So.. Prince was a pretty good musician after all...

I've always kinda shied away from Prince because people seem to have given him the stigma of being "gay" and not mainstream cool.

I saw the movie Purple Rain on TV for the first time the other night, and by the end of it, I can now say that I like Prince.

He writes his music, and plays guitar very well. I particularly liked the songs When Doves Cry and Darling Nikki. His use of electronic and acoustic percussion was quite hard and edgy, I wouldn't be surprised if some of his music inspired Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

I'm not going to go out and start buying all of Prince's albums, but I now have a real respect for him and his music.

The http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rince_logo.svg phase was obnoxious. I never paid much mind to Prince, but he seems pretty ok.

As famous as he was, Prince was still underrated.
He's done a lot of great things. A lot of people have no idea just how good he is at the guitar, either.

Though I am not from his Era, I really enjoy listening to prince.

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Originally Posted by Oneironaut

As famous as he was, Prince was still underrated.
He's done a lot of great things. A lot of people have no idea just how good he is at the guitar, either.

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whoa whoa whoa.. What's with the past tense? Did he die??!!

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Originally Posted by CRAZY BONE

whoa whoa whoa.. What's with the past tense? Did he die??!!

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Haha. Nah. But he's arguably on the down-slope of his career, so the "was" just kind of came out, unintentionally. He's still doing his thing, though. :>

Oh thank jesus. You scared me there, haha.

Dig if you will the picture of you and I engaged in a kiss the sweat of your body covers me can you my darlin can you picture this. Dream if you can a courtyard an ocean of violets in bloom Animals strike curious poses they feel the heat the heat between me and you.

How can you leave me standing. Alone in a world so cold. Maybe Im just too demanding maybe im just like my father too bold. Maybe you're just like my mother. Shes never satisfied. Why do we scream at eachother this is what it sounds like when doves cry.

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Originally Posted by Jrels

I've always kinda shied away from Prince because people seem to have given him the stigma of being "gay" and not mainstream cool.

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How sad that you base your knowledge of the world and musical taste on what other people think is "homosexual". :shakehead2: And why is it a good thing to be "mainstream"?? That's just really sad.

Well, at least you're evolving.

Didn't he give his latest album away in the Daily Mail, saying the internet was just a fad and therefore not worth his time selling it?

I really struggle to get past just how strange this man is.

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I really struggle to get past just how strange this man is.

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Strange...or a genius! :>

TIME Magazine: Why Prince's Free CD Ploy Worked

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Originally Posted by Jrels

I've always kinda shied away from...not mainstream cool.

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Bad idea

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Originally Posted by Alex D

Didn't he give his latest album away in the Daily Mail, saying the internet was just a fad and therefore not worth his time selling it?

I really struggle to get past just how strange this man is.

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:shock: I really struggle to get past just how retarded this man is.

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:shock: I really struggle to get past just how retarded this man is.

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Do we even know that that's what he said? The article I just posted made no mention of him saying anything about the Internet being a fad.

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Do we even know that that's what he said? The article I just posted made no mention of him saying anything about the Internet being a fad.

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Well, I read Alex's post before I saw your link. Reading the article, I don't see a quote from Prince at all. However, that's just one article, it doesn't really explain much about the entire situation. I don't know, maybe he never said anything like that. If he did, it would be ignorance you could only have had a chance of getting away with in the 90s... maybe early 2000s. Today, we're all drunk with internet use.

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Well, I read Alex's post before I saw your link. Reading the article, I don't see a quote from Prince at all.

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There was this one:

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"It's direct marketing," the pint-sized popster said when the deal was announced three weeks ago. "And I don't have to be in the speculation business of the record industry, which is going through a lot of tumultuous times right now."

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But that doesn't really clear up whether he said anything about the internet at all.

However, here is an article that has the full interview, in which he made the alleged statement.

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If his point was that music distribution on the internet (through mainstream outlets such as iTunes, which he apparently has a problem with) is a fad, then I would agree with him. If his idea is that the Internet, itself is a fad, then I would disagree. However, I do understand his disdain for all of the trendy, techno-social gadgetry that is out there, nowadays. Even the Internet can be interpreted as potentially hazardous - but "a fad?" I'm not so sure about that.

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He says: "The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.
"The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.
"They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."

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Now that I can actually read what he says and how he says it, boy, he is pretty closed-minded and nonconformist about the internet. The internet's completely over? Prince, it has only just begun. All these COMPUTERS, he includes, pretty strongly implies that he thinks the very internet itself and everything that has to do with technology is bad. WTF is he talking about "They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."??? :roll: Like I said before, completely retarded... and wishy washy.

While time-wasting websites and gadgets with supposedly "new" features being doled out every single year or even twice a year I can agree about, the internet as a medium of communication is changing the world, most considerably for the better. Television is one-sided and completely governed by the powerful. The internet is free back and forth communication, dominated by everybody. Does anybody have any idea what potential that is? Right now at least, it's about the truest form of democracy the modern world has seen, only it's globalized and instant, so this has NEVER been witnessed before. In the near future, the Hollywood industry as we know it could die, and the major point of view would lie not in the hands of the few who insist that everyone wants to watch a straight white male protagonist with the same safe recycled plots over and over, for example, but most any kind of movie made from anywhere in the world by anyone could be majorly successful, once the financial distribution of the internet evolves from its awkward, shaky infant stages of today. We'd learn more about the world around us from more points of view than ever before.

Ordinary peoples' voices are reaching everywhere, and this kind of scope has NEVER happened in the past. More people can convince people to take action and do good in the world. Maybe Prince should get this through his thick, oversized head and stop being a technophobe. It's so typical to doubt/fear what's new and changing, just for the sake of it being new and different.

Of course, net neutrality is still an issue, and I fear it could be a bigger issue in the future once everybody starts taking the internet more seriously, but I'm confident in the public's attachment to the internet and worst case scenario, hackers... :P

i love purple rain (the song) and party like it's 1999