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Do people like this song? I hear a lot about the High project/album being scrapped & folks being upset that it wasn't released, but I'm wondering how people feel about the song itself.

I like the music, it has good energy. BUT the lyrics are problematic IMO. It sounds like a plea - "like me again!" I know artists have to have some level of "I'm the best" shit happening, people like that & it sells records. I can't listen to this song w/o cringing just a little (then again, I can't stand to hear him say his own name I'm odd like that). But it smacks of desperation, and the Prince I know is NOT desperate... is he? :O Hell no, 2 COOL 4 THAT!! We already high, don't he know that??

Anyway, thoughts... opinions... ramblings... do yo thang...

i like it

much

For me, it's like this: if you have to declare yourself FUNKY, you're probably not.

But we know that's not true about him. This is why I feel he was being too self-conscious. It was during a time when people were questioning Prince's Funk prowess.

Same thing with being hip; if you have to declare you're hip, that in itself is the epitome of being unhip.

Hipness is
What it is ~Tower of Power

shausler said:

Prince done got you HIGH... agaaaiiinnn

my medallian . . .


tell the truth

XXcepshunal said:

Can you describe it? What does it sound like? I've never heard it...

CalhounSq said:

no, but it gets me HIGH! so HIGH!
what else can eye say Sq?
get a po box and org note me.

This song is a cutesy pie piece of shit. Why record a commercial jingle, then only release the song on a stupid music club that noone in mass will hear? Prince could have used the club to unload great experiments like, In My Dreams, but does this shit. Hell, R Kelly and Usher seem like geniuses compared to this. People would laugh at this track on the radio and say, "this is the guy who wrote When Doves Cry? Pitifull". I hide my head when a song like this surfaces. Prince should have killed the damn song and put it out of its misery. Prince must be high thinking anyone with ears on the side of their beak would like this.

Prince.

Just like a lot of "Emancipation" echoed R. Kelly's production style which was one of the reigning sounds of R&B for 95-96, "High" sounds like an attempt at gaining mainstream play, this time by responding to the Missy Elliott-Timberland style stacatto percussion beats and futuristic synth sounds. "Sex Me, Sex Me Not" uses the same production style; as does "Judas Smile/Kiss" (although it is unclear whether that particular track was intended for "High").

Without promotion by a major label (and that's unlikely given P's relationship to the industry), major rotation on MTV/BET & radio, and appearances by P himself (which he has demonstrated an unwillingness to do over an extended period of time these days), "High" would have gone the way of "Rave" or worse.

In the end, I'm glad Prince withdrew it and focused on more organic sounds. It's one of the smartest decisions--artistically, critically, and commercially--that he's made in the last few years.