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2740940, his run was gonna end when it did, no matter what.
Posted by SoWhat, Sun Sep-16-12 01:57 AM
b/c Hip-Hop was looming for him in 1988, no matter what.
New Jack Swing was looming.
he would've felt the need to respond to them...as he did.
Prince won't have an Unsung episode to tell us that Hip-Hop and NJS killed his career. but it seems most of us agree his incorporation of those musics resulted in a dip in overall quality of his work. i think he would've gone there even if he'd released albums more slowly.
kinda like MJ did. most of us here seem to agree that OTW >/= Thriller > Bad >/= Dangerous > HIStory >> Blood on the Dancefloor >/= Invincible.
^ see that overall decline even though the albums were released several yrs apart?
maybe the 'decline' was inevitable. a run can like that can only last so long. his was 7 yrs. that's about how long the Greats have that kind of peak run. how many had one longer than that?
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