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Why Musicology IS a personal triumph for Prince Believe it or not, there are kids out there (some even 10 yrs older than the kid in the video) That haven't heard Sly or JB and dare i say it, even Jimi Hendrix. no disrespect intended, but Jimi is just a poster boy to a lot of teens out there today, same as James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. They might know and recognise him, It doesn't mean they know his music.
Musicology, i guarantee will sound totally alien and unlike anything some of these young adults have ever heard before. Black music and RnB has been pretty stagnant in these last ten years with not much innovation (my opinion!). Prince has decided to go back to go forward and with Sony/Columbia pushing it and Prince's determined drive stateside on all these various TV shows he has a chance to reach a new audience and impress a blueprint for an evolution of popular music. Five years down the line, we might be seeing more young good bands that can actually play and perform. Even if he only inspires a couple of people to check out the artists mentioned in the song, or pick up real instruments and make organic music, hasn't he done his job? won't that be worth it? Good stuff Prince!  |
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Marrk said: Believe it or not, there are kids out there (some even 10 yrs older than the kid in the video) That haven't heard Sly or JB and dare i say it, even Jimi Hendrix. no disrespect intended, but Jimi is just a poster boy to a lot of teens out there today, same as James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. They might know and recognise him, It doesn't mean they know his music.
Musicology, i guarantee will sound totally alien and unlike anything some of these young adults have ever heard before. Black music and RnB has been pretty stagnant in these last ten years with not much innovation (my opinion!). Prince has decided to go back to go forward and with Sony/Columbia pushing it and Prince's determined drive stateside on all these various TV shows he has a chance to reach a new audience and impress a blueprint for an evolution of popular music. Five years down the line, we might be seeing more young good bands that can actually play and perform. Even if he only inspires a couple of people to check out the artists mentioned in the song, or pick up real instruments and make organic music, hasn't he done his job? won't that be worth it? Good stuff Prince! i tend to agree. there is a lot of potential for this album given all of the press he has received. he is already doing better than with rave. he had no tour at the time, and totally abandoned the project. his live shows have been driving the interest for everything else. | |
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Very well put. It has been bothering me for years now that when you turn on the tele to watch some music, 90% of the white bands are playing their own music and 90% of the black bands are just singing or rapping with no band, and not a hint of real made music in the song. How the hell did we get to this point. Where are all of the black bands at. I remember in the 70's when I was growing up, if you didn't have a band you were a nobody. You had to know how to play some kind of instrument to even be considered part of a group. I think that what prince is doing is great for music. This is what music is surpose to be.Lets dust off those instruments and have us a good olded fashioned funk party. | |
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Marrk said: Even if he only inspires a couple of people to check out the artists mentioned in the song, or pick up real instruments and make organic music, hasn't he done his job?
Right on, but 'Musicology' is the best example he can give to say "Hey, THIS is real music, check this shit out!" No, I don't think so - this tepid snore-fest will not inspire anything. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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