How the fuck did Prince go from that unique, challenging, delicious genius album to Emancipation????!! Was a lobotomy performed on Prince we aren't aware of?

LMAO!!!

I wouldn't say that about Emancipation.

But, I would reapeat your question and replace Emancipation with Hit N Run Phase One.

homesquid said:

How the fuck did Prince go from that unique, challenging, delicious genius album to Emancipation????!! Was a lobotomy performed on Prince we aren't aware of?

LoveSexy is really a pinnacle isnt it?

There's really nowhere to go after that when you really think about it Seriously it's like he HAD TO detonate himself after that lolololol

mynameisnotsusan said:

Lovesexy is overrated.

I think most of us would agree that the years 1980-1988 were Prince's creative peak.That's when he made the strongest,most inspired music of his career.

Askani said:

Lovesexy is overrated.

I disagree. I think it accomplishes a lot and in a way that hasn't been rivalled to this day. Has modern music even caught up to what he was doing on that album? I don't think so.

Lovesexy gets maximum from me, 10/10.

Such a unique work of art...

Those screaming guitars, and the many layers in the music...


Classic Prince and a very dear album to me..

Askani said:

Lovesexy is overrated.

Lovesexy is underrated.

BoraBora said:

Askani said:

Lovesexy is overrated.

Lovesexy is underrated.

It's overrated and underrated.

So what's the point of this thread?

You listened to Lovesexy and thought it was much better than an album from the 1990s that you don't like at all?

Not a terribly interesting topic.

Realistically you can plot the change from 1988 to 1996 by listening to the music inbetween.

The big shift in sound in his released works around 1990 is the one that slightly baffles me though. It does pretty much correspond with him locking himself away from the world in Paisley Park but there's definitely more to it.

thedance said:

This is a "Prince is over and done" thread in disguise.

There is now a sticky for this discussion.

Bait + mistitle + troll =

LovesexyIsThe1 said:

mynameisnotsusan said:

SoulAlive said:

different strokes for differnet folks. there's good shit in the 90's and later and bad shit in the 80s. outiside of positivity, anna stesia and alphabet street, i personally don't care for the album.

thedoorkeeper said:

mynameisnotsusan said:

...he'd already started releasing throwaway albums before Emancipation...

Interesting. So what was his first "throwaway album"?

Batman

tab32792 said:

mynameisnotsusan said:

C'mon there was a lot of water under the bridge between those two albums, he'd already started releasing throwaway albums before Emancipation, it's just the sheer volume of mediocre material is disappointing - there is a good album buried in there somewhere.

Oh well sure if you cut Emancipation down to one disc it's a pretty solid album but it's just so transparently commercial and MOR coming from what once a true, daring artist that made LoveSexy, Parade, ATWIAD, Parade, etc...Like someone else said the "change" in sound began really with Batman. But I would say Garaffiti Bridge still reminds me of the artist Prince.

databank said:

This is a "Prince is over and done" thread in disguise.

There is now a sticky for this discussion.

Bait + mistitle + troll =

homesquid said:

How the fuck did Prince go from that unique, challenging, delicious genius album to Emancipation????!! Was a lobotomy performed on Prince we aren't aware of?

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I've always had a theory about this...

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He was at a creative peak after SOTT, The Black Album and then Lovesexy... although Lovesexy was quite a different album!

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Then, Batman came along, and Tim Burton, and Princes entire outlook changed. Overnight he seemed to go from being happy to be creative to chasing a Top 10 hit... and that's the mode he's been in ever since (pretty much).

So... I prefer Emancipation to Lovesexy. And I'll defend my position if needed

So overrated. Anna, Wish u Heaven and Alphabet are the good ones there.

Prince's last GENIUS album? Or as Alex Han said, an album wiht a few excellent tracks, but LOVESEXY was the first PRINCE album that nothing new was invented... Every Prince album his sound evolved musically, and with Lovesexy it was if we had heard everything before already...

Real mixed reactions for me...

feeluupp said:

Prince's last GENIUS album? Or as Alex Han said, an album wiht a few excellent tracks, but LOVESEXY was the first PRINCE album that nothing new was invented... Every Prince album his sound evolved musically, and with Lovesexy it was if we had heard everything before already...

Real mixed reactions for me...

Nothing new? As if you had heard everything on it already?

Stop exaggerating. The album uses completely different synth and drum sounds as the previous ones. He literally changed his electronic instruments for that record. The way the songs are constructed is quite different from the earlier records, especially the way he started writing melodies.

novabrkr said:

feeluupp said:

Prince's last GENIUS album? Or as Alex Han said, an album wiht a few excellent tracks, but LOVESEXY was the first PRINCE album that nothing new was invented... Every Prince album his sound evolved musically, and with Lovesexy it was if we had heard everything before already...

Real mixed reactions for me...

Nothing new? As if you had heard everything on it already?

Stop exaggerating. The album uses completely different synth and drum sounds as the previous ones. He literally changed his electronic instruments for that record. The way the songs are constructed is quite different from the earlier records, especially the way he started writing melodies.

Don't think you READ the post correctly. That is what Alex Han said about Lovesexy, in his book Posessed... He said even though there were some great standout tracks it was a sound that we already heard from in terms of Prince's own music.