Prince hits with biggest project in years
Artist says success has always been there
Prince has a new album, "Musicology,'' and is currently on tour.
The Associated Press
Updated: 3:20 p.m. ET May 03, 2004
TAMPA, Fla. - Sitting in his purple-draped dressing room, sipping tea amid sweet-scented candles, Prince is as peaceful and serene as a superstar could be before showtime ? until you utter THAT ONE WORD:
Comeback.
Just mention the idea that his latest album, ?Musicology? ? coupled with a tour, TV specials and magazine covers ? has anything to do regaining the spotlight, and a slight frown falls over Prince?s chiseled, pretty face.
?I would ask people who want to call this a comeback, where they think I?m coming back from?? the 45-year-old star, neatly dressed in a taupe suit with matching heels, said during an interview backstage at the St. Pete Times Forum.
?They want to see me as having failed.?
By ?they,? he means critics, who point out it?s been more than a decade since the regal performer dominated the spotlight. His star burned brightest in the 1980s and early ?90s as he sold tens of millions of albums behind hits like ?Kiss,? ?Little Red Corvette,? and ?Purple Rain,? from his blockbuster 1984 movie debut.
Back then, Prince?s was part of the pop trifecta of superstars ? as popular as Michael Jackson or Madonna, yet still in a class of his own. He was considered a musical genius, dazzling audiences with his guitar, piano or feverishly dancing footsteps. He always wrote and produced all of his own songs, which ranged from pop to R&B to rock, and from romance to raunch.
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