BartVanHemelen said:

laurarichardson said:

V10LETBLUES said:

Ultimately it's about the music. Let me put it this way, he can open a show with these two new tracks and he will kill it with fans new and old. Play them on a TV show whatever. Now, if he opened with Pancakes Can Wait and Clouds, it would only put people to sleep or make them feel sorry for him. Honestly it had nothing to do with promotion, it was the music.

Bullshit no promotion means no sales. He promoted the hell out Musicology and that was a so-so cd.

Besides the give away's at concerts which counted for 1.4 million sales, musicology sold another 1 million not including the giveaways... So promoting had ALOT to do with that album. That was the last RIAA certified multiplatnium album PRINCE had.

Musicology put PRINCE back in the mainstream for at least that year... It sold over 2 million copies and was the biggest grossing tour earning over $87.4 million. So yes promotion has a lot to do with it, because musically overall Musicology was a very very average album.

laurarichardson said:

There is as always a total over reaction on here

Tidal will get exclusive rights to the album for the first month perhaps and then it will be released on vinyl and on iTunes.

I am surprised he has gone with Tidal though. I would have thought the new Apple Music streaming service would have been a far better option but there again maybe Jay Z was offerring more of an advance and its all about the money at the the end of the day.

Whatever way I am excited to hear the new album and I will take out my trial with Tidal then cancel it and then buy it and if it isnt released I will download it from somewhere

CHILL OUT !

egansmind said:

There is as always a total over reaction on here

Tidal will get exclusive rights to the album for the first month perhaps and then it will be released on vinyl and on iTunes.

I am surprised he has gone with Tidal though. I would have thought the new Apple Music streaming service would have been a far better option but there again maybe Jay Z was offerring more of an advance and its all about the money at the the end of the day.

Whatever way I am excited to hear the new album and I will take out my trial with Tidal then cancel it and then buy it and if it isnt released I will download it from somewhere

CHILL OUT !

What he (or she) said

KingSausage said:

Fuck this. I'm not joining Tidal for this. No way. I'm sure there will be other ways to get it...

Yeah, it's called torrent files.

Identity said:

I still say Prince's motive is to get in Beyonce's drawers.

KingSausage said:

Identity said:

Yeah, it's called torrent files.

You're supposed to cough, fool!

That was my "cough", bro.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Eye'm more Xcited about Phase 2!!!!!!

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I'm guessing you won't confirm this, KCOOL--but this sounds almost like someone who maybe, just possibly, isn't all that excited about the actual announcement in absolutely all its apparent details, and so he's chosen to look forward in the hope that a possible "Phase 2" will make it all better?

Well, that still leaves the Spotify song as a peculiar mystery, doesn't it?

Oh, as to my response to the announcement--really? You've got to be kidding me--but I hold out no strong hope for a sensible "buy it" option, even in download form.

I suspect I'll eventually possess it in some form--but I'd prefer to pay him for it (but not just to listen to it as long as his agreement with Tidal holds up--or as long as Tidal holds up--and I certainly don't intend to continue paying for it monthly... that would be ridiculous).

BartVanHemelen said:

Bwahahahaha.

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This is what happens when you believe your own bullshit.

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Just keep feeding the bootleggers, Prince. Just keep on alienating your fans.

I'm actually starting to wonder if you and Prince are just punking us in some way--I disagree with you about a lot of the recent music, but his distribution choices and other aspects of his public presentation separate from the actual music continue to stun and amaze me. Unless he's trying to put fans off, I just don't see the point.

OperatingThetan said:

I'm not signing up for the Tidal streaming service.

tab32792 said:

lol this place is hilarious. you want new music. it's announced complete with a release date and people still complain. people still buy cds?

I'm not signing up either...

NEXT!!!!!!

jillybean said:

Once again, his decisions confound. I don't want to join Tidal to hear new music. Oh well.

It was stated by Jon Bream that P had no idea what Spotify was. I'd love to know who his 'advisors' are.

All that said, I AM glad there's new music coming.

Of course he knew what it was, he had some of his music on there before that meeting. He was asking for advice on new ways to get music out for Judith.

Prince fans are old

feeluupp said:

The only one losing out is PRINCE... His new album will not be getting a lot of streams... The fans won't join TIDAL, and besides TIDAL is not even a popular streaming platform compared to Google, Apple and Spotify.

Prince won't be paid by the number of streams for the album. He wouldn't put an album exclusively anywhere unless they paid him upfront. If you don't know how Prince rolls by now..

purplethunder3121 said:

CarolineC said:

I totally agree.

I have to join the chorus wholeheartedly on this one. Would anyone pay to see an image of a Picasso painting briefly projected on their wall or a physical copy that will hang there for one to enjoy for as long as one lives?

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Trouble with this metaphor is that people kinda do pay to see a painting briefly when they go to museums. And seeing a Picasso at the Met is a lot more cost effective than buying one But yeah I take your point, although I don't necessarily need a physical copy myself, but owning an album is imo far preferable to just being able to stream it (I don't mind streaming as a supplement to buying album overall, but not giving people that choice is a terrible idea.)

Anyways, looks like I missed out on the initial revealing of this news by going to a P-Funk concert, so I think I win overall

To be fair though, I was already considering pirating whatever new Prince album was going to come out due to my disappointment over the lack of the Purple Rain remaster, so it's kinda neat Prince has made that decision easy for me!

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laurarichardson said:

EroticDreamer said:

If so, that's such bs.

Not my fault more black people don't own hotels.

Maybe if they didn't buy so many gold chains they would.

-

Lie down, fair 1, and come away
Till the rain is over and gone
G-G-Gimme the beat now (Face the music)
Lead line (Face the music)

If the air is a little thick in this room 2nite
I reckon it's the result of an onslaught of separatist rookies
Overcome by this colorful sight

Talkin' so fast that even they
Talkin' so fast that even they
Don't know what they mean

Of all the things that base a rhyme
How is it that U everytime
Regurgitate the racist lines that keep us apart?

Thank God this ain't Monopoly
U'd make us all go back 2 start

Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Race
Face the music
We all bones when we dead

Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Cut me, cut U
Both the blood is red

I gotcha

Race
Race

Check it

Three seats over there's a lady black
Entrusted 2 her care is a little white girl
And the fact of the matter is

Before her momma or another kid at school
Tells her about the fallacy that 1 race rules over the other
She'd be a much-better-off-left fool (Face the music)

If we never heard about the evils that those before us committed
Then how my dear, tell me now how my dear, tell me now how now would we know

And then the band say

Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Race
Face the music
We all bones when we dead

Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Cut me, cut U
Both the blood is red

I gotcha

Race
Race
(Face the music)

D-d-down with H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and all this BS propagandi
Keepin U from me and me from U as we grow
I don't wanna know (I don't wanna know)
Why those before us hated each other

I'd rather believe they never did
I'd rather believe (I'd rather, I'd rather believe)
That there's hope 4 a kid

And if he imitates the best
I guess that's what I'll try 2 be
And I will let the rest dissolve with my guitar underneath the sea

Race
(Face Face Face Face Face)
Face the music (Face the music)
Face the music

Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Race
Face the music
We all bones when we dead

Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Cut me, cut U
Both the blood is red

Get it?
Race
Got it

Race
Face the music
Race Race
(Face Face Face the music)
Race Race
(Face Face Face the music)
Race Race
Race Race
(Face-F-Face the music)

Well we got a racist ass on the board. Confirms some of my suspicions. Every time Prince is working with other black people this bullshit starts. Wake up and and smell the coffee 1. Cd are going away. 2. The planet has more people of color than white. 3. If you do not own something and control your own destiny you going to get got. You may know go back to your racist rant.

I'll have everything released (official or otherwise) on a CD.

That's the way I like it and it makes me feel all warm inside!

"... You'll be screamin' like a white lady when I count 2 3..."- Black Sweat, omg! Prince is also dee racizt!!!

[Flame snip - luv4u]

paulludvig said:

Prince fans are old

I'll have none of this digital foolishness!! Stay off my lawn you whippersnappers!!!

Identity said:

KingSausage said:

Identity said:

That was my "cough", bro.

You gotta turn left too.

paulludvig said:

Prince fans are old

Prince is old.