![]() Prince has never ceased recording and releasing songs and albums, though many of them have only been available through his website. ![]() On the other hand, considered in light of Prince’s many releases since the end of his tenure at Warner Brothers, Musicology is but a drop in the bucket. In this light, the well-deserved attention that Prince’s Musicology album and tour garnered makes the project seem like a return to form, and a refutation of the critical stance that Prince is past his prime or is no longer relevant within a music industry whose racial boundaries he boldly challenged in the 1980s. After a very public feud with his former record label Warner Brothers, and a much derided name change, Prince had little in the way of favorable press or a mainstream hit, in quite some time. On the surface, Prince has “come back” in a very real way. Many reviewers received Prince’s recent album and tour as a return to form, a “comeback.” In classic fashion, Prince bristled at this appellation, and rightly so: there are numerous reasons why Musicology (2004) should not be characterized as a comeback album.
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