Prince’s Musical Vault Drilled Open

I'd be more than happy to see an album if they can muster anything as good as Michael Jackson's Xscape.

 

Still feels icky though.

 

Read an article the other day that theorized Prince was hoarding his best stuff for the past decade and just sitting on it.

 

That first album they release will go through the roof in sales. Would be awesome to see a hologram Prince play his unreleased songs. Whatever happened to those holograms?

 

That is crazy to think about.

 

Where does that money go if they were to release some of his private stuff? I don't know how that works.

 

I didn't realize he had a literal vault where he stored his recordings. are these like, hard drives? or master tapes?

 

I remember Kevin Smith telling his story about working with Prince & someone confirming to him that he had minimum 50 music videos in the vault for songs that were literally never going to be released. FIFTY!
Damn vault is so mythical though that who even knows what the deal is & what will or won't see a release...

 

Any thoughts on this view? I kind of see the point.

 

All of these recordings, and the earnings associated with them, will go to someone who Prince may or may not have wanted to have them.

This is why you make a Will, folks. If you don't have a Will, call an attorney and schedule to get one made.

 

On The View, in 2012, (and a few other times) he addressed the vault and said they'd be released at some point. He would have destroyed them if he didn't want them saved. He knew they'd be released.

He also posted a YouTube video at one point talking about it, but I can't find it, basically saying he'd release everything in it at some point in the future.

 

Yeah, maybe if they were just songs I wouldn't know whether it was ok but making videos and stuff for them totally means he'd want them released, imo.

 

Yeah, and that's the other side I see too. I guess I don't want to see Prince releases featuring Will I Am or some other contemporary pop star tacked on to it.

 

"Xscape" was amazing. The one they released shortly after his death, "Michael", was not.

 

Agreed. I really only liked one song on Michael

 

Honestly, there's material there for multiple SMile Sessions-level reissues in there.

In particular a set like that for Dream Factory would be Earth-moving.