Would you be a Prince fan still if his career began in 2000 and the only albums he had were those from then until 2015?

Yes.

Next question.

no.. I really don't think I would have bought any of his albums then...

Prince has been under the radar for a very long time to non-fans, I doubt I would catch on in 2000 or later.

I am still a fan because of the WB years 1978-1995. And that's also the music I usually play.. still..

I played my purple vinyl of Purple Rain earlier today... still so fresh & amazing..

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^ still this album makes me love Prince (his music) forever:

Not the music from Prince in 2000 and on... (sorry)....

Sadly my answer is no. There was so much more interesting music, and underground music was becoming even more wonderful

MIRvmn said:

I don't know, there has been to many weak albums the last 15 years with only a few good/great ones. I probably would listen to Prince but not be a hardcore fan

Pains me to say it, I agree. I watched him flip styles like a spatula between 1978-1995. His music was a soundtrack for my life. The music was so varied and impactful to society. Since 2000 his music has been underground and less impactful. I think I would like his music (if I ever heard it), but, I doubt I would be so hard core that I am today. As much as he dislikes the radio and the "gatekeepers", the reality he is who he is today bcause of the airwaves. In fact, I was walking thru Times Square in NYC last week and busted out a smile when I heard an AOA song on the speakers when passing by the BB King's Theatre.

No.

If I stumbled on his songs on some forum, FOR SURE. I would go nuts but then again he wouldn't have influenced a generation or two of musicians.

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OldFriends4Sale said:

If this person's career began in 2000, I wonder what he would sound like? Miguel? James Brown or Bootsy? Darius Rucker? Anthony Hamilton?

I guess it would have had to happen if we could ever know

Germanegro said:

If this person's career began in 2000, I wonder what he would sound like? Miguel? James Brown or Bootsy? Darius Rucker? Anthony Hamilton?

I guess it would have had to happen if we could ever know

Without Prince (and others), there would be no Miguel.

He's a game changer, that's why the question is moot.

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Aerogram said:

Germanegro said:

If this person's career began in 2000, I wonder what he would sound like? Miguel? James Brown or Bootsy? Darius Rucker? Anthony Hamilton?

I guess it would have had to happen if we could ever know

Without Prince (and others), there would be no Miguel.

He's a game changer, that's why the question is moot.

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Yes, and with that point, folks should check out Sananda Maitreya's new song "They Went Back in Time (and Klled Robert Johnson), which highlights this issue of influence. Some concept!

If he started in 2000 this would be his biography:

Prince is seen by most as a poor man's version of D'Angelo. After a cracking (but weird) first album "The Rainbow Children" (which oddly was advertised as 'controversial' while it actually just contained a lot of religious bullshit/fairy tales) he quickly sank into obscurity as an artist. The albums that followed never lived up to the promise of "The Rainbow Children", although he kept recording and releasing new albums using increasingly odd distributors like foreign newspapers or an exclusive album for Target. He tried selling his music online using several websites but all of them were disbanded soon after they were opened, leaving the small amount of fans that he still had left and were willing to pay quite a large sum of money upfront very frustrated. Last year Prince signed a deal with WB and released a rock album as 3rd Eye Girl (called Plectrumelectrum) that was pretty poor and a R&B album called Art Official Age under his own name Prince. The latter was some sort of a resurgence for Prince and although the album didn't sell a lot of copies it got favorable reviews and was seen as some sort of 'return to form'. Unfortunately Prince's last album HITNRUN was back to "mediocre at best" for most fans and critics alike. To be fair, most will agree that Prince's music is nowhere near as good as D'Angelo's 3 records, including last years "Black Messiah" that blew Prince's efforts right out of the water.

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Germanegro said:

If this person's career began in 2000, I wonder what he would sound like? Miguel? James Brown or Bootsy? Darius Rucker? Anthony Hamilton?

I guess it would have had to happen if we could ever know

He would sound like THIS:

The OP specifically asked if we'd still be a Prince fan based purely off the albums he's done from 2000 - 2015?

I posted my answer back several posts and I completey agree with pureTsexy, that there wouldn't have been any albums after The Rainbow Children, had that been his very first album.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Germanegro said:

If this person's career began in 2000, I wonder what he would sound like? Miguel? James Brown or Bootsy? Darius Rucker? Anthony Hamilton?

I guess it would have had to happen if we could ever know

He would sound like THIS:

2001	The Rainbow Children Released: November 20, 2001 Label: NPG, Redline Entertainment
2002
2003	Xpectation Released: January 1, 2003 Label: NPG
	N.E.W.S Released: July 29, 2003 Label: NPG, MP Media
2004	Musicology Released: March 29, 2004 Label: NPG, Columbia
	The Chocolate Invasion Released: March 29, 2004 Label: NPG
	The Slaughterhouse Released: March 29, 2004 Label: NPG
2006	3121 Released: March 21, 2006 Label: NPG, Universal
2007	Planet Earth Released: July 24, 2007 Label: NPG, Columbia
2009	Lotusflow3r / MPLSound (released as a 3-CD set together with Elixer by Bria Valente) Released: March 29, 2009 Label: NPG
2010	20Ten Released: July 10, 2010 Label: NPG
2014	Plectrumelectrum [C] Released: September 30, 2014 Label: NPG, Warner Bros.
	Art Official Age Released: September 30, 2014 Label: NPG, Warner Bros.
2015	HITnRUN phase one Released: September 7, 2015 Label: NPG

The OP specifically asked if we'd still be a Prince fan based purely off the albums he's done from 2000 - 2015?

I posted my answer back several posts and I completey agree with pureTsexy, that there wouldn't have been any albums after The Rainbow Children, had that been his very first album.

Ok now, let's play if MJ, Madonna, U2, Dylan, etc. would start their career in 2000.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Germanegro said:

If this person's career began in 2000, I wonder what he would sound like? Miguel? James Brown or Bootsy? Darius Rucker? Anthony Hamilton?

I guess it would have had to happen if we could ever know

He would sound like THIS:

2001	The Rainbow Children Released: November 20, 2001 Label: NPG, Redline Entertainment
2002
2003	Xpectation Released: January 1, 2003 Label: NPG
	N.E.W.S Released: July 29, 2003 Label: NPG, MP Media
2004	Musicology Released: March 29, 2004 Label: NPG, Columbia
	The Chocolate Invasion Released: March 29, 2004 Label: NPG
	The Slaughterhouse Released: March 29, 2004 Label: NPG
2006	3121 Released: March 21, 2006 Label: NPG, Universal
2007	Planet Earth Released: July 24, 2007 Label: NPG, Columbia
2009	Lotusflow3r / MPLSound (released as a 3-CD set together with Elixer by Bria Valente) Released: March 29, 2009 Label: NPG
2010	20Ten Released: July 10, 2010 Label: NPG
2014	Plectrumelectrum [C] Released: September 30, 2014 Label: NPG, Warner Bros.
	Art Official Age Released: September 30, 2014 Label: NPG, Warner Bros.
2015	HITnRUN phase one Released: September 7, 2015 Label: NPG

The OP specifically asked if we'd still be a Prince fan based purely off the albums he's done from 2000 - 2015?

I posted my answer back several posts and I completey agree with pureTsexy, that there wouldn't have been any albums after The Rainbow Children, had that been his very first album.

Oh, yeah--those albums! In that case--if his first stuff sounded like those--I'd have probably jumped ON the fan wagon at 3121 because of his cool live appearance on SNL tv. I probably wouldn't have heard a peep about anything that came before that point since the stuff was mainly independent projects that got a minimum if any promotion. I would probably have taken a look back and checked out the more easliy accessible music, too I guess. I would have been stymied since that stuff would be REALLY hard to find. I think that Musicology wouldn't have been that big of a concert deal, or albumwise, either. Hard for me to say. but I guess that Prince would be a pretty small artist. Sheesh--still too hard to imagine--I agree with Aerogram!

Then there would be the Superbowl performance.

I was just listening to All Along the Watchtower/The Best of you..

Congrats on finding a topic like that but damn.

Aerogram said:

Then there would be the Superbowl performance.

I was just listening to All Along the Watchtower/The Best of you..

Congrats on finding a topic like that but damn.

There would be no Superbowl performance from Prince. That soundtrack would be erased from Time! He'd be playing the 500-person capacity clubs, moving around in his van caravan like the rest of most acts. If he was aged 57 years he would be a tired guy but hopefully rejuvenated by his craft!

honestly? No

God no!

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Those 80s albums are the ones that made him into a legend, its that legacy on which why people are still fans of his today. His latest albums are competent at best and its doubtful he would have lasted the 15 years if he had started with crap like the Rainbow Children.

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What a boring way to start a career with rubbish like that, the album would have sold a few thousand albums through a JW, Kingdom Hall distribution network. I doubt Musicology would have been made, as the One Nite Alone stuff would have not been released, consdiering a high percenetage of it uses songs made before 2000 and even before 1988.

Adorecream said:

God no!

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Those 80s albums are the ones that made him into a legend, its that legacy on which why people are still fans of his today. His latest albums are competent at best and its doubtful he would have lasted the 15 years if he had started with crap like the Rainbow Children.

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What a boring way to start a career with rubbish like that, the album would have sold a few thousand albums through a JW, Kingdom Hall distribution network. I doubt Musicology would have been made, as the One Nite Alone stuff would have not been released, consdiering a high percenetage of it uses songs made before 2000 and even before 1988.

I thought the start would have been the Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic?
I love Rainbowchildren musically. It would have gotten my attention. But Rave no...