Entre mis amigos de los de antes, está mal visto, pero igual me gusta, disco que veo de él lo compro, y muy pocos me han desilusionado, Prince es uno de mis favoritos y aunque lo que he oido de su último disco (Musicology) no es como lo de sus mejores tiempos, tampoco está mal. El NYT publicó una nota sobre él hace unas semanas y aquí tienen un extracto (completa en el enlace claro). Prince has been virtually a one-man studio band since he released his first album in 1978, and in the years since he has recorded funk and rock, pop ballads and jazzy excursions; he has written streamlined, straightfoward hits and complex experiments. His skill and versatility have made him a model for musicians as different as D'Angelo, Beck and OutKast, and his storehouse of unreleased material, which he calls the Vault, may well hold thousands of songs. "I record all the time," he said simply. But this afternoon he paused to reflect on what has been his best year in at least a decade.

The lascivious young man who recorded albums like "Dirty Mind" (1980) has affirmed a newfound faith. "I always knew I had a relationship with God," he said. "But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me." Prince has stopped using profanity and has stopped singing about casual sex. Is he embarrassed now by some of the raunchier songs in his catalog? "Embarrassed?" he said with a smile. "I don't know that word. Have you seen my outfits?".

Algo interesante que leo es que Prince ha renegociado sus contratos con las disqueras, luego de años de pelearse con ellas y editar discos con material antiguo solo para agotar los contratos, y editando sus producciones nuevas en forma independiente. Ahora las compañias imprimen, distribuyen y marketean sus discos y él les paga por eso, manteniendo los derechos de todo su material. Incluso en su última gira el precio del ticket incluye el de un ejemplar del nuevo disco, algo por lo que los intermediarios han protestado por cierto. ¿Mis discos preferidos? Sign O´ the times, Diamonds and Pearls, The Love Symbol.