this almost empty bottle of glue don't hardly make you think of the dead horse at all no more.

But, here goes 10 bullet points of forensic speculation:

•he'd pushed "quirky elfin pop/funk sex weirdo" ass far as he could and radio changed right up under his feet.

•a guy who would implode the Time and put Paul Peterson in the spotlight to get "that Duran Duran" money ,says what?

•He was shook. He wanted to appeal to Black radio, prove he was down.

•Also factor in the execs at Warner's that championed Prince weren't there anymore or being phased out or moved around (Mo Ostin, Lenny Waronker). So his superstar bullying tactics didn't have the same effect...he looked more like an asshole than a genius pulling the Black Album after it had shipped. The labels were like...'fuck this guy...let's push Ice T. in the 3rd & 4th quarter'.

•...pulling The Black album was the point he really started schitting the bed decision wise. "Lovesexy" follows the same constructs that went into "The Rainbow Children" minus going overboard with the religious dogma, stylistically & quality wise. He could have easily re-tooled schitt like "Dream Factory", "Welcome 2 the Rat Race" & "Crystal Ball" and coupled it with "Positivity", "Dance On", "Eye Know/Crystal Ball", "When 2 R In Love", "Rebirth of the Flesh" & "Joy In Repitition" and had a ridiculously awesome "band" oriented "Prince" album that fans and critics couldn'tve ignored if they tried, in spite of Teddy Riley's matinee funk sound that was really starting to permeate Black radio. Why all of a sudden did this fool wanna be a "Black" act, when his sound appealed to more than just the Black radio audience

•There was just some master self-sabotage schitt going down cause he was used to getting his way with Warner Bros., and they firmly & immediately put the kybosh on that triple album idea after UTCM.

•Musically his strengths at the time were, the material & the people that helped foster the material (Eric Leeds, Wendy, Lisa, Sheila, Levi, Matt Blistan, as well as the engineers who believed in the helping him capture all of that round the clock)...not Wally Safford, Greg Brooks and Jerome hanging around. He tried to make S.O.T.T.'s feel like a one man show, but it wasn't. He wanted to be in a band...but all of a sudden he wanted it to be a fey/quasi religious version of Sly & the Family Stone and P-Funk...AND dominate black radio?

•Dude, FUCKED UP...and would have to pay for it, with 10+ years of really confusing material, Hit & Run Tours galore, playing catch up on the radio, Tony M, that embarrassing G.B. movie flopping harder than Vlade Divac, lame publicity stunts (the name change, Kamasutra), turmoil with Warner Bros., to free agency and even more confusing career calamities as well as musical missteps.

•Whoever (in this post) said "Paisley Park", was too much freedom, was on to something.

•and mind you...dude still managed to have one glimpse or another of having some vapors in the tank on each terrible project...which was really the hardest thing to bare for older fans.

s.blak
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