Does Prince have a new album out?

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Is this true?

This Tuesday Prince will release his new CD, "3121". This release has come virtually out of nowhere. There's been no hint that it was in the works, and no tracklist has been leaked. That's very rare. Seems like Prince, an artist with a bootleg catalogue of unreleased material, has learned how to keep a tight ship in the age of the internet.

Prince has a history of speaking to his fans in cryptic ways. For example, many of his songs reference each other. In keeping with that tradition - During the past year Prince purchased a house somewhere around L.A., throwing late night jam parties for celebrities. That house's address is "3121". This release will be for sale Tuesday, 12/13 ("3121" written backwards). Finally, 3+1+2+1 = 7 (aka the number of the Lord, which Prince references a lot).

It came from the Obner music board but haven't seen any mention of this anywhere else, not even on ILM, so I wonder but I do know this person and doesn't post just rumors. That however is just a quote with no link, can find out more later but I would think more would know about this because it's past the 13th...

BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 30 December 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

There was a story on Pitchfork about him signing to Universal to put it out; not sure of date though.

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 30 December 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Someone just posted a link to a Prince video from a new album last night.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

I used the search before posting this, also missed Pitchfork story. It's coming out very soon but not out yet.

BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I just mentioned that thread as (rather solid) evidence that yes he has something on the way.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

You can order the new single, Te Amo Corazon, here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CR5ENY/qid=1135965153/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5683585-8929758?v=glance&s=music

And watch the video, directed by Selma Hayek(!?) here:

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-261901-videos--Prince

Sadly, this song is a touch boring. I enjoyed what I heard of Musicology more than was to be expected, but this is not at all what I want out of a Prince song. He says here: http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1518142/12142005/prince.jhtml
that this song "is not indicative of the album's sound." Let's hope this is true.

matt2 (matt2), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)


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