How would you feel if Prince took 4-5 extra years to create his new album? The reasons?

1. It would allow him to gather all the great material together and put aside the mediocre stuff.

2. It would make a bigger splash in the industry(presumably) rather than the little tiny splashes he's been making for quite some bit..

I'm honestly willing to wait 4-5 years if he came out with something amazing, are you?

I don't care how he's commercially recieved but if it was a change in direction and a quality double-album at that, perhaps. Could well be 4-5 anyway.

He doesn't work that way. He works fast and tires of a project quickly so 4-5 years down the road would be a completely different collection of songs for whichever album he started today.

squirrelgrease said:

He's getting old though, maybe he just wants to settle down in his armchair with a steaming mug o'cocoa and watch reruns of Sunset Beach reminiscing about the divine curvature of Vanity's derriere. He wishes he'd placed her on a pedestal of gold for all to see.

squirrelgrease said:

Perhaps, but this quantity over quality way of thinking doesn't seem to be working anymore as it did in the past.

For example if you eliminate all the music he's released the past 5 years and take all the best songs from those albums and combine them into one album..

That would create one incredible album that I think most fans would enjoy.

Inconsistency is just apart of his nature. I wouldn't stifle his impulses or decisions of his rate of output.

PurpleColossus said:

Prince has never, ever been able to self-censure his work and he doesn't seem open to letting others in on the process. In my opinion, the quality control of his product doesn't really have to do with what he's capable of, but what he's willing to do.

4-5 years?
That would be suicide.
He's already on the fast track to becoming a footnote.
Sade can wait 4-5 years. Not Prince.

He better get clear on who he is if he wants to be more than a question on Jeopardy.

squirrelgrease said:

That's a good point.