Publication: Orange County Register [US]
Date: October 9, 1992
Title: "Still Sexy; Prince Tackles Opera With His Latest Album"
Summary: Oh, that wackyPrinceis at it again.

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: October 11, 1992
Title: "Prince Album Is A Royal Disappointment"
Summary: For his first album under his new king-sized contract with Warner Bros. Records, Prince has put together what he describes as a "rock soap opera."

Publication: New York Newsday [US]
Date: October 11, 1992
Title: "Prince:Royal, Flush"
Summary: IN 1989, news leaked out that the rock-funk superstarPrince was close to bankruptcy.The fortune that he'd earned from 1984's "Purple Rain" - the album sold 15 million copies worldwide while the movie of the same name grossed more than $ 70 million - had been squandered on lavish stage shows like the "Sign o' the Times" tour and his patronage of a seemingly endless string of pet proteges whose careers, more often than not, were stillborn.

Publication: Chicago Tribune [US]
Date: October 15, 1992
Title: "O{+> Review"
Summary: The newPrincealbum, hereafter known as "the one with the funny title" (actually a merger of the symbols for male and female), doesn't break any ground and is, in some ways, a step back.

Publication: Orlando Sentinel Tribune [US]
Date: October 23, 1992
Title: "Prince and the New Power Generation"
Summary: Prince and the New Power Generation (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.): Much of Prince'slatest is as goofy and pretentious as its title.