although I like some of the songs on Emancipation,this era wasn't one of my favorites.There was something "off" about this era but I can't figure it out.

OldFriends4Sale said:

SoulAlive said:

INTERVIEW * MAY 1997

THE ARTIST
By Spike Lee

Spike Lee: Six or seven years ago I had the audacity to write you a letter about your choice of women used in music and music videos. Do you remember that?

the Artist: Yes.

Spike Lee: Let's talk about it. I think it was very rude on my part. I'll be forty on March 20th and in a lot of ways back then I was too righteous about that type of stuff. Tell the audience what was in the letter I wrote you.

the Artist: I don't remember exactly. It's really vague to me.

Spike Lee: I wrote, Are there going to be any women of dark complexion in your music videos and your films? You had only white women in your stuff. Do you recall what you wrote back to me? You set me straight there?

the Artist: I probably said, One had to look at everything I had done, not just the most successful pieces. But I have to be honest, I know you as a different person now, too. We met under different circumstances back then, and I have grown and so have you.

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

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INTERVIEW * MAY 1997

THE ARTIST
By Spike Lee

Spike Lee: Six or seven years ago I had the audacity to write you a letter about your choice of women used in music and music videos. Do you remember that?

the Artist: Yes.

Spike Lee: Let's talk about it. I think it was very rude on my part. I'll be forty on March 20th and in a lot of ways back then I was too righteous about that type of stuff. Tell the audience what was in the letter I wrote you.

the Artist: I don't remember exactly. It's really vague to me.

Spike Lee: I wrote, Are there going to be any women of dark complexion in your music videos and your films? You had only white women in your stuff. Do you recall what you wrote back to me? You set me straight there?

the Artist: I probably said, One had to look at everything I had done, not just the most successful pieces. But I have to be honest, I know you as a different person now, too. We met under different circumstances back then, and I have grown and so have you.

What did I miss?

lol, I wish I had the original response,

Sounds like Prince put Spike in check.

To say Prince had only White women in his stuff was another racialized Spike slant on things. Always trying to check someone, while he marries a fair skinned light eyed women, not a dark complexioned woman

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol, I wish I had the original response,

Sounds like Prince put Spike in check.

To say Prince had only White women in his stuff was another racialized Spike slant on things. Always trying to check someone, while he marries a fair skinned light eyed women, not a dark complexioned woman

I mean, what pieces Prince is talking about?

I'm assuming UR talking about videos and movies?

OldFriends4Sale said:

callimnate said:

Although it was an exciting time when this came out, this is/was the end of the Prince I grew to love musically. This is when he stopped being the shepherd, and became a sheep. He gave up his title of musical genius, and turned into just another R&B artist. If youre a fan of mainstream R&B, then you couldn't have asked for a better album. But if you're looking for a classic Prince album, well you won't find it here. Yes, he's still got it when it comes to live performances, but in the studio he's never recovered since.

There's too much R&B there for my taste too, but the album is hardly made of just R&B music.

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I'm assuming UR talking about videos and movies?

I think so? In his defense to Spike he mentioned pieces that I assume have women of dark coloring in them that exist but aren't as well know if at all? What are those pieces?

hehehee U could have been talking about the 'dark complexioned' pieces Prince has had... you can be naughty at times

.

Yeah as far as movies, I don't know of.

He has a LOT of videos, many I haven't seen yet. So I don't know.

He's had a few darker women (mixed and not so) in Cream, maybe Get Off video (the One)wasn't out yet but it had a few but still with a mixed look

But for Spike to be synical in saying Prince only has white women in his videos

^^

the ones in these below, u really can't tell their ethnicity and aren't all that darker

The Muppets' special guest (also known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince) visits the show, while Sal takes a correspondence course to become a bone doctor.

Elsewhere, in New York City, Statler and Waldorf look at a big screen advertisement for Muppets Tonight. Statler says that the show was ten times as big, while Waldorf says that it's too bad the show is one tenth as funny. When the pair try changing the channel, they have problems with a big remote.

thedance said:

^ The Rosie O'Donnel show was great, funny and the performances were soooo cool.



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OldFriends4Sale said:

Fan art?

how about posting the entire video lp on youtube???

great project, very inspired. A lot of favorite Prince tracks from this release, Curious Child, My Computer, White Mansion, Joint 2 Joint, Right Back Here In My Arms. Although I wish he didn't edit RBHIMA

THE ARTIST FORMALLY KNOWN AS PRINCE

PRINCE 13th November Free At Last (1996 UK invitation card to the exclusive Freedom Day breakfast at The Belvedere Holland Park London on 13th November 1996, entitled holder to the playback of Betcha By Golly Wow, the new video plus 3 live songsdirect from Minneapolis & Emancipation playback, measures approx. 8" x 6")

It was an interesting era although muscially it wasn't my thing.

What does become painfully clear is that this was the one time he really opened up in interviews. It was a short window of cincerity on how he talked about his life and music. But the moment things went wrong with his son and the media was ready to dive into it, he turned back to the old balh blah blah interviews.

There are no interviews of him these days that are worth the paper it's printed on, as the only thing he actually does is promote his new work, and then dances around any other topic avoiding real answers.

It's a shame it all went down that way because it was a very interesting turn in his career.

I'll be honest

doing this thread, it doesn't seem like this was a very active time for Prince, or should I say it's not so 'interesting'

The interviews were definately eye openers

I personally wished he would have done more with the Truth