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40TV Septimo Spain & going back 2 the Garden 1999... ...Rave Un2 the Year 2000
Prince-ology... his cryptic speach, can be very disconnecting, but I still find it interesting as some kind of code to crack. He was definately going through an extreme change in the 1999 period. And definate inspiration 4 the Rainbow Children mysticism
PAPER * JUNE 1999
artist 2000
BY BETH COLEMAN
A lot is virtual in the Artist's world, where fading backdrops of past lives fold neatly into psychic origami boxes. He shows no signs of regret, depression, maladjustment or freakishness from cutting off his past life. In fact, he is rooted in a self-awareness and humor that are absolutely charming. His life seems to be distinctly separated into B.M. and A.M. -- before meeting his wife, Mayte, and after Mayte. For instance, when discussing the machinations of record companies, the Artist interrupts the flow to ask if he can interject a personal anecdote about his marriage. (As if I'm going to say no.) The word in the media had been that after a total bliss package of a marriage, they were getting divorced. What the Artist goes on to say is that wanting a monopoly on his lady had become the marital version of owning someone else's masters. From what he says, and from what others say, theirs has been an intensely romantic relationship, a kind of you-and-me-against-the-world vibe. But both felt it was starting to get weird. "We were drawing energy from strange people around us. Strange words and numbers, bad contracts. We had to step away from that," he explains. For a person who still uses "4" in place of "for" in song lyrics, the relationship between numbers and contracts -- both personal and financial -- weaves complicated, interrelated secret messages. He traces the origin of the marriage contract to Pontius Pilate organizing the consensus to crucify Jesus, but the short version of the story is that it was screwing up the Artist's world. He describes a relationship that some might categorize as vaguely co-dependent -- for a while he couldn't even give an interview without Mayte present. "I could not have sat in a room alone with someone like you" (meaning young, female and not totally butt), he tells me. Relying on someone so deeply, not to mention feeling possessive, jealous and the other emotions that go with having someone be "yours," was dangerous and, more to his point, deluded. "At first you might think that your mate is the God," the Artist reflects, "but you'd better hope that God is speaking through your mate." They are not divorced. Quite the contrary. They are happily joined, having transcended the mental and emotional bondage of marriage. When not floating among the astral planes, the couple like to spend time in Spain, in their lovely new house near Gibraltar, which will soon be featured in another form of virtual reality, Vanity Fair. (The Artist is still a rich guy, like some of the best social radicals.) "We pretend it didn't even happen," he says of the marriage. "Like a lot of things in life I don't like, I pretend it isn't there and it goes away. We decided to go back to the Garden."
Does all this mean they've transcended the physical boundaries of the marriage bond too? The other question, post-"divorce," is monogamy. Considering his reputation as an international lover, one wonders, is the Artist good to the yoni? "They always exaggerate," he says quite demurely, alluding to the baker's dozen of high-profile women he's been teamed with in the press throughout his career. I tell him I saw Warren Beatty on Charlie Rose scoffing at the idea of monogamy in a modern marriage as basically some medieval throwback. Beatty indicated that it's just not part of the animal. (After getting that close to Halle Berry onscreen, I could see why -- no disrespect, Annette.) The Artist calls upon higher powers for his answer: "Let's say I'm monogamous with God," providing better counsel for Clinton than his lawyers did. In New York for a week, the Artist says he wants to check out some music, the Roots in particular (he's down with their drummer, ?uestlove). From what I heard later, his sampling of the local talent was not limited to music. But once rumor kicks in on the Unpronounceable One, it is an endless spin cycle.
A few years ago, the Artist and Mayte had a child who died soon after birth. After this tragic experience, the Artist speaks of his passions like a parent. Adoption and gestures of kinship are all over his new work. He also mentions children with regard to the couple's wish to start an orphanage in their Spanish home. His desire to return to the Garden to prosper and multiply was thwarted by state officials, who would not allow the plan to go through. In response, the Artist expresses his only truly harsh sentiments of the interview (even the record-company banter is within some Zen zone). "There are some really demonic people in the world who have an agenda for the planet. Everybody's online until somebody pulls the plug. Look at it this way," he says, offering a conspiracy theory with an optimistic slant, "everyone will be online and one group will be sending out the best music ever." And, we're left to surmise, its initials will be NPG. "We need to take advantage of portals of communication. We can still see one another, socialize, truck to the cousin's place. It's fun traveling, knowing that, worldwide, people get it. I've heard a thing called Inferno in '99 is going to usurp Windows as an operating system." He raises his eyebrows at the portentous name. The apocalypse is back online. And where will the Artist be to ring in the millennium? "I told the last reporter that I would be at a bar mitzvah." Since he does not want to lie to a sister, he just says, "In the light."
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A Liar Shall Not Tarry In My Presence What's the matter with your life Is poverty bringing U down? Is the mailman jerking U 'round? Did he put your million dollar check In someone else's box? Tell me, what's the m | |
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Prince “El Septimo De Caballeria” Live at El Estudio Alamo in Madrid, Spain November, 22 1999
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As prophesied, the Wise One and his woman were tempted by the Resistor. He,
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MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE (1999)
A portrait of the Artist:
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"We pretend it didn't even happen," he says of the marriage. "Like a lot of things in life I don't like, I pretend it isn't there and it goes away. We decided to go back to the Garden."
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and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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It might be lol contract changed
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Just looking at these pictures makes me | |
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RaveUn2theYear2000 @ Paisle Park Dec 18, 1999
The Wise One who understood the law that was handed down from God long ago,
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Well.....it seems Prince was the one who went back to the garden without Mayte, and he found Manuela there * I still haven't figured out if all of this talk was his own preparation for gradually getting Mayte out of the picture in order to avoid rapid fire media attention, or if it really was somehow geniune thinking on his part, and he ended it with her because she did not want to convert to JW. | |
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#7.....love that performance!!!!!!!! So funny how Prince was trying be discreet while checking out the blonde chick dancing behind them on the steps | |
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This is fun lol
The Wise One who understood the law that was handed down from God long ago,
One after the other, the Banished Ones fled
With no more fruit to bear from its trees
As though awakened from a dream
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"That notion of me losing something is a fallacy," he says, and unleashes a scriptural analogy. "There's Adam and Eve—artists—in the garden, chilling. God tells them they're supposed to have sex, and they do. Here comes a snake—the record-industry guy—and tells them the grass is greener on the other side. And when they fell for that, boy, did they fall. No, I didn't lose a thing."
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Whaaaa???? Prince was all over the place with many of his statements. I think it was Wendy who, when asked in the 2000's about Prince's mindset she said, "now he just speaks in parables". I would say she was on point | |
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Considering how mundane the whole Rave period was for the most part, it's remarkable that that era saw one of Prince's finest ever live performances in "Motherless Child" from the Septimo TV show. Even by Prince's high standards, his wholly committed rendition of the spiritual totally redefines it for me. | |
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pinkcashmere23 said:
I know, right?! Very bizarre. Not sure what the record exec would have to do with "poisoning" his relationship with a woman. He was just mixing everything together and then trying to use scripture as an analogy. He was just all over the place ![]() [Edited 1/9/19 13:52pm] | |
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Yes. I think it may have been his way of saying that he considered record executives to be evil and likening himself to Adam,comparing what he was going through with WB to how Adam and Eve were tempted in the Garden. I recall him also going through a phase where he was putting emphasis on the prefix of different words such as CONtract and talking about the meaning behind them. He put a recorded message discussing it on the Rave Un2 The Year 2000 dvd. It was very interesting. | |
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Shame he never really found 'The One'. Should maybe be a grandfather by now. This picture reeks of sadness to me. I suppose the current home owner has something to dine out on. Yeah, we'll, we'll try to imagine what silence looks like. | |
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Marrk said:
Shame he never really found 'The One'. Should maybe be a grandfather by now. This picture reeks of sadness to me. I suppose the current home owner has something to dine out on. I think his complexities made it impossible for him to sustain a relationship. He's got some songs about his regret of losing someone - Solo, Strange But True, and Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda - a song on Larry Graham's album that Prince most likely wrote as he's playing and singing background. So, there was most likely a woman who was "the one" for him, however, she didn't stay with him. | |
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