Very cool. I hate BET a little less today.

"Purple Reign" - the laziest Prince pun ever, you lazy, lazy journos.

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i'd check it out, but it damn near killed my browser just from uploading the page.

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

i sooo agree with you lol

Did anyone take the quiz?
I got 2 wrong.

PurpleCharm said:

oooh i did too
which ones did u get wrong?

SammiJ said:

The one about Billy Sparks and #10.

i got the billy one wrong
and the one about his mama (i dont know! lol OK, yall can beat me 4 that)

Woohoo! All 10 correct!

i guessed on almost every q. how u guys know this stuff?

Well, I wasn't able to view it, because my Anti-Spyware detected Spyware on it.

mymocha

wow! that sums him (pre jehovah) up pretty good.

"Purple Rain" is a tour de force for Prince and pop music. I pointed out that when the papers were saying that Eminem was the first to have a top album and movie at the same time Prince already did it twenty years ago. This is when "8 Mile" came out and no one was really talking about Mr. Purple.


Good for BET that they finally caught-up now that's it's safe to. I wonder if they would've aired videos for "Dirty Mind" or "Sexuality" when they first came out?

But I'm glad they did a piece on the movie. Maybe they could've mentioned how the lovely Warner Brothers wouldn't pay him to participate?


I need to get my copy!


Five

fiveorange said:

I'm 29 and I remember seeing "Sexuality" back in the day only on BET. (Surely not on MTV, which, at the time, hadn't even begun its love affair with Michael Jackson yet, and he was the first black performer to break through on that station.)

I'm sure BET played "Dirty Mind." I saw both the V6 videos on BET. Later on in the years, I remember Video Vibrations doing a Prince marathon, complete with all Time, Family, W&L, A6, Sheila, you name it videos. BET had mad love for Prince back then, when their shows Video Soul, Video Vibrations and Video LP were on. Those were the days.

There used to be a show on the USA Channel called Night Flight that played a lot of Prince associate videos -- Vanity's "Pretty Mess," Jesse Johnson's "I Want My Girl," etc. -- all kinds of stuff. Finally we now have more music channels that do these things.

P.S. I got 10 for 10 on the quiz. ...props to BET.com


edit: oh yeah, and how can "Computer Blue" be the least liked Purple Rain song out of all those taking the poll? Come on!! These ppl must never heard the song then.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for letting us know about the lBET link.
I had an absolute ball going thru it.

Yes, this link was great to view what other's are saying about Prince. He is very influential.

nice link!

thank you!

jacknapier said:

10 out of 10

Mad props to the poster of this thread and to BET!! This was really cool and about time!

Thank you! BET outdid themselves on this one...best "fun" information on Prince and Purple Rain I've seen in a while...embarassed by my quiz...will not divulge!

Awesome! Thanks for posting this!

This was excellent. It's about time that BET gave the man some serious props. I remember as a kid watching Prince videos on Video Soul and Video Vibrations and seeing videos and getting facinated by them. If it wasn't for BET, I would have never seen the Dirty Mind, Controversy, Uptown, Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad, Sexuality and Automatic videos cause MTV never played them. Good for BET.

Very nice webpage.
Also 10 out of 10 on the quiz!

I was 10 for 10. I thought it had some really good articles there.
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one thing though: what kind of stupid question is THIS they kept asking celebrities: "what life lessons did youlearn from purple rain?" LOL they were all like "what"? LOL I don't blame them. that's too deep a question

Me too. I forgot that Lake Minnetonka was a real lake, although it was not the lake featured in the film. I also thought that Billy Sparks was the real manager of 1st Ave.

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