I have been bored sence 2005...

Like most ppl here i ran out and got the Lotusflower 3 CD set the day it came out
But you know what, Ive only played One CD once, never botherd to listen to the other ones
It's allmost like i dont even care any more
Prince is like dead .. a memory

Sort of understand what you're saying... but, if you go and listen to some of the music being released at the moment, it firstly reminds you of the huge influence Prince has had on music over the years, and secondly allows you to 'hear', for want of a better dscription, the music you perhaps wish Prince was making right now...check out Passion Pit, Kids of 88 and Computers Want Me Dead... very new wave... very saturated in most things Paisley... very much the sounds I would like Prince to be pushing now.

LeanderWapshot said:

You will find many posters here who are apparently bored with Prince. Why they are posting here will always stay a mystery to me.

If you're bored, why write about in on a web site? Find something you enjoy and do that!

I have spent most of my life as an immense Prince fan. However, I have no hope whatsoever that he will do anything interesting again. There have been a few moments of pleasing music in the last ten or so years, but the Prince who put out songs that didn't sound like anything else, that had great vocal arrangements, the Prince who could allow healthy collaboration, and who didn't record music out of fear of being irrelevant is long gone.
For me, you'd have to go back well over a decade to find an album that was interesting and high-calibur.
Why am I here? I think I was bored and I sometimes check this site out, but I have never been less enthusiastic about Prince.

I have the same feeling about Prince now, as I had about David Bowie, back in the day when he moved away from being exciting, artistic and pushing the envelope.

As Bowie grew older, he became more and more boring, passion became apathy. Sure, the man had a revival in the 1990s, where he produced some more exciting things (that still was miles from being as great as his own back catalogue), and after two or three albums, he fell back into himself and started to rewrite the ol' songs.

I feel Prince is in that exact place now, and it'll only grow worse. If he's lucky, he'll have a lucky strike on a couple of future albums like Bowie had, but overall, I think we should expect the man to become more and more a slave to his own idiosyncrasies and end up sounding like a Prince covers band trying to write new tunes like their own biggest idol.





Bowie I gave up on years ago, but I'm not ready to really give up Prince yet, even though he bores me a bit at the moment.
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you're alone!
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I agree that emanciption was a turning point. There has been no quality control since the split with warner. There have been some great tunes since, but they appear less and less. When F.U.N.K was released I had high hopes for the pending albums but was bitterly dissapointed again.

There is hope still for Prince and there will always be Prince influenced artists moving forward.

Alan Wilkis and Juvelen are my particular favs at the moment.

ernestsewell said:

Yeah but Prince isn't in his eighties with psychological and physical ailments. If you want a better analogy, try Miles Davis. The dude kept changing and changing his sound and not looking back with a cpl of exceptions (under Quincy Jones' urging). I challenge Prince to create something so fearless and out there as all of those tracks on the Complete On the Corner Sessions box set.
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Someone may not like his 2000s output, o.k., fine...

But if you honestly want to tell me that "TRC" wasn't adventurous, or that "3121" (the song) with its dissonant guitars and the overlayed altered vocals wasn't something fresh, that you found the minimalism of "Black Sweat" boring, or his take on potential modern R'n'B with "Love", that you've been bored with the SNL version of "Fury", or that you don't hear any urgency in "Planet Earth" (the song) with its guitar solo - well, are you serious then???

Please ask yourself if there is any other pop artist out there you are as enthusiastic about as you've been with the Prince of, let's say, 1980-1988. Could it be that you have changed as well?

datdude said:

BAAAM i like you

EmancipationLover said:

I think Prince's output in the 00's had some merits, but that to me had more to do with the respectability of the albums. They were well crafted, nostalgic and with politely grown up, inoffensive experiments.
The exception to this of course being The Rainbow Children, which I find awfully flawed (I don't have to get into that do I? I'm sure the search function can pull up a million threads why it's flawed and why it isn't), though it musically was a route I would have hoped Prince would explore more.

But Black Sweat being anything but a (granted: excellent) re-write of past glories to the extent that you suddenly go "Hey where's the scream .. oh, yeah that's not that song", seems to me to be quite a stretch. Frankly, I think Pharrell Williams has been more successful at re-vamping Prince's sounds and at building upon what Prince did (and that I say, even though I don't really swing to any of Pharrell's beats).

The urgency of Planet Earth I'd also call .. erhm .. less than stellar. To me that particular song seems to be Prince forcing Michael Jacksons Earth/We Are The../Heal The../ect. with that of Beat It together in a "Earth" edition of Diamonds and Pearls.

Not I'm ging to address every single song Prince has done in the past ten years, but though I like most of them for what they are .. small hobby-type songs from a guy who can do so much more, none of them come close to being innovative, fresh or with any urgency.
I'd have to look at acts like M.I.A. to get that:
"F*ck it, I'm F'cking gonna put this weird as* sh*t in the mix and see what happens. I'm gonna make people dance 'till their feet bleed" (no you can't compare the two in as such, but it's that energy she has, that Prince once had too). Neither have I been a fan in the past 20 years, so I can hardly say how it was to eagerly anticipate what his next move after Parade would be, so I can't say I've changed, since I first discovered him years upon years after his prime.

It's not that Prince can't do it though. When I put on Silicon, I think "Funk me, old nack.. you can do it, if you want to". The question is then .. why won't he? Too content? Too rich?

Or maybe it's because he's just growing older, like everybody else, and like every other 50+ years old rock stars, he mellows and only creates new music so he can have a reason to tour. And I'm fine with that. Settle down, Prince. Embrace the mucisian you are today. Go make some jazz records or whatever you'd like ... All of that would be a respectable end to a glorious and turbulent career, only, he still tries to project an image of himself as one who re-invents the wheel again and again, it seems.
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Someone may not like his 2000s output, o.k., fine...

But if you honestly want to tell me that "TRC" wasn't adventurous, or that "3121" (the song) with its dissonant guitars and the overlayed altered vocals wasn't something fresh, that you found the minimalism of "Black Sweat" boring, or his take on potential modern R'n'B with "Love", that you've been bored with the SNL version of "Fury", or that you don't hear any urgency in "Planet Earth" (the song) with its guitar solo - well, are you serious then???

Please ask yourself if there is any other pop artist out there you are as enthusiastic about as you've been with the Prince of, let's say, 1980-1988. Could it be that you have changed as well?

I have spent most of my life as an immense Prince fan. However, I have no hope whatsoever that he will do anything interesting again. There have been a few moments of pleasing music in the last ten or so years, but the Prince who put out songs that didn't sound like anything else, that had great vocal arrangements, the Prince who could allow healthy collaboration, and who didn't record music out of fear of being irrelevant is long gone.
For me, you'd have to go back well over a decade to find an album that was interesting and high-calibur.
Why am I here? I think I was bored and I sometimes check this site out, but I have never been less enthusiastic about Prince.

But isn't TRC a good example???

People always say he's doing his stuff on auto pilot. Yet, when he makes a religiously inspired concept album with (as some think) partially provocative lyrics, it's not the experimentalism they want. Same with N.E.W.S.: it might be too light for some people's taste, yet it was something new Prince hasn't done before. Same with "Xpectation"...

I still can't figure out what folks dislike about "Lotusflow3r" - it's guitar based, organic in sound, not overproduced. Give it 10 years and people will love it, just as they love "Chaos and Disorder" now.

you're alone!
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