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Printable 2elijah said:[quote] viewaskew said: So what's your point? I mean really, what is it? So this means the writer can't be wrong because he writes for the NYT? It's obvious the guy was surprised at Prince's humor because.. he apparently never attended enough shows to know that Prince displays his humor at many of his shows. Secondly, no one actually said the entire report was negative. People was just surprised that the writer apparently never seen Prince display humor at many of his shows. viewaakew: It's more likely that Prince is not all things to all people. Especially outside of the narrow confines of this web site. Prince can have flashes of humor, but he can also be heavy-handed & flat. Humor doesn't often work its way into his music. You sound like you just opened a can of hateration soup complete with a side order of angry noodles.  You're entitled to your opinion though, but others don't feel the same as you;as you just contradicted yourself with your own statement, while preaching to others that "Prince is not all things to all people." Well, didn't you realize that when you read the opinions of others on this thread? It's obvious just like you, we all felt differently about the writer's opinion regarding Prince's humor.
[Edited 10/13/08 19:10pm] 2elijah  u made my evening. I've been real depressed lately and u have really given me the biggest laugh with that line. Thank u  | |
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meow85 said: 7e7e7 said: prince's biggest enemy is his fans
The ones that kiss his ass non-stop, yes. I love Prince, but I am sane enough not to worship the ground he walks on. Nor would I suggest that a reporter is inept because they gave a review of a show that wasn't perfect. Face it, kids. Not everyone is a Prince fan, and that's okay. It's not this person's job to attend every single Prince show and follow his career slavishly. It's his job to review concerts, and that's what he did. I thought he gave a pretty glowing review as it is. Where's the problem? read all these comments and reflect | |
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pennylover said: 2elijah said: You sound like you just opened a can of hateration soup complete with a side order of angry noodles. You're entitled to your opinion though, but others don't feel the same as you;as you just contradicted yourself with your own statement, while preaching to others that "Prince is not all things to all people." Well, didn't you realize that when you read the opinions of others on this thread? It's obvious just like you, we all felt differently about the writer's opinion regarding Prince's humor.
[Edited 10/13/08 19:10pm] 2elijah u made my evening. I've been real depressed lately and u have really given me the biggest laugh with that line. Thank u Why thank you! I'm glad I can share my sense of humor...(no pun intended given part of the subject of this thread)... [Edited 10/14/08 19:29pm] | |
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The Prince: Music & More forum is full of funny people. | |
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murph said: Some of u guys are jumping off the bridge here...The NYT writer saying that he was surprised that Prince had a sense of humor is not grounds for saying he knows nothing about the man or music for that matter...lol
I swear...some of yall are living up to the same ol' Prince fan sterotype we have to deal with: humorless... It was a very positive review...What else do you want the man to say? That Prince is God? Wow... Some will settle for nothing less, it seems. | |
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1. This was an excellent review.
2. I also raised an eyebrow at the humor comment (or would've if I could - always wanted to be able to raise 1 eyebrow). Mainly because the rest of the review seemed pretty spot on and with adequate background knowledge. (And I don't think the quality of the humor is relevant - the sense of the comment was that he thought that Prince is usually always serious). 3. But that doesn't mean the writer messed up or they sent the wrong person - the reviewer would have read an updated bio and probably checked out some things P has done the last couple of years, Maybe listened to some recent tracks. The fact that he was familiar with Musicology and the Superbowl performance is even enough - that's the minimum for a general Prince radar (I know plenty of people who haven't heard either). Bottom line - this is a newspaper review made for the average newspaper reader, not for all the die-hard fans. If you disagree with the writer, cool, say so (I'm sure even viewaskew could deal with that - even Kevin Smith would approve). But that doesn't mean you have to dis the writer as inexperienced, unprofessional or mis-matched to the task. That just shows ignorance and immaturity. "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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Another review:
http://www.mtv.com/news/a...ince.jhtml Prince Rocks New York With Two Intimate Shows -- In One Night! Singer does two two-hour-plus shows on Friday night at Hotel Gansevoort. By Joseph Patel The end of a week in which our country's economic picture looked more bleak than ever perhaps was not the ideal time to charge $1,000 per ticket for a Prince concert. But it's not every day that one gets to see the enigmatic legend in a setting as intimate as his two New York performances on Friday night: the rooftop of the Hotel Gansevoort, for about 250 people each (the late-night party could be had for the "bargain" price of $325). The shows celebrated the release of a new multimedia book, "21 Nights" (Atria, $50 — head over to the Newsroom blog for photos and info on that), chronicling Prince's 21-night run last year at the O2 arena in London. The photo book also includes a CD of exclusive material, and proceeds from the launch party were to go to two charities, Love 4 One Another Charities and Urban Farming (both with connections to Prince's beloved hometown of Minneapolis). Needless to say, economic strife or not, both shows were packed and Prince did not disappoint. Prince acknowledged the sign of the times as he opened his first set, kicking off with an improvised blues jam that riffed on the bleakness of the economy and technology, before ramping up the energy level with his most famous end-of-days anthem, "1999." Prince even tweaked the lyrics to the decades-old hit when he sang, "stock market crashing" instead of "sky turning purple." Backed by just a drummer (Cora Coleman-Dunham), a bassist (Cora's husband, Joshua Dunham), and a keyboardist (Morris Hayes), plus at times two backup singers (Marva King, Shelby Johnson) and a harmonica player (Frederic Yonnet), Prince seemed comfortable in the small setting and in good spirits, effortlessly running from one song to the next. The two-hour opening set featured mostly well-known Prince hits — like an extended medley of "I Feel for You," "Housequake" and "Controversy" — punctuated by cover songs like the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" and Chic's "Le Freak," and songs he had written for other artists, like "Nothing Compares 2 U," which was made famous by Sinead O'Connor. Prince was affable with the crowd, at one point joking with the room that sometimes, when he's at the airport, people call him by the name "Purple Rain" (which he also performed). Celebs like Spike Lee, Howard Stern, Dave Chappelle and Anderson Cooper could be seen enjoying both the music and the banter. Like most Prince appearances, the early show was followed by a much later — and looser — afterparty, which had a start time of 1 a.m. People often forget about Prince's inimitable guitar-playing, and he showcased his chops throughout the three-hour set, which featured a wider spectrum of his hits that weren't a part of the night's earlier show: "7," "Girls and Boys," "Alphabet St.," plus recent singles like "Musicology" and "3121." His cover songs, too, got the room bouncing, like when he turned the Cars' "Let's Go" into a funk-filled mantra for the evening ("I like the nightlife, baby!"), or turned both the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" and the Beatles' "Come Together" into celebratory soul jams. Midway through, Prince left the stage for an extended period — at which time Dave Chapelle came up to "fill time," telling half-done jokes about flying coach and a recent trip to Africa. One of the world's most famous comedians, Chapelle appeared to be just as excited as the rest of the room by the intimacy of the night. At about 3:15 a.m., Prince asked the crowd if he could play one more song (the answer was a resounding "Yes!"), but that turned into a 45-minute jam that rolled two Prince-penned hits for the Time ("Jungle Love" and "The Bird") into two more Prince-penned hits for Sheila E ("Glamorous Life" and "A Love Bizarre") to finally close out the night. "Don't tempt me, I gotta lotta hits!" he boasted from the stage. "We could be here till tomorrow afternoon." Economic downturn or not, everybody in attendance would have enjoyed that. | |
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firstandseventh said: Another review:
http://www.mtv.com/news/a...ince.jhtml Prince Rocks New York With Two Intimate Shows -- In One Night! Singer does two two-hour-plus shows on Friday night at Hotel Gansevoort. By Joseph Patel The end of a week in which our country's economic picture looked more bleak than ever perhaps was not the ideal time to charge $1,000 per ticket for a Prince concert. But it's not every day that one gets to see the enigmatic legend in a setting as intimate as his two New York performances on Friday night: the rooftop of the Hotel Gansevoort, for about 250 people each (the late-night party could be had for the "bargain" price of $325). The shows celebrated the release of a new multimedia book, "21 Nights" (Atria, $50 — head over to the Newsroom blog for photos and info on that), chronicling Prince's 21-night run last year at the O2 arena in London. The photo book also includes a CD of exclusive material, and proceeds from the launch party were to go to two charities, Love 4 One Another Charities and Urban Farming (both with connections to Prince's beloved hometown of Minneapolis). Needless to say, economic strife or not, both shows were packed and Prince did not disappoint. Prince acknowledged the sign of the times as he opened his first set, kicking off with an improvised blues jam that riffed on the bleakness of the economy and technology, before ramping up the energy level with his most famous end-of-days anthem, "1999." Prince even tweaked the lyrics to the decades-old hit when he sang, "stock market crashing" instead of "sky turning purple." Backed by just a drummer (Cora Coleman-Dunham), a bassist (Cora's husband, Joshua Dunham), and a keyboardist (Morris Hayes), plus at times two backup singers (Marva King, Shelby Johnson) and a harmonica player (Frederic Yonnet), Prince seemed comfortable in the small setting and in good spirits, effortlessly running from one song to the next. The two-hour opening set featured mostly well-known Prince hits — like an extended medley of "I Feel for You," "Housequake" and "Controversy" — punctuated by cover songs like the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" and Chic's "Le Freak," and songs he had written for other artists, like "Nothing Compares 2 U," which was made famous by Sinead O'Connor. Prince was affable with the crowd, at one point joking with the room that sometimes, when he's at the airport, people call him by the name "Purple Rain" (which he also performed). Celebs like Spike Lee, Howard Stern, Dave Chappelle and Anderson Cooper could be seen enjoying both the music and the banter. Like most Prince appearances, the early show was followed by a much later — and looser — afterparty, which had a start time of 1 a.m. People often forget about Prince's inimitable guitar-playing, and he showcased his chops throughout the three-hour set, which featured a wider spectrum of his hits that weren't a part of the night's earlier show: "7," "Girls and Boys," "Alphabet St.," plus recent singles like "Musicology" and "3121." His cover songs, too, got the room bouncing, like when he turned the Cars' "Let's Go" into a funk-filled mantra for the evening ("I like the nightlife, baby!"), or turned both the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" and the Beatles' "Come Together" into celebratory soul jams. Midway through, Prince left the stage for an extended period — at which time Dave Chapelle came up to "fill time," telling half-done jokes about flying coach and a recent trip to Africa. One of the world's most famous comedians, Chapelle appeared to be just as excited as the rest of the room by the intimacy of the night. At about 3:15 a.m., Prince asked the crowd if he could play one more song (the answer was a resounding "Yes!"), but that turned into a 45-minute jam that rolled two Prince-penned hits for the Time ("Jungle Love" and "The Bird") into two more Prince-penned hits for Sheila E ("Glamorous Life" and "A Love Bizarre") to finally close out the night. "Don't tempt me, I gotta lotta hits!" he boasted from the stage. "We could be here till tomorrow afternoon." Economic downturn or not, everybody in attendance would have enjoyed that. | |
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Wonderful 2 hear Prince news again! eye don't care 4 the reviews part bcuz usually it's always the same thing that's written. A very trite, or generic review! | |
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viewaskew said: 2elijah said: Honestly, I usually don't cater to haters, and I don't really care what people assume or think of me if you don't know that by now. But just to note, it's always easy for someone such as yourself to be a bully or a coward behind a computer screen and yell insults at people because you're angry they don't agree with you isn't it?. You sound like a 15 year old school kid combing this thread, just to insult anyone that disagrees with you or has a positive opinion on Prince's performances. So really, who is the obsessive one attacking people on this thread over a writer's comments?
Some of us mainly commented on one or two lines of the report, but overall, it's not a bad review. Newsflash! He's a writer, which in his profession he expects "criticism" and I doubt he's losing any sleep over what he wrote. So really, what's the problem? Are we not allowed to comment on an article on Prince because you feel we need your permission to comment? If you don't agree then fine, but we are entitled to our opinion as well. That's the bottom line. Call us sheep, (baaaa-aaaa) , ass-kissers, (smooches), or whatever you want to give comfort to your ego, it won't take anything from anyone. I'm still smiling and sticking to my opinion as you should yours. Have a wonderful day, and try not to use most of your energy hating on others.
[Edited 10/14/08 7:17am] I looked at what you wrote: "You sound like you just opened a can of hateration soup complete with a side order of angry noodles." And thought, are you a fucking 6 year old? You're entitled to your opinion though, but others don't feel the same as you;as you just contradicted yourself with your own statement, while preaching to others that "Prince is not all things to all people." How am I contradicting myself exactly? I am aware that this site is full little Prince lackeys, as several posted before & since. It's the same thing all the time whenever someone attacks Prince. Jamie Foxx said something bad about him, so Jamie Foxx is an asshole. So did Howard Stern. Let's attack him! Now, some NY Times writer? He clearly doesn't know what he's talking about! Who's next? It's pathetic. Someone must be putting extra grain in the silo, because all of you sheep are so full of shit. Let's try to keep things civil. Thanks!  Please note: effective March 21, 2010, I've stepped down from my prince.org Moderator position. |
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