I gave this a chance, I really did. More than 4 plays, less than 5. At first, I couldn’t understand why I didn’t like it. 1) It’s mutherflippin Prince. I love(d) Prince. 2) Crimson and Clover is a great song. 3) The video has colorful digital imagery throughout… BUT after thinking about the reasons why I simply can’t stand this version of the song, I’ve decided that 1) Prince completely ruined it by mixing in portions of the ever-annoying, oft’-covered Wild Thing. 2) Prince is too old to be touching his lips like a teenage girl in heat. Also, his love-dreamy eye motions throughout are just ridiculous. 3) The imagery itself looks like recorded visualizations of an old school audio player like Real Jukebox mixed in with crappy overly-filtered Photoshop art, the likes of which can be found in abundance over at DeviantART. OK, so maybe it’s SUPPOSED to look that way since the song sounds like it’s been overly digitized to death as well. Is Prince trying to cover up the flaws in his aging voice? Come on, Prince. You can do better than this… the best part about this video are the sucky fractals.
Color me Computer Blue.