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Someone, Somewhere! #PrinceTwitterThread: See linktree below ⬇️
Nov 5 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
He killed his name.

Became a symbol.

Fought his label, rewired his soul —
and came back shimmering in gold.

In 1995, he released The Gold Experience. (TGE) —one of the greatest albums of the 1990s!

The resurrection of Prince — not the man, the idea. 💛 Image While the industry mocked “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince,”
he was building something sacred in secret:

a new language for sound, sex, and salvation.

He called it “The Dawn.” Image
Nov 2 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
The Genius of Prince’s “Love Symbol” (1992).

The album that defied Warner Bros, gender, and genre itself.

A story of control, chaos, and transcendence.

The beginning of The Artist’s rebellion.

Let’s go deep…

👇🏽 Image By 1992, Prince had done it all.

Purple Rain crowned him.

Sign O’ the Times sanctified him.

Diamonds & Pearls brought him back to the charts.

Grammy wins.

Stadium tours.

Movies.

But success had become a gilded cage.

Warner Bros wanted hits.

Prince wanted freedom.
Oct 29 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
PRINCE — CONTROVERSY (1981)

The album where the kid from Minneapolis stopped asking for permission and started provoking the world.

Electro funk. Sexual politics.

Cold synths.

Hot blood.

Let’s go 🧵 Image By 1981, Prince was no longer a newcomer — he’d shocked the charts with Dirty Mind a year before.

But that album’s punk-funk nudity left America split: genius or deviant?

So Prince did what prophets do — he doubled down. Image
Jul 24, 2021 • 30 tweets • 14 min read
Week 4🧵Round Up

Jill Jones debut album.

June & July = JJ = Jill Jones

1 FINAL week left on the Jill Jones Twitter Thread!

#ICYMI - see the published🧵’s below.

@jilldjones

#PrinceTwitterThread
#jilljones Sampling Jill Jones
Jul 23, 2021 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
“The technique of digitally encoding music or sound & reusing it as part of a composition or recording.”

Tonight @polishedsolid dissects the Jill Jones album to reveal the impact it had upon other songs.

#PrinceTwitterThread #jilljones Image @polishedsolid is an exceptionally talented person.

A Prince podcaster & symposia creator and a helluva lot more!

Just check it all out below. ImageImage
Jul 22, 2021 • 104 tweets • 47 min read
“My Man” - ‘MM’ is the track that kick started it all.

MM provided the impetus that began the creative work for the @jilldjones ‘JJ’ album.

So from that POV alone, it’s a very important track.

#PrinceTwitterThread
#jilljones Image MM was constructed over a period of 7 months at Sunset Sound.

On 10 May 1985, after finalising the configuration of the Mazarati album, P created the initial version of MM.

On 12 May 1985 P recorded overdubs & it’s also possible that JJ laid down the vocals on this date. ImageImage
Jul 22, 2021 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
Just because U are the
finest of your mama's children
Doesn't mean U can play around

Build up your stamina & join me later for “My Man” - the penultimate track from the JJ debut.

#PrinceTwitterThread
#jilljones Image @deejayumb is a host of #PrinceTwitterThread

Grew up w/ P soundtracking my teens & it was *MORE* phenomenal than they would have you believe!

- Stanning P since 82’

Done stuff in the music world, inc. w/ family of music royalty but that was then & this is.....just for now! ImageImage
Jun 29, 2021 • 100 tweets • 43 min read
Part II

June & July = JJ = Jill Jones

This Part II will be a brief overview of the album from its recording to it’s release.

The individual tracks will not be covered as our contributors will dive into these.

So let’s start with the Album.

#PrinceTwitterThread #Jilljones I wish I could drop a streaming link to this album but it isn’t on streaming platforms.

it went out of print not long after its release & is difficult to find on Vinyl & CD.

There’s a GREAT demand for a JJ SDE on translucent Pink💖Vinyl.

And it needs to come out NOW 🖤💀
Jun 28, 2021 • 58 tweets • 29 min read
Welcome to the 5th instalment of the #PrinceTwitterThread series.

June & July = JJ = Jill Jones

Our spotlight falls on on the @jilldjones debut album.

This is our first 🧵 on an album by 1 of the Purple Associates.

Over the next few weeks our guests will be:👇🏽 In Part 1 of this introduction I’ll take a look at JJ’s background & all her work in the P Kingdom up to the point of her debut album.

Tomorrow, in Part 2, I’ll cover the debut album to present day.
Oct 25, 2020 • 104 tweets • 47 min read
*If I Was Your Girlfriend*

And together we'll stare into silence
And we'll try to imagine
what it looks like
Yeah, we'll try to imagine what,
what silence looks like
Yeah, we'll try to imagine what silence looks like
Yeah, we'll try

#PrinceTwitterThread
#SOTTDELUXE Sit here w/ me for 2 minutes & listen to this heart achingly gorgeous instrumental intro...

Try to imagine what silence looks like ...

Try to imagine this amazing 2 minute segment from the NYE show forming the basis of an extended instrumental version on a 12”!
Oct 15, 2020 • 11 tweets • 12 min read
So we got to the end of Side 1 & on Saturday — we’ll flip over to Side 2.

Tomorrow — we have a thread on Prince’s threads by @CasciTRitchie:

“Fashioning S☮️TT”

Today — check out:

*Casci’s Bio
*Round- Up of previous 🧵’s

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

#PrinceTwitterThread
#SOTTDELUXE @CasciTRitchie

Independent Fashion Historian & Princeologist

Blog:
casciritchie.com

Staff Writer:
@screenqueenz

Programmer and Film Club Host:
@backseat_bingo

Recent Publications:
bloomsbury.com/uk/prince-and-…
Oct 9, 2020 • 82 tweets • 43 min read
S☮️TT - (iii) - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Was The Dream Factory (DF) a ‘lost’ album?

Was it even an album?

Yesterday, I set out the 30+ year narrative about the path that led up to SOTT.

A narrative repeated on websites & in magazines.

#PrinceTwitterThread
#SOTTDELUXE ImageImage A narrative repeated in fanzines, books, official podcasts, & the trusted @PrinceVault.

With such overwhelming support behind this narrative why would anyone dare to question it.

But is it fact or fiction?

Is it a questionable narrative created by fans, authors & journalists?
Oct 8, 2020 • 57 tweets • 31 min read
S☮️TT - (ii) - The Dream.

Yesterday I dropped some real time heat on SOTT going back to 1987 & connections were made with the artwork & various themes including Wizard of Oz.

In this thread I am going to focus on the path leading up to SOTT.

#PrinceTwitterThread
#SOTTDELUXE ImageImageImage The path that led up to SOTT is a strange one in how it has been portrayed for 30+ years by fanzines & magazines.

It’s upheld a popular & an established narrative that has probably become a historical fact but much more on this tomorrow. Image
Oct 7, 2020 • 60 tweets • 38 min read
S☮️TT - (i) - Dreams Come True

#PrinceTwitterThread
#SOTTDELUXE This 3 part Introduction thread will focus on the path that led to the creation of SOTT.

It’s P’s richest & most fertile period & one of his most complex ones.

Perhaps also one of the most misunderstood.
Aug 9, 2020 • 91 tweets • 57 min read
Te Amo Corazon 💜

Check out previous 🧵’s from @darlingnisi & @yan_kry

B sure to check upcoming 🧵’s over the next 9 days from:

@RichardCole_NOW
@PrincesFriendYT
@CaseyRain
@CasciTRitchie
@ehphd
@arrthurr
@EdgarKruize
@pressrewind75

#PrinceTwitterThread
#3121album 3121 had Rock, contemporary R&B, classic 80’s Funk & Electro but for me it was the Latin influences that surprised me & really made this album standout.

Those influences were more pervasive on this record than any other I can think of.

So for me 3121 was his “LATIN ERA”!
Jun 17, 2020 • 93 tweets • 45 min read
Day 2 — Space Thread!

Check out yesterday’s 🧵 from @ericathompson

B sure to check out the 🧵’s coming up over the next 8 days from:

@CaseyRain
@EdgarKruize
@PrincesFriendYT
@ehphd
@scottwoodssays
@arrthurr
@NightEthereal
@polishedsolid

#PrinceTwitterThread
#Come I just want to take this opportunity to thank a few ‘key’ people who were instrumental in giving me the confidence & belief to share my thoughts (not expertise) on Prince in a public arena.

Thanks 4 the encouragement & belief 💜💜💜

@EdgarKruize @NightEthereal @polishedsolid.
Jun 15, 2020 • 79 tweets • 41 min read
Welcome to the second instalment of #PrinceTwitterThread series.

The spotlight is on the #Come album.

Over the next 10 days our guests will be:

@ericathompson
@CaseyRain
@EdgarKruize
@PrincesFriendYT
@ehphd
@scottwoodssays
@arrthurr
@NightEthereal
@polishedsolid “Foreplay” will be my brief intro to the Come album before we move on to cover the individual tracks.

“This is the Dawning of a New Spiritual Revolution”.

☝️ is the phrase that underpins the Come album.

Piano & Mic 83’ was not Prince’s first “Posthumous” album, it was “Come”.
May 21, 2020 • 156 tweets • 80 min read
DAY 9 - PURPLE RAIN PART 9:

“Ahem”

#PurpleRain9on9 “PURPLE RAIN” (SONG)

So after that nervous introduction, the finale to this awesome #MEGA #THREADFEST falls upon my shoulders & it’s a big task judging by the quality of the preceding threads by a host of genuinely talented writers.
Apr 8, 2020 • 132 tweets • 61 min read
A Purple Musical Appreciation #thread on Joni Mitchell @JoniMitchellcom (JM) & the enormous & lifelong influence she had on Prince.

"Mind if I turn on the radio?"
"Oh, my favorite song" she said
And it was Joni singing "Help me I think I'm falling" The influence that Joni had on Prince cannot be understated or underplayed, it was MASSIVE.

More than any other artist, she perhaps had the greatest influence on him.

Prince held a lifelong love affair with her music & he wasn’t coy about publicising it time & time again.
Apr 1, 2020 • 66 tweets • 27 min read
PARADE - PART 2: THE SONGS

By @deejayumb (💀)
&
@EdgarKruize (EK)

EK: Before going on to the songs I just want to comment on Part 1 & the comparisons we both drew between ATWIAD & Parade EK: 86’ Parade Tour was a testament of how the ATWIAD & the Parade songs worked so well together.

ATWIAD (song) merged into CTP and after New Position/I Wonder U Raspberry Beret was thrown in.

Elsewhere in the set Pop Life & Girls & Boys always worked back to back!
Mar 31, 2020 • 70 tweets • 32 min read
A Monster #thread on Prince’s album “Parade” by:

@deejayumb - Parts 1 & 2
&
@EdgarKruize - Parts 2 & 3

Part 1 - Parading The Truth
Part 2 - The Songs
Part 3 - Parade Super Deluxe PART 1 - PARADING THE TRUTH

Prince’s 8th album released in March 86’. His “Avant-Purple” period.

Incredibly, he was only 27 years old when he made this!

His 3rd & final album with The Revolution & what a magnificent work it is, one of my personal favourites in his catalogue.