Newpower Soul (Album)
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| Studio album by The New Power Generation | ||||
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May 1997 - February 1998 |
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11 |
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60:00 |
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| occupation | All songs were produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince. The following people completed the recordings:
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Paisley Park Studio ( Chanhassen ) |
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Newpower Soul is The New Power Generation's third studio album and the last to be released during Prince 's lifetime. It was released on June 30, 1998 on the Sony Music Entertainment / NPG Records label. Prince composed all of the songs and also did the main vocals. Guest musicians include Chaka Khan , Clare Fischer , Doug E. Fresh and Larry Graham .
The music on the album belongs to the genres funk , R&B and soul . The lyrics are mostly about sex and dancing. Music critics rated Newpower Soul mostly negatively and from a commercial point of view the album could not achieve gold status internationally. The tour for the album was also unsuccessful from a commercial point of view, as some concerts in Europe were not sold out. In contrast to the album, the tour was largely praised by music journalists.
Emergence
Although The New Power Generation of the album Newpower Soul is given as the artist , the album can be described as a solo project by Prince ; he wrote all the songs and does the main vocals for them. The contributions of his backing band are - in contrast to the previous The New Power Generation albums Goldnigga (1993) and Exodus (1995) - mostly not precisely defined. Due to differences with the music label Warner Bros. Records , Prince had given up his stage name in 1993 and instead carried an ineffable symbol as a pseudonym until 2000 .
Prince began recording Newpower Soul in May 1997, recording all of the songs in his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen , Minnesota. According to Hans-Martin Buff, then Prince's sound engineer, Prince recorded The One as the first song for the album. Prince then recorded the songs Shoo-Bed-Ooh and (Eye Like) Funky Music , which could already be downloaded as samples in June 1997 from his former website Love4OneAnother.com . During a three-week break from his then Jam-of-the-Year tour, Prince recorded the song When U Love Somebody in late August 1997 , which contains a horn section from the Prince cover band called Days of Wild. Days of Wild is from New York City and consists of members Pierre-André Baptiste, Wayne DuMain and Clark Gayton. In mid-November 1997, Prince Mad took up sex . The brass quintet The Horn Heads added their parts for the piece newpower soul one in December 1997 in Paisley Park studio.
Until U're In My Arms Again and The One played a Prince between May 1997 and February 1998, Paisley Park Studio, with Clare Fischer , the string orchestra - overdubs in the O'Henry Sound Studios in Burbank added. Prince recorded a remix version of The One in mid-1998 at Paisley Park Studio.
The track Push It Up comes from the remix version of Jam of the Year , which can be found in the original version on the Prince album Emancipation (1996). In early 1997, Jam of the Year was remixed for a possible single release, with Doug E. Fresh taking on a rap passage. From the remix and rapassage by Fresh, the song Push It Up developed , which Prince reworked on August 12, 1997 in Paisley Park Studio.
The songs Come On and Wasted Kisses took Prince between May 1997 and December 1997, Paisley Park studio, both songs were already on January 2, 1998, an after party in New Orleans in Louisiana in the music club Tipitina 'warehouse on PA system to be heard. Prince recorded the song Freaks on This Side between May 1997 and spring 1998 at Paisley Park Studio. The Hornheads added more overdubs to the album Newpower Soul in early February 1998 .
Sound engineer Hans-Martin Buff argued that Newpower Soul was Prince's worst album of his career, and after the musician's death in 2016 said it "could have been a heavier funk album". “Everyone I've worked with asked my opinion, except for Prince. Instead, he joked: 'The day Hans says:' You can do better! 'Is the day he is fired. "
marketing
Prince invited some distributors from the music industry to his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen , if it this album newpower soul could listen. He wanted them to buy albums from him, which he then wanted to distribute through his own label, NPG Records . An unnamed retailer told US men's magazine Details that Prince had asked for an album for $ 10 and recommended that it be sold in record stores for $ 12.99. He himself, as well as other dealers present, thought Prince's proposal was unrealistic; "How can anyone make a profit from a price increase of just three dollars?", Records would not "magically wander from Minneapolis to New York [about 2,000 km]" and "There is just not enough money for everyone in the middle", he said. According to details, some were negotiating a price per album for $ 9, while others were negotiating for $ 8. "If I had been one of those retailers who paid full price and then found out something like that, I would have been pissed off," said one trader. Prince's then attorney L. Londell McMillan (* 1966) only shared details that some dealers had received discounts for albums in large quantities. However, further allegations and allegations are "absolutely untrue" and Prince's pricing is "absolutely standard".
In addition, Details reported that Prince initially agreed to the customary US terms and conditions of 60 days billing period after receiving the album. But 25 days after the albums were shipped, he changed his mind; Prince wanted payment within 30 days. "He has absolutely no idea how the music industry works," said one dealer.
Prince also negotiated with those in charge of independent labels , who were mostly skeptical. One said of Prince that it was "pure egoding to want to run a label without really knowing how". There was the predominant opinion, Prince fighting similar success against the music industry such as Pearl Jam in 1994 against Ticketmaster , when the band a lawsuit against the Group lost . Ultimately, the major label BMG agreed to Prince's contractual terms and distributed Newpower Soul worldwide under the performers The New Power Generation .
According to his own account, Prince received most of the money from the gross income of 140 million US dollars, which brought in an album and tour . He did not give exact numbers, but earlier he received “a maximum of 7 million US dollars”. From the proceeds of the album Newpower Soul , Prince bought his then wife Mayte Garcia, among other things, a mansion in Marbella on the Costa del Sol , which Garcia sold again in 2006.
On the occasion of the release of Newpower Soul , Prince gave a few television interviews, but most of the time he didn't talk about the music on the album, but about - in his opinion - the right decision to have made himself independent from record companies.
Design of the cover
The album cover only shows Prince and not The New Power Generation. In his right hand he is holding a microphone shaped like a firearm. He also wears a necklace that was added later in the form of a comic drawing. The booklet has 14 pages in which you can see more photos of Prince and the former members of The New Power Generation. Most of the other photos have also been designed in the form of a comic drawing.
Art director Steve Parke planned a different cover design and said after Prince's death in 2016: “I wanted to print Newpower Soul on black velor paper so it looked like a retro black light poster. However, Prince urged, 'People are waiting for this album.' I was n't satisfied with the finished artwork . We whipped it through way too fast, and then the albums gathered dust in a warehouse for six months. [...] We all had respect for him, even if we would have liked to say ' Fuck you ' sometimes . "
music
The music on the album Newpower Soul belongs to the genres of funk , pop , R&B and soul . Until U're in My Arms Again , Shoo-Bed-Ooh , The One and Wasted Kisses are ballads . Songs like the title track and Push It Up give the album a party atmosphere at times. Chaka Khan , Larry Graham and Doug E. Fresh are guest singers on Push It Up , Fresh also does a rap passage on the piece (Eye Like) Funky Music .
The lyrics sings Prince predominantly melodic set to music , in his characteristic falsetto -Gesang he can be heard as well. Occasionally, Prince also performs the lyrics in chant parts , such as in the title track when he mentions all the song titles on the album in the specified tracklist. As only becomes clear from song titles like Mad Sex , Freaks on This Side and (Eye Like) Funky Music , the lyrics are mostly about sex and dancing. Some media speculated about the lyrics of Until U're in My Arms Again , this could be about Prince's deceased son (born October 16, 1996, † October 23, 1996). Prince has never commented publicly on the content of this song text. The lyrics to Wasted Kisses are from the perspective of a man who killed his girlfriend.
List of titles and publications
| No. | song | author | length |
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| 1 | Newpower Soul | Prince | 5:01 |
| 2 | Mad sex | Prince | 5:13 |
| 3 | Until U're in My Arms Again | Prince | 4:47 |
| 4th | When U Love Somebody | Prince | 5:56 |
| 5 | Shoo-Bed-Ooh | Prince | 3:24 |
| 6th | Push it up | Prince | 5:29 |
| 7th | Freaks on This Side | Prince | 5:42 |
| 8th | Come on | Prince | 5:59 |
| 9 | The One | Prince | 7:04 |
| 10 | (Eye Like) Funky Music | Prince | 4:31 |
| 49 | Wasted Kisses (Hidden Track) | Prince | 2:59 |
Newpower Soul was released worldwide on June 30, 1998 on compact disc and compact cassette . It was also released in January 1999 in combination with the two albums Come 2 My House by Chaka Khan and GCS 2000 by Graham Central Station as a so-called NewPowerPak , which was only available for purchase via Prince's website at the time, 1-800-New-Funk.com was.
The first CD editions of Newpower Soul contain a misprint on the back of the album cover ; the song Shoo-Bed-Ooh is correctly listed as track "5", but the next song Push It Up is listed as track "7", so that the following songs have been shifted back by one number and with (Eye Like) Funky Music end as track “11”. The printing errors were corrected in later CD editions. Furthermore, Push It Up is printed on the back of the cover as Push It Up! , so provided with an exclamation mark. However, the exclamation mark mentioned is not printed on the CD itself or in the booklet.
Wasted Kisses can only be heard as track # 49 as a hidden track . From tracks 11 to 47 there are only pauses of four seconds each, track 48 has a pause of 43 seconds. In some mass media , the interpreter of Newpower Soul is incorrectly named "Prince" and not The New Power Generation .
Single releases
On February 20, 1998, Prince announced on his former website Love4OneAnother.com that he would decouple either Newpower Soul , Mad Sex or Push It Up from the album as pre-singles . In the end he decided on Come On .
Already on April 13, 1998 The One was released as a promo CD single in a version shortened to 4:33 minutes. On the back cover of the CD single, the release date for the album Newpower Soul is May 15, 1998. It is not known why the album was not released at that time. Furthermore, advertising for the albums Come 2 My House by Chaka Khan and GCS 2000 by Larry Graham and Graham Central Station can be read on the back cover. The One was released in Brazil as a 2-track promo CD single, with Mad Sex as the second track , although this is listed as The One (album version) .
Come On is the only single from the album and was released on October 16, 1998 in Europe, in Great Britain on November 9, 1998. Come On is only available as a maxi single , which was released on both CD and vinyl . The maxi single includes various remixes of Come On , designed by Prince, Doug E. Fresh and Kirk Johnson - then drummer of The New Power Generation. A remixed version of The One can also be heard on the maxi single.
Music videos
Prince produced two music videos for the album Newpower Soul, The One and Come On . The video for The One was filmed in Los Angeles , California on June 7, 1998, Prince's 40th birthday . The director was his then wife Mayte Garcia . The One begins as a black and white film and Prince plays a vagabond who takes a break at an old barrack . Garcia and her mother live in this barrack, played by Rita Moreno . Garcia opens a book lying on the table and sees in it a harem in which beautiful odalisques dance; the music video is now in color . The odalisks try to pull Prince, who is now playing himself as a pop star, under their spell, but he refuses. At the end of the video, Prince and Garcia hug and the two are one. The New Power Generation does not appear in the video.
About the content of the music video, Prince said on July 1, 1998 on the US news program Good Morning America that he and Garcia wanted to " return to the idea of the Garden of Eden ." There there was the "one idea", "instead of having ten women and thinking that this is equivalent to wealth, we focused on the one idea to see if that could bring us a personal heaven."
The music video for Come On was filmed on August 28, 1998 in Hyde Park , London . “We didn't have a film permit and we filmed with a kind of camcorder . It should look scruffy and homemade, ”said Prince's then employee Jacoui Thompson after his death in 2016. Prince is chauffeured in a Saab 9-5 stretch limousine to the “ Grand Entrance ”of Hyde Park and is older than him One disguised; he wears a flat cap , a glued-on gray beard, glasses and a walking stick. On arrival he opens the window and makes a derogatory gesture towards passers-by. Prince gets out of the stretch limousine and goes to Hyde Park as a street musician with a guitar slung around his neck. In some cases he mobbed passers-by and scared them away. Occasionally he throws a kiss on the hand . Ultimately, Prince gets back into the Saab limousine, lets down the window again, makes another disparaging gesture towards passers-by and is driven away. At the end of the video you can hear a monologue from Prince and at the bottom of the picture you can read how he says the following to two young women: “I can't hear you. Why don't you take an old man with you? You don't like old men? Hey, I've got the butter for your muffins , honey. I'm just too old to hold onto the knife! ”(“ I can't hear u. Why don't u take an old man with u? U don't like old men? Hey, I got the butta 4 ya muffin , honey. i'm just 2 old 2 hold the knife! ") The answers of the two women are incomprehensible.
Apart from the scenes in Hyde Park, the music video shows footage from the Prince aftershow at the Café de Paris music club in London on August 28, 1998. Marva King, Chaka Khan and Larry Graham also appear in the video. The lyrics to Come On can be read at the bottom of the video.
Cover versions
With Freaks on This Side by The Loudmonf Choir and The One by Kringkastingsorkesteret featuring Jarle Bernhoft , only two cover versions of songs from the album Newpower Soul are known; Both versions come from the 5-CD box Shockadelica: 50th Anniversary Tribute to the Artist Known as Prince , limited to 5,000 copies , which was released on June 2, 2008 by the Norwegian record company C + C Records. However, Prince filed a lawsuit against the record company and the CD box had to be taken off the market. On the occasion of his 50th birthday on June 7, 2008, various interpreters from Norway had recorded 81 songs by him.
tour
| Typical setlist of the Newpower-Soul-Tour from August 8, 1998 - August 28, 1998 in Europe |
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Prince completed two tours for the album Newpower Soul with his backing band The New Power Generation . Two months before the album was released, he toured the United States with the Newpower Soul Tour, which began on April 20, 1998 in Washington, DC at The Capital Ballroom (now known as Nation) and on June 1, 1998 in Indianapolis , Indiana, ended at the Indiana Convention Center. He gave a total of eight concerts and some music critics rated the tour very positively.
The European part of the Newpower Soul Tour began on August 8, 1998 in Marbella in the Plaza de Toros de Marbella and ended on August 28, 1998 in London at the Brixton Academy . The demand for tickets for the nine concerts was sometimes low and some concerts were nowhere near sold out. Music critics rated the European tour as positively as the US tour, but complained that Prince only played some songs and could not be heard in the full version. In addition, some critics complained that, compared to previous Prince tours, the Newpower Soul tour was like a low-budget production.
The New Power Generation consisted of the following five members during the tour:
- Mike Scott - guitar
- Rhonda Smith - electric bass
- Morris Hayes - keyboard
- Kirk Johnson - drums
- Marva King - backing vocals
Guitarist Kat Dyson, who was involved in the Newpower Soul album recordings , left The New Power Generation in early 1998.
Under the motto New Power Soul Festival Tour Prince went on tour with The New Power Generation from September 23, 1998 to October 24, 1998 in the USA again, but had to interrupt this for three weeks and cancel some concerts because he tripped and tore his ligament at the September 26 concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey . Ultimately, Prince only completed six concerts.
The European part of the New Power Soul Festival Tour began on December 15, 1998 in Lisbon in the Pavilhão Atlântico and ended on December 28, 1998 in Ghent at the Flanders Expo . Prince gave a total of nine concerts.
As the opening act of the New Power Soul Festival Tour played Larry Graham , and Prince supported him as a band member on either guitar, bass or keyboard. Moreover occurred Candy Dulfer , Chaka Khan and Doug E. Fresh on concerts Prince as guests in some.
Aftershows
From 1986 onwards, Prince occasionally played an aftershow after the main concert, i.e. another concert after midnight. His aftershows took place in smaller music clubs in front of mostly 300 to 1,500 spectators and Prince did without the lavish stage shows, choreographies and light shows of his main concerts. In addition, he designed the song selection differently and often did without his top ten hits. Some of the aftershows' highlights were guest appearances by well-known musicians.
Prince played an aftershow at 5 of the 9 concerts on the European part of the Newpower Soul Tour in August 1998. At all aftershows in 1998 Larry Graham appeared as a guest musician and mostly also trumpeter Cynthia Robinson (born January 12, 1944; † November 23, 2015) and saxophonist Jerry Martini (born October 1, 1943) - former band members of Sly & the Family Stone . The last after-show on August 28, 1998 in London in the Café de Paris was filmed and released on VHS on August 24, 1999 under the title Beautiful Strange . Aside from Graham, Martini and Robinson, Chaka Khan and Doug E. Fresh also took part in this aftershow as musical guests.
In the US part of the New Power Soul Festival Tour, Prince played an aftershow at 2 of the 6 concerts, with Chaka Khan, Doug E. Fresh and Jerry Martini again on September 26, 1998 in New York City in the Tramps Nightclub appeared as guest musicians. On October 18, 1998 in San Francisco at Slim's, Rosie Gaines was present as a musical guest.
In December 1998, Prince gave after-shows at 3 out of 9 concerts. Candy Dulfer and her father Hans Dulfer performed at the Tivoli in Utrecht on December 24th , as well as Lenny Kravitz , Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini. On 28 December 1998 in Cologne in the Live Music Hall Candy Dulfer, Robinson and Martini were involved.
reception
Press
Music critics rated the album Newpower Soul mostly negative and complained that the album was devoid of ideas and did not contain anything that Prince had already produced. In addition, he could no longer write hits. Prince said of such allegations: "Well, that's what the critics said before The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1994)" and after the publication of Purple Rain (1984) he had "ten hits afterwards." Lovesexy (1988) was also supposedly commercially unsuccessful, Prince stated ironically.
The music critics David Wilson and John Alroy gave only one and a half stars out of five and wrote: “The wannabe party funk is shockingly weak”, the “mechanical beats deadly boring” and the lyrics “full of phrases”. The ballads in particular contained "astonishingly clichéd lyrics"; For example, the song Until U're in My Arms Again would “shame” Diane Warren . Although “as always” there are “brilliant moments” in Prince's music, “overall, one will never regret having missed this album”.
Stephen Dalton of the UK weekly music newspaper New Musical Express gave it three out of ten and was also disappointed; as "Prince" he wrote great songs like 1999 (1982), Sign "☮" the Times (1987), Alphabet St. (1988) and Thieves in the Temple (1990). As “The Artist” he specializes in “pitifully bad Ladeez-in-the-House party jams like Push It Up or Freaks on This Side ”, which are “typical” for the album. Newpower Soul is "mostly bad George Clinton , from the dynamic bass elements to the cheap cartoon covers." In conclusion, Dalton drew that one could "forget" the album.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic gave two out of five stars and said no song stood out. Newpower also cemented Soul Prince's " evolution from pioneer to craftsman". It is true that there is also “pleasure” in “his craft”, but to recognize this one has to be “a die-hard Prince fan”.
Rob Sheffield from the US music magazine Rolling Stone was also disappointed with the album and gave two and a half out of five stars. Among other things, he wrote: "On Newpower Soul , Prince recycles both the clumsy HipHop [sic] and the well-worn jams that shape all of his last works".
David Sheppard of the British entertainment magazine Q distributed three out of five stars and drew a comparison with the hydrotherapy treatment method invented by Sebastian Kneipp ; Newpower Soul is "a meticulously executed exercise in treading water ", but which took "too long". Sheppard asked for more " artistry " from the musician on the next Prince album .
Jim Walsh of the US newspaper St. Paul Pioneer Press gave two stars out of four and stated: "The former Prince has made countless albums that were special - Newpower Soul is not one of them".
Edna Gundersen of USA Today gave three out of four stars and said: "On these 10 songs, plus a fine ballad as a bonus track on # 49, Prince is playful, self-confident and satisfied". But his “creative ambition” is “unfortunately not particularly bright”.
Jason Ferguson of MTV-Online had a very different opinion and wrote: "Like everything he [Prince] has done, it's always better than what other musicians are currently offering in the music market." Ultimately, people would remember Prince, "who he is and what he has meant to the music scene for many years," said Ferguson.
Prince himself described the album to the online magazine Addicted to Noise as "a personal milestone". In an interview on July 30, 1998 in his Paisley Park Studio with Melanie Brown of the Spice Girls , he even described it as "spiritually political" and as the "greatest" that he has recorded to date. Prince released the interview a year later on August 24, 1999 under the title Beautiful Strange on videotape .
After Prince's death in April 2016, the music journalists Albert Koch and Thomas Weiland from the German music magazine Musikexpress reviewed the album Newpower Soul and gave it only two out of six stars. They wrote: "You almost get the feeling that Prince wants to cheer his audience, who is still loyal to them, a collection with discarded B-sides or third-rate session outtakes ".
Charts and sales
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 Germany (GfK)
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34 (6 weeks) | 6th |
 Austria (Ö3)
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24 (8 weeks) | 8th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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22nd (11 weeks) | 11 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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38 (3 weeks) | 3 |
 United States (Billboard)
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22nd (8 weeks) | 8th |
Newpower Soul has been sold approximately 500,000 times worldwide, 214,000 of which were sold in the United States. The single Come On was not very successful internationally and reached 65th place in the United Kingdom, for example, as the highest ranking.
literature
- Mobeen Azhar: Prince 1958–2016: His life in pictures and text. Edition Olms, Oetwil am See / Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-283-01265-6 , OCLC 951825985 .
- Jason Draper: Chaos, Disorder, And Revolution. Backbeat Books, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-87930-961-9 , OCLC 664668943 .
- Mayte Garcia : The Most Beautiful Girl: My Life With Prince. mvg Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86882-897-9 , OCLC 1014191154 .
- Alex Hahn: Obsessed - Prince's turbulent life. Hannibal, Höfen 2006, ISBN 3-85445-262-4 , OCLC 163398818 .
- Ronin Ro: Prince - Inside The Music And The Masks. St. Martin's Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-312-38300-8 , OCLC 428027211 .
- Matt Thorne: Prince. Faber and Faber, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-571-27349-2 , OCLC 794814748 .
- Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X , OCLC 186521364 .
Web links
- Princevault.com , information about the album Newpower Soul
Individual evidence
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