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There are two new Prince albums coming out in a few days (1 Viewer)
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@Lili Marlene - where do you stand on I Wish You Heaven? Heard it on the radio last night and was nodding my head.
Prince - I Wish U Heaven | Video Musique | Wat.tv
Prince - I Wish U Heaven | Video Musique | Wat.tv
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Ah it's great! Has a proper video as well, a rarity for his cheap 80's vids. It's a pity it's so forgotten.
It's another one he released as a mental 10 minute version as a single:
bit of a laugh though
Ah it's great! Has a proper video as well, a rarity for his cheap 80's vids. It's a pity it's so forgotten.
It's another one he released as a mental 10 minute version as a single:
bit of a laugh though
Excellent!
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Prince is such a dick
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He was getting ready to fly to Australia
here is is jamming away on his piano
here is is jamming away on his piano
nooleen
bad ape
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actually a fairly great read
Poor Lonely Computer: Prince's Misunderstood Relationship With The Internet
Poor Lonely Computer: Prince's Misunderstood Relationship With The Internet
He has the afro so he can list himself at 5'7"
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5'5 with afro and heels at best!
Possibly dead
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-medical-emergency-paisley-park/
Nothing confirmed
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-medical-emergency-paisley-park/
Nothing confirmed
David Kronenbourg
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Out of Context #6: The Whitewashing of Prince
Aisha K. Staggers explains how whitewashing Prince's music and image by perpetuating the false narrative that he was biracial is a form of appropriation.
www.icareifyoulisten.com
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lolOut of Context #6: The Whitewashing of Prince
Aisha K. Staggers explains how whitewashing Prince's music and image by perpetuating the false narrative that he was biracial is a form of appropriation.
There's a lot of truth in that article, there's also a lot of cherrypicking and ignoring things he said to suit the argument, exactly what she is accusing white fans of doing.
Not to mention massive race generalisations like Black fans have more love for Prince’s 1990s catalog, um yeah sure, what you actually mean is current 23 year olds like me love 90s music because we weren't around for it
or
Prince mostly ignored 90s alt-rock in favour of 90s New Jack Swing and RnB ballads, which were marketed towards a certain demographic.
but it is true that he became much louder about race issues from 1990 onwards, and to the frustration of many a white man, didn't get mad into, I dunno, Husker Du, and do a punk album.
Being a famous black man in America must really fuck you up
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TBH i felt a bit 'seen' by it. I think i've even bought the mixed race parents thing and all.
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Been thinking about this, trying to work out what bugged me about the above article so much, I think it's the blatant separation of people into black and white fans, in a fucking race war of fandom; but I suppose as an Irish person they're barely even including me in this, it's almost an entirely US-centric discussion.
But up on my feed popped some very white (english) critics opining as fact that Prince did nothing of worth after 1987 because he wasn't listening to enough Radiohead:
Maybe he would have heard Kid A and entered a musical arms race with Radiohead, like Lennon and McCartney did with Wilson There could have been an Appalachian folk album, or a twinkling Americana period. He could have teamed up with Jack White to rip out some raw blues or dragged hip-hop into new territories.
Literally, "why didn't Prince listen to more music by white people"?
The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | Memories Of Genius: 40 Years On Prince's Dirty Mind Revisited
A very well written piece that sums up the standard critical consensus on his career can be found in the London Review of Books and is well worth a read despite it's blatent, wilful inability to comprehend that Prince wasn't interested in following (white) critic trends:
Ian Penman · The Question of U: Prince
One evening recently I was in the local supermarket, which always has a surprisingly tasteful collection of old pop and...
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oh fuck i've started him now.
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