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What do you think Prince would have done differently if he knew ? I sometimes wonder if Prince realized the impact he would have had in the industry decades later and if he would have done anything differently+been more intentional. | |
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What do you know that other artists don't know? Surely, you know, considering how successful you are in the Org business? "Whatever skin we're in
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Prince was always an advocate of his path. WHat he did right or wrong had lead him to where he was and his success bore this out. Like a giant jenga set you can't change something and not mess up the whole thing. I disagree as his stubborness hurt his career and legacy. I think potentially looking back he may have worked/collaborated with more people, embraced spotify and allowing more music to be played. I may be wrong, but I think he was reflecting on his life and he knew something was up. Was it the death of Vanity? Was it just the years passing by? I don't know but putting out an autobiography (almost) and doing the piano and microphone tour, even reclaiming the afro seemed to be thinking about the past. At the same time he was working with mono neon. I think with a little more time here and some reflection he may have thawed on some of his stances. But then again Prince's strength and weakness was being stubborn.
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I feel like because people like to reflect and reflect upon how they would have done things differently they somehow conflate that into Prince, who was pretty expressively "of the moment" and generally avoided that kind of reflection like the plague
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I personally believe that he wouldn't have removed his music off youtube. | |
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Nothing | |
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He knew that already though Maybe he didn't think it would be like he is viewed now but he knew who was influenced by him Thats basically all the artists he invited to play at PP | |
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We all have things we would do differently in hindsight but it usually has more to do with personal relationships. | |
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I definitely think he would have monetized his social media brand (Insta/YouTube) and licensed games like Guitar Hero/Rock Band if he would have known the reach they would have and that he likely could have commanded A-list royalties.
I think he mght have gone 'independent' had he known he had to endure the 'slave' years. He liked the money, I'm sure, but great independent artists eventually amass great wealth as their fandom grows. | |
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believing everything Larry told him get in rehab before his death picked a better Tony M didn't make Grafitti Bridge movie give The Time more space released that second Jill jones album let Paisley Park records run by someone else released the Black Album as it was planned never got married with Mayte never got married had a better 3rdEyeGirl band reworked with The Revolution started earlier with remastering done by others of his earlier work tour the USA with SOTT never released D&P album sold paisley park and started all over again
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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I mean in "Moon Beam Levels" Prince wrote | |
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He should have taken a break by 1990. Scrap Graffiti Bridge (record AND film) altogether and release The Hits instead then. | |
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To me, that "The Hits I, II, B-sides" has always been a very messy compilation. It was even better if he didn't release that. I don't think I ever listened to it again after I found it years later for $5 in a Chicago thrift store. For me, there still isn't a decend Best of or Hits compilation. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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Honestly, same for me - it's a pointless collection (like any other Best of compilation for that matter). But it would have meant a full stop and a closure of the 80's, a well deserved break and avoiding the commercial and critical failure of Graffiti Bridge. | |
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When I said : "For me, there still isn't a decend Best of or Hits compilation", I hope the current Estate million-suckers aren't reading this. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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He was a contrarian So whatever he thought ppl expected, he would have done the opposite. | |
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psyche2 said: He should have taken a break by 1990. Scrap Graffiti Bridge (record AND film) altogether and release The Hits instead then. I agree.He really should have taken a break after Batman.The GB movie was a poor way to start off the 90s. | |
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I believe that Prince was smart enough to know he would be most appreciated by the public once he had left us. | |
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TheTruth123 said:
I believe that Prince was smart enough to know he would be most appreciated by the public once he had left us. Definitely | |
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We got some great songs out of it though : The Question Of U, Thieves in the Temple, Joy in Repetition. | |
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I agree with those. | |
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If he could have embraced Jam and Lewis' growth as writters he could have had Minnesota as the Motown of the eighties (yes I know Motown was still creeping along in the eightires). He tried to do that under his Paisley Park umbrella but couldn't create Prince hits for artists that weren't Prince (in a sustained fashion that the public would buy into of course he had his share of wins as a songsmith). Imagine Prince, Jam and Lewis (who bring in Janet Jackson with all of the hits she gets) and Prince head hunts bigger artists to join him, gets tony toni tone, by the nineties draws in L.A Reid, Babyface, D'angelo, Van Hunt..... Well I can dream can't I. It would have been brilliant but Prince could only focus throught the lense of Prince, and we might have missed his Lovesexy, Rainbow Children and other unique works.
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If he had know. That he’d die the same decade (50’s) as MJ he would never have used fentanyl patches. "Free URself, B the best that U can B, 3rd Apartment from the Sun, nothing left to fear" Prince Rogers Nelson - Forever in my Life - | |
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
-- Teddy Roosevelt, former United States President Paris, France April 23, 1910 | |
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in some vague sense, im sure he knew that he wouldnt be fully appreciated until he was gone, or at least until he aged considerably more, but i also dont think he really thought that far ahead overall. he was always very much about the present. he wasnt that bothered about the future, or his legacy. if he was, there are lots of things id imagine he might have done differently (eg - preparation, either to preserve or destroy, the vault material; plan for back catalogue reissues but there was a disinterest in his own past more or less, as if that didnt matter for his future, which isnt what most artists of his age do). but he wasnt thinking that far ahead, and definitely not far back. tbh i doubt he would have done anything that differently - his MO was to basically release as much as he could, keep on recording and recording, keep on touring and touring, just keep on going and going, that was it. i dont imagine he would have stopped that until he was no longer physically capable anymore. [Edited 4/28/24 12:34pm] | |
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