TheEnglishGent said:

I agree wholeheartly with your response. Prince is undoubtly trying to model his life in accordance to God's Word. The Word is very clear in that man should not lay with man, and woman should not lay with woman. I would rather "Stand with the unadulterated Word of God" or "Fall with the trickery of Satan".

JediMaster said:

And maybe...just maybe...the reporter brought her own agenda to the interview?

Having worked as a reporter, I'd like to tell you how I think this might have gone down. We all know Prince doesn't allow tape recorders...and sometimes doesn't even allow note taking. Which means the reporter has to rely on his/her own memory of what was said. (Which is why there should never be direct quotes in the article that follows, as there were in this one. Or the reporter should call the source back and say, "I heard this - is that your recollection, too?")

If you don't have notes or a tape, you sit in an interview and - every time something "quote-worthy" is said, you think to yourself frantically, "Oh, geez...I have to remember that line...that's really good." So you replay it a couple times in your mind - and miss a potential qualifier that follows right on its heels. This is in addition to, as always, thinking about the next question...or a follow-up question. There's no way a reporter can be "in the moment" or really listening in the interview, because he or she is too busy trying to remember what exactly was said and weighing each statement as a possible lede for the story.

I have my doubts about all of this - a reporter possibly having her own agenda, that Prince might not even have said what's attributed to him, or that he may have qualified what he said and it sailed right over the head of the journalist. Frankly, the most inflammatory quote in the piece doesn't even sound like Prince. He has an elegant (if cryptic) way of speaking. He's not blunt - as that quote is.

4bjb said:

but don't you think as a public figure who draws support from straight and gay alike he should keep those feelings to himself? if your post is true, then he needs to end his career now and live his life out as a JW away from the spotlight. that is the reality. (we really don't want that now do we)
[Edited 11/20/08 12:07pm]

JediMaster said:

i really think this misquote thing is a big old snafu of some kind. prince was being cryptic and the reporter doesn't have a photogaphic memory, or didn't have a backup person to take notes.

i think prince really excels at interviews when the questions are submitted to him in written form and he is given a chance to respond in writing.

hopefully, he will issue a statement of some kind to clarify what he actually said. but, i don't hold my breath on that because he isn't big on clarification

I think that people FAIL TO RECOGNIZE that the 50 year old PRINCE IS DIFFERENT than the I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER of long ago. I TRULY BELIEVE MAYTE and LOSING the BABY CHANGED him MORE than ONE CAN IMAGINE. It is DEVESTATING. I think PRINCE has ALWAYS been a SPIRITUAL PERSON and RELIGIOUS and I think he BELIEVED that somehow he was PUNISHED. I think he went into the JEHOVAH RELIGION because he felt LOST. I think Maybe he was DOING WHAT HE NOW PREACHES AGAINST. I do BELIEVE that he has ALWAYS WANTED that SPECIAL ONE. I also believe he would have been DIFFERENT had he NEVER GOTTEN INVOLVED with MAYTE. Remember how SPIRITUAL he was in GRAFFITI BRIDGE and how he was working with MAVIS STAPLES and JUVETTA and the STEELES? Personally I wish he would have been with CARMEN ELECTRA. To me she is the BOMB. And in response to him asking about the Girl on the Swing at PAISLEY PARK. Maybe she wanted to be INVITED INSIDE TO WATCH YOU PLAY? To see you at WORK. Maybe you SCARED her because she LOVED YOU SO MUCH. Maybe she'll come back and you'll make her SMILE.

4bjb said:

but don't you think as a public figure who draws support from straight and gay alike he should keep those feelings to himself? if your post is true, then he needs to end his career now and live his life out as a JW away from the spotlight. that is the reality. (we really don't want that now do we)
[Edited 11/20/08 12:07pm]

MRGee said:

The colour thing doesn't have anything to do with wanting to exclude black people or denying his history. He wanted to make the point that regardless of colour, we're all just human. His religion says god is the ruler of man and he shouldn't vote to have a human leader, so why would the fact that someone is black compel him to vote, after all, he's just another man.

Also, he doesn't hate gays, the bible said men shouldn't lay with men and that's what the JW's believe, so that's what Prince believes.

These aren't my views, just how Prince sees things because of his religion.

To be honest, you have to give credit to the JW's for sticking with this belief. If you believe the bible to be the word of god, then you shouldn't be able to modify things to fit, as certain other christian groups have done just because it makes them more popular in the modern world. If you really believe that book is the word of a being that created everything around us, then you really should live life according to its writings.

Hi Zelaira. Good to see you back.

vainandy said:

FlamingRaindrop said:

Handful?


Awww...

suomynona said:

Is there anyone he didn't offend in this interview? It seems Prince only wants white Christian heterosexuals to listen to his music now.

"The thing she said about Prince that stuck with me was that he sees women in a way that most men don’t. He looks right at them. I felt that -- he’s strangely considerate."

I know exactly what she means.

tackam said:

What the hell does that mean???

tackam said:

What the hell does that mean???

pplrain said:

It means I agree. Looooots of people have met Prince, and I'm one of them, and that was my experience of him as well. Connecting with him is effortless, despite the fact that he's, like, alternate-universe craaayzee. "Strangely considerate" is a good way to put it. That's all.

Something tells me the next time this reporter talks to Prince, it'll be because he's just happened upon her house on a conversion call.

And then his eyes will get wide, and he'll say "YOU!" Then the Benny Hill music will kick in and he'll chase around the house trying to whack her over the head with the Watchtower.
[Edited 11/19/08 4:49am]

I am an agnostic conservative, and I absolutely fuckin' love Prince more now than ever. As looney as he obviously is, he refuses to succumb to Obamamania and liberal indoctrination at the expense of his convictions like so many other "Christians" have done.
He is clearly a true believer who will not accept homosexuality and abortion as normal and mainstream, and it drives you people insane. I love it.
Your little androgynous hero won't bow down and fall prey to secularization and liberal brainwashing.


Keep it up Prince.

2freaky4church1 said:

Well because many of the people who are so bent over this alleged quote are the same folks who for the last twelve or so years have reserved the right to voice thier opinions about his religious beliefs in general with regards to being a JW, and his right to even participate in organized religion and all this BEFORE he did this interview with New Yorker mag.

Seems to me you can't have it both ways. You can't say 'I have the right to my opionions, but you don't have the right to yours'.

JediMaster said:

and you call yourself a fam.

Hi Zelaira. Good to see you back.

Something tells me the next time this reporter talks to Prince, it'll be because he's just happened upon her house on a conversion call.

And then his eyes will get wide, and he'll say "YOU!" Then the Benny Hill music will kick in and he'll chase around the house trying to whack her over the head with the Watchtower.
[Edited 11/19/08 4:49am]