Welcome 2 The Dawn Of A New Era Of Prince
Yesterday evening, I was given the amazing opportunity to preview Prince’s two new albums, LOTUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND, along with the debut album, Elixir, by his new protégé Bria Valente. I was invited to hear all three albums in full ahead of their release online at LOTUSFLOW3R.com and exclusively at Target stores next Tuesday. As you might imagine, I was very excited and anxious to get to hear the new stuff from Prince:
I posted tweet updates on my Twitter profile for every song on every album just to give y’all a taste. Overall, I really liked Bria Valente’s album … her songs reminded me a lot of Prince’s work with Nona Gaye in the late 90’s. Altho Prince’s religious conversion has hindered his ability to get too sexy with his collaborators, you can still hear the soul of Prince’s best work from the 80’s across all three albums. His guitar work is still in top form, these albums will sound amazing when performed live. Personally, if I had to pick a fave, I think MPLSoUND is my fave — there are a lot of funky tracks on that disc. I cannot wait for all y’all to hear the tracks for yourselves. Click HERE to read the tweet updates that I posted yesterday of my initial thoughts on the music. As some of you may know, Prince will be performing for 3 nights in a row on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week. My very good friend and fellow Prince fan Daniel has invited me to attend the Thursday taping with him. Additionally, I will be attending Prince’s 3 concerts in a row (at the Nokia Theatre, the Conga Room and Club Nokia) this coming Saturday night here in LA. I’m so excited :) I missed out on the ticket sales on Sunday (cuz I was preoccupied with travel) but I managed to get tix to all three shows on eBay. The tix were a bit more expensive than face value but having seen Prince in concert before, I know he is totally worth the money.
I have to give a big shout-out to my boy Zack from Michigan who I got to meet at SxSW this past weekend:
He works with the Javelins back home in Detroit and it was my pleasure to meet him :)
Tonight, David and I have a pretty cool thing to go to … but I don’t want to talk about it until it actually happens. Tho, I will prolly be updating my Twitter all night long ;)
Tags: 'Elixir', 'LOTUSFLOW3R', 'MPLSoUND', Bria Valente, Prince
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March 24th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Hmmm what could you be doing tonight??
March 24th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
You have been on the go non-stop, I’m tired just reading about it :)
March 24th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Religion sucks. I liked the perverted sex-fiend Prince.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I’m actually not really a Prince fan, but I respect him and I lovelove the shout out to MPLS :D
March 25th, 2009 at 6:03 am
I do love me some Prince! BTW, cute hat Trent!