friend2001 said:

NorthC said:

How much of his personal life Prince wants to reveal, is totally up to him and that says nothing about the quality of the book. Let's not judge it before it's out there!

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Eh?

So all of his memories will be professional ones and that will be sufficiant for a FIRST MEGA Memoir!!!!?

I do not think so.

He should at least provide us with way more banter -in written form- as he did on the piano gigs.

People there thought that Prince was 'open' to them.

So why can't he give us an honest and balanced story?

Did he even think about this issue before he accepted the deal?

Why should we believe he can do this project when he can't even allow a decent Purple Rain remaster (or any other classic) to appear on the market?

maplenpg said:

I'd love this to be really good and something that I could use with the younger generation to show them why I still follow this man 30+ years on. Sadly the unconventional bit really worries me. I fear we'll have a picture book with lyrics written in scribble font to coincide with the year that the picture is from. Perhaps the odd memory. Please let me be wrong. This is one time I want the fams to be right.

U mean like that Godawful waste of time, the Prince In Hawaii book???

PurpleSpirit319 said:

maplenpg said:

I'd love this to be really good and something that I could use with the younger generation to show them why I still follow this man 30+ years on. Sadly the unconventional bit really worries me. I fear we'll have a picture book with lyrics written in scribble font to coincide with the year that the picture is from. Perhaps the odd memory. Please let me be wrong. This is one time I want the fams to be right.

U mean like that Godawful waste of time, the Prince In Hawaii book???

Exactly .... I guess time will tell. It wouldn't surprise me if it never comes to fruition, the man has a (kind of) tour to promote right now so I'm more than a bit cynical.

AnnaSantana said:

Don't do it!!!!!!!!

sfinky1 said:

I highly doubt this book will ever be finished or see the light of day. As fans we know how spontaneous and short attention spanned prince is. To commit to a project with release over a year from now? No freakin way. He'll start work on it then no doubt lose interest and shelve it, leave it unfinished in the vault.

He probably signed the deal in NYC...It will be done...

He probably got a fat check from the publisher for signing that deal too...

Don't do it!

[Edited 3/19/16 6:32am]

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

djThunderfunk said:

Those being "negative" might have seen/read all his interviews, official magazines, the 21 Nights Book, or anything he's said/written online ever, and might just be logically keeping their expectations low as they've learned that over hyping an anouncement like this will surely lead to disappointment. How is that negative?

That said, I've bought and read well over a dozen books about Prince, I'll be sure to do the same with one that he does himself, even though I expect more than a few cringeworthy moments.

Nonsense.. there's a hard core on here who have grown to hate virtually everything he does.....yet refuse to let go....that in itself tells it's own story.

I would agree there are those that hate on everything, that's their problem.

However, assuming every opinion that is not "positive" identifies a hater is unwise.

I think this book will be a fascinating trainwreck (based on the reasons I mention in my first paragraph) and I am no hater at all.

Thing is, not everyone here falls in the hater or famboy categories. Some of us still love Prince but temper our expectations based on our experience as longtime fans. It might be hard to tell on the org, but there are still moderate hardcore fans that will like or dislike a project based on it's merits and not automatically hate or automatically think everything is a masterpiece. So don't assume everyone that's not gushing and praising is a hater. Cool?

1contessa said:

"The Beautiful Ones?" Guess my hopes of it not being a ego trip is shot to hell.

"Pop Life" should be better...because it doesn't latch-on to anything from "Purple Rain" as a title....If its "TB1s" (might as well call it "Purple Rain" or "Purple Music" then)..

Still....

Don't do it!!!!

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Enjoy your projects while you are capable, willing and able.

I don't know what tomorrow will bring or even the next

second, but I do hope I am around in 2018 to read your book.

Much

So, I foresee the publisher suing him for breach of contract and the book never materializing. Disappointment is what I've come to expect when Prince teases a major new project.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

bluegangsta said:

I get it now...

"The Beautiful Ones" Title = His love affair and pasion for his main loves of his life = the songs.

djThunderfunk said:

friend2001 said:

This will be just another perfume type deal. Prince gets paid a massive upfront advance , doesnt deliver on CONtractual promise and ends up in court.

Am confused for the hate for a book that has not even been published yet. Reading some of the comments, you would think they have the book in hand and read it. You all have a Crystal Ball or reading tea leaves

djThunderfunk said:

I would agree there are those that hate on everything, that's their problem.

However, assuming every opinion that is not "positive" identifies a hater is unwise.

I think this book will be a fascinating trainwreck (based on the reasons I mention in my first paragraph) and I am no hater at all.

Thing is, not everyone here falls in the hater or famboy categories. Some of us still love Prince but temper our expectations based on our experience as longtime fans. It might be hard to tell on the org, but there are still moderate hardcore fans that will like or dislike a project based on it's merits and not automatically hate or automatically think everything is a masterpiece. So don't assume everyone that's not gushing and praising is a hater. Cool?

I would agree if it is also agreed that liking a Project does not instantly make you a 'fam'. Whilst we all like or dislike certain projects etc there is also a slightly inbuilt bias I would assume for people generally liking Prince's work as this is essentially a site where people who like some aspect of Prince's work congregate. Truthfully, the one thing I love about Prince fans is that we agree on almost nothing, everyone is different and I genuinely adore that. It makes for interesting conversations where people present their own stories and interest in Prince's work.

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Well shiver my timbers , a Prince fan site has Prince fams on it , totally shocking And why do i get the feeling that those calling people fams its something to be ashamed off.

[Edited 3/19/16 7:17am]

First of all... we know it's not happening because there is too much time for Prince to get cold feet and claim he is distracted and his money is short, etc. He's already punking-out floating this 'poetry' concept, that's nothing more than another form of his 'Tweet/ Delete /I ain't said nothing' mentality. That's worst case scenario though. The book might actually be good, so I'm ready to drop some cash on a pre-order so I can start bitching about Prince taking too long to deliver and how this book better be worth all the aggravation and trouble, and so forth.

Guitarhero said:

Well shiver my timbers , a Prince fan site has Prince fams on it , totally shocking

It's outrageous!

RosesRred said:

WONDERFUL

THE BEAUTIFUL ONES

Everyone does, and I'm glad he has been on this Piano tour and definately through this book

I don't think I would expect more or less than "an unconventional and poetic journey through his life and creative work – from the family that shaped him and the people, places, and ideas that fired his creative imagination, to the stories behind the music that changed the world,"

Just give me some good never before seen pictures, and I'll be happy

Sounds like it is going to be written in Beat fashion.

#BOOKSMATTER #PRINCEDOESLOOKBACK

At one point Prince asked the crowd:"You all still read books right?"

Pop icon Prince writing memoir 'The Beautiful Ones'

http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/pop-icon-prince-writing-memoir-the-beautiful-ones/ar-BBqDz7X?ocid=spartanntp

KingSausage said:

Very interesting. I would be very excited to read this if it comes out. I hope that it's uniquely Prince. His voice. His interpretation of events in his life. I LOVED Dylan's Chronicles Volume 1. It wasn't a straight up autobiography or memoir, but that's what made it great. It was fundamentally Dylan. I hope Prince's book captures his unique view on things in a similar fashion.

I've never gotten around to reading the Dylan book, though it's on my bookshelf. With that one, what put me off was finding out that he'd lifted a lot of material that appeared in it from hundreds of other sources, but presented them as though they were recollections of his life. I know one response is to say, "Well, that's Dylan; that's what he does" - and, tbh, I wouldn't mind reading it now, knowing that I should take it with a grain of salt. I think I'd feel a bit miffed, though, if I'd picked it up thinking it was an autobiography, but then finding out it was, in large part, a work of fiction.

funksterr said:

First of all... we know it's not happening because there is too much time for Prince to get cold feet and claim he is distracted and his money is short, etc. He's already punking-out floating this 'poetry' concept, that's nothing more than another form of his 'Tweet/ Delete /I ain't said nothing' mentality. That's worst case scenario though. The book might actually be good, so I'm ready to drop some cash on a pre-order so I can start bitching about Prince taking too long to deliver and how this book better be worth all the aggravation and trouble, and so forth.

Sort of like a literary Crystal Ball fiasco????

Linn4days said: