prince

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/a9101e9b631a11a3d73cec0d5dec8e5420210418084148/358b79

Npr/radio 4 Ann powers doc on prince.
Asks what prince might have made if he was alive during last years BLM protests which makes me wonder if maybe he would have gotten better at the recent social commentaries in his songs as he was looking outward more. Or maybe songs like Baltimore or act of God are better than I remember.

or... you could listen for free here? i’m assuming this is what you’re talking about?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v75j

i put the DL link for ppl who might not be able to access BBC sounds due to not being in the uk.

Sounds is available everywhere now apart from Russia, China, North Korea and Vietnam

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/international

"political prince? in MY era? it's more likely than you think" is a simple narrative that serves the new album so i'm not surprised there's a lot of these kinda pieces

I didnt actually know Prince didnt believe in voting or that it was against his faith.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-04-21/every-prince-single-ranked

Anniversary of his death today. Lot of content around it seems.

already furious at this list

Recently had the big idea that parade would be better if it ended after do u lie. Not cos the last three songs are bad but just that they dont seem to fit. #blamespotify

Either way,wendy and lisa posted this on Facebook from a big new prince book due soon, about the making of sometimes it snows in April

https://www.facebook.com/musicbywendyandlisa/posts/312206346929831

Really surprised to find out SISIA dates back to his pre-warners years.

things i don't care about #1: a ranked list of prince's singles from someone I've never met or heard of

https://audioboom.com/posts/7848858-barney-hoskyns-on-prince

Idk if you will hate this then but I enjoyed it, even if BH is an old rockist crit guy through and through

OK I saw "I Wish U Heaven" in the bottom 15 of the LA Times list, and that's a hard pass.

i learned from sheila e's twitter that prince didn't like people to watch him eat and also made undercooked eggs :D

U so dislike eating in front of people. But u could throw down when u wanted too. U always cooked eggs for me and I made the pancakes. The eggs weren’t always done 😳 that’s why I made the pancakes to cover up the eggs. 🥰 💜 #prince #eggs #memories pic.twitter.com/S6jJZsZCDH

— SheilaEdrummer (@SheilaEdrummer) April 21, 2021

#prince #eggs #memories the best series of hashtags ever?

Sometimes It Snows At Easter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febeHW4EO4o

'70s soul pastiche is not at all what I expected. I don't know how to feel about him having a band & production that actually sounds, idk, tasteful?

prince was always tasteful gtfo

(but yeah, this is great)

it's a good track, dunno how it will hold up to repeat play

am I crazy or does this sound like P influenced by D'Angelo rather than the other way around?

prince was always tasteful gtfo

(but yeah, this is great)

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Thursday, June 3, 2021 4:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Wat?

the “Prince was always tasteful” statement

hi jay, i was being a silly guy. hope you're having a nice day, friend.☺

My first thought when I listened to this was “everyone who hears this is going to end up pregnant”

well whoops: i listened to it twice yesterday.

O_O

CONGRADULATIONS ;) :) ;) ;)

hai guys

I'm pregnant

congrats Alfred!!! :)

this is good! I see the D'Angelo thing, but my first thought was Curtis Mayfield, the strings and percussion etc

Indeed.

xpost to austin Yeah, friend. Had a wonderful day. Wine and friends I hadn't seen in a while. Nice weather. One friend was wearing a sweet 1999 tour t-shirt, natch.

“Born 2 Die” is the second single made available from Prince’s upcoming unreleased studio album Welcome 2 America and is available now. The song was recorded during a flurry of studio activity in the spring of 2010, when President Obama was just a year into his first term and Prince was reflecting deeply on the issues affecting the Black community and the role he hoped to play. As happened countless times throughout his career, Prince ended up shelving the song and the rest of Welcome 2 America in his legendary vault, and the full album will be released from the vault for the first time on July 30. The slow-burning song was first recorded by Prince, the bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, and the drummer Chris Coleman, and then accentuated by the vocal harmonies of Shelby J., Liv Warfield, and Elisa Fiorillo, and topped off by a melody sung by Prince himself. He then tapped his longtime music director Morris Hayes to add final production to the track—and shared some of the inspiration behind its sound. "We got to 'Born 2 Die,' and Prince said, 'I'll tell you how that came about,' Morris remembers. "He had been watching videos of his friend Dr. Cornel West on YouTube, and during one speech Dr. West said, 'I love my brother Prince, but he’s no Curtis Mayfield.' So Prince said, "Oh really? We will see."

lmao that is a great story

haha wow

I am really looking forward to meeting the children that DJP, Alfred, and Austin will shortly give birth to.

one of mine will be named "prince curtis" btw

also yes, that little tidbit story is wonderful.☺

thanks for giving me the image of a pregnant cornel west in demi moore vogue cover pose

Aah so that’s why Cornel West didn’t get tenure

I am really looking forward to meeting the children that DJP, Alfred, and Austin will shortly give birth to.

― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin)

Nicki Minaj will record our kids' theme "Negronis in the Bottle"

pic.twitter.com/mJfsMucowo

— sherilynfenn (@sherilynfenn1) June 4, 2021

she's not wrong

Happy Birthday. I will always celebrate this amazingly gifted and complex human.
Unlike those sharpening their torches and pitchforks on another thread.

For a split second I thought that was Dianne Feinstein and I thought, yet, shit *has* gotten weird.

Happy Birthday. I will always celebrate this amazingly gifted and complex human.
Unlike those sharpening their torches and pitchforks on another thread.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee)

Ya know, it's possible to carry a valentine in one hand and a pitchfork in the other.

Unlike those sharpening their torches and pitchforks on another thread.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, June 7, 2021 9:54 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

literally relating a true and documented story but ok sorry to ruin santa claus for you

that torch is mighty sharp, tho

pretty sure everyone is or has been a fan and hates to hear about this stuff so fuck off. it's part of this thread now, congrats

xps

Ha yeah I should've kept the torch out of there.

xpost lots of true and documented stories of how Prince was a dick to those who worked for / with him. Possibly even more about how
magnanimous he was. Like his anonymous charitable works that he kept up until his death. Dude was complex, as I said, and a true weirdo. Reason to cancel him?

You can just as easily fuck off, Left.