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There is perhaps no musician who has had as much influence on the sound of contemporary American music than Prince. His pioneering compositions brought a variety of musical genres into a singular funky and virtuosic sound. In this remarkable collection, and with his signature mix of seduction and demur, the late visionary reflects on his artistry, identity, and the sacrifices and soul-searching it took to stay true to himself. An Introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib offers astute, contemporary perspective and brilliantly contextualizes the collected interviews. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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From the introduction, by Abdurraqib:
Prince was old-school. I love this recollection:
I also must add this, which is something:
Regardless of the above, after the introduction, the interviews flow in chronological order. It’s sweet to see a magazine from Minneapolis draw this out:
This one’s quite sweet as well:
What strikes me as one of Prince’s most lovely aspects in handling stupid, non-researched, and tabloidish questions, is how he turned them into gold. This quote is inspirational:
The man went from “don’t you think you look a little silly?” to completely leaving the interviewer, as it were, in a state of undress, by stating that he doesn’t stand clothes? Again, I must state that Prince was an interview alchemist.
This, from a live TV interview, is also brilliant:
I also dig this quote:
As Abdurraqib writes in his introduction, it’s easy to spot the points where Prince reacts to insipid, vapid, and stupid interviewers:
His words on vegetarianism are laudable; I dig the last part of the first paragraph in this quote:
Here’s another part, from the same interview as the above, that fascinates me:
The man was early on Internet, describing the inevitable death of record companies. Here, he speaks with some Yahoo! Internet interviewer, in 1997:
Towards the later part of his life, he had an all-female band (bar himself, of course).
I dig some of his weird conspiracy theories thrown in:
Regardless of how I loathe Chris Brown for his sexism, abuse of women, and homophobia, it’s still quite easy to get why Prince says the following:
During his last published interview:
Brilliant.
There’s a lot of weirdness left after the book is read, but this is—I feel—from the dregs of interviews that weren’t conducted properly. The naïvité of the first interview is just sweet, but the most sensationalistic stuff…I gather that Prince graciously put up with that to get through the day.
I’ll leave you with a part from the very last interview, that wraps things up fairly lovely:
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