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"Originals" ist das 42. Studioalbum von Prince und die siebte Albumveröffentlichung nach seinem Tod am 21. April 2016. Das Album erschien am 7. Juni 2019, Prince's 61. Geburtstag, bei dem Label Warner Bros. Records / NPG Records und enthält Prince’ Originalversionen von 15 selbstgeschriebenen Songs, die er jedoch zu Lebzeiten nicht selbst veröffentlichte, sondern anderen Künstlern zur Verfügung gestellt hatte, u.a. Apollonia 6, Vanity 6, The Time, Jill Jones, Kenny Rogers, Martika, Sheila E. und The Bangles. Die Songs "Nothing Compares 2 U" und Holly Rock" wurden als Single ausgekoppelt. Als Gastmusiker wirken Eric Leeds, Jesse Johnson, Jill Jones, Morris Day von The Time, Sheila E. und Susannah Melvoin mit. Die Laufzeit des Albums beträgt 63 Minuten und 50 Sekunden.
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Originals, the new compilation from the Prince Estate (I emphasize “Estate,” because the late artist was not involved in this release and may or may not have hypothetically approved its existence), is a glimpse into an alternate universe where Prince did keep gems like “Nothing Compares 2 U” or “Manic Monday”—the breezy hit he wrote for The Bangles—for himself. Here we get 15 of Prince’s own versions of songs he wrote for other artists. Every fan knows that Prince left behind a bank vault containing thousands of hours of unheard music. Turns out some of that music has been heard, except performed by artists who are not Prince.
Several of these tracks are stylistic exercises that don’t fit Prince as well as the artist he was writing for. He toys with crooning country-pop on “You’re My Love,” but there’s a reason he gifted the song to Kenny Rogers. “Make Up” (later recorded by Vanity 6) is an especially odd one, and the only real flop here. The song’s industrial synth refrain never progresses beyond mild irritation. (Think “Something In The Water [Does Not Compute],” but worse.)
Originals offers a tantalizing glimpse of Prince as an artist whose creativity extended in so many directions at once that his own discography couldn’t contain it
Reviewed by Zach Schonfeld for pastemagazine.com.
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