Prince #16 3rdeyegirl - Hit and Run!

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Op zondag 8 juni 2014 17:52 schreef Felixa het volgende:
Wat ben ik blij dat ik gisteren naar het concert in Wenen ben geweest! Wat een avond... Ik snapte al niet waarom hij nou naar Oostenrijk of all places ging voor een concert maar nu snap ik het. Prince+Weens publiek=ware liefde! Wat een stomende, zwetende, kolkende mensenmassa was dat in de golden circle. Alles werd luidkeels meegezongen, sowieso deed het publiek alles net even wat langer mee dan anders (handen klappen, armen zwaaien etc). Hij was zelf ook duidelijk in zijn nopjes. Controversy heb ik nooit beter gehoord en zijn gegil bij The Beautiful Ones ging door merg en been. Ik weet niet meer hoe vaak ie terug kwam voor nog een toegift... Volgens mij veegde hij op een gegeven moment, toen hij van het podium liep, zelfs een paar traantjes weg. Setlist ook super met oa Empty Room, Bambi en Sometimes It Snows In April. En het publiek mee laten scanderen, daar leent Vienna zich ook lekker voor. Vieeeeeeenna! Topavond! Tikkeltje beter nog dan Amsterdam. Absolute buitenklasse. Ik ben gelukkig en blij. :-)

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Op donderdag 5 juni 2014 19:18 schreef psychosomatic het volgende:

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Je schijnt ze ook als cockring te kunnen gebruiken.

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Op dinsdag 17 juni 2014 12:46 schreef Days-Of-Wild het volgende:

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Ehhh, hmmm, ehhh, psst, _{hoe krijg je ze weer af?}

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A late-night taste of Prince's new music

Article by: JON BREAM Updated: June 23, 2014 - 10:01 AM
He offered samples of a funky solo album but expressed frustration with the slow-grinding wheels of the record business.

Prince marches to his own time. We’ve known that for years.

His guy called late Saturday night while I was reviewing the Bruno Mars concert at Xcel Energy Center: Prince wants to play you his new album tonight.

When you arrive at Paisley Park, you switch to Prince time. After nearly an hour’s wait, I was ushered into Studio B about 1 a.m. All three members of 3rdEyeGirl were there, as well as two of their spouses, who work for Prince, plus Prince’s road manager and a reporter from Fox 9. But no Prince.

This is a new Prince album, not to be confused with the one he made with 3rdEyeGirl, “Plectrum Electrum,” which hasn’t been released. The ever-prolific Rock Hall of Famer hasn’t issued an album in the United States since 2009.

My next two hours at Paisley Park would be filled with funk, frustration and funny lines — all courtesy of Prince.

Engineer/producer Joshua Welton, husband of 3rdEyeGirl drummer Hannah Ford Welton, sat at the Studio B console, pushing the buttons. The long, opening tune, “The Gold Standard,” was percolating electro-funk, an update of classic Prince with a lyric that referenced the notions of “wild and rude” from his previous days. The second selection was a complex electronic discourse that was hard to grasp first time around.

Suddenly, the phone rang. It was Prince. Via speaker phone, we chatted. He said he believed in albums, not singles: “I’ve finally got something that is a cohesive statement.”

He didn’t mention the album’s title or release date. But he did discuss the difficulties of getting in contact with top executives at Warner — his old label, with which he signed a new deal this spring — and complained about how slowly wheels turn in the record business.

“Every No. 1 song, every Top 10 song, every song in the Top 40 is at least six months old,” he said. “We should be able to make music and put it out now.”

He also carped about radio, wondering if program directors really direct their programs. “I don’t need to be on the radio,” he said. “I’ve been on the radio all my life.” But he wants to hear new, young artists on the radio.

Those are old complaints from Prince. At least he was happy that this new project was made without a record label looking over his shoulder. The album was recorded mostly with just him and Welton, whom he touted as a rising producer.

Prince explained that the next song, “This Could Be Us,” was inspired by a meme of him and Apollonia riding on a motorcycle, clearly a scene taken from the 1984 movie “Purple Rain.” It’s a joyful ballad with some ecstatic Prince vocalizing.

The ensuing number was a remix of “Funk ’n’ Roll,” a single he made with 3rdEyeGirl this year. Funkier and nastier than the original, it lived up to the title.

After hearing me praise his new recording, Prince asked if I had any money in my pocket and would I spend it on his new album.

“I spent most of it at Bruno Mars,” I said. “But I have plastic.”

“We don’t take plastic around here,” he said.

Rapping with Rita

Ever impatient, Prince asked Welton to play a tune they made recently with British pop sensation Rita Ora. It’s a rare rap song on which the music was as aggressive and menacing as the rapping.

Prince talked about the urgency of releasing that tune because with Ora “time is money.” As a celebrity with lots of endorsements, she makes money walking out of the house wearing a certain kind of makeup or sunglasses, he explained.

Before Prince invited everyone to go to another room to watch a video of his recent Paris performance with 3rdEyeGirl, our ever-gracious but unseen host asked if anyone was hungry. The answer around the room was “No.”

“Good,” he said. “Then I don’t have to come cook for you again.”

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Op dinsdag 26 augustus 2014 19:51 schreef Days-Of-Wild het volgende:
Niemand enthousiast over de nieuwe CDs

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Op dinsdag 26 augustus 2014 20:08 schreef oh-oh het volgende:

Ja dat, behalve dan dat ik niet eens download
Ik hoor de live versies wel verschijnen.
Clouds was op de radio, ik schaamde me dood

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Op vrijdag 29 augustus 2014 22:48 schreef Splackavellie02 het volgende:
Wat is er mis met R&B doen? Call my name is een van mijn favoriete nummers van Prince.