The real slide started around Grafitti Bridge and that awful movie. Lovesexy was a little bit silly, and Batman had that awful "Arms of Orion" song, but there were still some fine songs (I still love "Vicki Waiting".) But Grafitti Bridge was a weird project- it's actually the SEQUEL to Purple Rain. It's a horrible, horrid, good-god-almight-bad movie, a damn shame since the music was really good. From there, it's downhill- Diamonds and Pearls, writing Slave on his face, the half-rushed albums needed to close out his WB contract, the excess of Emancipation, the botched Crystal Ball project, and the strange embracement of the Jehovah's Witness way of life.
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Date: 2004-09-27 07:45 pm (UTC)And yet, he's STILL an amazing artist.
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