Lotusflow3r

About Lotusflow3r

LOtUSFLOW3R is the 25th studio album by musician Prince, scheduled for release in early 2009. This album is one of a three album set, along with MPLSoUND and Elixer, an album by Bria Valente, his protegée. The three albums will be sold exclusively in the US at Target stores as a 3-disc set, but in Europe from more online music stores.

In December 2008, four songs were premiered on Los Angeles radio station Indie 103: a cover of "Crimson and Clover", "4EVER", "Colonized Mind" and "Wall of Berlin". A month later in a Los Angeles Times article, further song titles were mentioned, namely "Valentina" (an ode to Salma Hayek's daughter), "Better with Time" (an ode to Under the Cherry Moon co-star Kristen Scott Thomas), "Love Like Jazz", "$" (about "the most popular girl in the whole wide world"), and "77 Beverly Place."

To generate excitement, Prince launched www.mplsound.com in December 2008. A month later, the site was shut down and replaced with an announcement of a new interactive website (www.lotusflow3r.com), proclaiming it will allow fans to "listen, watch and buy" music and videos featuring Prince and guest artists. The site, possibly acknowledging early reviews that the new music hearkens back to his Purple Rain days (and the fact that 2009 marks its 25th anniversary), featured a thrown-down television set on a cliff with a frame from the movie. The site had three songs for listening: "Crimson and Clover", "4EVER", and "(There'll Never Be) Another Like Me". A couple of weeks later, it was updated again with more interactive content. The songs were changed contained 60 second samples of three songs: "Chocolate Box", "Colonized Mind", "All This Love". On January 31, more changes were set with a new instrumental available for listen, as well as a "teaser" video. The site also had three full songs for listening: "Colonized Mind", "Discojellyfish" (an instrumental non album track based on "Chocolate Box"), and "Another Boy", which is sung by Valente.