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Has MTV got some kind of Beef with Prince - WTF - 18/1/11 ? Prince Keeps It Fresh At Welcome 2 America ShowAt New York's Madison Square Garden, the artist dug deep into his vault for two hours of hits.NEW YORK — Prince hasn't had a hit single in more than 15 years and has gone even longer without a legitimate hit album. But he can still sing and play guitar, he's got a band as tightly drilled as the Special Forces, and most of all, he's got a plush featherbed of hits. And that's how he's managed to fill five New York-area arena shows:-x WTF? over the course of six weeks on his Welcome 2 America Tour: by promising — and finally delivering — the hits that his fans want. His show at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night was certainly a crowd-pleaser. See, Prince used to mess with his audience's expectations so flagrantly, it verged on self-sabotage. Tuesday night's show had very little of that — although it did start off with him playing annoying snippets of those cherished hits like an obnoxious dude repeatedly hitting fast-forward on a CD:-? . But after that, it was a lush, two-hour-long dive into his golden era.
There were mega-hits ("Kiss," "Take Me With U," "Raspberry Beret," "U Got the Look," "Purple Rain," "Let's Go Crazy," "1999"); mezzanine hits ("Delirious," "Controversy," "Let's Work," "Anotherloverholenyohead," "If I Was Your Girlfriend"); falsetto-dripping slow jams crammed together in the second encore ("Insatiable," "Scandalous" and "Adore," which are basically the same song); and a few curveballs for the die-hard fans ("She's Always in My Hair," plus two songs he wrote for others: Sheila E's "A Love Bizarre" and the Time's "Cool"). He didn't play all of the songs in their entirety, but he played most of a lot of them. There were still a lot he left out: "When Doves Cry," "Little Red Corvette," "Diamonds and Pearls" and "When U Were Mine," to name just a few. He hardly played anything from the past 15 years. And he's still weird. He played the first half of the show wearing a shirt with his own face on it. Prince has promised to shuffle the set for every night of the tour, and while that kept things fresh, it did make for some uneven pacing. The band missed a couple of cues (prompting evil glares from their boss), and it's hard to say if there were three or four encores, as the musicians followed Prince offstage at one point only to come back seconds later. He brought a couple dozen audience members — including Jimmy Fallon, ?uestlove, Leighton Meester, Sharon Jones and a few Dap Kings — onstage for "Baby I'm a Star." (Donald Trump and Madonna were also reportedly in the audience — Prince made an obscure joke about the latter.) And he milked the evening for all it was worth: The last encore saw the band roaring through "Let's Go Crazy," "Delirious" and "1999," and at 10:55, as they were reaching the end of "Peach," Prince pretended to look at his watch (going past 11 p.m. usually means overtime pay for venue staff at the artist's expense), and launched into another three or so minutes of soloing. He then threw his Telecaster into the crowd, thanked New York one last time, and left the stage — this time, for good.
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Who on Earth is Jem Aswad?
Thought it was a female at first, like 'Jemima', but he's a guy. Expect snarky, bitter, uncomplimentary reviews in these tough times.
Most of the above is pure projection on his part for whatever reason,
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What exactly is your problem with this article? What is untrue about it? | |
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^THIS^ ![]() | |
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As you can see errant...it's quite plain for some to see...but each to their own.
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You'd be bitter, too, if you had a name like Asswad. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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I fail to see anything wrong with the article. | |
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They are a bit critical, don't u think?
I'm guessing either a vengeful, heartbroken fan or a person who just wrote from no Prince-experience. Nothing positive came out of this whole thing exept the fact that he sold out 5 New York concert arenas Yes, at 19, I finally saw the Revolution, a legendary band. And I talked to Wendy!!! ![]() | |
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Shhh!..you're not allowed to say that!...oh, you already did!
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if you re-read the first paragraph or two, there is actually nothing to argue about. [Edited 1/19/11 10:19am] | |
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hahahaahaha
oh yeah, perhaps I'm mad, or I live in another dimension, but 3121 was a NUMBER 1 album in 2006
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Not in my country it wasn't.
Didn't it sink like a stone after one week on Billboard? Doesn't sound like a legitimate hit album to me. | |
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Everything in the article is true. Because you don't like it doesn't make it untrue. | |
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Right, typical course of albums which success is based on hype, not on the quality of the actual music. | |
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PROOF???? really, any proof?? Is anything Jem says true just because his ass says so??? ![]() | |
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Has MTV ever praised Prince? I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
RIP Dick Clark, Whitney Houston, Don Cornelius, Heavy D, and Donna Summer. ![]() | |
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What's wrong with it? A lack of Famminess? I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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Is anything he said in that article not true? I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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before we tear Asswad a new Asshole, if you look at his article, a lot of it is true. Most of Prince's hits have been propped up by tricks (distribution of his album at the concerts and counting them as sales, etc.). Prince really hasn't had any big hits since the mid 90s. Emancipation got him a lot of press and according to Prince, made him a lot of money, but Prince enjoys being eccentric and strange... and in fact, that is one of the things that most of us enjoy, but here's the tricky part... we can't praise him for being eccentric and then be frustrated when someone points this out. Prince is an odd bird, but an amazing musical genius. I don't think that his genius always crosses over into well planned promotion. This tour is not the headline maker he thought it would be, and most of the people I know have no clue that he is touring.
His lackluster post Warner career is reflected in his setlist. Even Prince knows that he can't do a tour of just the last 15 years of music. People wouldn't go.
The article has a point of view, but it is mostly accurate with some editorializing. As a Prince fan for 30 years, I have to read that article and be honest with myself about that. The expanded version of my book PRINCE and The Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983-1984 was released in November 2018. (www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538114623/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0) or www.facebook.com/groups/1...104195943/ | |
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If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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Can't you just establish the difference between subjectivity (or, as andy has said, pure projection) and objectivity??? Do I need subjectivity and/or projection in a "professional" article?? NO, I DON'T
"Prince used to mess with his audience's expectations so flagrantly, it verged on self-sabotage" (pure subjectivity)
"he can't dance like he used to" (he can't, OR he doesn't want to?, is Jem his doctor/personal trainer??? WTF, of course he can't, he's 52)
"He played the first half of the show wearing a shirt with his own face on it" (
"He gave hits like "Nothing Compares 2 U" and "Manic Monday" to other artists" (So? was that something bad or that tainted his career??
"And he's still weird" (pure subjectiveness "hurried them off the stage after they joined him for "A Love Bizarre." + "prompting evil glares from their boss" (Really? Really, Jem? what a bitter, harsh as*h*le)
Anyway, I think I wasting my time here, anyway; what a cul-de-sac thread...so obvious that it's painful...
fuck you Jem, not because you diss Prince, but because YOU ARE A BAD "journalist"... ![]() | |
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Regardless of liking or not liking what Aswad's article says, I find your sarcasm a bit funny... considering the link you so prominently display under all of your posts. Had this been an article written about Obama in the same opinionated, subjective vein, I doubt you'd wave it off so quickly. This article may be true on multiple points, but it's definitely subjective at best. | |
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This is the only part that isn't necessarily true. Yes, the article is biased, but they're only giving P a taste of his own medicine. They purposely call him old news because that's what he did to them on his 20ten interviews. time flies. | |
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I just want to hear what he said about Madonna! | |
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Holy crap, you're raging. Everything this article said is either true or a wel-founded opinion (which is what reviews are about). Calm down. You're being completely embarrassing. :/ | |
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Exaclty what I was going to say. | |
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God you're tiresome. | |
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Yeah its a little snarky but I agree the "I love but I dont trust you" bit was a bit bizarre, even more so that I learned the poor girl is some sort of celebrity.
I wonder if Jem was even out of diapers when AWTWIAD was released. | |
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I wasn't being sarcastic. It was an honest question.
Considering that link about President Obama is in my signature box. It prominently displays itself in all of my posts.
If I popped a blood vessel every time I read something "opinionated" and "subjective" about President Obama. I'd have had a stroke long before he ever became President and most certainly would have had one in the last two years but that's actually, neither here nor there.
While you may not like what the author of the article chose to say or how he said it, there is nothing that is not factually accurate in the article. So I just don't understand the sudden problem with subjectivity. Especially, when ALL of the raving reviews I've seen are most "definitely subjective at best".
I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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