Just a question about 2020. I just recently discovered this unreleased song (if you can call it that). More like a reprise. I love it. It's so haunting and beautiful. I could listen to a 4 hour version of it (call me crazy). At least the version I heard was only 2 min. I know PrinceValult said it was supposed to be on Emancipation but got pulled, but does anybody know if there was a longer version? Was this part of a unreleased video/film project or anything else you can tell me about it. Just wondering because I've been obsessed with how hauntingly beautiful and innocent Mayte's voice is on it, but it's so short it makes me want more.

thequeenofthekings said:

Just a question about 2020. I just recently discovered this unreleased song (if you can call it that). More like a reprise. I love it. It's so haunting and beautiful. I could listen to a 4 hour version of it (call me crazy). At least the version I heard was only 2 min. I know PrinceValult said it was supposed to be on Emancipation but got pulled, but does anybody know if there was a longer version? Was this part of a unreleased video/film project or anything else you can tell me about it. Just wondering because I've been obsessed with how hauntingly beautiful and innocent Mayte's voice is on it, but it's so short it makes me want more.

I just listened to it on YouTube. What I am trying to figure out is how someone posting as "Prince Unreleased Music" got hold of that recording. The music is beautiful. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the lyrics of the song. I'm a visual person and I often need to read the lyrics in order to really understand them, especially since I am prone to mishearing/having a hard time deciphering lyrics. Both Mayte and Prince's vocals are very pretty though.

206Michelle said:

thequeenofthekings said:

Just a question about 2020. I just recently discovered this unreleased song (if you can call it that). More like a reprise. I love it. It's so haunting and beautiful. I could listen to a 4 hour version of it (call me crazy). At least the version I heard was only 2 min. I know PrinceValult said it was supposed to be on Emancipation but got pulled, but does anybody know if there was a longer version? Was this part of a unreleased video/film project or anything else you can tell me about it. Just wondering because I've been obsessed with how hauntingly beautiful and innocent Mayte's voice is on it, but it's so short it makes me want more.

I just listened to it on YouTube. What I am trying to figure out is how someone posting as "Prince Unreleased Music" got hold of that recording. The music is beautiful. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the lyrics of the song. I'm a visual person and I often need to read the lyrics in order to really understand them, especially since I am prone to mishearing/having a hard time deciphering lyrics. Both Mayte and Prince's vocals are very pretty though.

That track leaked years ago so I doubt it was very difficult for them to get hold of...

i've always loved this one. it's so atmospheric. it would have been a nice opening track,
a sort of ethereal prelude and a thematic introduction to emancipation.

206Michelle said:

thequeenofthekings said:

Just a question about 2020. I just recently discovered this unreleased song (if you can call it that). More like a reprise. I love it. It's so haunting and beautiful. I could listen to a 4 hour version of it (call me crazy). At least the version I heard was only 2 min. I know PrinceValult said it was supposed to be on Emancipation but got pulled, but does anybody know if there was a longer version? Was this part of a unreleased video/film project or anything else you can tell me about it. Just wondering because I've been obsessed with how hauntingly beautiful and innocent Mayte's voice is on it, but it's so short it makes me want more.

I just listened to it on YouTube. What I am trying to figure out is how someone posting as "Prince Unreleased Music" got hold of that recording. The music is beautiful. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the lyrics of the song. I'm a visual person and I often need to read the lyrics in order to really understand them, especially since I am prone to mishearing/having a hard time deciphering lyrics. Both Mayte and Prince's vocals are very pretty though.

LYRICS:

The year is 2020
And in the club - Love4OneAnother
Students dance 2 the heartbeat of the drum

3000 or more dance on the dance floor
Same aesthetics - everyone
Taste the color, smell the fun

The force of nature is what brought us here
The walls between us soon all disappear
The year is 2020 and there's no more fear

Can U see this? (Mm hmm)
Peace and happy people
(Mm hmm)

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To me it is about invisioning a Utopia where eveyone loves one another and maybe even all "look similar" (not literally, but maybe no one seeing color..IDK). All dancing to the beat of one heartbeat. No more fear.... wouldn't that be a lovely concept. So much fear of each other these days and that's sad. Wish we could all let go of fear and just love each other, which is what really matters. I would love to go/live in this Prince Utopia! Who's with me?

[Edited 7/13/16 13:32pm]

206Michelle said:

I just listened to it on YouTube. What I am trying to figure out is how someone posting as "Prince Unreleased Music" got hold of that recording. The music is beautiful. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the lyrics of the song. I'm a visual person and I often need to read the lyrics in order to really understand them, especially since I am prone to mishearing/having a hard time deciphering lyrics. Both Mayte and Prince's vocals are very pretty though.

First leaked on 'Fantasia' bootleg back in '97.

thequeenofthekings said:
Same aesthetics - everyone
Taste the color, smell the fun

>> actually it should be "synaesthetics everyone" -- synaesthesia is the inter-changeability of the senses, a medical condition or an effect of hallucinogenics... therefore "Taste the color, smell the fun"

hyperpessimist said:

thequeenofthekings said:

Just a question about 2020. does anybody know if there was a longer version?

There's not.

thequeenofthekings said:

hyperpessimist said:

That's great! I was just talking about this to my husband. That some people can see taste or hear colors or "see" sounds, etc. and I heard someone close to Prince say that he could do that. I thought it was so interesting. I saw a documentary or special on this year's ago (like 20/20 or something...ironically) and they interviewed people that have the condition and it has always facinated me.I believe it was Van Jones that said it. Thank u for the clarification on the lyrics. 😎

Holy crap, me too!

I wonder when he hears music if he can see colors. I can always see colors and I see pictures & visions.

If a song reminds me of the color Pink it was usually be upbeat & if the song is upbeat I usually see a nice hot pink color and I feel a little warmer.

Some songs remind me of the color brown.

DMarieIsMe said:

thequeenofthekings said:

hyperpessimist said: That's great! I was just talking about this to my husband. That some people can see taste or hear colors or "see" sounds, etc. and I heard someone close to Prince say that he could do that. I thought it was so interesting. I saw a documentary or special on this year's ago (like 20/20 or something...ironically) and they interviewed people that have the condition and it has always facinated me.I believe it was Van Jones that said it. Thank u for the clarification on the lyrics. 😎

Holy crap, me too!

I wonder when he hears music if he can see colors. I can always see colors and I see pictures & visions.

If a song reminds me of the color Pink it was usually be upbeat & if the song is upbeat I usually see a nice hot pink color and I feel a little warmer.

Some songs remind me of the color brown.

Awesome! You share something prerry amazing with Prince then.

[Edited 7/14/16 5:04am]

old news...



2020 is about 20 years old. Not rare at all...

Here, a Prince A-Z song list...


credits: princevault. com:


http://www.princevault.co..._song_list

I've always liked this track too. It reminds me of the scene in Graffiti Bridge where there's just a handful of people dancing (to Elephants and Flowers iirc?) not musically but the lyrics give the same imagery, that Prince is aware of his dwindling audience at the time but is more concerned with quality than quantity (at least in the song!) Any way, I've always liked it, nice little oddity.

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thedance said:

old news...

2020 is about 20 years old. Not rare at all...

Here, a Prince A-Z song list...

credits: princevault. com:

http://www.princevault.co..._song_list

No one was saying it was newly circulating, the OP just came across it themselves now.

[Edited 7/14/16 6:21am]

^ Chill? - Ok, but what do you mean my dear NouveauDance...?

--- did I sound upset to you.

Strange I was really calm when I posted that link, &.... just trying to be helpful...

Peace..

This song is another example of Prince and his love of metaphysics. As with a lot of his music, he is a talking about a time where time does not exist, where the walls keeping us from the truth are now broken down, a transition has occured on the planet bringing us into the 4th dimension where the past, present and future are one, and where communication is telepathic and instant. There is no more fear because the veil has been lifted and we are now one with all, including our creator.

He mentions a similar time on the Art Official Age album on the song Clouds when he wakes up from his sleep, and communication is now telepathic, time does not exist, everything is one, and there is nothing to fear.

This is a VERY common theme throughout his music.

[Edited 7/14/16 7:38am]

It could be used for a Starburst/Skittles commerical.

leadline said:

This song is another example of Prince and his love of metaphysics. As with a lot of his music, he is a talking about a time where time does not exist, where the walls keeping us from the truth are now broken down, a transition has occured on the planet bringing us into the 4th dimension where the past, present and future are one, and where communication is telepathic and instant. There is no more fear because the veil has been lifted and we are now one with all, including our creator.

He mentions a similar time on the Art Official Age album on the song Clouds when he wakes up from his sleep, and communication is now telepathic, time does not exist, everything is one, and there is nothing to fear.

This is a VERY common theme throughout his music.

[Edited 7/14/16 7:38am]

Yes. And I love that about him. Listening to his music almost takes you to a different world (in your mind). I felt like he was alway trying to teach us the things that he already understood and knew.

2020 Great song

Nice!

Marrk said:

206Michelle said:

I just listened to it on YouTube. What I am trying to figure out is how someone posting as "Prince Unreleased Music" got hold of that recording. The music is beautiful. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the lyrics of the song. I'm a visual person and I often need to read the lyrics in order to really understand them, especially since I am prone to mishearing/having a hard time deciphering lyrics. Both Mayte and Prince's vocals are very pretty though.

First leaked on 'Fantasia' bootleg back in '97.

Thanks for the information.