"It just sounds like they forgot to include the tracks of certain instruments into the song.

*Pan flute flourish*

It feels very thin. Like it needs a lot more bass and rhythm guitar, and fuller vocals.

I know when I think of NFL Football, I think of a slow church hymn with flute backing"


[Edited 1/22/10 13:07pm]

I think someone on Facebook put it best, when they said this is was more of a fright song than a fight song.

linus4000 said:

THANK YOU LINUS!!!!

What is that sound at 2:08? An electric drill?

JerseyKRS said:

agreed!

3121 said:

Seems that with all of the diversity that Prince has shown over the years, people still want 2 piegonhole the man.

Interesting.

Nice try P, but that ain't gonna stop us from kickin some Viking butt

WHO DAT?!?!
[Edited 1/22/10 13:16pm]

linus4000 said:

Graffiti Bridge would have made a better fight song!

Graycap23 said:

I know! Having spent a lot of time here, I am not at all surprised by peoples' reactions, but I like that this is something totally unexpected.

I was dreading this, thinking it would be more along the lines of "3121, this is where the party's at, purple & gold y'all"

But no, he did a proper fight/spirit song. It's actually cool. I don't expect modern football fans to care, but it's really not bad.

Jakeasaurus said:

Gosh, with 95% of people disliking this song so quickly, I kinda feel bad for the man.

I still don't think it's really all that "terrible" or "embarrassing." Yeah, it's like an anthem, but now I think that's what he intended it to be. I'm starting to imagine the deep male voices of the team singing this, and it kind of works as a quick uplifting chant before a game.

NDRU said:

The more I listen.....the more I like.

PsychedelicMama said:

zaza said:

I love you Zaza, you're spot on. And I like Prince even more. He never does what people expect him to do.

A very different type of football song....

Sounds liek a left over track for Around the word in a day

Listen to the whole catastrophe here

ernestsewell said:

Ernest, why would you post that... you bad, bad man.

Graycap23 said:

This has nothing to do with pigeonholing. [Snip - Mars23]

Acrylic said:

b/c he can & truely that is 3 minutes + I will never get back of my life
[Edited 1/22/10 13:32pm]

What a God awful start to the new decade.

This is the first Prince song since Let's Have a Baby that I hate, and there are only a handful of Prince songs I really really dislike and most of them are outtakes.

Hopefully this win the worse song of decade in ten years time.

How long before Prince puts out a song about how hurt he is about the reaction to this song?

It will probably be really cool like P.F.U.N.K.
[Edited 1/22/10 13:40pm]

Seriously, they played this in a stadium and there wasn't some M. Night Shyamalan "The Happening" catastrophe?? Cuz I'm picturing people stabbing their ears with anything they can get their hands on.

theAudience said:

I just read a story about TMZ cracking on Prince.

"The Artist Formerly Known as Talented" ???

Here's my 2nd attempt to help Prince out. (My first two efforts got locked.) (Sorry mods!)


To the tune of Take Me with U (The whole Vikings squad sings it!)

We can't describe
The pounding of our hearts
It beats so strong
It's in our eyes
What can we say
Brett turns us on

We don't care who we play
We just wanna fly south! (The the Super Bowl!)
We don't care pretty baby
We wanna fuck the taste out of our opponent's mouth!

Come on and touch our end zone area
It's calling out your name
We love the pink plush, so so much
That's why we play this game

We don't care who we play
We just wanna fly south! (The the Super Bowl!)
We don't care pretty baby
We wanna fuck the taste out of our opponent's mouth!

This would have been one hell of a fight song!!!
... not that Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory crap he made official!

This is F'n horrible. The Vikings should come running out of the locker room with streamers and skirts instead of helmets.

Brutal.

MantuaPharoah said:

Your stupidass songs are gonna get this thread locked too, great

WaterInYourBath said:

Water... he should have done it like this!!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...R2nmtg0whE

THIS is a fight song!!
(If the link doesn't work, please copy and paste.)

I love Prince... but this is embarrassing!!!