ithaka

5y

I FOUND THE VIDEO !!!!

@Elric @RVI @texmaker

YALL GOTTA SEE THIS @Brave @Nessy @FREE @Zaywop @Bill_My_Zoot @op @EyesOnTheSmile

KingOfPop

5y

Just reading up on some things I've always wanted to know especially regarding the whole 'Slave' situation.

Why was he so against youtube etc until Screwdriver?

Why did he re-unite with Warner?

Why continue to sign with labels if they were slave masters?

Why pull all music from streaming apart from Tidal, but then put Stare on spotify?

I've got so many questions lol

KingOfPop

5y

Just reading up on some things I've always wanted to know especially regarding the whole 'Slave' situation.

Why was he so against youtube etc until Screwdriver?

Why did he re-unite with Warner?

Why continue to sign with labels if they were slave masters?

Why pull all music from streaming apart from Tidal, but then put Stare on spotify?

I've got so many questions lol

Like a Camillimane

5y

The "SLAVE" era all started in 1992 with the $100 million contract he could never abide by in terms of commercial standards. This came right after the iffy sales of D&P and WB was assuming Prince could keep the consitant sales of over 5 million world wide, which didn't happen with the very next album Love Symbol, which sold at best 2 million world wide. Right after that WB paid Prince 1 million to stay OUT of The Hits 1, 2 and The B-Sides project... Meanwhile for his first greatest hits configuration compared to all the other major artists, flopped, selling 1 million each.

Clearly the 5 million figure was long and gone with D&P as Love Symbol and The Hits albums weren't pushing the figures WB expected to... As a matter of fact The Hits 1,2/The B-Sides were the last WB albums released to ever reach platinum. Come was released when he was promoting TGE the whole time, and none of his WB albums after that ever went platinum again.

So basically Prince created this whole SLAVE stuff because his albums couldn't sell and meet the deal that WB set in place stating he must sell 5 million... Instead of proper promoting and touring he just wanted to go on to the next project, hence why he felt as a "slave"

So in the end he literally created his whole "SLAVE" situation, signed a deal he knew he couldn't deliver...

Strange thing is he could've been able to achieve the 5 million sales per album IF HE WANTED TO... but his artistic thought process was too quick for a 2 year promotion and tour for each album...

That was the whole paradox, artistic genius vs commercial value, it was very hard to manage both, and as his catalouge shown only 3 albums were able to do that, 1999 PURPLE RAIN and DIAMONDS & PEARLS... To be honest one can argue 1999 achieved those sales after the PURPLE RAIN explosion because prior to PURPLE RAIN the sales for 1999 were just average, alot higher than his previous albums but it really got those sales figures due to the success of PURPLE RAIN, and the sales figures for D&P was more due to the promotion.

KingOfPop

5y

So his argument for being a slave was because he couldn’t sell records?

Think I’m way off the mark here lol

ithaka

5y

this whole serie is GOLD

but yeah that video man it just killed me

ithaka

5y

if you want some good laughs @DonutHole

ithaka

5y

I FOUND THE VIDEO !!!!

@Elric @RVI @texmaker

YALL GOTTA SEE THIS @Brave @Nessy @FREE @Zaywop @Bill_My_Zoot @op @EyesOnTheSmile

DonutHole

5y

Lol these vids are dope
Thanks for sharing 👌

ithaka

5y

🖤 translation: heart emoji

DonutHole

5y

Contrary to popular belief :Orange was prince's favorite color, not purple

ithaka

5y

yo...

@op redo the whole aesthetic from the ground up

ithaka

5y

yo...

@op redo the whole aesthetic from the ground up

ithaka

5y

need my money back

ithaka

5y

yo...

@op redo the whole aesthetic from the ground up

DonutHole

5y

The stand out piece of his collection for me is his orange Cloud guitar,” she said. “It is strange because people always associate the color purple with Prince, but his favorite color was actually orange.”
Time magazine

DonutHole

5y

You paid for this thread??? 💀

ithaka

5y

prince really said:

💀