Planet Earth
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Planet Earth
Planet Earth is the thirty-second studio album by American recording artist Prince. It was released on July 15, 2007 by NPG Records and distributed, in the UK, as a free covermount with The Mail on Sunday national newspaper. This was followed by the album's worldwide distribution. It features contributions from his newest proteg e Bria Valente and former New Power Generation members Marva King, Sonny T., and Michael Bland, as well as Sheila E. and former Revolution members Wendy & Lisa. The album debuted at number 3 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 96,000 in its first week. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Most of Planet Earth, though, is textbook bad Prince.
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Rolling Stone
What did people do for fun in the summer before Prince? Planet Earth is one of those albums he makes when he’s trying a littleharder than usual, if not hard enough to alienate his core audience,which loves him for indulging himself.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
An iffy grab-bag of styles, as his major releases have been over the past ten years, and it's a step up from 3121 though considerably duller than Musicology.
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LA Times
It's Prince now, as conflicted, imaginative and wonderfully weird as ever.
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BBC
He’s still Prince, and he’s still a little bit funky.
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AV Club
It's unquestionably a fun record, but the pleasures are modest and superficial.
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Slant Magazine
there remains a nostalgic pull that’s no less electric for being completely anesthetized and overly rehearsed.
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Pop Matters
Some are moody and strange; others are forgiving. A few are petty and vengeful; others are happy and life affirming. His songs run the gamut.
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Spin
Is there anything that we haven’t heard Prince do before? Well, no. But is there another musician in the world who is capable of even half the things on this album?
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IGN
PE feels like a white bread pop excursion, one that ends up playing more like a stopgap between other in-the-works projects, in effect a brief tide over until the next real event comes to pass
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Sputnik
Planet Earth is one of the more varied albums Prince has done, yet all the same it's probably his most straight-forward release in a long, long while
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The Guardian
He ups the ante a bit on Chelsea Rodgers, with its precision horns and party vibe, and the power-rocking Guitar.
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Scene Point Blank
an album that you can listen to all the way through and not get bored half way through. Welcome back to form Prince!
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NME
This sounds more like a new Gnarls Barkley album than an old Prince one. A genius on autopilot is still very clever indeed.
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Music OMH
it’s still got some trademark moves and is an enjoyable selection of song writing
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All Music
the kind of sturdy, highly enjoyable music that needs some manufactured hoopla around its release; otherwise, it will fade into the artist's prodigious back catalog because of its very nature
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SF Weekly
Anti-war, pro-environment, religious, and funky, Planet Earth is still merely an excuse to tour, as obligatory for Prince as any other artist who’s been around this long.
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Drowned in Sound
Planet Earth’ll leave you feeling decidedly short-changed
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Recorded
I like it. I don’t love t.
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Prefix
the Purple One’s bid to balance the bounce and pop of his youth with the inevitably ballady-ness of his advanced age
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Adrian's Album Reviews
may well come as a pleasant surprise, although the nature of the LP probably won't be enough to actively astonish you or make you feel like it's 1987 all over again
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Failed Muso
this is instantly as accessible as 3121 & Musicology were
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