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)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 30 December 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)
― BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)
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.jhtmlthat 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)