Would he?

Considering the retro state of music today, he probably could have dropped Dirty Mind today and been very well received. For You and Prince might not fare so well, though.

Prince dont ever need to come out, he is clearly king of the gaylords.

squirrelgrease said:

i agree but I wonder about all the other albums? I think the song private joy wouldve been recieved well I don't know but good question!

Good question and yes I agree.

I've recently bought a back log of his cds which I hadn't heard.
The music is timeless. Not all of it but 80%.
In fact I prefer his more recent stuff than back then.He has mellowed with an incredible smooth sound which by far outdoes most r&b contemporary artists out there right now. All the equipment everyone has nowdays and the mass production of the business in comparison to the 80s has lead to a decrease in quality, it's hard to find really good timeless stuff. Artists such as Prince who are multi-talented are rare.

Boysexy1992 said:

Nope. Back then the zeitgeist was prime for him to becme the success he is. Nowdays, it wouldnt have worked.

prince would not do well if he came out today, we forget the management team that had to fight tooth and nail for all kinds of shit. He would not be given near the control nor the room to grow, before Controversy he worried the label would drop him, in todays climate that would be a certainty.

No, not at all. He would have to strip his sh*t down , and put some mediocre thug rappers in it. I dont think that anyone from the era of the 70/80s/90s would have success today....MHO

i think he would not be popular as in the 80s because
now you have internet
everybody's downloading music,nobody is bying

Impossible hypothetical. Assuming he came out now instead of 30 years ago means that modern pop music is different without his influence. What we have now would not exist in a world where Prince wasn't a part of the musical influences, so who's to say?
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Good question and responses. Personally I don't think the success would not have been the same given the style of music and the lyrics. The point about having to have some thug rap would be needed is probably true. He and his lyrics might not have been understood .

ya'll all right in ur on ways cuz shit is diffrent now i wish someone like prince wuld come out again

Slowly leaving thread.....

That means that we'd be living in a world without "The Dream".
Hot Damn!!! Fire up the time machine I'm going back!

HonestMan13 said:

ElCapitan said:

I was referring to that wack singer who thinks he's Prince.

HonestMan13 said:

yeah I know

DÁngelo needs to drop a demo ala Dirty Mind

Well relatively does anyone have that kind of success anymore. People seem to like evrything and nothing today. Strangely I think prince contributed to that sense of ecclecticism that people have today. This slowed down his sales in the 1980's but when other "Artists" started doing a multitiude of sounds on one album in the 1990's it was generally seen as the norm.

I think a Prince from scratch today would still be a revelation and that he would tear it up. I also dont think he would play around with such a strong image. It's ironic but as the world has become more liberal,metrosexual etc there is so little need to actually challenge that it is very difficult to make a statement, and it is usually this that gives an artist long careers-coz only the radical can influence and then gain long term nostalgia. The world is very bland today, but this is inevitable as society has in the main plateaued in what it is striving for. Look at someone like Lady Ga GA ( and no I'm not a fan)-the image is seeemingly defiant, but listen on the radio and it could be any retro 80s singer.

Where I think Prince might fail (I'm not convinced by this though) is that we live in a very "Pretty" age and however Prince may be deemed perfect there would be no hiding from what many would consider as physical failings. You cant hide anymore or truly create your own mystique. Everything is laid bare, sad but true

^excellent points^

jcurley said:

Yep, the internet has pretty much killed off artists creating mystiques which older stars from the 80s could do. It was a lot easier to keep control of image etc back then and there was a lot more build up & excitement that could be created leading upto album releases.

Boysexy1992 said:

hell yea he'd be all the rage right now!!!!