1725topp said:

funkomatic said:

Not sure if you all get me right, but in the end it's all about getting him out of his routine and initialising a new learning process which makes him go deeper than usual. The more focus the stronger and edgier the artistic statement.

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I can't say, empirically, that you are wrong, but Prince's past history seems to suggest that he doesn't or wouldn't have the interest to focus long enough on funk or any one genre to develop the statement that you desire. For instance, I like Greek literature and can teach some aspects of it and often borrow dashes of it in my own creation. But, I'd be bored to tears if I was forced to construct an entire Greek play or poem. Thus, that new learning process that you suggest seems to be quite dependent upon Prince engaging something for a period of time longer than he would desire to do. I don't think that anyone is saying that you are wrong for wondering how it would sound if Prince dedicated more time to your genre of choice, but, based on Prince's history, your desire or request seems to be an attempt to get blood from a turnip. Or, for a more accurate analogy, Prince is only interested in donating a limited amount of blood, sweat, and tears to funk because he desires to donate other amounts of blood, sweat, and tears to other genres. That's just the way he seems to be wired. So, it would seem to be more constructive and less stressful for one to enjoy the amount of funk one desires from other places and just enjoy what limited amount of enjoyable funk that one gets from Prince rather than stressing or demanding that he delivers more because, again, Prince’s history seems to suggest that more isn’t coming.

I guess you are right. Still, I crave the Prince funk more than any other type of funk!

funkaholic1972 said:

1725topp said:

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I can't say, empirically, that you are wrong, but Prince's past history seems to suggest that he doesn't or wouldn't have the interest to focus long enough on funk or any one genre to develop the statement that you desire. For instance, I like Greek literature and can teach some aspects of it and often borrow dashes of it in my own creation. But, I'd be bored to tears if I was forced to construct an entire Greek play or poem. Thus, that new learning process that you suggest seems to be quite dependent upon Prince engaging something for a period of time longer than he would desire to do. I don't think that anyone is saying that you are wrong for wondering how it would sound if Prince dedicated more time to your genre of choice, but, based on Prince's history, your desire or request seems to be an attempt to get blood from a turnip. Or, for a more accurate analogy, Prince is only interested in donating a limited amount of blood, sweat, and tears to funk because he desires to donate other amounts of blood, sweat, and tears to other genres. That's just the way he seems to be wired. So, it would seem to be more constructive and less stressful for one to enjoy the amount of funk one desires from other places and just enjoy what limited amount of enjoyable funk that one gets from Prince rather than stressing or demanding that he delivers more because, again, Prince’s history seems to suggest that more isn’t coming.

I guess you are right. Still, I crave the Prince funk more than any other type of funk!

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You are not alone in desiring that Prince could have or would have do or not done something. Most of us Prince fans have this desire in one way or another. Yet, most of us just realize that Prince, unlike many, is mostly motivated by the inner world of Prince-ville that lies deep in the murky recesses of his head and learn just to embrace what we like and ignore the rest. Of course, for some Prince fans, especially over the past thirteen years, there is more to embrace than for other Prince fans, but that is par for the course with any artist.