All the reports I’ve heard and read describe how Prince would not be defined by one genre. As Randall Roberts says, his muse “contained multitudes”. Anders Ericsson would say is the secret to getting better and better. And it’s that combination – volume of work combined with pushing outside of your comfort zone – that psychologist K. At the same time he kept pushing himself and trying new stuff.
He started young and he kept working hard throughout his career. Not to mention the volume of work that is published. There is apparently a trove of unpublished work that he’s produced over the years. But two aspects of his work style have been consistently reported in the media over the last weeks and they’ve got me thinking.įirstly, it seems he worked damn hard and pushed himself to grow. And it would be presumptuous to pretend that I can. As Randall Roberts said in the LA Times, Prince was a “crafter of melodies and lyrics whose early work connected disco and synthetic funk and whose fruitful mid-period merged rock, soul, R&B and synth-pop, Prince’s muse as it matured contained multitudes.” He’s remembered as one of the most creative pop artists of his time. He was part of the sonic background as I grew up. My decade between 15 and 25 corresponded with some of his most famous work: “1999”, “Little Red Corvette”, “When Doves Cry”, “Purple Rain”, “Raspberry Beret”, “Diamonds and Pearls”. Maybe this is why Prince’s death is playing on my mind more than perhaps it should. Between the ages of 15 and 25 you become the person you will be for the rest of your life (usually!).
These are the years we will go to when asked to tell stories about ourselves. Psychologists describe the years between 15 and 25 as the “reminiscence bulge”. (Photo above – Prince in Brussels in 1986 By Yves Lorson from Kapellen, Belgium – Prince, CC BY 2.0, )
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