this is a tad juvenille, but quite right. the dangelo comment is way off though, dangelo doesnt make music like prince.
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/blog/
April 02, 2004
Prince. Oh My Gosh!
This new Prince album is stinkingly bad, the patter I'd heard so far was some sort of creative rebirth?! This is really averagely ugly. Song after song, I recoil like some Hammer Horror damsel from the sheer lack of anything resembling the vital spark that made Prince a bone fide genius.
Listen to "Cinnamon Girl"'s solo, ugh it’s fucking dreadful! The lyrics are actually sniggeringly funny, not just crap. “What do u Want me 2 do?” brings to mind a dog scrabbling in the rain at the back door, paws slapping against the glass, claws sliding up down, as prince tries to desperatly put together the stripped elements that recall the feel of the Sign o the Times days.
Any song containing the line “that’s when I’m going to lay her ‘cross my piano stool and sing to her” (“The Marrying Kind”) needs to be hammered and burnt. And by my beard, I would do it too, had this song not appeared countless times, in slightly different incarnations, across the last 3-4 Prince albums. And the guitar flourishes. Sweet Jesus NO!
D’Angelo!! Wake up and show him how its done.
Scott McKeating | 12:49 PM | Comments (5)
― yeahyeahyeah (yeahyeahyeah), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Hello,
It was a brief off the cuff ramble on the huge disappoinment I felt at his new LP being really bad IMHO. Juvenile...possibly.
The D'Angelo comment was more a dig at D'Angelo having written the best Prince song that he never wrote and having had dissapeared off the face off the earth. They are in no way comparable in terms of back catalogue! C'mon the header is 'oh my gosh!' its obviously not all intended to be serious.
― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
(pssst Scott, it is possible that even though you guys agree about the new Prince album, you might be about 8,000,000,000 times smarter than yeahyeahyeah and could therefore be wasting precious time on a conversation with him)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)
VengaDan, being an immortal superhero, speaks wisdom.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)
must...resist...posting...
*cracks*
D'Angelo does sound A LOT like Prince at times and obviously wuvs him.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)
The new video is pretty cool, but the song is terrible. I like the kid playing a Telecaster in his bedroom, and Prince looking like KD Lang.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)
venga, why dont you just stop using scott's pubics as bungee jumping cables and stay away from his jock? i mean, please?
― yeahyeahyeah (yeahyeahyeah), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Lines like “that’s when I’m going to lay her ‘cross my piano stool and sing to her” are chief among the reasons why I love Prince so much.
I grow more excited to hear this album the more I read about it.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh right, someone starts a metabitch thread on Stylus rather than Pitchfork, and you're all like "No, don't post here". We get no respect.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm just gonna put "Illusion, Coma, Pimp + Circumstance" on repeat for three hours
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)