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The "Follow Up To 1999"? Back in the 1985 Rolling Stone interview, Prince makes an off-hand comment that he could put together or play the follow up album to 1999 for the interviewer. Did Prince ever seriously toy with the idea of making a follow up album that we know of, that would have been released between 1999 and PR? | |
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jtfolden said: Back in the 1985 Rolling Stone interview, Prince makes an off-hand comment that he could put together or play the follow up album to 1999 for the interviewer. Did Prince ever seriously toy with the idea of making a follow up album that we know of, that would have been released between 1999 and PR? There was a major thread about this several years ago and it was the conclusion that it was offhanded comment not that he had something at the ready but that he could’ve pulled some songs or something like that and made another follow up that was easily accessible as 1999 was . [Edited 11/26/19 13:23pm] "Climb in my fur." | |
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1985 Rolling Stone Interview titled: Prince Talks: The Silence Is Broken
RS: After all these years, does the music give you as much of a rush as it used to?
Prince: It increases more and more. One of my friends worries that I’ll short-circuit. We always say I’ll make the final fade on a song one time and . . . [Laughs, dropping his head in a dead slump]. It just gets more and more interesting every day. More than anything else, I try not to repeat myself. It’s the hardest thing in the world to do – there’s only so many notes one human being can muster. I write a lot more than people think I do, and I try not to copy that. I think that’s the problem with the music industry today. When a person does get a hit, they try to do it again the same way. I don’t think I’ve ever done that. I write all the time and cut all the time. I want to show you the archives, where all my old stuff is. There’s tons of music I’ve recorded there. I have the follow-up album to 1999. I could put it all together and play it for you, and you would go “Yeah!” And I could put it out, and it would probably sell what 1999 did. But I always try to do something different and conquer new ground.
In people’s minds, it all boils down to “Is Prince getting too big for his breeches?” I wish people would understand that I always thought I was bad. I wouldn’t have got into the business if I didn’t think I was bad.
[Edited 11/26/19 14:25pm] | |
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The outtakes on the SDE are more of a follow up to Controversy and Dirty Mind, imo. Most tracks follow the punk funk aesthetic - even elevating it to more effective results (see: Rearrange, Yah U Know, Can't Stop). Were Prince to ever go back and assemble the follow-up, it'd probably lend more to songs like Extraloveable, Lust U Always, Possessed 82, Purple Music, and Turn It Up though. | |
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Thanks! That's sounding a bit more solid to me than just a spur of the moment, off hand comment. He may not have it "ready to go" but maybe had a rough idea in mind? | |
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