Fiona01 said:

Yes Fiona01 it is over! There is nothing to look forward to. There is no dawn! The rain will not come down and you will not have to choose. This is your last December.

hhhhdmt said:

MyDogAteIt said:

Why should they? Prince has been making music for more than thirty years. I was not aware that this site was exclusive to the last 15 years of his career.

they have a right to post, sure, but some of us here are sick of the constant whining of people who don't like his recent music. They have every bit a right to dislike it, but to constantly whine about an artist whose music they don't like is absurd. There are people on this forum who haven't liked a prince album in 15 or 20 years, and they constantly complain about it and make the forum a negative place to post. Move on.

if i haven't liked an artists work in 5 years, i am not going to go whine on their fansite, i (and any sensible person) would move on.

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Who are these sensible people you speak of? Heretic!!!

In the past when we didn't hear from Prince, it meant that he was working on a project. Maybe that's what's going on now.

Look on the bright side. Prince probably is taking more time than normal because he's filming a sequel to Graffiti Bridge.

tmo1965 said:

In the past when we didn't hear from Prince, it meant that he was working on a project. Maybe that's what's going on now.

Nice try. That fact doesn't sink into their brains. They will keep making threads like this until they get an album now. Then will come the "Prince can't make make a good CD anymore" threads, followed by MORE "has Prince quit" threads.

Ridiculous.

As a matter of fact, if I were Prince I would fucking quit. I never witnessed a group of ungreatful fans in my life. I'm surprised he held on this long.

Purple downtime - the perfect time to hunt down some bootlegs, look up some of those related artists albums you're missing, dig a few rehersals and lives shows you've never heard/watched.

Yep, there might not've been much in the way of official releases lately, but if you need a Prince fix you really are spoilt for choice.

Prince has earned the right to retire at this point.

hhhhdmt said:

TrevorAyer said:

yeah there is nothing worse than participating in an intelligent discussion and critique of one of earths best musicians and along comes some huge fan of prince's eyelashes who whines every fucking chance they get if people don't kiss prince ass every second ..

some of us think its a huge waste of time to say how great prince is all the time .. because its not honest or a discussion of reality in any way ... there are people here with a deep and non superficial knowledge of both music and prince .. yet some prefer this site to be and endless commentary on "list yer favorite prince record or song" .. this site would be nothing without those who don't care for prince recent work .. those people contribute far more and know far more and because of that .. have a better perspective on the reality of prince music ... and make for a better discussion

some of us have been on this site for 25 years .. just because prince music sucks means we shouldn't come here anymore .. hell prince would have sued this site into oblivion if he had his way ... so what the fuck does being nice to prince have to do with anything?

as for the op question: i have a bad feeling that prince thinks waiting 3 years to put out a record will increase the sales of the next release .. i sincerely doubt he will improve the music tho. it's like how his "fams" think his music doesn't sell because prince is old .. no .. it doesn't sell because the music blows .. prince will think it will sell if he waits to release it .. no .. it won't ... if he puts out a GOOD record it will sell ... is it over? lets hope so .. if we wait 5 years and he drops another steaming poo .. ugh .. maaan if he keeps this up nobody is gonna care when he does finally make a good record again .. and that would be sad

intelligent discussion and critique?

your knowledge of music is shocking to say the least. You claimed that Prince could not keep perfect timing without a click track, you were proven wrong, and yet you stubbornly refused to admit you were wrong.

You claimed that Prince was not a good riff writer because riffs like "she's always in my hair" were simple and easy to play. When it was pointed out to you that alot of famous riffs are simple (walk this way, smoke on the water etc) you did not even respond. You even tried to claim that wendy and lisa were robbed off songwriting credits on SOTT. Whereas the reailty is that they did not co write anything on that album and have never claimed to do so.

There are people who legitimately like his recent work, we are not kissing anyone's ass. Plenty of fans enjoyed lotus3flower,3121 etc. It might be hard for you to believe but we don't pretend to like something. And no, Prince would not be suing this site if a bunch of whiny ex fans stopped posting.

what intelligent discussion do you partake in? Making up nonsense about songwriting credits, click tracks etc? your claim of parade being a jazz album is easily the most laughable and absurd post i have ever seen on this website. Get some knowledge of music before claiming to be knowledgable, because you have gotten proven wrong over and over again.

your problem is your flat out refusal to accept that people might actually like his recent work. Plenty of us do. Its just like when you kept criticising the gold experience. Fair enough, you didn't like it. But it received good critical reviews from most critics and the majority of fans on this site liked it. Yet in your view, just becuse you didn't like it, everyone else must be kissing ass.

constantly whining "oh my god, i haven't liked anything he has done for 20 years, when will be match his peak again" is not intelligent discussion. Its whiny and pathetic.

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maybe he's just an a-hole.

I once read an article in the Rolling Stones that if Marvin Gaye paved the way for Americans to openly discuss foreplay, thereby keeping the bedroom door slightly ajar, with Dirty Mind, “Prince ripped that door right off its hinges.”

It was the 80s, and sexual expression through androgyny wasn’t just merely a hazy layer of smoke left over from the Bowie-esque afterglow of the 60s and 70s., but rather it became sort of a counter-Reagan era statement. Where Bowie and Jagger experimented with sexual fluidity, Prince took it from subculture, to Vegas culture, to the damned Playboy mansion and back, and spread it on his circle jerk piece of toast with political penis butter.

You’re gonna have to fight your own damned war, Prince proclaimed, after he spends an evening in a bed with his female lover and her other man. And still lying in those dirty ass bed sheets soaked with sperm, littered with used condoms, and smelling like poppers and pussy juice, he dials up the President’s number and yells, “Ronnie talk to Russia before its too late!” People, that shit is BRAVE when you’re doing it in a trench coat, leg warmers, silk pannies, and a redneck bandanna tied around your neck.

Prince…..the critics darling of the early 80s…. Prince… the sexually obscure…Prince….the ethnically confusing….Prince….the beautiful little butterfly in the butterfly effect.

He was doing everything everyone else was doing and more. Michael Jackson was dancing his ass off on stage, but so Prince….And Prince did it with a guitar. Like that famous quote, “Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Estaire did…but she did it backwards and in high heels!” Well, damnit if Prince wasn’t our Ginger in high heels, but with curly chest hair, a bad perm, and decked in gawdy French Colonial inspired trench coats.

So what if Madonna wore a wedding dress and crawled on the floor shocking the world with her famous Like a Virginperformance—Prince would have done the same thing in the same dress, but the floor would have been a complete mess afterwords, I ain’t neva lied!

It was Prince who took the mantle of sexual fluidity from Bowie and Jagger. Prince was gayer than all of them rolled in to one. He was so gay in fact, that most of his songs about sex always hinted at him liking to slap it up against his face if you know what I mean.

Bambi, can’t U understand…

Bambi…It’s better with a man…. (Bambi)

Or

I just hate 2 C and erection go to waste…. (Rock hard in a Funky Place)

Or

Sexy Motherfucker (up until that point, I had NEVER heard a woman called a motherfucker). Almost every song on the symbol album, Gold Experience or any of his early 90s works, has some element that you can trace to ass or anal stimulation. This of course, is mixed with religion, politics, style, and dolphins—that shit is too awesome.

Prince owned his gayness to great affect. Go in the general discussion forum right now and you will not find one single heterosexual man in there---many will claim to be straight, but they are obviously very gay.

Prince cultivated, on purpose, a confusing sexual identify to appeal to the masses. He had, at one time, cultivated a confusing racial identity to do the same.

I think of Prince a lot like Steve Jobs. He was in complete control of his image branding from beginning to end. Purple Rain was his iPod, the stage was his Apple keynote speech, and buttless pants were his black turtleneck. Prince was on fire. Only in the early days, instead of a scrollwheel, you know damned well, you’d get a revolving bedroom door and a seriously fierce blowjob.

And even in the late and early millennium, Prince maintained a certain kink about himself even after taking on JW.

When he says he has the butter for your muffin, he’s not talking about dairy products afterall. He’s talking about what our girl Paula De3n is talking about down here:

I reflect upon this new Prince with a somber appreciation, somewhat slight disappointment, but always with a reverence for the hinges he tore off. Prince, was magnificent, wasn’t he?

May this New Year bring him all the love and peace he desires. But may he tear more hinges off, specifically those in the pearly gates one day. Prince….I raise a glass to you!

imago said:

I once read an article in the Rolling Stones that if Marvin Gaye paved the way for Americans to openly discuss foreplay, thereby keeping the bedroom door slightly ajar, with Dirty Mind, “Prince ripped that door right off its hinges.”

It was the 80s, and sexual expression through androgyny wasn’t just merely a hazy layer of smoke left over from the Bowie-esque afterglow of the 60s and 70s., but rather it became sort of a counter-Reagan era statement. Where Bowie and Jagger experimented with sexual fluidity, Prince took it from subculture, to Vegas culture, to the damned Playboy mansion and back, and spread it on his circle jerk piece of toast with political penis butter.

You’re gonna have to fight your own damned war, Prince proclaimed, after he spends an evening in a bed with his female lover and her other man. And still lying in those dirty ass bed sheets soaked with sperm, littered with used condoms, and smelling like poppers and pussy juice, he dials up the President’s number and yells, “Ronnie talk to Russia before its too late!” People, that shit is BRAVE when you’re doing it in a trench coat, leg warmers, silk pannies, and a redneck bandanna tied around your neck.

Prince…..the critics darling of the early 80s…. Prince… the sexually obscure…Prince….the ethnically confusing….Prince….the beautiful little butterfly in the butterfly effect.

He was doing everything everyone else was doing and more. Michael Jackson was dancing his ass off on stage, but so Prince….And Prince did it with a guitar. Like that famous quote, “Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Estaire did…but she did it backwards and in high heels!” Well, damnit if Prince wasn’t our Ginger in high heels, but with curly chest hair, a bad perm, and decked in gawdy French Colonial inspired trench coats.

So what if Madonna wore a wedding dress and crawled on the floor shocking the world with her famous Like a Virginperformance—Prince would have done the same thing in the same dress, but the floor would have been a complete mess afterwords, I ain’t neva lied!

It was Prince who took the mantle of sexual fluidity from Bowie and Jagger. Prince was gayer than all of them rolled in to one. He was so gay in fact, that most of his songs about sex always hinted at him liking to slap it up against his face if you know what I mean.

Bambi, can’t U understand…

Bambi…It’s better with a man…. (Bambi)

Or

I just hate 2 C and erection go to waste…. (Rock hard in a Funky Place)

Or

Sexy Motherfucker (up until that point, I had NEVER heard a woman called a motherfucker). Almost every song on the symbol album, Gold Experience or any of his early 90s works, has some element that you can trace to ass or anal stimulation. This of course, is mixed with religion, politics, style, and dolphins—that shit is too awesome.

Prince owned his gayness to great affect. Go in the general discussion forum right now and you will not find one single heterosexual man in there---many will claim to be straight, but they are obviously very gay.

Prince cultivated, on purpose, a confusing sexual identify to appeal to the masses. He had, at one time, cultivated a confusing racial identity to do the same.

I think of Prince a lot like Steve Jobs. He was in complete control of his image branding from beginning to end. Purple Rain was his iPod, the stage was his Apple keynote speech, and buttless pants were his black turtleneck. Prince was on fire. Only in the early days, instead of a scrollwheel, you know damned well, you’d get a revolving bedroom door and a seriously fierce blowjob.

And even in the late and early millennium, Prince maintained a certain kink about himself even after taking on JW.

When he says he has the butter for your muffin, he’s not talking about dairy products afterall. He’s talking about what our girl Paula De3n is talking about down here:

I reflect upon this new Prince with a somber appreciation, somewhat slight disappointment, but always with a reverence for the hinges he tore off. Prince, was magnificent, wasn’t he?

May this New Year bring him all the love and peace he desires. But may he tear more hinges off, specifically those in the pearly gates one day. Prince….I raise a glass to you!

prince doesn't even HAVE a cooter, ya'lll

XxaxX, must you wage these personal wars so forcefully?

imago said:

XxaxX, must you wage these personal wars so forcefully?

OMFG I didn't read any of your posts but that Paula Dean picture made me laugh out loud so much that the girls in the office came over, looked at it, and now they're all laughing too.

I loved reading your post Imago - thanks for making me laugh today. I finally 'get' you and your satire

(Orgers - I am an Imagoholic - there, I've said it - now for that day to day recovery......)

yeahronimo said:

Fiona01 said:

Many years since his last proper tour.

Excuse me? He's been touring almost non-stop for 2 years now

Hah, yeah. Sometimes the premises of these type of threads are just complete bollocks.

RodeoSchro said:

imago said:

XxaxX, must you wage these personal wars so forcefully?

OMFG I didn't read any of your posts but that Paula Dean picture made me laugh out loud so much that the girls in the office came over, looked at it, and now they're all laughing too.

The Paula D3en picture cracks me up endlessly.

80spfantwp said:

I loved reading your post Imago - thanks for making me laugh today. I finally 'get' you and your satire

(Orgers - I am an Imagoholic - there, I've said it - now for that day to day recovery......)

Thank you boo

You're the first to go on my anti-poo list.

I just thought the subject was sort of drab and needed a bit of uplifting inspiration.

so what... if it is over Prince deserves to enjoy life now and relax