Thank you for the link! Interesting.

I think Prince is probably glad his name isn't anywhere near that colossal flop.

Crap movie

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Crap movie. Dude did Prince a favor on this

If Baz was looking for a sound that was a contemporary equivalent of 1920s jazz then Prince wasn't a good fit. Apart from people like Gershwin most 1920s jazz has proven to be ephemeral. The book and the movie are about superficiality and the ephemeral. Prince's music is a lot more complex, diverse and will likely outlive most contemporary music.

How did this movie do at the box office? Wanted 2 see it, but have not heard any hype about whether it was good, bad or ok

naffi said:

would love to know what Prince came up with though

absolutely!

Prince dodged a bullet.

I like Leo a lot, but as soon as I heard Baz was directing and Jay-Z was doing the soundtrack, I had a bad feeling about it. Baz should've stuck to great jazz for for the soundtrack and made the movie a little more low- key.

I will probably see the movie eventually, but not at the theatres.

Glad Prince wasn't involved as the soundtrack isn't "him".

Eyasha said:

As opposed 2 Will I Am? Really?

steakfinger said:

Eyasha said:

If Baz was looking for a sound that was a contemporary equivalent of 1920s jazz then Prince wasn't a good fit. Apart from people like Gershwin most 1920s jazz has proven to be ephemeral. The book and the movie are about superficiality and the ephemeral. Prince's music is a lot more complex, diverse and will likely outlive most contemporary music.

Yep, Prince has maybe 3 albums and a number of singles that will outlive most current music.

Which three albums would you inculde in this category?

NouveauDance said:

Prince dodged a bullet.

Maybe so, but I would have liked to have heard this new version of Love...Thy Will Be Done. Of all the tracks Prince has given away, that's the one I wish he'd kept for himself.

oh come on. he could have found a place for a prince track on the soundtrack.

the trailer alone has so much music in it that is nothing like the things he says

he wanted (hip hop mixed with 20s jazz).

and even at that, most of the music featured in films is only audible for about

30 seconds at most.

you could also just play a prince song over the end credits.

what seems more likely to me is that they had a bit of a chat, prince said he'd

look into it. luhrman wanted a reworked "Love...Thy Will B Done" but prince

was being prince again and simply recorded something else and gave him the

song like "this is much better than a cover of a song i wrote 20 years ago"

if luhrman wasn't pissed off enough by then, prince probably started talking

to him about the rights to the song and all kind of legal stuff.

as luhrman was trying to catch his breath prince went into his whole schtick on

ownership for about 45 minutes, before they reached the same conclusion at

aprox the same time: no prince on the gatsby soundtrack.

TwiliteKid said:

steakfinger said:

Yep, Prince has maybe 3 albums and a number of singles that will outlive most current music.

How did you come up with that? I think that, as we progress to the future, there will be less and less separation of albums and songs. This is due to the internet and being able to cherry pick songs.

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Meaning, people will lump all of Prince's songs under one big umbrella and will not differentiate between albums and eras much. They'll either have Prince music, or they won't.

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I think $ from Lotus Flower would have been perfect stylistically and thematically.

actually, a reworked "girls & boys" would have fit.

but i adore "love... thy will be done"

skywalker said:

steakfinger said:

Yep, Prince has maybe 3 albums and a number of singles that will outlive most current music.

How did you come up with that? I think that, as we progress to the future, there will be less and less separation of albums and songs. This is due to the internet and being able to cherry pick songs.

*

Meaning, people will lump all of Prince's songs under one big umbrella and will not differentiate between albums and eras much. They'll either have Prince music, or they won't.

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I think you are right. People will also be less concerned with how Prince was able to time his releases with current trends. His music will be judged as music.