The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, introduced Thursday the forthcoming launch of the 2010 Prince album, “Welcome 2 America.”
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The title observe, “Welcome 2 America,” is streaming now on a number of platforms together with Spotify and Apple Music.
“Throughout the powerful song, Prince delivers a searing, spoken-word soliloquy set to music about golden parachutes, the superficial nature of social media, reality TV-fueled celebrity culture, and corporate monopolies in the music industry, ultimately concluding that America is the ‘Land of the free / home of the slave,'” in accordance with a information launch.
Shortly after he accomplished the 2010 “Welcome 2 America” album, Prince launched into a tour of the identical title that included a number of performances in a number of US cities.
He capped it off with the “21 Nite Stand” at The Forum in Inglewood, California.
The deluxe version of “Welcome 2 America” will embody the whole studio vault album on each CD and black vinyl (accompanied with a high-resolution digital obtain) plus a never-before-released full live performance video of Prince’s April 28, 2011 present at The Forum.
“60 Minutes” correspondent Jon Wertheim acquired a preview of the album in addition to the story behind its making which can be airing this Sunday on CBS.
“Welcome 2 America” drops July 30.