Sexy M.F.'ers...The Prince Fan Thread

Biscuit said:
I don't think the issue is on Jack White's end. Suspect the Estate is likely behind any delays due to their internal fractures.
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I mean if he bought the rights, he bought the rights. Only way they could be an issue is if there was some question over whether or not the rights could be sold.
 
Cause I reached Prince in the great CD reorganization… I’ve been doing a play through. I wonder how normal people react to him from time to time. Like how odd was Around the Workmld to people that jumped on at Purple Rain? How did they respond to the Overton political tracks? How did people who heard Kiss respond to the weird funk/jazz at the front of Parade?
 
Nee Lewman said:
Cause I reached Prince in the great CD reorganization… I’ve been doing a play through. I wonder how normal people react to him from time to time. Like how odd was Around the Workmld to people that jumped on at Purple Rain? How did they respond to the Overton political tracks? How did people who heard Kiss respond to the weird funk/jazz at the front of Parade?
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Speaking as a fan in the 80’s - it was those very jumps in style and unpredictably that made us love him all the more
 
Gavaxeman said:
Speaking as a fan in the 80’s - it was those very jumps in style and unpredictably that made us love him all the more
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I’m not talking about the fans though. I’d say this whole forum isn’t even a good place for the conversation. We all have wildly varied things in our collections. I assure you there were people that bought Purple Rain (and possible 1999), never looked into anything prior and heard Around the World and went “what the fuck?” Hell Diamonds and Pearls was seen as a comeback album for gods sake. After that, anything that had a nostalgic spin to it was defined as his big come back. There were obviously listeners that weren’t into his exploration.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I’m not talking about the fans though. I’d say this whole forum isn’t even a good place for the conversation. We all have wildly varied things in our collections. I assure you there were people that bought Purple Rain (and possible 1999), never looked into anything prior and heard Around the World and went “what the fuck?” Hell Diamonds and Pearls was seen as a comeback album for gods sake. After that, anything that had a nostalgic spin to it was defined as his big come back. There were obviously listeners that weren’t into his exploration.
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There were a lot of longer term funk and R&B fans who came in at Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, as well as brand new fans who joined at 1999/PR via MTV, who didn't know what to do with ATWIAD and thought he fell off with it and Parade. UTCM was a big flop in theaters. Raspberry Beret and Kiss were the saving grace for those albums since they were hits, as no other singles from those two albums really didn't hit big (Paisley Park, Pop Life, Mountains). I remember a lot of friends who joined at 1999 stopped listening at ATWIAD and didn't buy another Prince record until SOTT.
 
Biscuit said:
There were a lot of longer term funk and R&B fans who came in at Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, as well as brand new fans who joined at 1999/PR via MTV, who didn't know what to do with ATWIAD and thought he fell off with it and Parade. UTCM was a big flop in theaters. Raspberry Beret and Kiss were the saving grace for those albums since they were hits, as no other singles from those two albums really didn't hit big (Paisley Park, Pop Life, Mountains). I remember a lot of friends who joined at 1999 stopped listening at ATWIAD and didn't buy another Prince record until SOTT.
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Their loss. ATWIAD is incredible!
 
My first Prince record was 1999 (I loved the videos), then Dirty Mind. Purple Rain came out and it just blew me away. ATWIAD did make me wonder what the fuck I was listening to, but I liked it nonetheless, especially Pop Life and Paisley Park. Every record after 1999 was significantly different than the one before (1999 to Purple Rain to ATWIAD to Parade to SOTT to Lovesexy to Batman).
 
Scuttlebutt on Prince.org is that it was reported earlier today that the Netflix documentary has been squashed, allowing the estate to do their own thing and use the archives in it.

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Nee Lewman said:
www.startribune.com

Controversial Prince Netflix documentary will not be released

Prince’s estate and Netflix reach an agreement to quash the nine-hour project.
www.startribune.com www.startribune.com
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Edelman, who won an Oscar for the documentary “O.J.: Made in America,” spent nearly five years working on the Prince project. He had exclusive access to all the material — recordings, videos, films, photos, etc. — in the Minnesota icon’s vault.
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I did not know that. This would explain why we didn’t get Love Symbol as expected and also why it’s been kind of mum over there for a bit.

I.e. after initially being like “I don’t understand why they would be excited about this,” I now know why it’s a pretty big fucking deal.
 
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