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Allmusic
Entertainment Weekly	C-
Los Angeles Times
New York Times	(favorable)
Pitchfork Media	(4.9/10)
PopMatters	(7/10)
Rolling Stone
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USA Today
Washington Post	(favorable)

Lotusflow3r

Studio album by Prince
Genre	Psychedelic rock, rock, soul, funk, acid rock, pop
Length	48:40 (physical) 46:54 (digital)

MPLSound

Studio album by Prince
Genre	Funk, R&B, electronica, soul, new wave, hip hop, pop
Length	47:44

Singles from MPLSound
"Better with Time" Released: August 24, 2009 (radio play) "Dance 4 Me" Released: September 29, 2009 "U're Gonna C Me" Released: October, 2009

Elixer

Studio album by Bria Valente
Genre	Pop, R&B, electronica, soul, smooth jazz
Length	44:25

Singles from Elixer
"Another Boy" Released: September 30, 2008

Lotusflower (stylized as LOtUSFLOW3R) contains the thirty-third and thirty-fourth studio albums by American recording artist Prince. It was released on March 24, 2009 by NPG Records. A triple album set, it contains two Prince albums, LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSºUND, as well as Elixer, the debut studio album by Prince protegée Bria Valente. The three albums were sold exclusively in the United States at Target as a 3-disc set, and in Europe from more online music stores.

The album debuted at #2 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 168,000 copies in its first week. Along with the set's other albums, Lotusflow3r received generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics.

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 "Hey Valentina" (written for Salma Hayek's daughter), "Better with Time" (an ode to Under the Cherry Moon co-star Kristin Scott Thomas), "Love Like Jazz", "$" (about "the most popular girl in the whole wide world"), and "77 Beverly Place".

To generate excitement, Prince launched mplsound.com in December 2008 offering an instrumental of "(There'll Never B) Another Like Me", later replaced by the finished track. A month later, the site was shut down and replaced with an announcement of a new interactive website (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", "Here Eye Come", and "(There'll Never B) 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.

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