Has Prince lost "the edge"??

(and, no it's not the guitarman in U2 I'm talking about)


"Life Can Be So Nice" is sharp as a knife... and so is most of Prince's 80's songs.. and -albums.


Can Prince do it again..... make edgy music?

Or is Prince a star burned out, struggeling..... tamed... what do u think about "the edge" + Prince?

thedance said:

Has Prince lost "the edge"??

(and, no it's not the guitarman in U2 I'm talking about)


"Life Can Be So Nice" is sharp as a knife... and so is most of Prince's 80's songs.. and -albums.


Can Prince do it again..... make edgy music?

Or is Prince a star burned out, struggeling..... tamed... what do u think about "the edge" + Prince?

He is already, you just did not notice.

HardRockLover actually has some of the old edgy magic, that could be a good sign for the new album (I hope).. however Baltimore is tame and outwatered, not worthy for Prince imo...

thedance said:

Has Prince lost "the edge"??

(and, no it's not the guitarman in U2 I'm talking about)


"Life Can Be So Nice" is sharp as a knife... and so is most of Prince's 80's songs.. and -albums.


Can Prince do it again..... make edgy music?

Or is Prince a star burned out, struggeling..... tamed... what do u think about "the edge" + Prince?

The efforts and imagination you deploy to create your weekly "Prince is over and done" thread under different titles/an,gles are pretty impressive. U sure did NOT lose your edge.

But I say

databank said:

thedance said:

Has Prince lost "the edge"??

(and, no it's not the guitarman in U2 I'm talking about)


"Life Can Be So Nice" is sharp as a knife... and so is most of Prince's 80's songs.. and -albums.


Can Prince do it again..... make edgy music?

Or is Prince a star burned out, struggeling..... tamed... what do u think about "the edge" + Prince?

The efforts and imagination you deploy to create your weekly "Prince is over and done" thread under different titles/an,gles are pretty impressive. U sure did NOT lose your edge.

But I say

His next post will for sure be about bashing down the song Stare once more...

thedance said:

HardRockLover actually has some of the old edgy magic, that could be a good sign for the new album (I hope).. however Baltimore is tame and outwatered, not worthy for Prince imo...

This 100%

After N.E.W.S. seems Prince want to be Prince. So, we will hear music we have hear in past.

Prince seems to of loss his edge , he needs something to spark him again , but when will that happen, maybe the new album will have something like the Prince we remmember.

who sent all these people on to the org to excrete all over the place???

I'm 99.999% sure Prince visits 4chan

Prince is not edgy, he IS edge

databank said:

thedance said:

Has Prince lost "the edge"??

(and, no it's not the guitarman in U2 I'm talking about)


"Life Can Be So Nice" is sharp as a knife... and so is most of Prince's 80's songs.. and -albums.


Can Prince do it again..... make edgy music?

Or is Prince a star burned out, struggeling..... tamed... what do u think about "the edge" + Prince?

The efforts and imagination you deploy to create your weekly "Prince is over and done" thread under different titles/an,gles are pretty impressive. U sure did NOT lose your edge.

But I say

Please Databank, what is this "lock this thread" BS? If you don't care to discuss something, simply skip the thread, no one is asking for your opinion if you don't care for a specific topic.

thedance said:

Has Prince lost "the edge"??

(and, no it's not the guitarman in U2 I'm talking about)


"Life Can Be So Nice" is sharp as a knife... and so is most of Prince's 80's songs.. and -albums.


Can Prince do it again..... make edgy music?

Or is Prince a star burned out, struggeling..... tamed... what do u think about "the edge" + Prince?

Yeah all of his 80's music had a hard ass sharp edge. I think it's becasue his mind was too.

But I will also say that both Hardrocklover and Stare the sharpest things he done in a while, so maybe he still has it in him in bits and starts.

He's 57. No 57-year-old is going to make the same kind of music they made as a 27-year-old.

It is what it is - for every artist. I wouldn't worry about it.

Aerogram said:

V10LETBLUES said:

PARADE = GREAT

AOA = AVERAGE

PLANET EARTH = DULL

MPLS = CRAP

pray4rain said:

databank said:

The efforts and imagination you deploy to create your weekly "Prince is over and done" thread under different titles/an,gles are pretty impressive. U sure did NOT lose your edge.

But I say

Please Databank, what is this "lock this thread" BS? If you don't care to discuss something, simply skip the thread, no one is asking for your opinion if you don't care for a specific topic.

Nowadays people write nonsense online in the name of their "entitled freedom of speech". Calling a stop to nonsense is my own entitled freedom of speech

databank said:

pray4rain said:

Please Databank, what is this "lock this thread" BS? If you don't care to discuss something, simply skip the thread, no one is asking for your opinion if you don't care for a specific topic.

Nowadays people write nonsense online in the name of their "entitled freedom of speech". Calling a stop to nonsense is my own entitled freedom of speech

Following this line of logic you can post "lock this thread" on every second thread herre on the org. My advice: save yuorself some time, leave to others what is "nonsense or not" to them, skip these threads and use your time on different fora with more serious issues, like freedom of speech.

V10LETBLUES said:

Any music critic who shitted Parade has shown whether he is qualified or to be taken seriously, same as those who lathered praise onto Mnplsound. The Internet never forgets who said what

There was a backlash going on after Purple Rain Mania and while Kiss restored some of the good faith, Parade and UTCM were seen as symptoms the backlasher had a point. Also, there was no internet back then, though we did have running water and did not go unwashed.

Your theory that critics were so much better back then is flimsy, reviewers were always for the most part very influenced by trends that blinded them to qualities and flaws. A strong bias goes a long way, as you know well.

daingermouz2020 said:

I'd say he has but it is to be expected he is almost 60yrs old your gonna loose something along the way. I think we could benefit greatly by collaborating with he Revolution once again or Questlove. He's still more talented than most cats out there.

Revisiting the past is not edgy.

Aerogram said:

Aerogram said:

skywalker said:

Aerogram said:

There was a backlash going on after Purple Rain Mania and while Kiss restored some of the good faith, Parade and UTCM were seen as symptoms the backlasher had a point. Also, there was no internet back then, though we did have running water and did not go unwashed.

Your theory that critics were so much better back then is flimsy, reviewers were always for the most part very influenced by trends that blinded them to qualities and flaws. A strong bias goes a long way, as you know well.

These are great points. People forget that, in the USA, general audiences were not super hot for Prince's post PurpleRain material. Sure, there were hit singles, but it was viewed as a Prince being self indulgent. As genius as the 1985-1988 albums are viewed now, they were not viewed that way then.

Sign O'The Times was hailed as genius almost unanimously upon it's release and still is.

skywalker said:

Aerogram said:

There was a backlash going on after Purple Rain Mania and while Kiss restored some of the good faith, Parade and UTCM were seen as symptoms the backlasher had a point. Also, there was no internet back then, though we did have running water and did not go unwashed.

Your theory that critics were so much better back then is flimsy, reviewers were always for the most part very influenced by trends that blinded them to qualities and flaws. A strong bias goes a long way, as you know well.

These are great points. People forget that, in the USA, general audiences were not super hot for Prince's post PurpleRain material. Sure, there were hit singles, but it was viewed as a Prince being self indulgent. As genius as the 1985-1988 albums are viewed now, they were not viewed that way then.

I completly agree. It is a good point you brought up in the USA... In terms of popularity and commercial performance in the USA, it was 1999, Purple Rain and Diamonds and Pearls that all sold great in the U.S. However his "genius" material AWTIAD, PARADE, SIGN O THE TIMES, LOVESEXY all sold low numbers in the U.S. which I believe that is why Prince focused on touring more in Europe during 86-88... Remember Lovesexy tour in the U.S. according to Alex Hans book were playing in front of mostly empty stadiums... Besides major cities like New York, L.A. Chicago, the tour was not a sell out at all, it didn't even sell out during the opening show in Minneapolis.

i think 'life can be so nice' is a really well chosen example to make your point... what an absolute gem of a song

feeluupp said:

skywalker said:

Aerogram said: These are great points. People forget that, in the USA, general audiences were not super hot for Prince's post PurpleRain material. Sure, there were hit singles, but it was viewed as a Prince being self indulgent. As genius as the 1985-1988 albums are viewed now, they were not viewed that way then.

I completly agree. It is a good point you brought up in the USA... In terms of popularity and commercial performance in the USA, it was 1999, Purple Rain and Diamonds and Pearls that all sold great in the U.S. However his "genius" material AWTIAD, PARADE, SIGN O THE TIMES, LOVESEXY all sold low numbers in the U.S. which I believe that is why Prince focused on touring more in Europe during 86-88... Remember Lovesexy tour in the U.S. according to Alex Hans book were playing in front of mostly empty stadiums... Besides major cities like New York, L.A. Chicago, the tour was not a sell out at all, it didn't even sell out during the opening show in Minneapolis.

Not surprising. While he was/is one of the biggest stars of all time, I always thought he was underappreciated by critics/award shows and such. But since 2004, it's been a different story. It's like the media wants to make up to Prince all the times they made him out to be an out-of-touch fool in the '90s (although he didn't do much to reverse this opinion). But I mean, since then, he's gotten more Grammy noms than he did in the '80s, and for songs like Cinnamon Girl and Future Baby Mama. And critics lately love to salivate at anything Prince releases or anywhere he performs.

Again, not surprising. People tend to be appreciated after their time is done. After Prince ceased to be a pop star and more of a musical legend, he gained the respect of the masses (I would say Superbowl 2007 was the biggest aid in this). Similarly, MJ was villfied as a washed-up pop star before his death; even at times his albums would sell 25 million+ or 13 million+, the media would love to play it off like it was a failure while praising other artists who sold less as "successful." And now since his death, try saying something bad about him . People don't appreciate what they get till it's gone. And in this case, the 'gone' is Prince's pop star days. Just IMO..