Just imagine you can travel to a parallel dimension where something happened differently in Prince's career or life. Not necessarily that you think it would have been better if things had gone that way. Just that you're curious as hell to know what would have happened after that different event. I'm sure we've all wondered that about the events in our own lives: let's wonder about P's.

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My favorites would be:

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- What if Prince had released the 3 LP Crystal Ball in 1987 instead of SOTT? How would it have been received? How would it have altered Prince's career, at least in the next few years if not on the long run?

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- What if Prince's child had been born healthy, then had lived and grown normally? How would it have affected Prince as a person and, more importantly, as an artist?

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- What if Prince and WB's relationship hadn't soured in 93 and he'd remained a WB artist throughout his career, releasing about an album a year as before despite the inevitable drop in sales? Would the music and discography have been very different? How long would Paisley Park Records have lasted and what would have become of the label on the long run?

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- What if Prince had more or less renounced superstardom and gone on releasing more and more jazzy/instrumental/experimental records after the 2001-2003 "jazz" era instead of getting into a "neoclassical" phase with Musicology and so on, going full indie with more stuff in the vein of The Undertaker, Kamasutra, The Truth, The War, ONA, Xpectation, C-Note or N.E.W.S.? What would the music have been like? How would it have altered the world's perception of him?

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And, of course, the one I'm sure we all share:

- What if Prince had lived another 30 years? What music would he have recorded and released in those 30 years?

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And yeah, I know, according to Tyka it was orange

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[Edited 11/20/18 11:55am]

Two words: "Orange Rain," orange rain.

If you know what I'm singing about up here, c'mon, raise your hand!

WhisperingDandelions said:

Two words: "Orange Rain," orange rain.

If you know what I'm singing about up here, c'mon, raise your hand!

Just imagine: Orange Rain, the movie. Orange Rain, the album. Prince wearing an orange jacket on the cover of Controversy. The 1999 cover all in shades of orange. The outtake Orange Music. The Orange Medley single released in 1995. And let's not forget the Orange And Gold sports anthem in 2010

what if the Kingdom Hall had let Prince use their sacred hymnals to complete Rainbow Children pt II

WhisperingDandelions said:

Two words: "Orange Rain," orange rain.

If you know what I'm singing about up here, c'mon, raise your hand!

All of my orange life...

The sky was all orange, there were people running everywhere

look for the orange banana 'till they put us in the truck

Now U can all take a bite of my orange rock

Baby, U're the orange star of the night supreme

Orange love-amour is all U're in it 4

4th day of November, we need an orange high

"Ohh, I love orange"

The ladder is an orange climb

Orangeelectricity whenever our bodies touch

Deep orange concord jams

Alright, cut! Dissolve 2 an orange floor.

Emancipation - see U in the orange rain

TrivialPursuit said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

Two words: "Orange Rain," orange rain.

If you know what I'm singing about up here, c'mon, raise your hand!

All of my orange life...

The sky was all orange, there were people running everywhere

look for the orange banana 'till they put us in the truck

Now U can all take a bite of my orange rock

Baby, U're the orange star of the night supreme

Orange love-amour is all U're in it 4

4th day of November, we need an orange high

"Ohh, I love orange"

The ladder is an orange climb

Orangeelectricity whenever our bodies touch

Deep orange concord jams

Alright, cut! Dissolve 2 an orange floor.

Emancipation - see U in the orange rain

OldFriends4Sale said:

what if the Kingdom Hall had let Prince use their sacred hymnals to complete Rainbow Children pt II

No mention of this on Pvault http://princevault.com/in...Children_2

But that story rings a bell, though. You remember the source?

Scully: "purple rain...??"

Mulder : "great album...heavily flawed movie"

WhisperingDandelions said:

At the risk of derailing "Orange Rain," I'm going to go with...

What if Prince & The Revolution reunited in the year 1999, released the Roadhouse Garden album and toured to promote it?

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

what if the Kingdom Hall had let Prince use their sacred hymnals to complete Rainbow Children pt II

No mention of this on Pvault http://princevault.com/in...Children_2

But that story rings a bell, though. You remember the source?

I think it might have been posted here, Ben's wife knew about it and we talked about it

I think I would have prefered Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic 1989/90 instead Graffiti Bridge

what if that happened and Sheila E decided to do a 4th album(the rest of the Lovesexy band stayed on 1 more year)

What if Grafitti Bridge had been a genuinely good movie

EmmaMcG said:

What if Prince had told Larry Graham to fuck off and shove his dogma up his arse.

He'd still be sayin' fuck, and he'd probably be alive.

What if Prince didn't pull The Black Album?

Sorry, but "what if" is pointless to me, because I know that the man is gone, and no "what if" or anything else will change the past or bring him back.

OldFriends4Sale said:

databank said:

No mention of this on Pvault http://princevault.com/in...Children_2

But that story rings a bell, though. You remember the source?

I think it might have been posted here, Ben's wife knew about it and we talked about it

but it was recorded??

December1984 said:

At the risk of derailing "Orange Rain," I'm going to go with...

What if Prince & The Revolution reunited in the year 1999, released the Roadhouse Garden album and toured to promote it?

There would have been many many sold out shows, and many many albums sold....just my thought.

eugenius said:

What if Prince didn't pull The Black Album?

The biggest what if in my mind.

EmmaMcG said:

What if Prince had told Larry Graham to fuck off and shove his bible up his arse.

Yeap! One of my biggest what if dreams.

One where he'd still be alive.

What if he'd decided, at some point, to learn and study music theory?