Prince’s New Album Cover Revealed
Lotus Flow3r
Rolling Stone has revealed the artwork for Prince’s new album Lotus Flow3r in an article about Prince’s recent late night soiree at his Beverly Hills mansion. You may recall we brought you here the first recap of the night’s events.
So what do you think? Pretty? y/n? It looks very Earth,Wind, & Fire/Jacksons, doesn’t it? Can’t wait to hear what’s inside. – Dr. FC
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I dont know WHAT 2 compare it 2, but as far as anything P has ever done, very, Very, VERY different!!! I like it, thats 4 sho!!! And the RS article is good as well. Exactly how much patience will i need 2 practice b4 i get all 3 musical creations in my car???
Cool Cover, very psychedelic style…..i think that the sound of the new album will be very colorful …around the worl in a day Part 2!
PS>I say it loud: Prince i want Cds & Dvds from the vault on your new web site!
May u live 2 see the Dawn
2009
Oh yes it’s super! That is a cover worthy of ‘Colonized Mind’.
Love it!!! This actually looks like an ALBUM COVER. Very EWF, remember back in the day folding open the album cover with ARTWORK….REAL ARTWORK!!!!!! I am dripping with antici………pation!!!!
I like the cover although cropped as it is makes the crystal ball (bubble) seem too large at the base, a bit off scale. The colors are really pretty. Let’s see the full panel inside.
looks sick i cant wait to have it on a t-shirt with tour daters on the back hahaha or to have on actual cd sitting in front of me
prince is back on the net and he’s gonna take prisoners
Exquisite!!! … i can feel the “joy” coming down on me.
Absolutely but not suprisingly…AWFUL.
In the last performance on Jay Leno, in the background Prince had this really interesting and dare I even FEEL IT, classy, sort of montage with a photo of himself. It looked actually well designed and had a sort of subtle colorfulness and white background. I thought THAT was going to be a cover as it did look great.
All that needed to be done was placed a lotus flower somewhere and in small type Prince/Lotus Flower.
Now…much like the never fully explained mess of 3121 and its meaning. WHAT does Lotusflow3r even mean!?!
I can sort of decipher, if I just mull it over without spending too much of my valuable time, that the 3 must mean the three albums coming.
OR could it mean that when Prince secured the website ‘lotusflower.com’ was taken and he reversed the 3 to attain somekind of website name and THEN name the album with a 3 in the name???
As for the art. Colorful. As a designer myself, I’ll tear into it on goods and bads – colors are nice, the style is very DeviantArt geek graphic arts – look up any wallpaper for Vista/Leopard…the use of Futura light, which I think is the PRINCE typeface, its nice…but DOES NOT go with the graphics. The graphics are sooo strong that you need to come down on the type size…and that horrid, horrid lotusflw3r font…is it a Holloween font? Free I bet. Awful.
I get it, 3 in red…I see it…over designed. Let the artwork shine…if you can even call it art – THEN on each top corner in futura light Prince on the left and a normal Lotus Flower on the right. Make them gold, thats fine, but small.
This makes me want to run to Margo Chase and ask her for HELP!
F.
[quote]WHAT does Lotusflow3r even mean!?![/quote]
It probably means there is a song called “Lotus Flow3r” on the album that shares its name.
Call it a “wild (flower) guess” (that’s a pun!).
-Capt. Obvious
It just all looks more then great
Very spritual cover pic -I love it <3
^ wow I’m having a dyslexia day
..I meant to write spiritual.I hope I got it right now 
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As the old world dies out and the new world fades up, when can one say the Dawn truly is? What if the true new world begun this june, but the new world didn’t over take the old world until 2012? With a 3.5 year span, when does the Dawn of the first new day in our new world begin? How is it you’ll live to see the Dawn?
grrrr typo in my post.
@Michael.. nice
Thanks
Symbolically the lotus blossom, shown here by Prince representing the crown charka, represents the never exhaustible unfolding pedals of the enlightened mind. Strangely a tie back to such statements as “if you pealed back the pedals of your precious rose would you be ashamed of what you’d find inside?”, Prince is showing a new, higher and clearer minded awakening. On the right is shows a pyramid that represents all sides uniting to a higher peak, and it is shown the leaf of a plant for healing. Right representing the new world and or wanted desired. On the left side a metropolis. Taken from the original artwork of the new website, Prince had shown that on the left side was high mountains peaks, clearly a reference to his earlier song of that title. There is of course so much more to this picture puzzle, but I guess you’ll all have to wait, don’t want to give away all Prince’s little secrets.
To somewhat quote..(Can’t wait to hear what’s inside. – Dr. FC)
Its what inside that counts the most
Very excited and happy to get some new music from Prince!
I like the cover and love the font!
its cool!
a XXI century cover. Great Work!
febraury, march,… WHEN???????????????
I don’t like it, but since it’s Prince I’m OK with it… Too much of everything. The picture itself is just about acceptable, but the PRINCE and the title in gold and these two horrible fonts? They remind me of an advert for a really cheap perfume you would be offered on a flight with one of those low budget airlines. What happened to the two really cool pics from the last show on Jay Leno? Those would have made great covers!
prince fans just accept anything he gives them. this cover is hideous.. looks like a bad 90s video game.. he needs to be back with a real creative team like he had at Warners. Someone who can tell him, “no!”
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I like the cover. IMO it would fit the music better (at least the 4 tracks we’ve heard already) if the cover was more raw instead of this computerlike dream image… but it’s not bad at all, I do like it!
It creates a surreal image… a new galaxy… if this will be in the wrecka stows people will notice it and be curious!
It’s not an unexpected album cover though (cuz we’ve already seen the image on the LF website). I’m very curious about the MPLSOUND cover now!
To have the cover is a little step forward. I really hope he opens up the download section soon.. I need to hear this!!
So… is the album title Lotusflow3r or Lotus Flow3r? (From the image I see the first one, but Dr. FB calls it ‘Lotus Flow3r’ cover.
Doens’t matter really, but still…
Please Prince, soon soon!!
I feel Prince’s Lotusflow3r CD cover design was inspired by the book Time Travelers From Our Future. If you put all the photos from this book together it is similar to Prince’s CD design. Bria Valente mentions time travel in one of her new songs. I think Prince has been reading Dr. Bruce Goldberg’s book. Prince also checks his email. Wonder who and what has his attention??? The number 3 is special. Prince said in a recent interview if someone mentions something to him 3 times he checks it out. Pay attention people and stay Ntune.
Just ugly!!!
It’s great album cover. It relays a path… inter-connectivity… but is also iconic. I’m also diggin the simple, clear, powerful elegance of the font.
Is he imitating MJ’s Dangerous album where the full face is not shown? I’m sure that it will not be anything like his awesome albums in the 80s, but it will be interesting to hear. I’m going to buy mine second-hand on half or amazon.
Hmm, Behold the Jewel in the Lotus. I like it. Om Mani Padme Hum.
I think it’s a nice concept… but i wish it was a little more “REAL” rather than so clean and crisp. The music is guitar laden and i think a more SIMPLISTIC and NATURAL concept would have worked better… I’d expect the cover for MPLSsound to look like this maybe, not Lotus Flow3r. Oh well…
… and yup the font is awful. Plain awful.
That’s a fly cover! Very artistic and he hasn’t had one like that in a while. I can’t wait for Lotusflow3r to drop!
I feel the cover shot is very creative. I see some of you all don’t like it. Do you think you can do better? Perhaps you can, but it’s not your vision of the music. I don’t except what Prince puts out. I admire his genius and I enjoy his art.
Shut Up … Already, Damn !!!
I agree with you JJ, that’s what I said!
Still cool though! Waiting long enough, come on.. gimme the music!
Looks GREAT! Beautiful Colors and Tones, Nice Image and Layout.
Can hardly wait for the new album!
His eyes are not shown because he does not need them to C.
I Wish Him Heaven!
Can you say:
Site influence:
Janelle Monáe
Album influence:
Lotus live Sanata?
great looking site and excited for the return of the axe.
Hopefully he will have Rock station support?
Good luck with that!
Hey Prince –
I liked your cover of Radiohead’s song Creep that you did at the Caochella Festival. Great vocals.
HI
It really makes you wonder about these people all around the world, who seem to take joy in putting down everything Prince does. There are some Prince sites where some of the fams, do nothing but criticize Prince’s music and everything else he does. It really makes you wonder it these people are true Prince fams. And the sad thing about it is, that most of the people don’t have half the talent that Prince has. Those of us who are real die hard fams love everything that he does.
it’s a funky purple prince cover for the new year, the new JAM cover
of the year!We should never let down DA MAN “PRINCE”.
he’s the purple guy, and we’re seeing a whole new different look of the CD cover, which we don’t see Prince’s face, well, some of it, but the thing is it looks like this the 2nd time he didn’t show his face since Rainbow Children.
Oh, also The Black Album. I should never neglect Prince’s art of the CD.
Purple Reigns, everyone!!!
Less is more. K.I.S.S.
Typography is important. Free fonts does not equal great fonts.
Prince stood or perhaps sat behind the “designers” and directed them. A graphic designer not only designs but advises, gives valid points as to why say just showing a mouth makes no sense. Why a Halloween free font does not work. Why PRINCE is too big and have the guts to walk away if the client thinks just because its his music work, that he/she should leave the visuals to the professionals. They are not your puppets.
PRINCE rep is at steak he is known not only for his Music But 4 His visions of expresions as well – he expscts nothing less of himself – thank GOD
It does resemble the EWF All N All album (which I still have), and the JAckson 5’s album. It’s a pretty clever cover…very colorful. Heard a few tracks…Old Prince coming through – little bit of Jimi Hendrix in there. I like it.
I “LOVE” it. I can’t wait to be part of the old & new family, with the new name. LotusFlow3r
well all i will say is i hope the music is better than the artwork
watson it’s like Stevie
Watson, its like Stevie Wonder, if i could come back as a flower…
I am a Prince fan from way back. I’m not fareweather. I have been very critical of Prince lately because his music is not only not up to par with the things he’s released in the past, but it has flat out sucked. I dig the album cover, but I hope that the music matches what we see on the cover.
I could write quite a few pages analizing this album art useing my media studies knowleage. There is a big debate on whether it’s a. L.A or Minni skyline, I belive it’s a Minni skyline looking at pictures of both. The blue light comming from the lotus flower is from L.A though, I think he is trying to combine the two. I love the album art, purple and gold together is def a signature of Prince. One of the best!