Prince: Art Official Age & Plectrum Elecrum

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Ok...

Alright...

Hol' up....

  PRINCE HAS TWO NEW RECORDS!!!! YES, that is TWO whole albums, one released date. Art Official Age and Plectrum Electrum were both released early yesterday and I am DYING to hear both records from start to end. I purposely haven't read one single review about the two albums (which i am hoping are going to give me life and have me play several of the songs for years and years, just like his 1984 album, Purple Rain for so many of us and our loved ones.) I have decided to avoid website reviews until  I have officially purchase, and listen to the entire albums, decide how I feel about them, and then read some official and dependable reviews about the record.
  I would strongly encourage all music/Prince lovers to give it a lil taste to your ears and see what it sounds like to you. According to Prince's past success, I am expecting ALOT of tastiness from this album.

  So, If you're a Prince fan and you are just as eager to download his latest and greatest EVERYTHING, I strongly suggest that you do download his music legally. Prince has a no tolerance about abusing the music and work that his name is branded to! This is what I found while doing research, check it out. 

Copyright issues

On September 14, 2007, Prince announced that he was going to sue YouTube and eBay because they "are clearly able [to] filter porn and pedophile material but appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success." Web Sheriff, the international Internet policing company he hired, told Reuters: "The problem is that one can reduce it to zero and then the next day there will be 100 or 500 or whatever. This carries on ad nauseam at Prince's expense."^[151][152]

In October 2007, Stephanie Lenz filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing Group, claiming they were abusing copyright law, after the music publisher had YouTube take down Lenz's home movie in which the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy" played faintly in the background.^[153]

On November 5, 2007, several fan sites of Prince formed "Prince Fans United" to fight back against legal requests they claim Prince made to cease and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to Prince's likeness.^[154] While Prince's lawyers claimed that the use of such representations constituted copyright infringement, the Prince Fans United claimed that the legal actions were "attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince." A few days later, Prince released a statement denying the fansites' claims, stating "The action taken earlier this week was not to shut down fansites, or control comment in any way. The issue was simply to do with in regards to copyright and trademark of images and only images, and no lawsuits have been filed." The statement from AEG, Prince's promoter, asserted that the only "offending items" on the three fansites were live shots from Prince's 21 nights in London at the O2 Arena earlier in the year.^[155]

On November 8, 2007, Prince Fans United received a song named "PFUnk", providing a kind of "unofficial answer" to their movement. The song, originally debuted on the PFU main site,^[156] was retitled "F.U.N.K." and is available on iTunes.

On November 14, 2007, it was reported that the satirical website b3ta.com had pulled their "image challenge of the week" devoted to Prince after legal threats from the star under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. B3ta co-founder Rob Manuelwrote on the site: "Under threat of legal action from Prince's legal team of 'potential closure of your web site' – We have removed the Prince image challenge and B3ta apologizes unreservedly to AEG / NPG and Prince for any offence caused. We also ask our members to avoid photoshopping Prince and posting them on our boards."^[157]

At the 2008 Coachella Music Festival, Prince performed a cover of Radiohead's "Creep", but immediately after he forced YouTube and other sites to remove footage that fans had taken of the performance, despite Radiohead's demand for it to remain on the website.^[158] Days later, YouTube reinstated the videos, while Radiohead claimed "it's our song, let people hear it." In 2009, Prince put the video of that Coachella performance on his then-official website LotusFlow3r.com.

In 2013, the Electronic Frontier Foundation granted to Prince the inaugural "Raspberry Beret Lifetime Aggrievement Award",^[159] a reference to resentment of parties who allege unfair treatment and misuse of copyright claims by the artist and his lawyers.^[160]

In January 2014, Prince filed a lawsuit titled Prince v. Chodera against 22 online users for direct copyright infringement, unauthorized fixation, and contributory copyright infringement and bootlegging.^[161] Several of the users were fans who had shared links to bootlegged versions of several Prince concerts through social media websites like Facebook.^[162][163]

I Pulled this from Wikipedia.

Discovery Den: Awaiting visitation.

Discovery Den: Awaiting visitation.: Artist. Visionary. The called ones.... Sometimes we doubt that we are chosen to be called upon, even as we answer. But we answer. "I...

Awaiting visitation.

Artist. Visionary. The called ones.... Sometimes we doubt that we are chosen to be called upon, even as we answer. But we answer.


"I am here because art brought me here."


In my couple of years worth of a journey through the artists atmosphere, I have wandered carefully and wondered a lot. I received inspiration through love and I allowed love to change me, open me up and rearrange me. The parts of me that doubted that I could be so open to love so easily. So abruptly. Without fear, even if that love wouldn't or couldn't be there forever. I learned how to love and be loved in a different way.


"The passion of an artists who is in love with their art is a rarity."


Artist are sensitive creatures with a special ability to love several things to a great magnitude and to be able to reach out and reach inside of the soul. But without creativity, the creator is blocked. Injured. Uneasy. Not very gentle and can think of wanting nothing more than to, "get back on their feet".


*A relationship can go completely wrong without understanding this side of the creator. The side of insecurities, self doubt, a sense of powerlessness, a lack of fantasy and a sense of ability to be all desirable... Sounds complicated, right??? Which is why most true artists dedicate themselves to their work over one person. Usually the happy artist becomes involved with someone who shows that they understand the nature and respect the process of love in the artist. The lover of the creator must first understand the "Artists Way" and be unselfish in the process. also nurturing and attentive. It is needed and quite simple to the mass of artists, but quite selfish and inattentive at times to others. The artist themselves would like to assure you that it will all be quite worth it after a while. :) As long as you remember that there is a creative energy that wants to express itself through the artist. It could want to be expressive in everyway depending how sensitive the artists spirit is. Intimacy, love and passion are not excluded! Don't be judgmental of the forms of expression or lack thereof, be attentive, communicate, and you both can sort it out later.




Okay, okay, so now lets switch gears a little bit. Shall we?




So I hear several artists talk about how they don't need anyone. Just them and their art. They say they work best without any influence and being COMPLETELY ALONE. Can you believe that? That a person is so into themselves that anything that they get from anyone else doesn't share a mutual feeling, isn't considered of any true value and is basically just being used for satisfying a specific purpose, that to them deserves no gratification. Hmm. Not cool. I was concerned when I heard these things. The irony of that is, the celebration of an artist, creator or writer's life, is that our natural inclination to sit alone or behind a desk becomes more difficult to pursue!




* "I was told both to seek solitude AND to reach for the companionship of other artists who believed, as I did, that we were led both by the Great Creator and by those who have gone before us, treading their Artist's Way and loving the same art forms we do." - Julia Cameron


God, higher powers, goddess, universe, mind, source, whatever you call it isn't important in the context of art. The point is not that you name it. The point is that you try using it. You don't have to understand electricity to use it do you? That "good orderly direction or flow", stands ready to help us if we ask. We must be ready to ask, open-minded enough to be led, and willing to believe despite our bouts of disbelief.




One thing I would like to shed light on is this: "No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not to late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity."






Creativity is our true nature. Honor will visit all who work. Remain faithful and open-minded
listen for that small voice with marching orders. That is the higher power visiting you with a message.






"I myself do nothing. The holy spirit accomplishes all through me." - William Blake




Peace&Love, Queens&Kings