I just realized that Prince has gone from "relevant artist" to "one of those old guys who has released so many albums." Relevance has kind of stopped being the point with him.

I guess there were periods of "relevant artist who's falling off" and "previously relevant artist who fell off," but i didn't realize this was the next step.

I guess this happened, by the 1980s, to Miles.

... did it ever happen to Bob Dylan?