CynicKill said:

SeventeenDayze said:

To me, it seems like the music business is like a merry-go-round. It spins and spins until everyone's ride is over and they have to get off and let the next generation to come in. Some don't know when to quit though...

Madonna!

Madonna was slammed by the media last week because she posed in sexy underwear with Katy Perry. I don't think Madonna needs to stop because she's already established herself so if she wants to run with the younger crowd, so be it. But, Pharrell did say in an interview a few months ago that Madonna may have been tough to work with and they had to have a private convo to iron out their differences. How do you hire a producer to give you a certain sound and then argue with him?

CynicKill said:

Mong said:

i can see why that stupid 'happy' song is a hit but it is really boring as is most of pharrels work .. he does not have 'it' .. prince and pharrell would be even more boring than prince already is .. nobody can give prince a hit until he stops being content to release rubbish

SeventeenDayze said:

TrevorAyer said:

i can see why that stupid 'happy' song is a hit but it is really boring as is most of pharrels work .. he does not have 'it' .. prince and pharrell would be even more boring than prince already is .. nobody can give prince a hit until he stops being content to release rubbish

What about his earlier work with NERD? Did you like his older stuff?

UncleJam said:

Alexandernvrmind said:

Yeah it would be nice but P would never do it I just watched Justin ?Timberlake discuss his influences on Oprahs life class. He talked about Michael, Stevie, Donnie Hathaway, he even mentioned D'Angelo. Not a word on Prince... Not one single word. He talked about the song SexyBack and how that song was his attempt to really establish himself.... And all I could think about is how Prince claimed Sexy never went anywhere and created a public thing with Justin. As Justin continued to talk in depth about Stevie and Michael influences I remembered that he hired Princes drummer and base player and Sonny T. Cleary the dude is influenced by Prince. He reeks of 80s Prince.

Yup. And if you find the Rolling Stone interview when he first dropped "Future Love Sounds" (or whatever that album was called) they asked him why he named the album what he did. His response? "Because Purple Rain was already taken."

yep...that was before Prince dissed him

Pharell on Oprah Master series the same thing... mentioned Michael-Stevie as influences... nothing about Prince. Pharell is so clearly influenced by Prince... but Prince disses these guys. And records songs with Selena Gomez... and that friggin tranny he used to date

Its nuts... P really gets on my nerves

CynicKill said:

Yeah yeah we know Prince sucks now and needs Pharrell to get him back to a place he has no chance in hell of ever getting back to.

But I still see little reason to compare him to people young enough to be his kids. Michael Jackson fell off creatively in his later years too.

When Bruno, Justin and Pharrell are still churning out hits in their fifties then we'll talk.

thats not really the point... P needs a producer and some fresh ideas... and he desperately needs help with lyrics and vocal arrangements of his songs

its getting embarassing

Eye wouldn't approve of it... EVER!!!!

Whats with all the ageism against Madonna?

Older people can be sexy and should be allow to express it. If you don't like it, don't watch or support older artists.

madonna completely lost me with the grill

kewlschool said:

SeventeenDayze said:

CynicKill said:

Madonna!

Madonna was slammed by the media last week because she posed in sexy underwear with Katy Perry. I don't think Madonna needs to stop because she's already established herself so if she wants to run with the younger crowd, so be it.

Why should Madonna "quit" when she's still making millions and millions of dollars? Every few years,she goes on tour and each tour grosses over $300 million.You don't retire until you can no longer sellout arenas and your fans no longer care about you.Hell,even Cher recently launched a world tour.As long as the money keeps being made,these ladies can go on as long as they like.

Alexandernvrmind said:

UncleJam said:

Yup. And if you find the Rolling Stone interview when he first dropped "Future Love Sounds" (or whatever that album was called) they asked him why he named the album what he did. His response? "Because Purple Rain was already taken."

yep...that was before Prince dissed him

Pharell on Oprah Master series the same thing... mentioned Michael-Stevie as influences... nothing about Prince. Pharell is so clearly influenced by Prince... but Prince disses these guys. And records songs with Selena Gomez... and that friggin tranny he used to date

Its nuts... P really gets on my nerves

I wonder why he didn't mention Prince. Maybe sometimes people don't want to reveal completely who they are copying/inspired by/etc. because they are trying to build their own so-called brand but it's more or less something that artists HAVE to say so they don't end up looking like shameless copycats. Some artists will always pass off as copycats or fakes because that's how the music industry is.....always chasing the next big star.

Can't believe what i'm reading!!

Happy.....really?! It's a horrendous, flat track along with the majority of his other productions. It's mainstream nonsense. Jesus, for him to produce for Prince....it would be a nightmare come true.

Prince can drop Ol' Skool Company, Laydown Xtended, Sticky Like Glue, Black Sweat, Breakfast Can Wait, etc (all well into his 50's)....Tracks that have what Pharrell and others are trying to do with computer loops, but (as par for the course with Prince) done with actual musicianship.

The fact that Prince is still dropping so many diverse tracks, hip tracks, this far into his career is incredible and he needs no mainstream producer to dumb him down in an attempt to get him in the charts. Prince is an artist....a musician, not a fucking product! He should be keeping it real and attempting to show everyone what real music by real musicians is all about....LIKE WHAT HE'S DOING OR NOT.

Sometimes i wonder if i'm on a Prince site.

Prince singing Happy or Blurred Lines....hahahaha, my god....that would be the most embarrassing move of his career.

Britney's "Slave 4 U" by Pharrell is nothing but Prince's penned "Nasty Girl" by Vanity6 backwards.

WetDream said:

Can't believe what i'm reading!!

Happy.....really?! It's a horrendous, flat track along with the majority of his other productions. It's mainstream nonsense. Jesus, for him to produce for Prince....it would be a nightmare come true.

Prince can drop Ol' Skool Company, Laydown Xtended, Sticky Like Glue, Black Sweat, Breakfast Can Wait, etc (all well into his 50's)....Tracks that have what Pharrell and others are trying to do with computer loops, but (as par for the course with Prince) done with actual musicianship.

The fact that Prince is still dropping so many diverse tracks, hip tracks, this far into his career is incredible and he needs no mainstream producer to dumb him down in an attempt to get him in the charts. Prince is an artist....a musician, not a fucking product! He should be keeping it real and attempting to show everyone what real music by real musicians is all about....LIKE WHAT HE'S DOING OR NOT.

Sometimes i wonder if i'm on a Prince site.

Prince singing Happy or Blurred Lines....hahahaha, my god....that would be the most embarrassing move of his career.

Do you think Pharrell is mostly sought after just for his beats? I think a lot of people just focus on hooks and beats. I don't think Prince would resort to that in a song. But, who knows, maybe they might make something that could be pretty awesome.

WetDream said:

WetDream said:

Can't believe what i'm reading!!

Happy.....really?! It's a horrendous, flat track along with the majority of his other productions. It's mainstream nonsense. Jesus, for him to produce for Prince....it would be a nightmare come true.

Prince can drop Ol' Skool Company, Laydown Xtended, Sticky Like Glue, Black Sweat, Breakfast Can Wait, etc (all well into his 50's)....Tracks that have what Pharrell and others are trying to do with computer loops, but (as par for the course with Prince) done with actual musicianship.

The fact that Prince is still dropping so many diverse tracks, hip tracks, this far into his career is incredible and he needs no mainstream producer to dumb him down in an attempt to get him in the charts. Prince is an artist....a musician, not a fucking product! He should be keeping it real and attempting to show everyone what real music by real musicians is all about....LIKE WHAT HE'S DOING OR NOT.

Sometimes i wonder if i'm on a Prince site.

Prince singing Happy or Blurred Lines....hahahaha, my god....that would be the most embarrassing move of his career.

People are assuming "Happy" would be a hit for Prince.

I scoff at that notion!

I could easily see Prince singing "Happy" and having a worldwide hit with it.If Pharrell had given that song to Prince,it would be the biggest hit he's had in decades.

CynicKill said:

People are assuming "Happy" would be a hit for Prince.

I scoff at that notion!

Yeah I don't think so either. I think it was better for Pharrell. Also keep in mind that Happy was originally for Cee-Lo Green.

SoulAlive said:

I could easily see Prince singing "Happy" and having a worldwide hit with it.If Pharrell had given that song to Prince,it would be the biggest hit he's had in decades.

What about Cee-lo? He was given "Happy" first before Pharrell decided to use it himself! Eye would love to here his version of it...

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

SoulAlive said:

I could easily see Prince singing "Happy" and having a worldwide hit with it.If Pharrell had given that song to Prince,it would be the biggest hit he's had in decades.

What about Cee-lo? He was given "Happy" first before Pharrell decided to use it himself! Eye would love to here his version of it...

I saw a report about two weeks ago saying that Pharrell wrote the song for Cee-Lo but for some reason it was shelved. Pharrell decided to do it on his own and the rest is history. I was watching one of those entertainment shows that they caught up with Cee-Lo at the LAX airport and the paps out there asked Cee-lo if he regretted not doing it. He didn't say anything but the silence said it all!

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Alexandernvrmind said:

WetDream said:

Can't believe what i'm reading!!

Happy.....really?! It's a horrendous, flat track along with the majority of his other productions. It's mainstream nonsense. Jesus, for him to produce for Prince....it would be a nightmare come true.

Prince can drop Ol' Skool Company, Laydown Xtended, Sticky Like Glue, Black Sweat, Breakfast Can Wait, etc (all well into his 50's)....Tracks that have what Pharrell and others are trying to do with computer loops, but (as par for the course with Prince) done with actual musicianship.

The fact that Prince is still dropping so many diverse tracks, hip tracks, this far into his career is incredible and he needs no mainstream producer to dumb him down in an attempt to get him in the charts. Prince is an artist....a musician, not a fucking product! He should be keeping it real and attempting to show everyone what real music by real musicians is all about....LIKE WHAT HE'S DOING OR NOT.

Sometimes i wonder if i'm on a Prince site.

Prince singing Happy or Blurred Lines....hahahaha, my god....that would be the most embarrassing move of his career.

Take off the purple shades.... Prince would die to be able to write a song like happy. All the songs you named sucked and were Prince's attempt to be current and he didn't pull it off. Happy vs Black Sweat.... Are you nuts... Your post is laughable Dumb him down... Can you get dumber than Stick Like Glue? The man needs help with his R&B stuff for real.... Beats, lyrics, music arrangements, vocal arrangements, working up a black sweat ... Really? That horrific panting and meow cat calls on Chocolate Box. One word man HORRIBLE He needs help with his rock stuff too but at least with those tracks he is capable of pulling off the live performance because he still has the chops and can play that guitar. Man P is just looking bad these days [Edited 5/29/14 20:24pm] [Edited 5/29/14 20:26pm]

Literally....one of the most mental thing's i have read on here in quite some time and that is saying something. MY. GOD.

......and this is coming from someone who regularly criticises Prince, including some tracks you referrence like Chocolate Box......but, i'm not even going to argue......this is just.......WOW.

I'm done here.

Prince's massive ego, inability to comfortably work with men, and his Jehovah Witness faith are the major blockades for this type of collaboration. I also feel like these are the keys to why we have already seen the best of Prince and should not have unrealistic expectations of him anymore.

I see a lot of people hear bashing Pharrell's work. I ask, Have you listened to Pharrell whole catalogue of work? He has crafted slamming beats for his group N.E.R.D, Kelis, Brittany Spears, Robin Thicke, tons of rappers, Justin Timberlake, and various R&B artist. Before you say he sucks, do some due diligence and listen to his all his music and not base your judgement just off Happy. Btw Happy is a slamming, simple bare bone song that's a hit.

Since people are throwing it out there, How about this collaboration: Prince and R. Kelly? Let's hear some view on this one.

joyinrepetition said:

I see a lot of people hear bashing Pharrell's work. I ask, Have you listened to Pharrell whole catalogue of work? He has crafted slamming beats for his group N.E.R.D, Kelis, Brittany Spears, Robin Thicke, tons of rappers, Justin Timberlake, and various R&B artist. Before you say he sucks, do some due diligence and listen to his all his music and not base your judgement just off Happy. Btw Happy is a slamming, simple bare bone song that's a hit.

Since people are throwing it out there, How about this collaboration: Prince and R. Kelly? Let's hear some view on this one.

Not sure that would work with Prince and R.Kelly but anything's possible.

Alexandernvrmind said:

Yeah it would be nice but P would never do it I just watched Justin ?Timberlake discuss his influences on Oprahs life class. He talked about Michael, Stevie, Donnie Hathaway, he even mentioned D'Angelo. Not a word on Prince... Not one single word. He talked about the song SexyBack and how that song was his attempt to really establish himself.... And all I could think about is how Prince claimed Sexy never went anywhere and created a public thing with Justin. As Justin continued to talk in depth about Stevie and Michael influences I remembered that he hired Princes drummer and base player and Sonny T. Cleary the dude is influenced by Prince. He reeks of 80s Prince. If you haven't heard Not a bad thing from JT check it out. Happy by Pharrell or tightrope (written by janelle with Bruno) or locked out of heaven by Bruno These people are writing circles around P. His ego will never allow him to work with these men. Chocolate Box... Have Pharrell produce that song or Black Sweat.... Those songs are better. It's a shame that P is so irrelevant .... But it's his own fault

He loves Prince..said he just listened to Head and Prince must have God on speed dial..But really, you upset that he didnt mention him as if it diminshes his talent..Hell Prince never really states who his influences are

Alexandernvrmind said:

WetDream said:

Can't believe what i'm reading!!

Happy.....really?! It's a horrendous, flat track along with the majority of his other productions. It's mainstream nonsense. Jesus, for him to produce for Prince....it would be a nightmare come true.

Prince can drop Ol' Skool Company, Laydown Xtended, Sticky Like Glue, Black Sweat, Breakfast Can Wait, etc (all well into his 50's)....Tracks that have what Pharrell and others are trying to do with computer loops, but (as par for the course with Prince) done with actual musicianship.

The fact that Prince is still dropping so many diverse tracks, hip tracks, this far into his career is incredible and he needs no mainstream producer to dumb him down in an attempt to get him in the charts. Prince is an artist....a musician, not a fucking product! He should be keeping it real and attempting to show everyone what real music by real musicians is all about....LIKE WHAT HE'S DOING OR NOT.

Sometimes i wonder if i'm on a Prince site.

Prince singing Happy or Blurred Lines....hahahaha, my god....that would be the most embarrassing move of his career.

Take off the purple shades.... Prince would die to be able to write a song like happy. All the songs you named sucked and were Prince's attempt to be current and he didn't pull it off. Happy vs Black Sweat.... Are you nuts... Your post is laughable Dumb him down... Can you get dumber than Stick Like Glue? The man needs help with his R&B stuff for real.... Beats, lyrics, music arrangements, vocal arrangements, working up a black sweat ... Really? That horrific panting and meow cat calls on Chocolate Box. One word man HORRIBLE He needs help with his rock stuff too but at least with those tracks he is capable of pulling off the live performance because he still has the chops and can play that guitar. Man P is just looking bad these days [Edited 5/29/14 20:24pm] [Edited 5/29/14 20:26pm]

Really, so in Prince's vast catalog, you think he needs a happy..he got tons of Happy's GTFOH..Will I AM and Pharrell were talkking about hos vast catalog, like dudes catalofg is so vast he doesnt have to do his biggest songs