Thanks, but I meant a song from before these new records. I think the songwriting is much better here than it has been.

The music is good, but Colonized Mind is barely a song. It's a performance, and a good one, but barely a song.

I am thinking this album will be played for awhile, unlike Planet Earth which was became a coaster a week after its release.

I actually like Colonized Mind as a track. I mean it's not much of a composition in terms of melody & chorus, etc. But it's a good piece of music, and a great performance. Perfect buildup. Actually similar to Purple Rain, as you say, which doesn't have much of a melody either (and I'm obviously not going to try to say THAT's not great).

I like the music on Lotus a lot, and I like how it fits together and builds as a whole album. I was really referring to songs as compositions like something another person might cover (like Crimson & Clover). Future Baby Mama, for all the negatives you can attach to it, it more identifiable as a song than, say, From the Lotus. I prefer From the Lotus, actually, but was noticing that the best compositions (in my opinion at least) are at the end of the album. Hopefully that makes sense.

But that's also what makes the album cool is that it's not bound to the typical structure of songwriting but out to create a bigger soundscape.

And Colonized Mind must be strong, because I was sort of off put by it in the beginning, and found myself being moved by the music.

and thanks for your comments on the other thread, I know it's not as interesting when you find out, but NDRU is my name, Andrew

The thing that kills me about Colonized Mind is that it would be one of his best songs ever if it just had poignant lyrics. Complaining about your record deal for the hundred millionth time just isn't going to cut it anymore.

can we discuss "the morning after"


what a horrendous track
I should be paoid for listening to that.

Not only does prince want to be both black and white,
but he wants to be a muppet too!

I've deleted it but I might refind it and listen to it when I'm pissed at myself for some wretched reson.
do u follow?

Your opinion is still wrong.

While Lotusflower is easier to stomach than the one trick, three legged, pony of Mplsound, it definitely hits the brakes quickly with The Morning After and the incredibly bad 4ever. They sound like rejects from an animated feature. Prince is obviously notorious for not sticking to one sound on his records, but he really shoots himself in the foot by trying to stick these two pop-clunkers on what is otherwise a step in the right direction of making an organic rock-pop album.

While Lotusflower is easier to stomach than the one trick, three legged, pony of Mplsound, it definitely hits the brakes quickly with The Morning After and the incredibly bad 4ever. They sound like rejects from an animated feature. Prince is obviously notorious for not sticking to one sound on his records, but he really shoots himself in the foot by trying to stick these two pop-clunkers on what is otherwise a step in the right direction of making an organic rock-pop album.

I agree about these two tracks. 4Ever is almost a parody of a love song. It's embarrassing to hear a middle aged man able to offer up nothing more than a series of one-dimensional rhyming lyrics. "I know, I know. Hips....rhymes with lips! Laugh? Hmm. Ooh I've got it! Bath!" It's very poor writing, and it has a lazy hook reminiscent of The Greatest Romance Ever Sold and Cinnamon Girl.