Planet Earth (Album)
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February 2007 |
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10 |
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45:00 |
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| occupation | All songs were produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince. The following people supplemented the recordings, although the respective contributions to the songs were not made public:
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Paisley Park Studio ( Chanhassen ) |
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Planet Earth ( English for Planet Earth ) is the 32nd studio album by the American musician Prince . He recorded it with his backing band The New Power Generation and released it on July 24, 2007 on the Columbia Records / NPG Records label . Readers of the British Sunday newspaper The Mail on Sunday received Planet Earth as a CD on July 15, 2007 , because Prince had signed his own contract with this newspaper. Sony BMG Music England viewed this as an affront and subsequently did not release the album in the UK.
Guest musicians on Planet Earth include Christian Scott , Lisa Coleman , Maceo Parker , Sheila E. and Wendy Melvoin . The music on the album belongs to the genres of funk , pop , R&B and rock music . Music critics rated the album mostly positive and the song Future Baby Mama received a Grammy Award in 2008 . From a commercial point of view, Planet Earth was able to achieve gold status in Switzerland, among other things.
The tour for the album was very successful commercially. The concert series called "21 Nights in London: The Earth Tour" played Prince exclusively in the O 2 arena in London and included 21 concerts, all of which were sold out. In total, the tour raised $ 22 million.
Emergence
On November 19, 2004 Prince recorded the first two songs for the album Planet Earth with the title song and guitar in his Paisley Park Studio in Chanhassen , Minnesota , which he revised in 2007.
It was only after his live appearance in the half-time break of the Super Bowl XLI in Miami Florida on February 4, 2007, that Prince began further recordings for the album Planet Earth . The duo Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman , who were a member of Prince's backing band The Revolution , took part in the songs The One U Wanna C and Resolution . Otherwise nothing has been publicly known about the creation of the album.
Contract with The Mail on Sunday
Originally, the album Planet Earth should appear in Great Britain on July 16, 2007 through the music label Sony Music Entertainment . But at the beginning of July 2007, Stephen Miron, then Chief Executive Officer of the British Sunday newspaper The Mail on Sunday , announced that the album would be sold on July 15, 2007 on CD . Prince had signed his own deal with the newspaper without informing Sony executives. A spokesman for the label said: “We didn't know about the Mail-on-Sunday deal. That only came to light a few days ago. ”Prince called the marketing strategy “ direct sales ”and saw it as a way out of the“ speculative business of the record industry ”.
Sony BMG Music England was upset about Prince's contract and decided not to release Planet Earth in the UK. "It was absurd to have a UK contract with two million CDs going out for free with newspapers," said a press officer. However, the label pointed out that Prince's contract with The Mail on Sunday does not change the fact that Sony is still “excited” to “continue working” with him. The Mail-on-Sunday contract only affects Great Britain, the worldwide marketing of Planet Earth is not affected. Nevertheless, Sony ended its collaboration with Prince a short time later.
British record stores were not thrilled about Prince's contract with The Mail on Sunday , as they couldn't sell Planet Earth and had to forego income. The national US daily The New York Times said that Prince's contract shows that “he thinks differently about business.” The two largest British retail chains HMV and Virgin Megastore got into a dispute over the album Planet Earth ; HMV decided to sell the Sunday newspaper The Mail on Sunday with the CD included in the group's other range, although HMV had criticized Prince's conclusion of the contract in advance. Simon Douglas, then head of Virgin Megastore, was “stunned” by HMV's decision, saying, “Just a week ago, they [HMV] were so upset about the damage it will cause.” US magazine Billboard analyzed Prince 'Contracted like this: “Retailers believe he owes them their debt for supporting him in his early years. But Prince probably thinks he paid them off long ago by providing them with multi-platinum sales throughout his career. ”Paul Quirk, then chairman of the Entertainment Retailers Association, said Prince was at risk , from the former “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince” to “The Artist Formerly Known As Available In Record Stores” (German: “The artist formerly known as the one available in record stores ") to become.
The Mail on Sunday had on July 15, 2007 - as usual - a circulation of 2.3 million, as well as an extra circulation of 600,000 copies. The Sunday newspaper cost the equivalent of three US dollars (then 2.18 euros) and Prince received 500,000 US dollars (then 362,618 euros) for the contract. He also received all royalties from every CD sold. The Mail on Sunday sold the most copies since Lady Diana's death in August 1997 on July 15, 2007 , and Prince said in a later interview that he was able to sell three million CDs “overnight,” which was “a good, clear deal " has been.
Design of the cover
The album cover is mostly red in color and shows a holography of Prince on the front , on which he seems to be moving slowly. Depending on the point of view , you can either see himself bending over a globe and planets circling around him, or his ineffable symbol appears, which Prince wore as a pseudonym from 1993 to 2000 . A booklet is not available and the tracklist has not been printed.
The cover of the CD included with The Mail on Sunday and the supplement to the concert ticket does not contain the holography, but is made of cardboard. There you can only see the picture of Prince bending over the globe and being surrounded by circling planets.
Art director Sam Jennings said after Prince's death in 2016 that the cover design on Planet Earth had gone “a little faster” compared to the previous album 3121 . “The lyrics weren't printed and he didn't control the artwork as strictly as usual. He imagined it like this: 'I'm standing on earth, there are a few planets around me.' It was that simple. "
music
The music of Planet Earth is one of the genres Funk , Contemporary R & B , pop and rock music . Prince's voice can be heard in various pitches on the album, including his typical falsetto singing .
In the title track Planet Earth , Prince deals with the subject of global warming in the lyrics . The next song Guitar is from the genre of rock music and is sometimes reminiscent of the piece I Will Follow (1980) by U2 . Prince sometimes has to interpret the lyrics with a wink; For example, he sings "I love you, baby, but not like I love my guitar" (German: "I love you, baby, but not how I love my guitar.") Somewhere Here on Earth is a jazz- inspired crooning - Ballad and the Grammy-winning song Future Baby Mama comes from the area of smooth jazz . In the lyrics, Prince deals with love for a new partner.
In Mr. Goodnight's lyrics , Prince refers, among other things, to the film Chocolat - A Small Bite Enough (2000), in which Johnny Depp starred. All the Midnights in the World is another song in which Prince deals with the subject of love. Chelsea Rodgers can be attributed to the music genre disco and the model of the same name inspired him to write the lyrics. Prince also makes reference to Jimi Hendrix . In the lyrics of Lion of Judah , Prince wonders if his expiration date has passed, and in the lyrics of Resolution , he is bitter that not all people want peace .
List of titles and publications
| No. | song | author | length |
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| 1 | Planet earth | Prince | 5:51 |
| 2 | Guitar | Prince | 3:45 |
| 3 | Somewhere Here on Earth | Prince | 5:45 |
| 4th | The One U Wanna C | Prince | 4:29 |
| 5 | Future baby mom | Prince | 4:47 |
| 6th | Mr. Goodnight | Prince | 4:25 |
| 7th | All the midnights in the world | Prince | 2:21 |
| 8th | Chelsea Rodgers | Prince | 5:41 |
| 9 | Lion of Judah | Prince | 4:10 |
| 10 | resolution | Prince | 3:40 |
Planet Earth was released on July 15, 2007 as a CD accompanying the UK Sunday edition of The Mail on Sunday . On July 24, 2007, it was published worldwide on conventional compact discs , later also as a download . In the CD-Text of some albums, the last song Resolution was wrongly programmed as Revelation .
On February 8, 2019 The Prince Estate published (dt .: The Princeton discount ) on the music label Legacy Recording that to Sony Music Entertainment heard the album for the first time on record . Planet Earth was released as a double album on purple vinyl. Posthumously , The Prince Estate officially manages all of Prince's phonogram releases.
Single releases
Only one single was released from the album; on July 9, 2007, Guitar was released on Compact Disc with the B-side Somewhere Here on Earth . Both versions are identical to the respective album version. A slightly modified version of Guitar was already available as a free download on May 31, 2007 via Verizon Wireless .
Furthermore, three promo singles have been released from Planet Earth . On 6 August 2007 was published in the United States Chelsea Rodgers as a CD single and as a 12 " - maxi-single , Mr. Goodnight serves as a B-side. At the end of 2007 two more songs were released on promo CD; Future Baby Mama was released in France and The One U Wanna C in the Netherlands . Both songs are only available as 1-track CD single and all promo singles do not differ from the respective album version.
Music videos
A total of six music videos for the album Planet Earth were published, with two videos each for the songs Guitar and The One U Wanna C. In 2007, Prince produced a 1:20 minute music video for Guitar that served as a commercial for Verizon Wireless . He sings in a studio and plays a purple guitar shaped like his ineffable symbol. Prince's accompanists and dancers The Twinz dance to the piece. In 2008, Prince produced another music video for Guitar , but it wasn't released until 2013 through his then website . He can be seen again with the twins The Twinz, as well as with the former members of his backing band The New Power Generation . They play the song together in a studio, this time Prince not using the purple guitar. Director of this video is Sanaa Hamri, worked with the Prince for the first time in the year of 2004.
During his concert series in London , Prince and photographer Randee St. Nicholas traveled to Prague in mid-September 2007 so that she could shoot a music video for Somewhere Here On Earth within two days . Among other things, Prince walks along the Charles Bridge . The music video was directed by Phil Griffin.
On September 19, 2007, Prince produced a music video for Chelsea Rodgers . He was invited as a guest at London Fashion Week and sat in the front row. Suddenly The Twinz came out on the catwalk and danced to Chelsea Rodgers , played by The New Power Generation, who also came out on the catwalk. Prince had a microphone in hand and was singing from his seat. In the middle of the song, he got up and strolled to the beginning of the catwalk, where his backing band was. Together they played Chelsea Rodgers to the end and Prince resumed his seat. During the song, models presented the fashion of British fashion designer Matthew Williamson , who can also be seen on the catwalk at the end of the music video. Williamson later told Reuters about Prince's appearance: "He was dying to do this, and you don't say 'no' to Prince". The director was again Phil Griffin.
On the occasion of the publication of the Coffee Table Book 21 Nights in September 2008, over a year after the publication date of Planet Earth , a music video for the song The One U Wanna C was released. The video only shows photos from the book that Randee St. Nicholas took. Posthumously since December 2018 approval of The Prince Estate (dt .: Princeton discount ) on the Princeton YouTube another music video -Channel The One U Wanna C to see that was previously unpublished. The video is from 2007 and Prince is performing the song together with The New Power Generation and The Twinz in a studio.
tour
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From August 1 to September 21, 2007 Prince gave a concert series of 21 concerts in the O 2 arena in London and called the tour "21 Nights in London: The Earth Tour". With a total of 352,000 spectators, the concerts were all sold out and grossed 22 million US dollars (16.1 million euros at the time). In the run-up, Prince said he wanted to do some concerts with Amy Winehouse . Since Winehouse but briefly above an overdose of drugs had taken, he revised his decision.
All concert-goers received the album Planet Earth with the concert ticket . Based on Prince's previous album 3121 , a standard concert ticket cost 31.21 British pounds, which at the time was equivalent to 46 euros. Apart from these concert tickets, more expensive VIP tickets were also available for 369 euros. The length of the concert varied from 100 to 120 minutes.
A special feature of the concert series was that Prince created its own setlist for each concert , which he had selected from 150 songs. On September 13, 2007, the 18th concert, Elton John appeared as a guest with Prince. Together they sang the song The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles from 1969.
The reviews of the tour were mostly positive; for example, Simon Price of the British newspaper Independent on Sunday wrote about the start of the tour on August 1st that it was "the best concert" he had seen in his life. The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph had a different columnist describe each concert ; Ben Thompson said of the third concert on August 4th, the concert series would serve Prince to "configure himself more in Prince style for the new century than ever before."
Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor , who was also a guest columnist for the British newspaper, was disappointed with the fourth concert on August 7th. Prince has played a lot of songs "that you don't know, and even worse: he does these little medleys where he sits at the piano for 20 minutes and plays just a few bars of a hit and then immediately plays the next song." The Mail on Sunday picked up on Ellis-Bextor's reporting and emphasized that Prince had hits like I Feel for You (1979), Controversy (1981), Little Red Corvette (1982), Raspberry Beret (1985), U Got the Look (1987), Alphabet St. (1988), and Cream (1991).
Prince's backing band The New Power Generation consisted of the following twelve members during the concert series:
- Cora Coleman-Dunham - drums
- Josh Dunham - electric bass
- Morris Hayes - keyboard
- Renato Neto - keyboard
- Maceo Parker - alto saxophone
- Greg Boyer - trombone
- Mike Phillips - saxophone , vocoder
- Lee Hogans - Trumpet
- Shelby J. - Backing Vocal
- Marva King - Backing Vocal
- The Twinz: Maya and Nandy McClean - dancers , backing vocals
Aftershows
At 13 of the 21 concerts in London, Prince played an aftershow after the main concert, i.e. another concert after midnight. The aftershows were officially announced and took place in the indigO2 music club , which is located within the O 2 arena . The capacity was approximately 2,500 spectators. Entry was £ 25, which was around 37 euros at the time, and Beverley Knight (August 11th), Common (August 25th) and Amy Winehouse (September 22nd) were musical guests at some after-shows .
reception
Press
Music critics rated the album Planet Earth mostly positive and often highlighted Chelsea Rodgers as the best song on the album.
Alan Light of the US music magazine Spin crowned Planet Earth "the best pop album of 2007" and distributed four and a half stars out of five. Ann Powers from the US daily Los Angeles Times was also enthusiastic and distributed three and a half stars out of four. In conclusion, she drew that on Planet Earth Prince was "as resourceful and wonderfully strange as ever". Gail Mitchell of US magazine Billboard wrote that due to long-time "colleagues like Sheila E. , Maceo Parker and Wendy & Lisa [sic] in tow" you could hear on the album "how much fun" Prince "still" had. The US magazine Vibe called Planet Earth Prince 'the weirdest and most seductive rock project since the amazing album Lovesexy in 1988. "Chris Willman of the US magazine Entertainment Weekly gave Planet Earth a grade of B + and on a scale from A + to F said Prince delivered "his best album in years". Eberhard Dobler from the German-language online magazine laut.de praised Planet Earth as having “positive vibes ” and “ sadness or melancholy are only just beginning.” Overall, the album is “perfectly created”.
Rob Sheffield of US magazine Rolling Stone gave Planet Earth three and a half stars out of five. In his opinion it is "one of those albums that he [Prince] makes when he tries a little harder than usual." Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic also gave three and a half stars out of five and wrote, among other things, that there was on the album “No mistakes”, but “just ten strong songs with just enough flair” that reminded us that it was Prince's work. In doing so, he had "strategically avoided the weaknesses" that would have left him with his back to the wall in the 1990s. Steve Jones of USA Today also gave it three and a half stars and said that apart from the title track, "the groove doesn't stop" with the other songs . In addition, Prince is "cunningly seductive and downright cool".
The British daily The Times gave three out of five stars and said that the ten songs were “by no means full of album”. But when added to a newspaper, many of Planet Earth's CDs would "ironically end up right there - in a landfill ". British entertainment magazine Q's Peter Kane also gave it three stars and wrote that the album was "lively and varied". About Prince, Kane said it was "good to have him back with a fresh impetus". In addition, he makes music again for the masses instead of "a few people". Tobias Rapp from the national German daily taz was satisfied and wrote that since the pieces Planet Earth or Somewhere Here on Earth are about climate change, it is fitting that Prince “recycles his old music” - this is a “nice gesture ".
Caroline Sullivan of the British daily The Guardian was cautious with praise and wrote that Planet Earth was "by no means terrible" and that the song Chelsea Rodgers came "closest to the whistle of his previous albums". Prince's problem is that "his primary streams of inspiration - sex, religion and morals - do not create the great madness they once did." There are no moments on the album where, compared to previous Prince albums, you ask the question “WHAT did he say?”. Douglas Wolk of the Pitchfork Media website gave a 4.8 out of ten and was disappointed; if Planet Earth Prince was' first album it would be "really promising". Ultimately, however, Prince finds himself “in a stylistically weak niche” with the album. What distinguishes him, however, is that he “never stays anywhere for long”. Michael Pilz from welt.de was also disappointed with the album; songs like Somewhere Here on Earth , Chelsea Rodgers or Lion of Judah suggest Prince's “heroic deeds”, but as a conclusion he drew: “If only Prince would have cared more fervently about his music than about Mother Earth.” Achim Erz from the German-speaking one News website Stern.de was partly very disappointed by Planet Earth . He titled his album review with the headline "The Fall of a Legend" and thought the song Chelsea Rodgers was "the only real bright spot" on the album. But “the rest of the CD is just scrap from the big cake”, which Prince “- for whatever reason - withheld from us”.
After Prince's death in April 2016, the music journalists Albert Koch and Thomas Weiland from the German music magazine Musikexpress reviewed the album Planet Earth and gave it three and a half out of six stars. Among other things, they wrote that although the songs made “a lively impression”, Prince did not “leave a lasting impression” with the album.
Charts and awards
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7th (7 weeks) | 7th |
 Austria (Ö3)
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 Switzerland (IFPI)
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1 (2) (10 weeks) | 10 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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 United States (Billboard)
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3 (10 weeks) | 10 |
Planet Earth has been sold around four million times worldwide since 2007, including the 2.9 million CDs on The Mail on Sunday and the 352,000 CDs included with the concert ticket in London. A total of about 298,000 copies were sold in the USA.
- 2007 in Switzerland 1 × gold for 15,000 copies sold
- The song Future Baby Mama won a Grammy Award in 2008 in the category Best Male Vocal Performance - Rhythm & Blues (Best Male R&B Vocal Performance) .
The single Guitar was not released worldwide and reached number 13 in the Netherlands, number 17 in Italy, number 63 in Switzerland and number 81 in the United Kingdom.
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: Prince - Life & Times (Revised & Updated Edition). Chartwell Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-7858-3497-7 .
- Jason Draper: Chaos, Disorder, and Revolution. Backbeat Books, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-87930-961-9 , OCLC 664668943 .
- Jason Draper: Prince - Life & Times. Jawbone Press, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-906002-18-3 , OCLC 298552523 .
- Steve Parke: Picturing Prince. Cassell Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-84403-959-3 .
- Ronin Ro: Prince - Inside the Music and the Masks. St. Martin's Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-312-38300-8 , OCLC 428027211 .
- Randee St. Nicholas: 21 Nights. Atria Books, New York London Toronto Sydney 2008, ISBN 978-1-4165-5444-8 OCLC 222250633 .
- Matt Thorne: Prince. Faber and Faber, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-571-27349-2 , OCLC 794814748 .
- Mick Wall : Prince - Purple Reign. Orion Publishing Group Ltd, Great Britain 2016, ISBN 978-1-4091-6920-8
Web links
- Princevault.com , information about the Planet Earth album
Individual evidence
- ↑ CD Planet Earth by Prince and The New Power Generation, Columbia Records / NPG Records, 2007
- ↑ a b c d e Thorne (2012), p. 406.
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- ↑ a b c Draper (2016), p. 182.
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- ↑ Prince's 15 Best Post-Eighties Deep Cuts. In: RollingStone.com. February 27, 2014, accessed April 12, 2017 .
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- ↑ Ann Powers: It's worth a visit to Prince's 'Planet'. In: latimes.com. July 24, 2007, accessed April 12, 2017 .
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- ^ ME editors: From the big Prince special - an overview of all albums. In: Musikexpress.de. May 22, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
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