Gold Experience: Following Prince in the '90s

Terrible. Nearly every sycophantic article sounds like it was tossed off by a PR hack. “You may have thought Prince was done but baby he's back!” (Paraphrased.) Keep in mind, he's writing about albums like Emancipation and The Rainbow Children. In fact, Prince so admired his critique-free “reviews” that he hired him to write the liner notes for Emancipation.

The rest is lists of songs or lists of music-award winners, except for one massively creepy “open letter” he wrote after not receiving an invitation to Prince's birthday celebration. The tone is so suddenly, stunningly vicious that it sounds like it was scratched into the side of an ex-lover's car. Then Prince invites Jim to Paisley Park and he loves him again. Yay!

Yuck. Avoid.