The usa is full of idiots obviously.

G.W. Bush.

I really, really appreciate this post, and agree.

~G

Yes this is very thoughtful. I'm always amazed by the people who say they listened once or twice to a Prince song then decide that its "trash". It does seem a simple of our time that we treat music as a compeletely disposable commodity like a bag of chips. So many are willing to dismiss without even completely understanding the music or the lyrics. There are still songs Prince has created that I am enjoying more years after I heard them for the first time. If Prince is indeed a genuis why it it that so many of his listeners refuse to give him any slack. They immediate jump to the conclusion that if they don't feel a certain piece of music it is "crap". I don't understand that need to denigrate his Art just because it doesn't hit me personally.

Pitchfork's review is not kind... but accurate.

http://pitchfork.com/revi...nd-effect/

I recall being confused by Purple And Gold at first. But then I found myself singing it and couldnt get it out of my head. I grew to love it in a a couple of weeks for some reason. I like this new song less but I wouldnt be surprised it I came to like it more. Sometimes I wonder if a musical genius will actually make something that outside the comprehension of the average person and some repeated exposure and study to required to truly "get it".

In this world of throw away music and instant gratification, we have lost the ability to consider and ponder all art to the fullest potential. This is one reason there are so few worthy complete albums today. There was a time when people had to sit down with an actual piece of vinyl and a record player and listen to a complete album; not just a collection of random music files without some artistic or conceptual framework. People read the liner notes and studied the cover art. They sat around the card table or at the backyard cookout and discussed it. There was a tangible dimension to the music. Music wasnt gulped down in large digital chunks. It was savored, revisited, studied, copied, admired - it was a lasting component of our lives that actually scored (and, there by, immortalized) the most important and vivid memories in our lives.

Today, it doesnt even have to be real art - or real music. No one cares because there is something else coming right behind what you just heard and it is disposable too. I suppose that makes true artists like Prince a dying breed. But then that has been the case for the last 20 years. That Prince is even still around and can get on the charts or get a Grammy nomination at all is more than astounding to me.

I guess I say all that to say give new music from a genius some further consideration - at least listen to it more than twice - before making a judgement. Sometimes there is still some of that thing that made people truly listen to music back in the day.
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wtf was prince thinking, lol...can he picture us singing this along w/ him

This is what he's hoping. That we repeat the lyrics of being made in Prince's image

"clap your hands...cause and effect y'all" LOL

this song sounds like a mixture of family name and wedding feast

with prince on valium

sorry y'all...i'm not feelin' this at all

but it's great that prince releases crappy songs at times,

he's only human

(forgive me, just how i feel y'all)

Pitchfork's review is not kind... but accurate.

http://pitchfork.com/revi...nd-effect/

Let's keep it real up in here. Not a single orger minded all of Princes religious songs (God, The Cross, Wish U Heaven, No et al.) back in the day because he also had nasty profane tracks (Erotic City, Bob George, Irresistible Bitch) to counter them. Prince has always been religious and it wasn't an issue for many on here until he stopped cursing and singing about sex on every other track so blatantly. The mild religious tone of 'Cause & Effect' is just that... MILD.

It's kind of funny looking back at the Lovesexy Tour when Prince asked us "Do U believe" how many were straight up lying when they screamed "".
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I really, really appreciate this post, and agree.

~G

Yes this is very thoughtful. I'm always amazed by the people who say they listened once or twice to a Prince song then decide that its "trash". It does seem a simple of our time that we treat music as a compeletely disposable
commodity like a bag of chips. So many are willing to dismiss without even completely understanding the music or the lyrics.

There are still songs Prince has created that I am enjoying more years after I heard them for the first time. If Prince is indeed a genuis why it it that so many of his listeners refuse to give him any slack. They immediate jump to the conclusion that if they don't feel a certain piece of music it is "crap". I don't understand that need to denigrate his Art just because it doesn't hit me personally.

HOW

RIDICULOUS!

People only appreciated the spiritual overtones in his music because he said curse words to counter it? PUH LEASE!

Well I totally disagree with pitchfork's review.

I really don't like alot of the music they champion, crap such a Animal Collective.

Their opinion carries as much weight as my four year old son's. He told me turn the song off when I put it on in the car yesterday.

I suspect he could be Wall.

The song's great, I'm lovin it and really lovin' those Hey's.

It's Play in The Sunshine meets Rock N Roll is Alive.

It's neither. Those songs are truly Epic, this is a bad imposter.

I am feeling it. And I also think it's great Prince releases fantastic music most of the time, and very good the rest. Not sure if he'd even capable of making "crappy" music anyway...

And that's just how I feel y'all.