Sent yesterday. They literally said "Purple Rain 2.0", as if we haven't had enough PR since they took over, and the disastrous Celebration last month that was insulting. So...no ATWIAD 40th. Vote with your pocket. Links taken out.

Greetings Purple Fam!

CELEBRATION 2024: In The Books!

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a month since we wrapped up Celebration 2024! We want to extend a heartfelt thank you for joining us and Prince Fams across the world in our continuous and incredible journey of honoring Prince (and Purple Rain this year). Your love, presence and enthusiasm elevate this event and bring it to life.

We hope you enjoyed celebrating Prince and the 40th Anniversary of Purple Rain this year in downtown Minneapolis at First Ave, State Theatre and the Block Party in the rain, tours of our beloved Paisley Park, LIVE MUSIC and so much more!

Your participation made this year's Celebration exceptional. We want to express our gratitude to this amazing community that shares a love for Prince and his passion for music, art and creativity. THANK U for your support and involvement this truly helps keep the legacy of Prince and Paisley Park alive.

CELEBRATION 2025 - What’s Coming Next Year:

We are excited to look ahead to next year’s festivities. Below is a sneak peek to what you can expect for Celebration 2025:

• We would like to announce Celebration 2025 will take place early June with dates slated for: June 5th– June 9th

• 2024 to 2025 is the The Year of Purple Rain and additions to the Purple Rain Tour Experience will be added throughout the year.

• The Year of Purple Rain will culminate in next year’s Celebration: Purple Rain2.0! Start planning your outfits now!

• Celebration2025 will be in both Downtown Minneapolis and Paisley Park. The feedback of our presence in downtown Minneapolis was favorable from Prince Fams and the Twins Cities community. We are prepared to make 2025 even better and we appreciate your input and support.

• Paisley Park tours will have more dedicated and longer time and more extensive tour offerings. Including: An exclusive VIP photo opportunity, extended tour time to explore new exhibits, studios, new content, artifacts, and more.

• Tickets will be posted well in advance of Celebration 2025 and earlier announcements will be made for partner hotels and scheduling.

The Year of Purple Rain: Exhibit News:

Content throughout the entire museum will be rolled out in phases throughout the Year of Purple Rain, concluding at next year’s Celebration!

(Without too many spoilers!) The Phases include:

Phase 1 – June 2024.

• The beginnings of The Purple Rain Experience Exhibit – which debuted at Celebration 2024.

Phase 2- July 2024

• New Collections Pieces, photo ops, and content will be added throughout the museum to coincide with the movie release date.

Phase 3 – Winter January/February 2025

• Exciting new content, décor, artifacts, and musical elements added throughout the museum.

Phase 4 - April 2025

• Continued additions from The Collection as well as Purple Rain tour additions – including audio playback sessions, and more.

Phase 5 – Celebration – June 2025

• Tons of new content, digital, interactive, audio, video, and collections pieces make their way to the tour floor in the grand finale of The Year of Purple Rain!

The Prince Fam: Engaging Prince Legacy And Paisley Park Partners.

As announced during Celebration, Paisley Park and Prince Legacy Team wish to work with you!

We will be rolling out an initiative to work more closely with The Purple Fams through suggestions, partnership with Fams in their area of expertise, event planning, and much more.

We have set up an online form and we ask that you fill it out if you are a long-time Purple Fam and Paisley Park/Celebration Patron. You can register and send your information via this form:

Tell Us More:

We are always striving to improve and make each Celebration better than the last. We would be grateful if you could share your thoughts about this year's event.

What did you love? What could we do better?

Please feel free to visit the attached link to our questionnaire:

In Conclusion:

We would like to, once again, thank you, The FAMs, for being an integral part of what we do at Paisley Park.

We can’t wait to see you during your next Paisley Park visit and welcome you back next year for CELEBRATION 2025!

Warm regards,

Paisley Park Team and Prince Legacy

WE. WANT. MUSIC.

No Merchandise

No Exhibitions

No Celebrations

Just release whatever is in that vault.

How hard is that for these guys to understand?

It's impressive how clueless and inept these fucks are. This excites literally nobody.

This just proves what I've suspected for the last month straight: that they're scrapping SDEs and music releases to put all of their focus on Celebration and merch.

If they had any musical releases lined up whatsoever, they'd be hyping that shit up instead of already shilling the next Celebration that is literally a whole fucking year away. This is it, don't expect anything of value ever again.

please tell me it is a fake

Real Raincoats by Real...???

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The Prince Fam: Engaging Prince Legacy And Paisley Park Partners.

As announced during Celebration, Paisley Park and Prince Legacy Team wish to work with you!

We will be rolling out an initiative to work more closely with The Purple Fams through suggestions, partnership with Fams in their area of expertise, event planning, and much more.

We have set up an online form and we ask that you fill it out if you are a long-time Purple Fam and Paisley Park/Celebration Patron. You can register and send your information via this form:

Firstly, I cannot take them seriously unless they stop using the word "fams." It's so cringey. What kind of fuckery is this: partnering with fans in their area of expertise, event planning...? So they are getting fans to do the work that they should be doing? But here's a fan suggestion - I won't even charge you a consulting fee for it: focus on releasing previously unreleased music, concert footage, and video.

This really reads like a joke.

Although I doubt I'm buying it (not in the budget), I do hope they get the PR:SDE right and it's the new, definitive version for a LONG time. Yes, it's Prince's biggest album, biggest movie and favorite "look" of the fans, but c'mon. Next please.

Se7en said:

Although I doubt I'm buying it (not in the budget), I do hope they get the PR:SDE right and it's the new, definitive version for a LONG time. Yes, it's Prince's biggest album, biggest movie and favorite "look" of the fans, but c'mon. Next please.

If Londell and Charles are in charge of putting it together, then they won't. They can't even make a fucking social media post without typos and/or incorrect information.

But it doesn't matter because they aren't going to put together any more SDEs. They're just gonna milk Celebration and Paisley Park until the well dries up.

the people in charge of the estate are obviously clueless and perhaps even insane.

all that their various communications do is incite stress and anger at this point.

Like Disney, the Prince estate could easily break my wallet if they didn't have morons running things that have no idea what it is I like about the property they control. They could have all my money but this year (and evidently next?) they're focusing on things that will get none of my money.

It's crazy how out of touch these people can be.

Londell has already explained difficulties around releases. People who refuse to listen and continue to moan are complete idiots (yes, it is that simple).

So, basically, it's the greedy, undeserved, unwothy "family's" fault there's a hold on releases? Disgraceful.

WhenFansCry said:

Londell has already explained difficulties around releases. People who refuse to listen and continue to moan are complete idiots (yes, it is that simple).

Yeah, and the difficulties are entirely self-inflicted by Londell and the estate. He's choosing to hold everything up for stupid arbitrary reasons.

If there are any idiots here, it's the people who keep believing that Londell is a reliable and honest man even after he keeps proving y'all wrong.

^ Exactly. Oh, it's difficult? Too bad -- that became their job to figure out when they grifted their way into managing the Estate of someone like Prince. Prince was a musician, why wouldn't you think managing music releases would be central to keeping his legacy alive?

If it's too hard for them they can step down. But they'd rather make excuses about why they aren't releasing music and keep grifting.




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bozojones said:

This just proves what I've suspected for the last month straight: that they're scrapping SDEs and music releases to put all of their focus on Celebration and merch.

If they had any musical releases lined up whatsoever, they'd be hyping that shit up instead of already shilling the next Celebration that is literally a whole fucking year away. This is it, don't expect anything of value ever again.

I don't see how the SDEs are affected by the Celebrations and merch.

MIRvmn1 said:

I think it's pretty safe to say that we can forget about the SDE this year and no PR SDE.

As longer as McMillan/Spicer and some heirs will be in the management.....i can't see something popping up from all this mess !

leecaldon said:

bozojones said:

This just proves what I've suspected for the last month straight: that they're scrapping SDEs and music releases to put all of their focus on Celebration and merch.

If they had any musical releases lined up whatsoever, they'd be hyping that shit up instead of already shilling the next Celebration that is literally a whole fucking year away. This is it, don't expect anything of value ever again.

I don't see how the SDEs are affected by the Celebrations and merch.

My point is that the current estate has no interest in assembling and releasing SDEs because they can make a shitload of money just coasting by on Celebration tickets and merchandise. To them, curating and releasing musical sets is too much effort with not enough profit.

So instead of giving vault tracks to the fans, they'll just withhold them as incentive for fans to pay $1000+ to come to Celebration each year and hear about an hour's worth of exclusive material.

This means something, no?

So fast?

Maybe/possibly they 're-did' their deal or some sort of compromise with Netflix, to 're-use' th' PR material 'again'

...or...

The musical is more expensive and could get a later release ? ... like, to keep the PR shit alive until then...

ALL just speculation of course...

-

Notice carefully how in-a-nearly-PUHLEAZE-begging style they want 'us' the 'fams' to help them out with 'ideas' and 'feedback' ...

...some sort of input so to say?! Huh?

SO, maybe... hell why not take the chance and bomb them with what we think?!

-

(...obviously these 'lawyers' miss (all) the creativity that's much needed in todays music industry, which just simply isn't theirs to handle, so it seems.)

-

Will 'we', the 'fams' help?

Vannormal said:

This means something, no?

So fast?

Maybe/possibly they 're-did' their deal or some sort of compromise with Netflix, to 're-use' th' PR material 'again'

...or...

The musical is more expensive and could get a later release ? ... like, to keep the PR shit alive until then...

ALL just speculation of course...

-

Notice carefully how in-a-nearly-PUHLEAZE-begging style they want 'us' the 'fams' to help them out with 'ideas' and 'feedback' ...

...some sort of input so to say?! Huh?

SO, maybe... hell why not take the chance and bomb them with what we think?!

-

(...obviously these 'lawyers' miss (all) the creativity that's much needed in todays music industry, which just simply isn't theirs to handle, so it seems.)

-

Will 'we', the 'fams' help?

Does anybody have the link to that form/survey? I'd love to give them a piece of my mind

WhenFansCry said:

bozojones said:

leecaldon said:

I don't see how the SDEs are affected by the Celebrations and merch.

My point is that the current estate has no interest in assembling and releasing SDEs because they can make a shitload of money just coasting by on Celebration tickets and merchandise. To them, curating and releasing musical sets is too much effort with not enough profit.

So instead of giving vault tracks to the fans, they'll just withhold them as incentive for fans to pay $1000+ to come to Celebration each year and hear about an hour's worth of exclusive material.

I wonder how many people will fall for that after they even had a dance off between fans
while the songs were being played, and other 'fans' were cheering and clapping them on,
all the while

It must have been excruciating for real fans of his music.