lafleurdove said:

I SECOND THAT!! THAT SEXY LITTLE MAN STILL ROX MY SOCKS!! AND THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE!!!)<3333 LET HIS PURPLE RAIN LIVE ON!!!

you're alone!
[Edited 12/30/09 0:47am]

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.

what gets on my tits is how he talks about songs we'll never hear and
say "the world is not ready for this".

if ever we've been ready, it's right now.

IstenSzek said:

Did he actually say that?

No, I am not bored. I still consider myself a fan.

My enthusiasm has maybe waned a bit over the last years but he still interests me and i will always be eager to hear something new from him.

Alej said:

yeah, the last time he said it was about "the divine"

garganta said:

yeah, same here. i don't think there'll ever come a day when i won't rush
out to get his new stuff in the store or online whenever he's got a new
album out.

it's just his websites and his antics that make the whole thing a little
less enjoyable lately.

When 3121 came out, and people were throwing out lines of "this is no where near as good as his classic material," I thought those people were crazy. Then Planet Earth came out, and it was mediocre. Then LotusFlow3r came out, and was even more mediocre. Now those crazy people don't seem so crazy anymore.

Having said that, each of those cds have worthy tracks on them, its just difficult to listen to the whole thing through.

=0P

ernestsewell said:

I never understood this.

I liked Master P's 10 years ago, but I don't go on his fansites talking about how much I haven't liked his music in over a decade.

Obviously, he hasn't been as boring as people say he is if they come here.

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

He's grown too comfy with the same guitar setup/sounds, the same instrumentions, the same stock synths. LOTUSFLOW3R finally started using more gtr. effects, but still same punchy Mesa Boogie sound. The synths sound thin, stock, not layered or tweaked enough.

I'm mean the performances/application are flawless and genuis. But we need some originality again. We need depth. He needs an engineer like David Rivkin again when they experimented with underwater guitars and such things like on U GOT THE LOOK. Just go for a goal of pure original sound like he did in 80's, which still influences today, listen to the drum machine on Lady Gaga RELOADED. He needs to press buttons again and if it means dropping the "great" million dollar studio rooms and joining the Amish with no electrics using pots and pans so be it. Maybe he's already done it, he records enuff -- we don't hear it all. Release it baby!

i agree with most of this. i suppose his long term fans want a little bit more depth from prince now, in terms of experimentation with production, arrangement. i think he last did anything like this on rainbow children but he needs a more produced/crafted approach instead of the live jazz band feel (but please no return to the boring loops of the exodus/come era).
his guitar work is just predictable notes now or swamped in wah wah.

i suppose we complain because we think he has better stuff inside him and we dont hear it because of his artistic choices.

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. When Miles couldn't put out quality any longer, he "retired" for six years, and then came back out. Albeit, I don't like Miles's eighties output as much as the rest, but he still forged ahead until he dropped.

Many of us were lucky enough to follow Prince from the beginning and saw that beautiful flower blossom through the eighties. Then, it seems, the Nineties came, he had accomplished every caveat that could be possibly obtained, and he started to meld with respectability the more he tried to break from it.

Nope, his music is boring, it is Prince Lite. I am just waiting for the Vault to crack open and hear that reckless genius once again. The only reason I come here is to read about the old days. Prince is damn straight, "my only competition is me in the past." He'd rather suppress his best work than allow it to supercede the crap he shits out. It's part of the coup of being an icon.
[Edited 12/31/09 14:32pm]

iloveannie said:

Anybody interested in setting up a Prince.org.2 site for those that are fans yet aren't fanatical? It could cater for the many that prefer certain decades/albums/genres over others without being criticised for airing such opinions.

It could even let the members state, if they felt the need, that they didn't like certain material. Freedom of speech AND thought! Heaven forbid it should ever come to pass.

Religion, hypocrisy, sexuality, spirituality, immaturity and the 80s will be allowed. I mean where would Prince be if it were not for any of those?

There could be some great discussions but there's only so much to discuss about one particular artist and it would get dull after a while. It wouldn't be near as fun and humorous without the fams getting their panties in a wad because somebody doesn't think Prince is the Lord and Savior.