nirforward said:

BorisFishpaw said:

Well, at least this thread will keep Prince amused for a while. Knowing that
speculation on the new album title still draws a crowd.



And no, AndrogyNine, is not the new album title
(or any other similar sounding variation)

love2thenines2003 said:

BorisFishpaw said:

Well, at least this thread will keep Prince amused for a while. Knowing that
speculation on the new album title still draws a crowd.



And no, AndrogyNine, is not the new album title
(or any other similar sounding variation)

I guess that u know the Title Boris & i guess that u will not answer 2 my question!

nirforward said:

Thumparello said:

While it's great he may be coming with a new lp. The bigger question is it any good???

The last 3 lps weren't anything to brag about.

databank said:

Militant said:

I believe Good Question was a band signed to Paisley Park in the 80's. Therefore that trademark is nothing relevant to this thread. Prince renewed trademark ownership of The Family and Mazarati recently too.

How can Prince trademark "Mazarati" and "Good Question"???

He had nothing to do with Good Question except signing them on Paisley Park, and Mazarati was Brownmark's pet project, not his.

nirforward said:

Militant said:

databank said:

How can Prince trademark "Mazarati" and "Good Question"???

He had nothing to do with Good Question except signing them on Paisley Park, and Mazarati was Brownmark's pet project, not his.

I don't know the specifics of how he CAN (I imagine the bands may have signed over the rights to their name with their original contracts maybe?) - but the fact remains that he HAS done this. The trademark info is there for anyone to see - registered to Paisley Park alongside the new trademarks like Androgynine.

inspireof said:

look at this: Status Update! On Saturday, May 8, 2010, status on the ANDROGYNINE trademark changed to NON-FINAL ACTION - MAILED http://www.trademarkia.co...28499.html and this: Status Update! On Wednesday, May 12, 2010, status on the GOOD QUESTION trademark changed to PUBLICATION/ISSUE REVIEW COMPLETE. "Goods and Services: Musical sound recordings, musical video recordings" "Published For Opposition Date: 6/15/2010 " http://www.trademarkia.co...92670.html . [Edited 5/26/10 16:31pm]

It just means that the government moved along with the process. Nothing to do with the Prince camp.

databank said:

Militant said:

inspireof said:

look at this: Status Update! On Saturday, May 8, 2010, status on the ANDROGYNINE trademark changed to NON-FINAL ACTION - MAILED http://www.trademarkia.co...28499.html and this: Status Update! On Wednesday, May 12, 2010, status on the GOOD QUESTION trademark changed to PUBLICATION/ISSUE REVIEW COMPLETE. "Goods and Services: Musical sound recordings, musical video recordings" "Published For Opposition Date: 6/15/2010 " http://www.trademarkia.co...92670.html . [Edited 5/26/10 16:31pm]

I believe Good Question was a band signed to Paisley Park in the 80's. Therefore that trademark is nothing relevant to this thread. Prince renewed trademark ownership of The Family and Mazarati recently too.

How can Prince trademark "Mazarati" and "Good Question"??? He had nothing to do with Good Question except signing them on Paisley Park, and Mazarati was Brownmark's pet project, not his.

Part of the signing process with Prince probably is that you sign over the rights to the name of your project. It's like with Star Wars all the actors had to sign over the rights to their likenesses to Lucasfilm.

databank said:

Militant said:

databank said:

How can Prince trademark "Mazarati" and "Good Question"??? He had nothing to do with Good Question except signing them on Paisley Park, and Mazarati was Brownmark's pet project, not his.

I don't know the specifics of how he CAN (I imagine the bands may have signed over the rights to their name with their original contracts maybe?) - but the fact remains that he HAS done this. The trademark info is there for anyone to see - registered to Paisley Park alongside the new trademarks like Androgynine.

I don't deny it, i'm just amazed (& missing the point in doing it: what can he do with this (particularly Good Question, a band no one cares about) [Edited 5/30/10 3:18am]

What do you mean nobody cares about them? I absolutely love them! I turned two rooms in my house to shrines to them!

mctague said:

databank said:

Militant said:

databank said:

How can Prince trademark "Mazarati" and "Good Question"??? He had nothing to do with Good Question except signing them on Paisley Park, and Mazarati was Brownmark's pet project, not his.

I don't know the specifics of how he CAN (I imagine the bands may have signed over the rights to their name with their original contracts maybe?) - but the fact remains that he HAS done this. The trademark info is there for anyone to see - registered to Paisley Park alongside the new trademarks like Androgynine.

I don't deny it, i'm just amazed (& missing the point in doing it: what can he do with this (particularly Good Question, a band no one cares about) [Edited 5/30/10 3:18am]

What do you mean nobody cares about them? I absolutely love them! I turned two rooms in my house to shrines to them!

For real? We need to see pics if that's true.

I mean, you either have a new album coming out....or you don't. It's simple as that. What's with all the secrecy and the "disavowment" of knowledge. I swear that "mystery" has been Prince's winning card throughout the decades, and he's still playing it. I'm not really impressed anymore because I'm grown now.

It was confirmed that Sade (although not as big of an artist as Prince) would be releasing a new album almost a year before Soldier of Love came out. I mean I saw fans waiting for 10 years eagerly in anticipation but no big whoopla going on, and no big shroud of secrecy about whether there will be an album or not.

Prince wonder's why some of his fans are the way they are, he should look to his own marketing mechanisms and to his camp for the answers. If he does NOT have an album coming out, he should just have someone "in his camp" squash the rumors and be done with it instead of having people disavow knowledge and "tiptoe" around the issue .

Reel said:

I mean, you either have a new album coming out....or you don't. It's simple as that. What's with all the secrecy and the "disavowment" of knowledge. I swear that "mystery" has been Prince's winning card throughout the decades, and he's still playing it. I'm not really impressed anymore because I'm grown now.

It was confirmed that Sade (although not as big of an artist as Prince) would be releasing a new album almost a year before Soldier of Love came out. I mean I saw fans waiting for 10 years eagerly in anticipation but no big whoopla going on, and no big shroud of secrecy about whether there will be an album or not.

Prince wonder's why some of his fans are the way they are, he should look to his own marketing mechanisms and to his camp for the answers. If he does NOT have an album coming out, he should just have someone "in his camp" squash the rumors and be done with it instead of having people disavow knowledge and "tiptoe" around the issue .

Not saying you're wrong, but this is how Prince plays the game, we all know that, I don't see it changing any time soon.

(I agree with what you said about some fans BTW).

Let's go back to the speculation about what's most important - the music.

If I remember correctly, Prince reportedly worked with a producer well-known for his work in the indie-rock genre. Although we do know that Prince records permanently and probably could chose between three albums to release every week, I think those news sounded quite promising.

Although I did enjoy the interesting, quirky, progressive Pop sound of Planet Earth and the down-to-earth, psychedelic rockier tunes of Lotusflow3r, I'd love him to dig into modern, commercial indie-rock with cleanly distorted guitars, fat drum beats and stripped down arrangements. But I don't want the music to be too conventional and "blunt", of course.

I want him to capture the sound of commercial upbeat rock blasts with catchy melodies, lyrics and guitar riffs, but, of course, to put some Princely spice into it to give it all a certain musical edge, which will allow us to dig deeper behind the superficial popular indie-rock tunes.

And, believe it or not (and if I were you I certainly wouldn't believe it, as it's just another wishful statement), I think that this kind of music would "fit" Prince nowadays and actually add to his commercial popularity. Energetic, catchy, but sophisticated and mature music all at once.

Dave1992 said:

Let's go back to the speculation about what's most important - the music.

If I remember correctly, Prince reportedly worked with a producer well-known for his work in the indie-rock genre. Although we do know that Prince records permanently and probably could chose between three albums to release every week, I think those news sounded quite promising.

Although I did enjoy the interesting, quirky, progressive Pop sound of Planet Earth and the down-to-earth, psychedelic rockier tunes of Lotusflow3r, I'd love him to dig into modern, commercial indie-rock with cleanly distorted guitars, fat drum beats and stripped down arrangements. But I don't want the music to be too conventional and "blunt", of course.

I want him to capture the sound of commercial upbeat rock blasts with catchy melodies, lyrics and guitar riffs, but, of course, to put some Princely spice into it to give it all a certain musical edge, which will allow us to dig deeper behind the superficial popular indie-rock tunes.

And, believe it or not (and if I were you I certainly wouldn't believe it, as it's just another wishful statement), I think that this kind of music would "fit" Prince nowadays and actually add to his commercial popularity. Energetic, catchy, but sophisticated and mature music all at once.

I see where you are coming from, but what i personally would love to see, or rather hear, would be what he did early in his career. And by that i dont mean rehash the sound, but rather the element of surprise. Every record sounded different from the last, and sounded different from anything on the radio.

The first time i listened to When Doves Cry, it was so out there that i said to myself, 'this has to be the new Prince record!' because he was the only artist that was able to do this. Not just reinvent his "LOOK" like lesser artists do, but his music.

So that's why I'm so down on his 90's work, it was nothing new, in fact it seemed like stale pale imitations of what was playing on the radio a few years back.

I realize its impossible for a man to continue as an artist and not repeat yourself, or run out of new ideas, but if i was going to hope for any sound, it would be one that was true to Prince, but still completely different.

Dave1992 said:

Let's go back to the speculation about what's most important - the music.

If I remember correctly, Prince reportedly worked with a producer well-known for his work in the indie-rock genre. Although we do know that Prince records permanently and probably could chose between three albums to release every week, I think those news sounded quite promising.

Although I did enjoy the interesting, quirky, progressive Pop sound of Planet Earth and the down-to-earth, psychedelic rockier tunes of Lotusflow3r, I'd love him to dig into modern, commercial indie-rock with cleanly distorted guitars, fat drum beats and stripped down arrangements. But I don't want the music to be too conventional and "blunt", of course.

I want him to capture the sound of commercial upbeat rock blasts with catchy melodies, lyrics and guitar riffs, but, of course, to put some Princely spice into it to give it all a certain musical edge, which will allow us to dig deeper behind the superficial popular indie-rock tunes.

And, believe it or not (and if I were you I certainly wouldn't believe it, as it's just another wishful statement), I think that this kind of music would "fit" Prince nowadays and actually add to his commercial popularity. Energetic, catchy, but sophisticated and mature music all at once.

Cut to: Grammy Awards 2011 "And the winner in the Best Commercial Indie-Rock category is... Prince for Androgynine!"

Ya'll 2 funny!

new song

Stand Strong, B Strong

Alamine said:

new song

Stand Strong, B Strong

oh yeah? got any more info?

Militant said:

Alamine said:

new song

Stand Strong, B Strong

oh yeah? got any more info?

WetDream said:

Militant said:

oh yeah? got any more info?

Apparently it was played to the Ebony staff during their stay and it was described as a new song.

Wot??!! Nothing to back up your claim??

*heart palpitates*

luv4u said:

WetDream said:

Apparently it was played to the Ebony staff during their stay and it was described as a new song.

Wot??!! Nothing to back up your claim??

It's in the ebony interview, ya dingus.

I heard somewhere that the new trax "Hot summer"will not be on the forthcomiong new album (and i hope for this) ...can someone confirm???

thanx

Honestly, Hot Summer has killed all my excitement.

Mars23 said:

You've probably heard it, we've been hearing it for about a month. THERE IS A NEW PRINCE ALBUM COMING!! Here's the problem, and know this going into this thread. THAT IS ONLY A RUMOR AND ANY "FACTS" PRESENTED HERE ARE NOT FACTS THEY ARE RUMOR!!! Having said that, it's going to be talked about, it's already on Facebook and has popped up here too. The rumor cannot be stopped, but it can be pointed out that thus far there is NO PROOF and NO-ONE claiming to have proof will cough up ANYTHING. Here's what we have heard. THERE IS NO PROOF OF THIS!!!!! The album is titled "Andrognynine" or "Androgny9" <-- RUMOR It is due out in June perhaps the 13th. <-- RUMOR The rumors claim it will be released with newspapers in Europe. No-one claiming to be "in the know" has yet to say anything about Ebony Magazine in the US, and there are a number of logical things to think about there. <-- NO PROOF OF THAT We've also hear purported track listings and singles, but again NO PROOF. OK, please feel free to discuss, but know full well, until something is posted officially THIS IS ONLY RUMOR. NO-ONE HERE KNOWS AND WITHOUT A LINK TO PROOF DO NOT BELIEVE THEM!!! The minute we have some concrete proof, we will post a thread with facts and make it very clear that it is an official confirmation. Until then, don't fall prey to those that try and convince you of anything here without providing proof. Thank you to the orgers that have hipped us to this info, your contributions are appreciated. This is not my story to "break" as it were, these folks have posted about it and we appreciate their help! Browzer levis1 MarieLouise nanmar Bellerophon If I missed anyone, sorry, I'm just want people to know we're not trying for the credit, we're just trying to keep the rumors from going out of control while still allowing discussion.

yay! a new album!!!!!!

Gohi said:

Honestly, Hot Summer has killed all my excitement.

Why?