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Prince
Mplsound (2009)
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Track List
01) (There'll Never B) Another Like Me)
02) Chocolate Box
03) Dance 4 Me
04) U're Gonna C Me
05) Here
06) Valentina
07) Better With Time
08) Ol' Skool Company
09) No More Candy 4 U

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First Released

2009

Genre

Funk

Mood

Energetic

Style

Urban/R&B

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Release Format

Album

Record Label Release

NPG Records

World Sales Figure

70,000 copies

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"MPLSound" ist das 34. Studioalbum von Prince. Es erschien am 29. März 2009 bei seinem eigenen Label NPG Records exklusiv beim amerikanischen Discounteinzelhändler Target. Das Album war Teil eines 3-CD-Sets. Neben "MPLSound" enthielt das Set ein weiteres neues Studioalbum von Prince namens "Lotusflow3r" und das von Prince komponierte, arrangierte und produzierte neue Album "Elixer" der Sängerin "Bria Valente". Bereits fünf Tage vorher, am 24. März 2009, bot Prince Mitgliedern seiner damaligen Webseite Lotusflow3r.com alle drei Alben als Download an.
"MPLSound" enthält neun Songs, darunter die Single "Dance 4 Me". Die Laufzeit des Albums beträgt 47 Minuten und 44 Sekunden.
Die Albumaufnahmen fanden im Jahr 2008 in Beverly Hills und den Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen statt. Prince machte in den USA viel Werbung für das Album und trat unter anderem in mehreren amerikanischen Talkshows auf. Das 3-CD-Set erreichte in den amerikanischen Billboard Charts Platz zwei und wurde in den USA ca. 600.000 Mal verkauft. Da das CD-Set nur über die amerikanische Kette Target vertrieben wurde, konnte es sich nicht in den internationalen Musikcharts außerhalb der USA platzieren. In Deutschland war das Set nur als Import erhältlich.



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Let’s sum it up: Minneapolis Sound. Released as a companion album to LotusFlow3r, MPLSound actually is the better, more accomplished of the two. Faced with expectations of a collaborative, eclectic Madhouse-style album, MPLSound does not only surprise it delivers ten fold too. This is a true Prince, There’ll Never Be (Another Like Me) and Chocolate Box (featuring Q-Tip) start off an album that is strangely mainstream for what is after all, intended for the fans. Supposed to recapture the sound of Dirty Mind (The Gold Experience achieves this more convincingly, however) MPLSound is nonetheless a great attempt and an album which strikes hot from the outset. MPLSound settles into its own with Dance 4 Me, Here, No More Candy 4 U and the great Ol’ Skool Company that will have you clambering for repeat. 2001s Ur’e Gonna C Me even gets a glossier reworking, proving that perfectionist Prince really can’t put a foot wrong having since grown to like commercial music again. If it is possible to pick a best from this album CD, that is Valentina (Hey Macarena!), in fact every song is worthy of a mention, for this is Prince at his best since leaving Warner Brothers, which before MPLSound one would have dared admit. The only crime is that this was released on an exclusivity deal, which is just plain barmy for an album this solid. But that’s just it. Being a Prince fan is a journey, and after all, there never really will be another quite like Prince.


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