This thread is over and done already, the new "Prince is over and done" is there, saying the same thing almost word for word, yeah! Meet u there: http://prince.org/msg/7/400263

not for me they ain't. i'm more excited than ever about prince's new stuff.

GiggityGoo said:

I'm now 47 years old. I got on board the Prince Express a while ago, loved Prince with a passion through most of the 80s and 90s, and then... "Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic" was released. It didn't appeal to me at all. And then "The Rainbow Children" landed. And "N.E.W.S." Since then, each new album or song or what have you has left me less and less interested, especially the new 3rd Eye Girl stuff. And I realized that Prince and I weren't seeing eye to eye anymore.

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"The Rainbow Children", in particular, really made me realize that my fanhood was diminishing. Or maybe not that my stance as a fan was waning, but I realized that Prince was going in a direction that didn't appeal to me personally. For a while, that really bummed me out. I was convinced that I needed to keep loving every single thing he put out. But I eventually made peace with the fact that things change. Prince changed. I changed. My life changed. His life changed. Nothing lasts forever. All that stuff.

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I still have gobs and gobs of fantastic music from him that I can listen to whenever I like... studio albums, demos, live shows, you name it. And I'm discovering new bands all the time, so it's not like I'm hurting for entertainment.

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I don't "hate" him or anything like that. We're just no longer on the same page. And yes, it's a little bit sad that I'll probably never again have that electric "new Prince thrill" to look forward to, like the first time I listened to "Sign 'O' The Times" from start to finish. But I *had* it, and that's a great thing to remember.

the rainbow children did sort of the same thing to me back in 2001. the release of that album coincided with my father's death. and then, maybe becauze i was bummed out by the loss of my dad, or maybe just because - for whatever reason i took the album personally for a few years, then got over that phase of my development and moved on to a new phase.

i appreciate prince's work more today because i walked away, and came back. i keep changing, and prince keeps changing. each time i check, he is different, and that's one of the things i really like. now knowing what will come next.

Just saw him in Paradiso.



Extremely exciting.


Maybe it has to more with you, than it has with Prince.