince reads these threads.

Prince its not too late! Dont put CB on MPLSOUND,! people will appreciate it more as one of your long lost bootlegs! PS (and while your at it, please also think seriously about NOT putting never be another like me on MPLSOUND).
[Edited 1/20/09 10:21am]

vinx98 said:

I dig the cut. I'm a bit puzzled as 2 how it can get slammed when people have only heard a few seconds of the track.

vinx98 said:

I dig the cut. I'm a bit puzzled as 2 how it can get slammed when people have only heard a few seconds of the track.

Graycap23 said:

Me too!! You get a 30 second or so clip of a song, And that then becomes enough to determine the quality of the whole?

Does that make any sense to anyone else?

I dig the cut. I'm a bit puzzled as 2 how it can get slammed when people have only heard a few seconds of the track.

Graycap23 said:

First impressions matter.

vinx98 said:

I dig the cut. I'm a bit puzzled as 2 how it can get slammed when people have only heard a few seconds of the track.

Graycap23 said:

First impressions matter.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

I think what the 1st impression translates 2 is the intro's lyric, and the use of auto-tune.

Fans here R used 2 Prince being clever, even when he is being playful. So when they see a title like "Chocolate Box", they may have expected some other meaning, whether deeper, or simply, say... he meets a girl, and she keeps these special chocolates in her special chocolate box, which she's very protective of... something like that...

With the lyric being:

"I got a box of chocolates that'll knock the socks off any girl that comes my way"

It appears that the song is about him actually just having good chocolates that would impress any girl.

UNTIL we hear the rest of the song's lyrics, we don't know if that's the case, or if Prince will twist it 2 mean something else.

With the auto-tune used as an effect... Well, I don't prefer it. He uses it creatively, but I'd take a vocoder or talkbox any day of the week.

LINN: Nice.

Once U get past the intro, the song sounds like it could get interesting. I like the way he's singing.

As I said on another thread...

I'm an old school Prince head. I know 2 listen 2 whole albums several times before forming a perspective.

I want the entire bodies of work... then I check it.

I'm not presently listening 2 the radio rips, or his clips...

I am waiting.
[Edited 1/20/09 12:55pm]

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

I think what the 1st impression translates 2 is the intro's lyric, and the use of auto-tune.

Fans here R used 2 Prince being clever, even when he is being playful. So when they see a title like "Chocolate Box", they may have expected some other meaning, whether deeper, or simply, say... he meets a girl, and she keeps these special chocolates in her special chocolate box, which she's very protective of... something like that...

With the lyric being:

"I got a box of chocolates that'll knock the socks off any girl that comes my way"

It appears that the song is about him actually just having good chocolates that would impress any girl.

UNTIL we hear the rest of the song's lyrics, we don't know if that's the case, or if Prince will twist it 2 mean something else.

With the auto-tune used as an effect... Well, I don't prefer it. He uses it creatively, but I'd take a vocoder or talkbox any day of the week.

LINN: Nice.

Once U get past the intro, the song sounds like it could get interesting. I like the way he's singing.

As I said on another thread...

I'm an old school Prince head. I know 2 listen 2 whole albums several times before forming a perspective.

I want the entire bodies of work... then I check it.

I'm not presently listening 2 the radio rips, or his clips...

I am waiting.
[Edited 1/20/09 12:55pm]

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

I understand.....but people seem 2 be going over board.
I respect the opinions though.

Giovanni777 said:

Waiting for Godot.

Number23 said:

"so what are we waiting for again?"

"the new prince album"

"ah the new prince album"

"how long have we been waiting"

"forever"

"it's too much for one man"

"ah well, nothing to be done"

"nothing to be done"

L4OATheOriginal said:

As if Chocolate Box sounds like an outtake from the 80's. With it's juvenile lyrics and Pro Tools plastic sound, Chocolate Box is a blatant rip off of contemporary disposable pop music, it's hardly something that would fit on Dirty Mind or Sign O The Times.

And what's more, nobody is asking Prince to return to a dated sound. That only produces sentimental rubbish.

oh no? then what u been spilling out on these threads ever since the radio show played the new songs? u've been crying and ripping ur hair out 4 prince 2 return 2 the days where u loved him the most ..

L4OATheOriginal said:

There hasn't been a more blatant lie on this board in its history. Produce one quote where I've been 'crying and ripping out my hair' for Prince to return to the past or past sounds. Shouldn't be hard since according to you it's all I do.

Post smartly or don't post at all.

Wall said:

dude ur barking up the wrong tree ..i don't need 2 go back over the hundreds of posts 2 make my point about how u feel about prince's latest output..ur hostility 2wards others and myself say it all

L4OATheOriginal said:

Brilliant retort. The point is, you're wrong in saying I've ever called for Prince to return to a dated sound. But it's much easier to act suddenly bored with an incorrect statement you made, isn't it? Of course I don't blame you for a sudden apathy regarding your own statements because you would end up spending a lot of time fruitlessly searching for a post I made where I said Prince should return to his 80's sound because there aren't any. You were wrong in saying it but you have good company. Most fams react to any criticism of Prince by assuming if you're critical of his latest fluff, you therefore want to hear Purple Rain Part II. Brilliant logic, that.

The irony is, Prince is the one who will happily regress. When all else fails, it's time to drag out the Linn and hope you can recapture some of that magic. This trend began with Rave when "Prince" was the producer and we were to return to his glory days. Yawn. But the appeal of Prince's earlier work was that it was progressive in its approach not regressive. The sense of something new, not old is what made him who he is. Regression produces nothing but bad art.

But again, I rarely see anyone saying Prince should return to his past sound. It's another moronic straw man argument made by the herd of fams who can't grasp critcial thought.

The irony is, Prince is the one who will happily regress. When all else fails, it's time to drag out the Linn and hope you can recapture some of that magic. This trend began with Rave when "Prince" was the producer and we were to return to his glory days. Yawn. But the appeal of Prince's earlier work was that it was progressive in its approach not regressive. The sense of something new, not old is what made him who he is. Regression produces nothing but bad art.

L4OATheOriginal said:

Brilliant retort. The point is, you're wrong in saying I've ever called for Prince to return to a dated sound. But it's much easier to act suddenly bored with an incorrect statement you made, isn't it? Of course I don't blame you for a sudden apathy regarding your own statements because you would end up spending a lot of time fruitlessly searching for a post I made where I said Prince should return to his 80's sound because there aren't any. You were wrong in saying it but you have good company. Most fams react to any criticism of Prince by assuming if you're critical of his latest fluff, you therefore want to hear Purple Rain Part II. Brilliant logic, that.

The irony is, Prince is the one who will happily regress. When all else fails, it's time to drag out the Linn and hope you can recapture some of that magic. This trend began with Rave when "Prince" was the producer and we were to return to his glory days. Yawn. But the appeal of Prince's earlier work was that it was progressive in its approach not regressive. The sense of something new, not old is what made him who he is. Regression produces nothing but bad art.

But again, I rarely see anyone saying Prince should return to his past sound. It's another moronic straw man argument made by the herd of fams who can't grasp critcial thought.

then u obvisiouly have never paid attention 2 any of my posts cause if u had, u would have realized that i am the LAST person that wants him 2 return 2 the days of purple rain or the 80's sound. u call me a fam huh?

sure okay what should we call u then bitter person that can't create his own music but it's easy 2 hide behind a Wall called a keyboard?

i'm so ready 2 hear u music, oh wait.. u can't even read or play a instrument can u?

Typical responses on this site to constructive criticism of Prince:

"Who do you think you are, criticizing Prince? You've never made any music."

"You just want Prince to make Sign 'O' the Times again. Get over it, so you can enjoy the new music."

"You're just being negative about the new stuff because you hate your life."

"You're trying to tell Prince what to do, but you don't know anything."

A logician would laugh himself to tears reading some of the responses to posters like Wall.