Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of place you'd expect to be owned and operated by a lavishly weird recording star like Prince. The wildly talented singer-songwriter doesn't go by the name of Prince anymore, of course; in 1993 he changed his name to the unpronounceable glyph [symbol for the artist formerly known as Prince], and now most people call him either "the artist formerly known as Prince" or, more familiarly, "the Artist...
...latter, one quickly learns, is correct usage among employees at Paisley Park, a workplace that seems to have just about everything but llamas. The walls are ringed by zodiac signs, dotted by paintings of puffy clouds and gilded with the Artist's gold records. High up on one wall is an illustration of two huge eyes--guess whose?--with a godlike sunburst beaming out from between them. The Artist's private office has a papal portentousness to it--the doors are made of stained glass. And when the Artist is on the premises, a glass pyramid that crowns the complex...
...pretentious quirkiness without the platinum popularity to back it up can begin to feel a little Norma Desmondish, and the Artist has been suffering from dwindling sales for almost a decade. Purple Rain (1984) sold 13 million copies; his last album, Chaos and Disorder (1996), didn't even sell 100,000. But this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple...
...personal and emotional parts of one's character which often get to play a role in a more humanitarian career. In the world of investment banks and law firms, it seems that one leaves oneself at home before coming to the office, while a writer or artist remains more true to his or her very character when producing a work. These beliefs seem to revolve around the following assumption: if a profession is lucrative, it is morally suspect; that is, the more one earns monetarily, the more he or she loses personally...
...best, Carpenter paints moods. What If We Went to Italy is a seductive lilt about a lazing lover's itinerary. In Ideas Are Like Stars, inspired by artist Joseph Cornell, she considers, with a child's severe wonder, the expanse of the human intellect. Ideas "teach you to fly without wires or thread/ They promise if only you'd let them." The music is a lovely droning that sounds like signals from a sympathetic galaxy. The majestic center of Carpenter's strongest album yet, the song reminds us of the universe of emotions--and ideas--that artists like Carpenter...