Simple question. When was the moment when you realized that Prince had lost his ability to make masterpieces, that his muse was gone from him? When did you realize that his "classic era" was over?

I realized the kid had lost his mind during the 2001 Celebration and the release of The Rainbow Children.

1985

I don't think he's really lost his mind, just a good amount of "mojo".

The name change was the beginning of the downward spiral (along with the "slave"/WB feud), and the awkward ending of his marriage to Mayte and finally his conversion to JW.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question. When was the moment when you realized that Prince had lost his ability to make masterpieces, that his muse was gone from him? When did you realize that his "classic era" was over?

'Batman'.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question. When was the moment when you realized that Prince had lost his ability to make masterpieces, that his muse was gone from him? When did you realize that his "classic era" was over?

Thats easy...4th June 2004.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question. When was the moment when you realized that Prince had lost his ability to make masterpieces, that his muse was gone from him? When did you realize that his "classic era" was over?

Depends what people class as masterpieces and classic era means the old stuff. So in 15+ years time this era will be classed as the classic era too...just a thought

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only thing he lost was his youth

Silliness.

LOST IT? Who says he LOST IT? Never will that happen! Only thing he lost was his mind joining the jw's indeed!

I'll let you know when that happens.

He has not lost it. My 2 cents

luv4u said:

He has not lost it. My 2 cents

Additionally, what a stupid thread.

he never lost it,

like everyone else who is human ,

he just went through alot of bullsh#t. (again, he is only human like us)

Spinlight said:

luv4u said:

He has not lost it. My 2 cents

Additionally, what a stupid thread.

I strongly agree...

whodknee said:

I'll let you know when that happens.

The man still brings it 32yrs after starting!! Everything he does is genius, it's all a masterpiece and will be classic someday. Prince is incapable of losing "it.." He is the "IT" in music!

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Batman!

DaphneLovesPR1NCE said:

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Emancipation / 1996 was when I got my 1st Prince album disappointment:

I like this pop album today,

but after the funk masterpiece of The Gold Experience.. Emancipation was a huge letdown, imo.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question. When was the moment when you realized that Prince had lost his ability to make masterpieces, that his muse was gone from him? When did you realize that his "classic era" was over?

He ain't loss nothing. He is a genius. And don't you forget it...........what a stupid azz thread!!!!!

Funny, when a person matures and goes in other directions, suddenly they have "lost it". I just can't believe, all the things people say!

Perhaps when many of his fans mature, they will understand where he is going now.

purpledoveuk said:

New Power Soul...it sneaked into the shops under my radar (which had never previously happened), looked cheap and consisted of totally filler with 3 exceptions...it was also the debut of that 'out of tune' wobbly falsetto he now always uses. Released at a time when his musical output and moral standing did a 180 turn compared to the previous 20 years output and he also event from cool reclusive to doing interviews...where he spouted mumbo jumbo like Larrys puppet and hypocritical shit about "if I want to listen to a machine, I'll put my washing in it and get some work done"...whilst promoting the mist drum machine heavy, sample heavy album he had released to date. Since then, for me, he had slowly been drowning only now and again gasping air to keep him alive. When I though that my time for him was really up was 3rd August 2007 O2 gig...I'd never been left disappointed by his live shows until then but the 'show' was just over 1.5hrs long, for large periods he wasn't on stage and kept going up and down on that stupid lift, he looked bored and I thought it was curtains for me...fortunately 21/09/07 reaffirmed that part of my fandom And for this who say he's genius you must be barmy...up until the album he was a trend setter but the second he tried to jump on the down with the kids rave music bandwagon with I Wanna Melt With U and the MNIP remixes he turned the corner and has been trying to keep up (like madonna). If he's a genius it's only because he can't really be un-geniused from almost 20 years ago [Edited 9/13/10 7:35am]

He was doing the wobbly voice since the 90s. Just need to pull out any performance of Mary Don't You Weep, Johnny, Insatiable, etc

Truth444 said:

Spinlight said:

purpledoveuk said:

Spinlight said:

He was doing the wobbly voice since the 90s. Just need to pull out any performance of Mary Don't You Weep, Johnny, Insatiable, etc

I'm talking about the voice that sounds like a teenager going through puberty...On The Couch, Planet Earth...it was actually insatiable that made me realise how blunt his falsettos are now compared to that song

You're talking about the verses from "Call My Name" kind of thing?

"Never SA-w thE mOOn lOOkin' so lovely as the night I saw it with you."

oh commooooooooooon! What kind of prince FAN would say anything like that? Prince NEVER EEEVER LOST IT! I'm sick of threads like this.

the Sunday show interview

aggreeing to do the Chris Evans show for Emancipation-he didn't do it-glad he didn't though Mr Evans slaughtered him publicly-until he found out why he didn't do it-ginger plonker-man that interview would've been worse than Rosie's

Cancelling SOTT Wembley-bastARD LOL

the look during act I and II.........what the...............

lol-actually-most everytime he does an interview thesedays