Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| 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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| Washington Post | (favorable) |
The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, selling 168,000 copies in its first week and becoming Prince's fourth consecutive Top 3 album in the U.S. The album narrowly missed the #1 spot, selling 3000 copies less than Keith Urban's Defying Gravity. The album however topped some other charts leading Prince to suspect the charts were tampered with which he specifically stated on the Tavis Smiley interview. As of February 1, 2012, the album has sold 543,700 units, according to Soundscan.
Upon their release, Lotusflow3r and MPLSound received generally mixed to positive reviews from most music critics, based on aggregate scores of 61 and 62/100 from Metacritic. However, Bria Valente's Elixer received generally mixed or average reviews from most music critics, receiving an aggregate score of 49/100 from Metacritic.
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)