http://www.denofgeek.com/...lack-album

laurarichardson said:

“Prince always had an interest in the voodoo of Africa but after he became a Jehovah's Witness he was in total denial," says Rev. Payshence Smith, who holds Doctorates in Metaphysics and Religious Sciences from the ULC in Modesto, California. “After he became a Jehovah's Witness he didn't want the album released because they don't believe in homosexuality.”

What album? The Black album?

What a total shambles of an article.

LOL...SOTT got rave reviews from most critics and I didn't see any of them saying that the album was "too poppy".

laurarichardson said:

The Black Album was a response to the double album Sign ‘O’ The Times, which didn’t sell well and which critics said was too poppy.

Prince said he was possessed by some demonic entity?

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I haven't heard the album in it's entirety, but I listened to "When 2 R in Love", which seems innocent enough and romantic. "Rockhard in a Funky Place" (Camille--his alter ego) has that psychedlic-funk vibe to it and a bit nasty, but you hear worse things on the radio these days.

cloveringold85 said:

Prince said he was possessed by some demonic entity?

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I haven't heard the album in it's entirety, but I listened to "When 2 R in Love", which seems innocent enough and romantic. "Rockhard in a Funky Place" (Camille--his alter ego) has that psychedlic-funk vibe to it and a bit nasty, but you hear worse things on the radio these days.

When 2 R In Love is actually atypical of the album, it always sounded a bit out of place on the Black Album and much more at home on the more positive Lovesexy album. Bob George is a bit of a dark track and to me the album definitely has a kind of negative vibe to it, a bit harder and meaner then his previous stuff. Prince says that he was posessed by Spooky Electric, whether or not he was joking or serious I'm not sure.

cloveringold85 said:

laurarichardson said:

cloveringold85 said:

Prince said he was possessed by some demonic entity?

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I haven't heard the album in it's entirety, but I listened to "When 2 R in Love", which seems innocent enough and romantic. "Rockhard in a Funky Place" (Camille--his alter ego) has that psychedlic-funk vibe to it and a bit nasty, but you hear worse things on the radio these days.

The information about the music in the article is total nonsense.

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What about "Camille", Prince's alter-ego? He didn't say that?

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Interesting how people are getting their hands on all this stuff....this will go on for infinity.

See http://prince.org/msg/9/451998