'Prince, known for controversy, was never going to give the public 'a clear-eyed view,' even if he were alive to see the book completed. On the contrary, the memoir might have been even more mysterious if he were alive today.' | Clay Cane for CNNOpinion
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"The Beautiful Ones" is exactly what I would expect a Prince memoir to be: complicated, nuanced, unconventional and written in a language that certain people may not understand -- unless, of course, they are willing to do the work. Clay CaneThe book, co-written by Dan Piepenbring, an editor at The Paris Review, has drawn mixed reviews at best since its release earlier this week. The artist's long-anticipated memoir was derailed by Prince's untimely death in April 2016, shortly after the book was announced. To complete the project, Piepenbring drew from 30 handwritten pages from Prince, a handful of meetings between them and notes from their late-night phone calls.
Songs you didn't know Prince wrote 01:01This memoir is raw, breaks the rules and centers around the ownership of blackness, which was the longest public fight of Prince's career. White artists also face the limitations of money-hungry labels. But as Prince explained and lived, white artists largely aren't constrained by R&B charts.
Prince's most iconic moments 01:28Prince lamented being compared to Billy Joel or Bruce Springsteen. According to Piepenbring, Prince said,"Why aren't they comparing me to Sly Stone" or Carlos Santana? The book works consciously to debunk the trite one-liners, such as that Prince"transcended" race.
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