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Recording dates and studio are unknown. Prince started working with Bria Valente in late 2006, so the track may have been recorded anytime between late 2006 and Summer 2008 at either Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA or Circle House, Miami, FL, USA, but no information has been verified. The track was premiered on Los Angeles radio station KJLH 102.3 FM on 17 September, 2008. (PrinceVault) What? | |
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March 26. 2009
Save. Save. Save. Save. What? | |
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January 25. 2009 Save. Save. Save. Save. What? | |
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OldFriends4Sale said:
This is one of the more horrid pics of prince.....BLEH! | |
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BobGeorge909 said: OldFriends4Sale said:
This is one of the more horrid pics of prince.....BLEH! He's kind of giraffe-looking. What? | |
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Bria Valente (born Brenda Fuentes)[1] is an American singer. A protégée of Prince, Valente released her debut album, Elixer, as part of a three-album set with Prince's LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND on March 29, 2009.[1] The collection debuted at #2 on the top Billboard albums chart.[2] | |
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Prince @ Avalon Ball Hollywood 2.22.09 | |
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I would love to hear P cover The Cars "Let's Go" | |
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I love Lotusflow3r/MPLSound and most of the live shows of this era. Songs like "Colonized Mind," "Dreamer," "Ol' Skool Company," "MPLS," "Valentina," "Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful," "Dance 4 Me," and "No More Candy 4 U" continued my love affair with Prince's songwriting and musicianship. This time was a total high for me. These albums were on heavy rotation for two years, and even though I like very much 20Ten, it has taken AOA and PlecElec to replace them as my main playlist. | |
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The best era since TRC, so many great songs and I love the Montreux shows, a shame Prince didn't release it on dvd. Lotusflow3r is on my top 10 Prince albums of all time Welcome 2 The Dawn | |
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Lotus Flower Meaning in BuddhismIn Buddhism the lotus is known to be associated with purity, spiritual awakening and faithfulness. The flower is considered pure as it is able to emerge from murky waters in the morning and be perfectly clean. Therefore in common with Egyptian mythology the lotus is seen as a sign of rebirth, but additionally it is associated with purity. The breaking of the surface every morning is also suggestive of desire, this leads to it being associated with spiritual enlightenment.
As Buddhism stems from a different part of the world to Egyptology, there are many more colors of lotus to be seen. So it is not too surprising that the many different colors have come to be associated with different aspects of Buddhism. The main symbolism of the lotus flower and their meanings are given here.
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White lotus flower: this color lotus is known to symbolize Bodhi (being awakened), and represents a state of mental purity, and that of spiritual perfection; it is also associated with the pacification of one’s nature. This lotus is considered to be the womb of the world. | |
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February 7. 2009
Afterparty | |
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Every once in awhile
At one point in the song's lyrics, Prince names many of his past drummers. "Songs we used 2 sing used 2 mean something / Now they just bland like the drummer / Where's the real drummer? / Michael B., Mint Condition, Morris Day, Jellybean wishin', Sheila E. and brother John / and sometimes me, 'til the dawn." The inclusion of Mint Condition is unusual since Prince had not been known to have worked with the band or drummer Stokley Williams (other than in a background vocal role on Call My Name). Also notable is the omission of Bobby Z. (drummer for Prince's most famous band, The Revolution), Kirk Johnson (New Power Generation drummer and Prince's best man in his wedding to Mayte Garcia), and Cora Coleman-Dunham (his then-current drummer who played on the track during its regular live performances).
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* Louts Flower Meaning in Christianity * In the Old Testament there are at least two figures--Daniel and Job--who foreshadow Jesus as the Christ and symbolize the ultimate Christian theme of death and resurrection. Job, of course, is literally and metaphorically buried in the hell of death, sickness, and social condemnation, only to arise reborn-- physically and metaphorically--with even greater/stronger faith. This death and rebirth of Job is also what the lotus plant has universally symbolized to many civilizations and religions, and it is used to show God's power in Job 40:21-22. In this passage the plant symbolizes God's power to meet all of humanity's needs beyond human understanding. So at Job's moment of doubt--the depth of his descent into hell, God chastises and reassures Job that the manner in which He has created all of nature--including the lotus plant--to care for humanity is assurance that God will always meet mankind's needs, especially allowing humanity to be saved/reborn from its sins. * And since all religions borrow, it is clear that when Gabriel, the Archangel, holding in his hands a spray of water lilies, appears to the virgin Mary in any picture of Annunciation, the spray, typifying fire and water or the idea of creation and generation, symbolizes the precisely same idea of as the lotus in the hand of the Bodhisat who announces to Maha-Maya, Gautama's mother, the birth of the world's saviour, Buddha. (As an aside: My world literature class constructs an essay explaining what the similarities of "Hymn to the Aton" and "Psalm 104" teach humanity about art, history, politics, and/or religion, answering what does it mean that two men living eight hundred years apart being of different religions and races show/personify God in almost the exact same manner even though they have an entirely different concept or notion of God?) * With the emergence of the Sun, Life is born. With the emergence of God's Son, Life/Humanity is reborn from its abyss of sin. And with this emergence, the lotus flower acquires a special meaning and timeless significance. As the bearer of creation, the lotus flower holds a special place in multiple mythologies and ideologies. It symbolizes creation and the timeless and continual process of brith, death, and rebirth. At night, it sleeps. At sunrise, with the awakening of the sun, the lotus emerges to life just as many figures--Buddha, Jesus, and others--die to one life/reality and are reborn to another. | |
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It is weird that even though I knew a little about the Lotus flower significence I never gave much thought into what Prince was trying to say by title this album LotusFlower and how the music connected.
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* Yeah, with Prince there are always these two sides: funny surface Prince and serious more introspective Prince. But, the problem is that one can never be sure which Prince we're getting. And, on the one hand, it is easy for me to say, "Prince should have been more upfront about what the title meant so that more people could know from where he's coming," but based on his career that's never been his mode of operation. Throughout his career he's been more: "Here it is. If you get it, you get it; if you don't, you don't." And I think that for a lot of folks, when we were all younger it was cool for most of us to decipher the "hidden" meanings. But, as most of us aged, got families, jobs, and other responsibilities, it became too much work, and some even perceived it has juvenile to keep deciphering all these messages. Of course, add that many people became increasingly disappointed, "put off," or just downright "offended" by his religious beliefs, and that added cynicism to the frustration, causing many "hardcore fans" not to bother seeing if more is there. | |
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The Morning After
Recording dates and studio are unknown, but it is likely the track was recorded in 2005 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA, 77 Beverly Park, Hollywood, CA, USA or Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA. It was included as the seventh track on a late 2005 configuration of 3121, but was removed as the album underwent some changes before release. -PrinceVault Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted C.C. Dunham - drums Josh Dunham - bass guitar Mr. Hayes - keyboard effects
It didn't hit me til the morning after
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I agree, when you have to spell it out it's probably too much I like it when the flow of the album connects the album title I think from Dirty Mind - Batman it hit 100% After that it was kinda hit or miss Rainbow Children yeah that one the music spoke for the connection. So far I'm not really getting Lotus connection, the instrumentals actually work seperately songs # 1 2 12 LotusFlow3r is my favorite of the 3 anyway . I did my own Planet Earth playlist of songs, it flowed pretty good. I think I'll do one of LotusFlow3r
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* I love both LotusFlow3r/MPLSound as collections of solid songs in which the songs seem to be about the necessity of art being positive and uplifting, but I don't consider them to be "concept" albums in the manner of Lovesexy or The Rainbow Children. As such, the "lotus" theme or connection for me is the notion that music can be healing or redeeming or uplifting in some way. Even "$" is like a cautionary tale of embracing the physical instead of the metaphysical. And the same seems to be true of MPLSound, with he point being that even party music can be socially or personally uplifting. Planet Earth was one of the few albums that was not in heavy rotation for at least a year after its release. It has some songs I like, especially "Chelsea Rogers," "Guitar," "Future Baby Mama," "Resolution," and "Planet Earth," but it always felt that it was missing one or two more songs to make it cohesive, musically and lyrically. It isn't so much a fragmented mess like Graffiti Bridge, but at least Graffiti Bridge has five or six songs that I love whereas Planet Earth, as a collection, could never seem to rise above a grade of "C" for me, even when I removed "Mr. Goodnight," which still battles "I Wonder U" as my least favorite Prince song. | |
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What hapnd to the chick whos album went w it did she vanish? | |
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Dance 4 Me is the third track on Prince's 34th studio album MPLSound, and, five months after the album's release (one week before the French release), Dance 4 Me was released as the album's first single, available only as a download in France. A month later, Dance 4 Me (Icon Remix) was released as the album's first single in North America, available as a download only. Other dance remixes have been created by outside producers for potential release. In December, 2011, close to three years after the album's release, Swiss dance music label Purple Music released a new single of Dance 4 Me, containing remixes of the track by Jamie Lewis and David Alexander, as well as the remixes recorded for potential release in 2009. Recording dates and studio are unknown, but it is likely that the track was recorded in 2008 - early 2009 at either Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA or 77 Beverly Park, Hollywood, CA, USA. Remixes were done in mid-2009 at unknown studios. Jamie Lewis recorded a remix in mid-to-late 2011 at an unknown studio.
Prince - all vocals and instruments -PrinceVault
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Dance 4 Me
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Photo taken by Prince | |
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I got two sides... and they're both friends. | |
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