And notice that whenever I say it, I put it in quotes.

That's because for a minute, Prince was possibly the most progressive, vital, outside-the-box rock star in the world... when it seemed like he wasn't trying, just throwing a bunch of shit together: funk, New Wave, disco, rock, etc. THAT shit was forward-looking, and it seemed effortless.

But when he actually *tries* to make "rock music" he sounds hopelessly out of the loop. He falls back on the most bottom of the barrel "rock" cliches (I actually LOLed at the drumming on this track)... Sounds like a mid-level Foghat tribute band.

It sounds like he doesn't probably listen to a lot of "rock music" personally, but he listened a bunch of it like 30 years ago and was able to pick up enough to produce a workable facsimile of it. And that he did that as a "project."

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