All my grand parents have passed away except my grandmother on my mom's side of the family.


She's a little 'ole lady in a remot-ish Thai village, who probably has no concept of Prince.

Dare I say it, if she saw the Darlin Nikki performance from the movie, Purple Rain, her tits would fall off.

shanti0608 said:

My mom bought me Dirty Mind when I was 15. 24 years later I still haven't played it for her.

sextonseven said:

this reminds me about when I was at my little cousins house about 10 years ago, and she is locked in her room, but through the walls I hear "head" and I am like what the hell is she listening to? she is only 13 years old? I knock on the door and ask her where she got that song from, and she says a guy in her class gave it to her to listen to!

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Aw hells no. If that was my daughter, I would have gotten the name of that boy, called his parents and asked them to please stop their son from giving my daughter obscene music to bring into our house.

Then I would have put on my headphones and listened to more 2 Live Crew.

Imago said:

My grandmama's favorite song was "Raspberry Beret" according to my mom.

I don't think any of the others liked Prince. My grandmother on my mom's side once said that Prince was a perverted purple monster.

ZombieKitten said:

charlotte

2Jay said:

ur grandma had great taste jay

i vividly remember where i was the 1st time i heard LRC- i was in my grandparents kitchen- one of my fav places ever. and they didnt turn the radio off- must have thought it was a pretty song about cars and horses

but then again- so did i

actually, my grandmother and i went to the mall just to buy my first prince album

i will always remember that day, those were the days when i remember my grandmother being pretty cool actually

When they still lived my Spanish grandparents knew him because of me, they even liked him.
He had been to Barcelona several times and he stayed very close to where they lived.
They were always teasing me "que enano guapo" (my grandfather was smaller than him!) and if they saw him on tv she said "eso "Priens" tio es un guaro (spelling? Meaning dirty guy) pero su musica es guay".
My grandmother must have been around 70 years when she took a girlfriend to town to buy and send me Prince postcards. She did send me pretty ones but she also send me one of Terence Trent D'arby thinking it was him
But I was so moved thinking that two oldies went into a cardshop to look for Prince just for me

My grandmother didn't know who Prince was at first. I was riding in her station wagon with her and listening to the radio (I was controlling the stations). "Uptown" was playing and then Rod Stewart's "Passion" came on afterwards. When she heard "Passion", she said...."See, that's the kind of voice I like, it's not too loud. I don't like a voice like that lady had in the song before this one".

A year later, I was listening to "Do Me, Baby" in my room and was playing it loud, especially during the screams because the screams are my favorite part. My grandmother banged on the wall and shouted...."Andy, turn that shit down! It sounds like somebody is choking that bitch!".

When "Purple Rain" came out and Prince's name was everywhere, she knew who he was by then because of all the hell I raised to go to the movie and also because I had bugged her every year to buy me his new album as soon as it came out. Prince was in all the magazines that year and I had a collection of them. I had even cut out articles and put them in a scrap book. She saw me cutting out articles and said sarcasticly....."Why don't you just bow down and pray to your idol". That remark pissed me off.
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vainandy said:

Your grandmother was a trip!

She sure was. When she would be watching a soap opera (her "stories" as she called them) and the phone would ring (on the TV), she would pick her phone up thinking it was her's. Same thing the doorbell.

That gave me an idea. I really had some fun with her with The Gap Band's music. I would take my tape player in the car with me and play the motorcyle in the front of "Burn Rubber". She would look and say...."Good lord, these damn young drivers are crazy! Did you hear that fool screeching his tires?". Also, I would be in my room playing "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" (the 12 Inch version with the sirens). When I came out of my room, she had on the TV and the windows open. She said...."Andy, I'm trying to find something on TV about the weather. Did you hear those tornado sirens?"

vainandy said:

vainandy, I love love love the chest on your avatar, is that you?

vainandy said:

vainandy, I love love love the chest on your avatar, is that you?

they one granddad I knew dies in the year 1999 came out. I never asked my grandmoms.....they're dead now too.
My dad is funny....he's a jazz-nut and hates about everything that has to do with popular music. Funny enough he considers Prince to be genius. That doesn't mean he likes his songs & hits, but I guess I have forced him to listen to P so much back in the day when I was still living with my parents, that he must have recognized and acknowledged his talent. He's crazy about the Aladin Vegas Show DVD, even the funkjams on there.

Imago said:

luckily Thai-women don't have a lot.....most of them!

yeah they respect him

my grandma would play when doves cry for me along with other songs when i was really young

my other grandma saw my total CD back in the 90's and thought it was prince on the cover cause of the shades and long hair hahaha and I could kind of see my grandparents face light up when lets go crazy was on tv one time.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

My mom had no idea the contents of the album when she bought it. My cousin and I heard the song Controversy on the radio and had to have the album.
I am sure my mom regrets to this day that she bought me that album.


Back when I was 12 ans singing Jack U Off, I had no idea what I was singing about.

No, that's not me....unfortunately. If I had a body like that, I'd be trying to sleep with myself.

All my grandparents have passed away, but one of my grandma's knew I liked Prince and she thought it was funny

My Grandma wouldn't remember, alzheimers plays nasty tricks on the mind.
She used to cut out all clippings from papers and magazines and send them to me so she can't of disapproved too much