The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 3: The Internet is Completely Over

Prince | Official Podcast

Sony Music

Music Interviews, Music, Arts

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Engineer Jason Agel and tech expert Anil Dash join co-hosts Andrea Swensson and Shelby J. to discuss Prince's final work on Welcome 2 America in 2010 and his growing skepticism about selling music and retaining ownership over his work in the digital era, which he references in lyrics throughout the album. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the story of Welcome to America, produced by the Princess State and distributed by Sony
0:11.7	Music Entertainment.
0:13.9	Welcome back to the official Prince podcast.
0:16.3	I'm Andrea Sponson, I'm a music journalist in Minneapolis, and in this series we're
0:21.0	exploring the period around when Prince recorded and then shelved his 2010 studio album Welcome
0:27.8	to America.
0:29.1	It's just been released from his vault.
0:31.4	So far we've heard some great stories about the recording process and also some of the
0:35.6	deep conversations Prince was having in 2010 about politics and social change.
0:41.8	In this episode, we're going to try to narrow in on this question of why Welcome to America
0:47.2	wasn't released, especially given how excited Prince seemed about the album itself and
0:52.4	the messages it contained.
0:54.4	And I'm putting an emphasis on try here because none of us really know why Prince did what
1:00.0	he did.
1:01.0	He didn't have to explain himself to anyone.
1:03.7	And he was often moving so quickly that there wasn't really time to ask why he was doing
1:07.7	anything.
1:08.7	Everyone around him was mainly focused on the who and the how and the when and the when
1:13.8	was usually right now.
1:16.0	But we're going to try.
1:17.4	In this episode, we're going to start by chatting with one of the final people to work on Welcome
1:22.3	to America.
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