Musical prodigy? Yes...but frankly, after 15 years of his weak embarrassing releases I owe him nothing...not even my attention.

The snippets of the new tracks sound lame. Somewhere along the way (1990 or so) Prince decided he had rather be a media personality, instead of a musician, and the resulting musical releases have suffered for it. He's not hungry anymore, and obviously he feels that he has nothing to prove. Maybe he doesn't---but why go to the trouble of destroying the legacy with thrown-together, half efforts?

On a side topic, if the truth were told, the vault is empty---it was a myth. If the tunes there were everything they've been claimed to be, why would he do this, when he could do that? Prove me wrong.