If Prince decided to work with another producer and let him being produced, who should it be?

My pick would be RICK RUBIN or PHARRELL. Obviously not an esoteric choice, but I figure they might be able to let Prince create another hit album, and not another Plectrum Electrum.

Jamie Starr.

NorthC said:

Nobody. I don't want a Prince album that doesn't sound like Prince. That said, I would love it if he played with some musicians from outside of the funk/soul genre. He had violin player Vanessa Mae on one of his albums, something like that would be refreshing. Or do a Ry Cooder style project with some Cuban musicians.

Oh c'mon. Macca wrote, arranged, produced most of his solo works, but we can still tell it's him when another producer like Nigel produced his album. Actually P can take a lesson or two from Macca for not being too uptight about the whole "produced/composed/arranged/performed by" thing.

nuttynutmeg said:

PHARRELL.

Robert John Mutt Lange

Patrick Leonard

George Clinton

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1. Prince

This thread again?

No ID...he used to be primarily a hip-hop producer, but he's branched out, producing pop songs that don't sound like regular pop songs. No ID, also, produces Cocaine 80's, a favorite group of mine.

Whoever the producer is for T.I.'s song, Private Show, with Chris Brown.

The producer of Sevyn Streeter's song, nEXt.

The producer of Joey Badass' song, Alowha.

Jamie Starr!

I'd like to see someone who will challenge Prince. Quicny Jones was right when he said Prince works too much in a silo.

Having said that, Prince is a great musical artist. Only he should get to decide what his output is going to be but working with someone who isn't a yes man would be good. I'm interested in the sounds that came out of AOA. Some of that stuff seems new for Prince and I like that but it would be cool to see Prince work with someone like Marius DeVries or or Mark Stent.

I sincerely do not want P to be produced by anyone but Prince.

Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Forget their Janet Jackson stuff, but what they did with Condensate was awsome. If anyone was going to produce Prince, these two would make the most sense, what with their history and backgrounds. But there is more chance of Prince being produced by Tony M than those two...

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I'd rather Prince produce Prince. But if he was going to be produced by outside help... ?uestlove, Thom Yorke, Bowie, Daft Punk, Bobby Gillespie, Jack White would all probably produce interesting results.

I'd like to see him work with Pharrell. Pharrell would probably try and do a pure classic Prince homage and Prince would completely resist it, would be interesting to see what came of it.

Otherwise i'd like to see him work with someone totally different like Nick Cave or David Byrne; someone who is still doing good music and wouldn't be intimidated by Prince's legacy as they have their own...

Stock, Aitken & Waterman.

Pentacle said:

Stock, Aitken & Waterman.

He should be so lucky.... lucky, lucky, lucky...

Babyface. What he did with Madonna was great. He's about the same age as Prince and been in the business a long time.

He has been in such a rut for so long, it's clear that if he is ever going to move forward, it's going to be with the help of an outside producer. He is not the young spunky creative man he used to be, his sound and mind seems so far more sedated that after his peak he sounds like a completely diffrent artist. A strong producer giving him a shot of adreneline would doing him a lot of good.

But a good producer costs money. We have seen that Prince doesn't like spending money on his projects as rag tag as they have been, so I don't think we will ever see that happening.

I would like to see a stripped down accoustic album though. That's something far more realistic, and something aforadable that he could produce himself without sounding as dated as he has forever been.

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nuttynutmeg said:

PHARRELL

Prince.

End of list.

RodeoSchro said:

Prince.

End of list.

and career

HuMpThAnG said:

RodeoSchro said:

Prince.

End of list.

and career

LMAO.

Joe Henry

RodeoSchro said:

HuMpThAnG said:

and career

LMAO.

Terrible choice.