What was happening with Sheila E. in 1989 was she still working on music with him for her follow up album & Rave or GB music?

Or had she gone into the hospital with a collapsed lung?

OldFriends4Sale said:

photos of Sheila from 1989

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

that one is FRAMED and hanging in my room

Did I miss you posting about Partyman (The Purple Party Mix) and Partyman (Music Mix)?

Theres only 2 tracks worth listening 2 Partyman and Trust...yet even they are not great, defintley one of his worst albums, its up there 4 me with Lovesexy, Graffiti Bridge and the Rainbow Children...absoloute fucking driffle...wouldnt even wipe me arse with there inserts...i cant believe most fans even like these 4 albums...and please dont get me started on that fuckin batdance
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Batman soundtrack is funky and one of my favorites. Also Prince had a really dark and mysterious look going on after his supposed "enlightenment" of Lovesexy. Kind of what the Black Album era probably would have looked like stylistically.

those who know, correct me if I'm wrong

when I got this photo I don't remember it from 1991 but from 1989 I had the magazine I believe it was Interview Magazine

Possessed: the Rise & Fall of Prince p 157 Chapter 11 Fantastic

Only rarely did any genuine experimentation occur during the sessions. Batdance, slated as the first single, was an intriguing collage of samples, jarringly different musical sections, and searing guitar work. The project's other major compositional effort was "Dance With the Devil", an eerie-sounding piece with Prince singing a descending minor-key melody over a drum-machine pattern. Unfortunately, he shelved the song and it remains unreleased.

Batman arrived in theaters in mid-June 1989 and quickly became one of of themost successful movies of all time, grossing $0 million on its opening weekend and eventually taking in $250 million at the box office. The marketing division of Warner Bros. Pictures deftly exploited the film's simple poster image - a black bat against a gold background - for tie-ins of products ranging from toys to cereals. Prince's soundtrack, released at the same time as the movie, benefitted significantly from this hype and became his biggest hit in years, selling 4.4 million copies worldwide and reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Chart. Although hardly a Purple Rain scale success, the album reconfirmed his status as a major star.

Critical response to the album, however, was mixed. "It's hard to avoid the suspicion that some of the songs on Batman were already sitting around Paisley Park as part of Prince's vast outpouring of music," wrote John Parales in Rolling Stone. David Sinclair of the London Times observed that "there is a distinctly throwaway quality to much of this material."

Trust

(W, X, Y, Z)

"Hey, it's the man!"
"Yeah, let's see what's going on!"
Hey, hey

CHORUS:
Trust - who do ya?
Trust - what makes U a real lover?
Trust - I put this question 2 ya cuz I want U 2 be with me

Love - U cannot imagine
How much I wanna give 2 U
Hot - I get so excited
Just thinkin' about all we could do
Dig it now
Another world awaits us
Another power 2 see
Close - don't worry about nobody else
From now on U'll be here with me

CHORUS

Money - how much'll make U happy?
U can have it all if it'll suit U right
Nothin', I said nothin' can take the place
Of U and me kickin' it tight, tight
Come - it's easy
Just let yourself go, don't put up a fight
Sex - it's not that type of party (Higher, higher, higher)
Girl, we're gettin' higher 2 night (Oh Lord)

CHORUS

Yeah, ooh
Come on
Alright
Sho'nuff tell it everybody

"Get 'em! Take the pictures!"
"Gotham's greed"
Ooh!

Yeah
Trust
Hot and close, dig it now
Ooh, that feels good
Ha, ha, ha

CHORUS

Oh yeah
Ow! My Lord! (Trust)
When I'm on, I feel good (Trust)
Good Lord
When I'm, when I'm on, I feel good (Trust)

Who do ya trust if U can't trust God?
Who can U trust - who can ya?
Who do ya trust if U can't trust God?
Who can U trust - who can ya?

Come and see

Trust - who do ya?
Trust - what makes U a real lover?
Trust - I put this question 2 ya cuz I want U 2 be.... wait
Want cha with me, ooh

{Repeat 2 fade}
(Trust)
Who do ya trust if U can't trust God?
Who can U trust - who can ya?

© 1989 Controversy Music - ASCAP

OldFriends4Sale said:

I think this one is a pic from '87 or '88. Not to quibble about it. I just remember seeing it in Rolling Stone around then and they featured a very short interview with her. One of the questions was why she decided to join Prince's band rather than further pursuing her solo career, and she said that she wanted to show people she could play and was tired of being referred to as a "sexpot singer."

As for what Sheila was doing in '89, I can't really say. I do know the collapsed lung was in 1990, apparently on the last day of recording for Sex Cymbal, so that was after she and Prince had their falling out (or whatever it should be called...maybe I should say their apparent disagreement over the direction in which Sheila's solo music should go). There was a thread a while ago in Associated Artists about the album Sheila was working on with Prince in '88/'89. It had tracks like "3 Nigs Watching a Kung-Fu Movie" and "Girl Power" on it.

I've also heard that Prince and Gilbert Davison got in a fight and Sheila was caught in the middle of that. So apparently all of that added up to their parting ways for a few years.

vivid said:

I agree with this. I liked the album a lot and it was still in the part of his creative output that didn't sound like anything else out there. But, it was the first album that wasn't totally inspired. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it was because it had the first P song that I despised, Arms of Orion.
It brings to mind what seems perfectly clear now, that Wendy & Lisa were integral to his greatest era.