RODSERLING said:

funksterr said:

paulludvig said:

He didn't say that he played a minimal role on the entire album. And what tracks from the pasr are you talking about?

Kiss comes to mind, for one. He didn't announce the day before Kiss came out, 'oh David Z, did like 90% of this track'.

David Z was given arranging credit! Which is what he did. RE-ARRANGE the song!! Also Mazarati was given background vocal credit...

wrote an COMPOSED the song. Eye am so sick of U people bringing this up. It's creation & always will be!!!!!!!

Prince "exults" in his heaven - not "exalts." For the love of Mike, doesn't anyone at AP (of all places) own a dictionary?

funksterr said:

lezama said:

I rarely see someone read so much into a scattering of comments as you did, I thought I was reading Bart for a second. Prince gives a kid props and you interpret that giving himself some lifeline should his album not reach multi platinum. Thats the stupidest thing I've read in a long time considering he almost half of what the man released in the 90's didn't sell well and little of what was released on the 00's sold well either. Why the hell would he suddenly assume an albums that's not really been promoted all that heavily and with zero air play would somehow be a big seller? Bullshite.. your comments seem to be directed to a strawman.

And with respect to your second and third sentences, artists give interviews with an agenda when they're working with their PR teams and are being managed. Prince if you havent noticed, says whats on his mind very often without overarching rhyme or reason and he doesn't have anyone looking over his shoulder telling what he should and shouldnt say. So to say he went in to any interview with some agenda and actually follows through with any agenda is reaching... heavily. If he did his interviews would have much different results than they consistently do.

You just don't get it. You are naive on so many points I can't help you. Prince only talks to the media when he has an agenda, period. It's very telling what was actually said. "Who would have thought that I'd let a 22 year old kid produce me?"... Yeah, I'm sure Prince is quite chagrined about that. I'm sure Prince never thought it. But he realized this is what the industry wanted and so he went about it the most FAIL way he possibly could. If it flops it's on Josh and WB, not Prince, because WB wanted him to work with up and coming producers.. That's why he made sure he put it out there and likely made sure it was in the final version of the article, which is the most extensively distributed of all the interviews he's done so far. The day before the album drops, Prince reveals that some of these tracks are FAKE Prince tracks!?!?! SHEEEIT! Prince is a survivor and he knows how the game is played.

Of course, the "agenda" is called selling albums/tours, getting his name in the paper..

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Again you have not explained what a "flop" is to a man who's released tons of albums that sold very little? And I doubt he cares all that much, as he gets paid regardless right? It'd certainly be an ego booster if it sold well, but financially speaking it's not something he has much on the line with.

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And please explain what a "fake" Prince track mean? If he had Kirky J do 90% of a song in the 90's and just added a few guitar licks and a bass line, is that somehow redeemed because he added something to it?? We all know he doesn't need other people to make music.. just as we know U2 didn't need a bunch of producers on their new album or countless other examples of established musicians who can do their own work. But its nice and different when you get others contributing. At the end of the day he either accepts or nixes a contribution and he's still the one calling the shots, so yes, it is still his music. Thanks for your effort though.

[Edited 10/1/14 9:16am]