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- Summary: This is the purple one's second straight set of mainstream music, following 2004's 'Musicology,' which itself followed a string of more esoteric releases.
- Record Label: Universal
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop, R&B
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Top Track
Black Sweat | |
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Workin', workin' up a black sweat {x4} I don't wanna take my clothes off, but I do I don't wanna turn nobody on 'less it's U, oh I don't wanna dance... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 31
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Mixed: 15 out of 31
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Negative: 0 out of 31
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This is the Prince album we wanted Musicology to be.
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UncutA deeply enjoyable pop-funk record. [May 2006, p.114]
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Maybe he's no longer breaking new ground, but his eccentricities are now an attribute, not a curse, which goes a long way in making his trademark blend of funk, pop, soul, and rock sound nearly as dazzling as it did at his popular and creative peak in the '80s.
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Oh well, a third of a terrific Prince album is better than no terrific Prince album at all.
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But there's more to 3121 than the prickle of nostalgia: amid the title track's murky, unsettling groove and the grinding techno noise of Love, Prince sounds thrillingly alive, a veteran throwing down a cocky, confident challenge to any young pretenders.
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While the hooks don't reach out and grab you the way you long for them to, and though the lyrics aren't as smart as we've come to expect from a composer who once claimed to literally write songs in his sleep, 3121 is a wholly listenable and consistent(ly funky) addition to the catalog of one of music's pop pioneers.
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New Musical Express (NME)[It] doesn't really sound like Prince at all. [25 Mar 2006, p.35]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 39 out of 41
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Mixed: 1 out of 41
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Negative: 1 out of 41
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Sep 20, 2017
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rolflMar 23, 2006classic and expiremental prince worthy songs on this album!!
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FrankCMar 30, 2006This is a awesome album. This album is for the die hard fans and the new fans and genertion
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AlejandroSMar 24, 2006
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JamesFMar 26, 2006
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WPBeingMar 31, 2006
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SamMMar 26, 2006
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