Vibe: 5 Reasons To Be Excited RIGHT NOW If You Are Prince Fan http://www.vibe.com/artic...prince-fan
Prince is having another moment. Actually, to be real about it, the Minnesota music deity has had several moments throughout his illustrious, unpredictable three-decade career. But this year Prince seems to be once again swinging for the fences. Following this past Sunday’s album listening event in New York to pub up his latest band 3rd Eye Girl—an event that was attended by everyone from NASCAR icon Jeff Gordon to rising talk-show queen Wendy Williams—Prince has been a busy man.
The iconic artist, who is set to headline this year’s 20th Anniversary Essence Fest (July 3-6), has just dropped the first official single to his upcoming album Plectrum Electrum, the guitar rock throwdown “PRETZELBODYLOGIC.” He made a rib-tickling appearance on Zoey Deschanel’s New Girl on Sunday, and is, sometime today, set to announce details on a world tour. As we wait to hear the run down and new album, VIBE presents five reasons it’s good to be a Prince fan in 2014. Game, blouses.—Keith Murphy
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4. Prince Is Still His Genre-Hopping Self Musically, Prince in 2014 is working with house money. But he’s still giving fans a plethora of sounds to choose from. If you like the volume turned up to 11, check out his latest single PRETZELBODYLOGIC, complete with crunchy, body-punching guitars and trippy lyrics (“Taste the bittersweet undone/Now we both too sleepy to get the gun…”). If you like some nasty swing injected into your rock be on the look out for “Funk N Roll,” one of the new tracks featured on Prince/3rd Eye Girl’s upcoming album due out this year. Or maybe you just want to dance your ass off. In that case, Prince should do the club dwellers a favor and drop the infectious “Do You Wanna Fall In Love Tonight,” a Camille-flavored, synth and horns workout that has “hit” written all over it. And then there’s the Prince-goes-to-the-trap weirdness of the sparse remix to “Funk N Roll.” Yep, someone has been listening to the radio. There’s plenty of rumbling 808, party-people chants and an Outkast-meets-Janelle-Monaé-meets-controversy-era-Prince, fuzzy rock freak-out that turns the whole damn thing on its head.
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