DarkKnight1 said:

The Symbol album is F'n brilliant, end to end. D&P has its challenges.

jdcxc said:

kewlschool said:

A horrible song, yet it was fitting for most collegic football theme songs. (Yes, they are all that bad.)

I always view this song as an inside joke...ppl were expecting a big loud sporty anthem and he gave them an old school “fight” chant song from the leather helmet days. Lol

He liked the Vikings. It wasn't a joke.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

He went from arty, indie, hip, to crass cheesy and an unsuccessfull commercial sound. It went low and dumb.

it was sad to see.

the entire 90s was a sad state for Prince music.

I like what you say. By “indie“ you mean that he didn't care about conventions, right?

Low and dumb... CALL THE LAW - both the „remix“ and the video are just... crap, ridiculous... the swimming-pool scene... how could he be that pathetic?

Cringey Prince = Most of his stage outfits the last 3 years of his life.

You sexy motherfuckers.

How is Wedding Feast anything but humorous?

PliablyPurple said:

luv4u said:

Finally someone has said what I have been thinking for a while now.

Empress said:

homesquid said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Factor1 said:

homesquid said:

I hadn't listened to "Diamonds & Pearls" or "Love Symbol" for awhile so this weekend I popped them in. These albums have not aged well at all to me. Some of the corniest and silliest lyrics of his career and Prince + rap is a terrible marriage. He's done fine at times but some of this attempts are just embrassing.

Most of the hits still standout though- Get Off, Cream, D&P, Insatiable, 7, Sexy MF, Morning Papers but I found myself skipping half the tracks on these albums and I used to never do that. Anyone else find themselves loving these albums less than they used to?

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Yes. A lot of Prince’s 90’s music hasn’t aged well at all. I think the Come and Chaos & Disorder albums have aged the best.

Agree

dodger said:

The 'Goldnigga' track banter between TM and that southern belle is fully cringy.

Am I the only one who thinks Tony M's rap isn't that bad? Geez he is no Big Daddy Kane or Tupac or Nas but still I heard worse rappers.

But I like D&P. I used to be those 80s only Prince fan but I appreciated his 90s and beyond.

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

ladygirl99 said:

I did cringe when he went into the rap thing, because that was so not good. ......Now I know that the man was good at a lot of things, but rapping wasn't one of them, and a couple of other things that made me cringe was the early music videos of him in the trench coat and speedo underwear with the boots, and the ass out yellow outfit......yikes!

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looby said:

looby said:

I did cringe when he went into the rap thing, because that was so not good. ......Now I know that the man was good at a lot of things, but rapping wasn't one of them, and a couple of other things that made me cringe was the early music videos of him in the trench coat and speedo underwear with the boots, and the ass out yellow outfit......yikes!

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I think Prince was trying to keep up with the young ones because Prince felt grandfathered when rap exploded in the late '80s lol as people slowly considered him to be a has been around the early 90s and still referred him to his 80s fame even though Prince made some good things in the 90s too very overlook. When I was in high school even though people thought it was weird for me as a teen in the mid 90s to listen to Prince they respect his art.

He went from being unique to mainstream by the late '80s. I know Jill Jones said this too that Prince went from being an innovator to comformist especially in the late '80s when he was trying to be like the New Jack artists and chasing after Teddy Riley sound instead of continue to expertiment. But Jill had to understand business is business and that is why she left the music industry per she said.

He had a lot of jazzy rap and New Jack Swing in Come and I love New Jack Swing.

Each time someone compares Prince's creative talents to Mozart's, I remind them of "Jughead."

RobotFix said:

Each time someone compares Prince's creative talents to Mozart's, I remind them of "Jughead."

Mozart wrote a piece called "Lick My Arse".

"Leck mich Im Arsch" is immortal. "Jughead" is an embarrassing miscalculation.

RobotFix said:

You're welcome.

homesquid said:

I hadn't listened to "Diamonds & Pearls" or "Love Symbol" for awhile so this weekend I popped them in. These albums have not aged well at all to me. Some of the corniest and silliest lyrics of his career and Prince + rap is a terrible marriage. He's done fine at times but some of this attempts are just embrassing.

Most of the hits still standout though- Get Off, Cream, D&P, Insatiable, 7, Sexy MF, Morning Papers but I found myself skipping half the tracks on these albums and I used to never do that. Anyone else find themselves loving these albums less than they used to?

[Edited 9/21/19 14:36pm]

Tha fact that you quote "Cream" as being a "standout", makes your post invalid.

callimnate said: