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Thread started 01/22/18 7:06pm

littlemissG

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A thought - Pastor Nelson?

He would be doing gospel.
Not just gospel influenced songs straight up gospel with an apology than he would
Be performing most of his secular catalog anymore. Prince had been getting progress more evangelistic in his music and performs in the last decade. Given a second chance to live by Jehovah - Reverend Nelson.
Think it would be more likely than not.
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Reply #1 posted 01/22/18 7:23pm

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First: thEn lol

Second, he did two gospel records (according to Prince's own validation):

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #2 posted 01/22/18 8:00pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

First: thEn lol

Second, he did two gospel records (according to Prince's own validation):




I say there would be a third, fourth, and more if our Prince somehow survived.
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Reply #3 posted 01/22/18 8:04pm

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littlemissG said:

I say there would be a third, fourth, and more if our Prince somehow survived.


He was preachy A.F. in a lot of his music post-The Rainbow Children. Compile the right songs and you got #3, easily.

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Reply #4 posted 01/23/18 6:50am

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Besides the music, I think he would have gone Reverend Al Green without the grits.
Pulpit, choir, the whole nine.
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Reply #5 posted 01/23/18 8:07am

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littlemissG said:

Besides the music, I think he would have gone Reverend Al Green without the grits. Pulpit, choir, the whole nine.


I'd disagree. He had plenty of time to do all that, and didn't. In fact, he already did to some extent. There are photos & reports of him attending big Jehovah's WItness conferences w/ the Grahams. His bullshit version New World Translation Bible is pictured in 21 Nights if memory serves. Prince would have never delved into some full-on preacher mode like Al Green did, or even close. Too cool fah dat!

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Reply #6 posted 01/23/18 8:26am

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TrivialPursuit said:



littlemissG said:


Besides the music, I think he would have gone Reverend Al Green without the grits. Pulpit, choir, the whole nine.


I'd disagree. He had plenty of time to do all that, and didn't. In fact, he already did to some extent. There are photos & reports of him attending big Jehovah's WItness conferences w/ the Grahams. His bullshit version New World Translation Bible is pictured in 21 Nights if memory serves. Prince would have never delved into some full-on preacher mode like Al Green did, or even close. Too cool fah dat!


Plenty of time would have been before he beat the Grim Reaper twice.
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Reply #7 posted 01/23/18 9:54am

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littlemissG said:

TrivialPursuit said:

First: thEn lol

Second, he did two gospel records (according to Prince's own validation):

I say there would be a third, fourth, and more if our Prince somehow survived.

There is a Rainbow Children sequel in the vault, IIRC.

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Reply #8 posted 01/24/18 11:18am

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I saw a video on youtube where Prince was straight up preaching. Who knows what the future might have held for him? The Ladder. smile

[Edited 1/24/18 11:20am]

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Reply #9 posted 01/24/18 11:28am

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He did in a sense, and the stage was his pulpit.

But I don't think he became more progressively evangelistic in his music

Not any more in the 2000s as in the 1980s

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Reply #10 posted 01/24/18 11:29am

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Do Jehovah's Witnesses have pastors or elders what positions do they hold?

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Reply #11 posted 01/24/18 11:33am

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No way Jose would P become a Pastor.

He was still singing lyrics about "rubbery tatas" and "rub it on her back" and I could go on and on.....

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Reply #12 posted 01/24/18 2:14pm

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ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

No way Jose would P become a Pastor.

He was still singing lyrics about "rubbery tatas" and "rub it on her back" and I could go on and on.....

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"With love, honor, and respect for every living thing in the universe, separation ceases, and we all become one being, singing one song." - Prince Roger Nelson (1958-2016)
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Reply #13 posted 01/25/18 9:36am

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Let me give you an very close example of what I am talking about:

Denise Matthews aka Vanity.

Also didn’t Seuality get changed to Spiritality in recent years? At concerts you get instrumental teases or Sexy MF, and a kiss in the mike since he joined the Witnesses.

Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Let’s Go Crazy, Musicology, Deliverence always. I agree The Rainbow Children 2 and other heavily gospel tracks that may be in the vault would sbe released and performed, yes certainly.

Rubber ‘tatas’ songs I think would be ‘I am past that’ or changed by Prince if he were still here with us.
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Reply #14 posted 01/25/18 10:34am

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littlemissG said:

Let me give you an very close example of what I am talking about: Denise Matthews aka Vanity. Also didn’t Seuality get changed to Spiritality in recent years? At concerts you get instrumental teases or Sexy MF, and a kiss in the mike since he joined the Witnesses. Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Let’s Go Crazy, Musicology, Deliverence always. I agree The Rainbow Children 2 and other heavily gospel tracks that may be in the vault would sbe released and performed, yes certainly. Rubber ‘tatas’ songs I think would be ‘I am past that’ or changed by Prince if he were still here with us. [Edited 1/25/18 9:54am]



Aint Gonna Miss U When U're Gone was released in 2013 with 3EG ..............so I dont think he was past that....

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Reply #15 posted 01/25/18 11:41am

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Ain't Gonna Miss You When You're Gone includes lyrics that say he wasn't gonna miss whoever he was "dissin'" in part because of the way she spoke on Holy Days.

But as for Prince, well, he was incredibly deeply enthusiastic about his religious experience and what it was doing for him in his life in the early 2000s, to the point of having conversations with Pastor and his audience at that sound check someone posted a while back, and during other shows, and he was definitely trying to convert us all. (smiles)

He mellowed later though, to an open path of spirituality, while retaining many of his religion's tenets.

In the end, he was, well...Prince.

He became himself.

His highest self which he could attain on this earth.

"You are actually everything and anything that you can think of
All of it is you."

[Edited 1/25/18 14:15pm]

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Reply #16 posted 01/25/18 12:17pm

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After Graffiti Bridge I've been waiting to see if he would go all preacher, I don't mean simply converting and getting serious about it, I mean literally opening his own church and the having a converted congregation that hangs on his every word, the whole nine yards. I was so relieved he didn't go that route.

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Reply #17 posted 01/25/18 2:15pm

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I think he knew he couldn’t have two careers. And the music was #1.
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