KingSausage said:

HITNRUN is especially embarrassing in the wake of amazing albums like D'Angelo's Black Messiah, Van Hunt's The Fun Rises The Fun Sets, and Bilal's In Another Life. All albums that have clear Prince influences, but make Prince's new material look like a cruel joke.

You totally nailed it. I listen to every new Prince album once or twice and then basically forget about it. It's been this way for years. Nothing sticks except a song here and there. I still listen to loads of live shows from his entire career. Black Messiah on the other hand still blows me away after many listens. This new album sounds so contrived. I thought he was better than this.

terrig said:

can i say that as an oldtimey fan that there is no shame in liking this album for the pure poppy throw away quality that is good enough to dance around to for a few months and then be forgotten?

thats what this game is right now, so i invite you to not rest your prince cred on it but - just have some fun?


you guys remember FUN? right?

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I agree and after Baltimore, HitnRun is groovy in a mindless way.

The Prince we knew is dead.

Long live the Vault.

jjazznola said:

KingSausage said:

HITNRUN is especially embarrassing in the wake of amazing albums like D'Angelo's Black Messiah, Van Hunt's The Fun Rises The Fun Sets, and Bilal's In Another Life. All albums that have clear Prince influences, but make Prince's new material look like a cruel joke.

You totally nailed it. I listen to every new Prince album once or twice and then basically forget about it. It's been this way for years. Nothing sticks except a song here and there. I still listen to loads of live shows from his entire career. Black Messiah on the other hand still blows me away after many listens. This new album sounds so contrived. I thought he was better than this.

Just different flavors for different folks. He also released Indifference which seems to please some.

I'm not crazy about HitNRun but the tenor of the comments here are crassly juvenile -- don't have leg to stand on to speak about any kind of maturity.

EroticDreamer said:

terrig said:

I agree and after Baltimore, HitnRun is groovy in a mindless way.

The Prince we knew is dead.

Long live the Vault.

He might be able to be resurrected....

or not. But what would it take to resurrect the genius within him?

[Edited 9/7/15 20:47pm]

If Prince wants to do todays music and wants a producer he should hire Pharrell. Everything he does is gold and he would bring out the Prince that we love as he is probably the best producer for todays R&B/dance sound.

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KingSausage said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Please stop it! Either U like it or U don't. If it was that bad U wouldn't be here CONSTANTLY talking about it. U also have a VERY dirty raunchy mouth..

Yo mama likes this mouth. Good enough for her!

I don't like it. That much is clear. I'm here talking about how SHITTY it is because Prince is my favorite artist and I want him to make actual ART again.

U have no hometraining or tact about yourself whatsoever!!

U KEEP MY MAMAS NAME OUT YOUR MOUTH!!

KingSausage said:

dadeepop said:

HITNRUN walks into a bar. The bartender says, "You ain't got to go home, but you got to get the hell outta here."

HITNRUN lowers the bar, not walks into it.

hahaha, well done guys!

Anyway, i think this album is not as bad as i was expecting, but still pretty bad. I think I'm going to re-evaluate Josh as being an OK producer of a style of pop music I don't really pay attention to.

I dunno. I don't know what I want to Prince to do. I guess I want Prince to make a Prince album that's actually experimental. I think I want Prince to front the Vanguard, or something. Meh. Not up to me, though.

PurpleSkipper58 said:

EroticDreamer said:

I agree and after Baltimore, HitnRun is groovy in a mindless way.

The Prince we knew is dead.

Long live the Vault.

He might be able to be resurrected....

or not. But what would it take to resurrect the genius within him?

[Edited 9/7/15 20:47pm]

Pain.

I've made the comment before.

Prince has reached the place in his life where he can't have his heart broken again, he's just indifferent.

The Lion just got old and can still muster a growl sometimes but how many years has it been since he roared?

That's why the Vault needs to be released 'as-is'.

Prince, don't polish those screams of yesterday with your insight or feelings of today.

Just... release it!

Just got to listen to the download.

Skipped through the songs here at work.

Short version: to little 'Prince' in there.

Too few moments that are recognisable Prince. Too much 'production'. (why oh why does a vocal have to skip in a non-remix?)

.

Will have to listen a bit more at home to be firm.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

PurpleSkipper58 said:

dang, why everbody has to compare D'Angelo with Prince all the time? it's called prince.org ! And what do you have against him, KCool?

Personally, I haven't really heard any of his music; but I bet any of his music is better than this HitNRun-nonsense

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D'angelo is actually my 2nd favorite artist. He blew me away live a few months ago. Eye have NOTHING against him at all. His innerview with Tavis Smiley was cool also...

See there, I didn't know about that interview. Thanks for mentioning it KCool. Will check that out!

I haven't seen this much conflict since Jay Z, Beyonce and Solange rode in an elevator together.

Graycap23 said:

If u have ever had a full course meal..........this is the appetizer.

I dig it 4 what it is.

Exactly! Phase one is the Appetizer and I DIG this so very much...

I love the way it flows perfectly and makes me wanna groove...

JUNE!!! amazing... no words!

Now last album people here were b'tching saying Prince will never have a hit again or be played on the radio and now that he most likely will, he's a sellout?

Damned if he does...Damned if he doesn't!

udo said:

Just got to listen to the download.

Skipped through the songs here at work.

Short version: to little 'Prince' in there.

Too few moments that are recognisable Prince. Too much 'production'. (why oh why does a vocal have to skip in a non-remix?)

.

Will have to listen a bit more at home to be firm.

That's about it. I'm listening to 1000 Xs & Os and it's so obvious that it's a Prince song. The rest of the album doesn't have that.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

KingSausage said:

Yo mama likes this mouth. Good enough for her!

I don't like it. That much is clear. I'm here talking about how SHITTY it is because Prince is my favorite artist and I want him to make actual ART again.

U have no hometraining or tact about yourself whatsoever!!

U KEEP MY MAMAS NAME OUT YOUR MOUTH!!

Isn't that the title to Tyler Perry's next movie?

PurpleSkipper58 said:

KingSausage said:

Yo mama likes this mouth. Good enough for her!

I don't like it. That much is clear. I'm here talking about how SHITTY it is because Prince is my favorite artist and I want him to make actual ART again.

that's a personal attack on them and uncalled for.. very immature... act your age, not your shoe-size.

yeah, you don't agree with them and they made it clear on their opinion about you. Doesn't mean you have to be a jerk about it

is also a personal attack.

KingSausage said:

terrig said:

I think king sausage is the mirror to kcool. some kind of red pill blue pill matrix thing.

Maybe I'm his alternate universe self. Like Spock when he had that evil mustache.

I was thinking you were applying for Bart's job, but then you said you like 20Ten, so, no...

EroticDreamer said:

PurpleSkipper58 said:

He might be able to be resurrected....

or not. But what would it take to resurrect the genius within him?

[Edited 9/7/15 20:47pm]

Pain.

I've made the comment before.

Prince has reached the place in his life where he can't have his heart broken again, he's just indifferent.

The Lion just got old and can still muster a growl sometimes but how many years has it been since he roared?

That's why the Vault needs to be released 'as-is'.

Prince, don't polish those screams of yesterday with your insight or feelings of today.

Just... release it!

Well, in order for him to feel real pain, then there has to be real-ness in his life. Real relationships. Right now he's in Prince-world. Now a lot of people especially younger Prince fans (well except for me), says "he's free. he can do whatever he wants!". (which in a way is good) That's basically another way of saying "he doesn't have to worry about anything". And that's the problem. He's uninspired. Uninspired by real things and real issues. Now, he was inspired a bit with AOA because of the social media and digital age and etc. But now he has grown accustom to the internet and social media. Nothing is inspiring him and it shows.

But going to realness will never happen because in a way, its hard for a star like him to experience all of that. So, he should release the remasters if he wants to release good quality music.

I like the album, however, Prince needs to stop trying to make music in an effort to expand his audience, and rather, just make music for himself. In my opinion, his greatest songs happen when he doesn't care about who the audience is. This is clearly an attempt to reach a younger demographic.

Prince is a genius, he is loaded, he has more success than anyone could dream of having, I am perplexed sometimes as to why that is not enough.

In my opinion, he needs to get back to basics, lock himself in the studio, alone, get rid of all the extraneous noise, and write some music without any intended audience in mind. This process is where truly great Prince music emerges from.

peace

ludwig said:

PurpleSkipper58 said:

that's a personal attack on them and uncalled for.. very immature... act your age, not your shoe-size.

yeah, you don't agree with them and they made it clear on their opinion about you. Doesn't mean you have to be a jerk about it

is also a personal attack.

Nah. It's just annoying. But that isn't attacking anyone or attacking anyone personally for that matter. So that doesn't make it right to say things like that. Just ignore people, it's not that hard. Especially since this is the internet and all people have to do is not reply to their comments

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PurpleSkipper58 said:

EroticDreamer said:

Pain.

I've made the comment before.

Prince has reached the place in his life where he can't have his heart broken again, he's just indifferent.

The Lion just got old and can still muster a growl sometimes but how many years has it been since he roared?

That's why the Vault needs to be released 'as-is'.

Prince, don't polish those screams of yesterday with your insight or feelings of today.

Just... release it!

Well, in order for him to feel real pain, then there has to be real-ness in his life. Real relationships. Right now he's in Prince-world. Now a lot of people especially younger Prince fans (well except for me), says "he's free. he can do whatever he wants!". (which in a way is good) That's basically another way of saying "he doesn't have to worry about anything". And that's the problem. He's uninspired. Uninspired by real things and real issues. Now, he was inspired a bit with AOA because of the social media and digital age and etc. But now he has grown accustom to the internet and social media. Nothing is inspiring him and it shows.

But going to realness will never happen because in a way, its hard for a star like him to experience all of that. So, he should release the remasters if he wants to release good quality music.

I believe he should do what he wants, of course, and I'm glad to have HitNRun and will buy the physical release.

But my eye is on the Vault and hope he doesn't pull a George Lucas and re-imagine it.

Strange but true, when Prince releases an average album (which I consider AOA & HitNRun to be) it makes me listen, deeper, to his earlier work.

When his fire was a step ahead of his amazing talent.

PurpleSkipper58 said:

ludwig said:

is also a personal attack.

Nah. It's just annoying. But that isn't attacking anyone or attacking anyone personally for that matter. So that doesn't make it right to say things like that. Just ignore people, it's not that hard. Especially since this is the internet and all people have to do is not reply to their comments

[Edited 9/7/15 21:24pm]

Of course It's a personal attack. You could give "Master Piss" the same advice: Ignore comments that you don't like instead of posting childish smilies.

[Edited 9/7/15 21:33pm]

Marrk said:

PurpleSkipper58 said:

Yeah, I agree. It worked for the concerts but not for an album

Partyman (The purple party mix. 1989) did it far better on the intro too. I bet Josh never heard that one though.

warning2all said:

ludwig said:

Exactly. It's just sad and embarrassing how he acts and releases this poor shit music. I thought AOA was the absolute lowpoint in his career, but HITNRUN is ten times shittier. Unbelievable.

Every new album is an opportunity. And with every new album he proves he cannot deliver a solid, consistent disc like he did in the 80's. It's not that we're stuck in the 80's and he's creating all this diverse, brilliant work with new sounds. No. The music simply isn't very good. And hasn't been consistently good for a very long time. He's pretty much out of gas. He's pretty much done--except for the odd track here and there. But he can't piece together a great album anymore.

As awful as this album is, I totally disagree. I don't think the problem has ever been lack of good material or that he's incapable of making good songs, it just seems that he often panders to the current mainstream audience. And today's pop music is an abomination. I feel like I could have pieced together at least 10 of his songs from recent times that would make a good, if not, great album. Of course, it would be subjective.

dadeepop said:

My hand is money
my ice is cold
whatever you're holding

you better fold

~ Shut This Down


Okay, that was a badass line.

SuperBadAss!!

The intro to June sounds very similar to 10CC's "I'm not in love". Too similar.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

KingSausage said:

Yo mama likes this mouth. Good enough for her!

I don't like it. That much is clear. I'm here talking about how SHITTY it is because Prince is my favorite artist and I want him to make actual ART again.

U have no hometraining or tact about yourself whatsoever!!

U KEEP MY MAMAS NAME OUT YOUR MOUTH!!

Oh, it was your mama's NAME that was in his mouth! I was thinking it was her in his mouth.

My bad...

dadeepop said:

I'm gonna get you where you never get got

My new pick-up line. Wish me luck.

Same Here!!

PurpleSkipper58 said:

skywalker said:

I think this album may draw a HARD LINE between the generational lines of Prince fandom.

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I was at Paisley Park last night when they played this thing. This is a BIG generalization/observation but here is what I saw:

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The 20-30somethings were digging it hard. The portion of the fanbase that grew up with Prince rapping will have no problem digesting this. Is he embracing "current" sounds?

Yes. He has always done this. HITnRUN is Prince through and through. He's taking trends and making them his, and spitting out something new, and unlike anything else that's being done in pop.

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To me, HITnRUN is like Art Official Age's bigger, badder, more naughty/rowdy brother. I am really liking it.

[Edited 9/7/15 13:45pm]

AMEN!! I was there too last nite and listening to it in the PP soundstage watching peeps reactions was the perfect experience and to add to this what I love about Prince is that he has inspired so many generations, bruno mars doing uptown funk etc and yet prince when he feels like it can even better mirror back at the millenials generation than they can themselves all this while burning pasta!!

[Edited 9/7/15 22:38pm]

Only the Haters ever Complain.... Can't hear Jack in the back of my plane...

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