Ronnie1776

I googled Prince I seen a petite hispanic woman ... I googled Michael Jackson I seen a petite white woman...I googled Madonna I seen a Grandmother...I googled Tom Cruise I seen a penis....Your 80's Idols are all gone...They are old It is a new time for a new crowd...

The Infidel

Obey The D

Mabuse

This from a guy who uses the number 2 in place of "to" wherever possible.

Anyway, what Prince means is not that the internet is dead, but that it is dead to him as it pertains to music distribution. It's already been pointed out that Prince was a pioneer of digital distribution of his music, he failed to satisfy fans but he was savy/wise enough to get out of it early before itunes sucked the wind from his sails. Prince has made a shit load of money from the sale of his music. He's probably the most business savy artist in the industry. He pockets more money from his lesser selling new albums than he ever did from 1999 or Purlple Rain when he had to share the $$$ with the record companies and all their bullshit. Prince has a built in audience. He's like Woody Allen. Woody isn't ever going to make a film that grosses $100 million, but he's never made a film that lost money. His films cost $25 million to make, they gross $35 million on average and he makes one film a year. Investing with woody is a safer gamble than investing $90 million dollars on the latest Will Farrel buddy cop comedy.

Prince is the same way. He ain't gonna ship tripple platnum or go diamond in 2 months, but a certain number of units is guaranteed. You don't even have to spend money to promote it. And he's a legacy artist whose catalogue has long term residual value. Why shouldn't he ask the distributor (a record company, iTunes, Target) for an advance? Especially when Prince eats the costs of recording in his own studio up front. He's money in the bank.

JasonF

How did you hyperlink to a newspaper insert?

Drexl

And in this case, he's surely getting money from the newspapers for the right to distribute the discs.

gmanca

Dude is just nuts but the snippets sound really good, as close to 80's Prince as I've limitedly heard from him since.

dvduser6

All joking aside, anybody on the other side of the Atlantic get a chance to pick this up and give it a listen? Is it actually decent or something I can place next to "Planet Earth" in the "I'll never listen to this Prince recording again" pile?

The Infidel

I have the full album, but haven't listened to it yet.

gmanca

There are already tracks on youtube: Beginning Endlessly, Lavaux, and Act of God last time I checked. You might want to head over and listen as I think they were pretty good, specifically Lavaux.

Matt

Fuckin' Prince.

AVClub: Prince abruptly quits social media

Prince giveth, and Prince taketh away. Just a few months after blessing the music world with not one but two well-received new albums, and mere weeks after blowing up TV screens with a wild performance on Saturday Night Live, Prince has suddenly shuttered his 3rdEyeGirl Twitter account and both of his official Facebook pages, as well as yanking all but three videos from his YouTube channel.

The Star Tribune speculates that Prince might already have a new project in the offing, possibly a jazz/funk/soul album as NPRQ, but given his uncomfortable history with the Internet, and the recent throttling Steve Albini gave his Purpleness, there is also the distinct possibility that he has just grown tired of pretending to interact with people in cyberspace. Several attempts to use the ‘social’ aspect of social media went assless-chaps-up for him recently, including a failed Facebook Q&A that resulted in less than one answer for over 4000 questions and a disappointing Yahoo live stream that featured a lot of filler but only three actual songs, leaving fans to complain, echoing Mr. McGee, that he was a bit too leisurely. On the plus side, unlike Taylor Swift, you can still access Prince’s music on Spotify, so he’s still on your computer, even if you can’t talk directly to him anymore.

The Infidel

He must have been pretty embarrassed by that stupid-looking selfie.

The Bus

I followed him on Instagram for a few weeks but then I stopped when I found out it was just a parade of narcissism. Like everyone else's Instagram. Prince, you were supposed to be different.