i was thinking about it and i asked myself " why the color purple?" things that crossed my mind were

purple = red+blue

red symbolizes love a lot of the time, and blue can represent sadness. so sadness and love, somewhere inbetween?

blue reminds me of the sky, where heaven is located red, the color of the devil. maybe he is somewhere between heaven and hell??

just some thoughts, anyone else have any insight??

Well, really the colour purple signifies royalty and majesty!! So with his name being PRINCE - go figure!!!!

But then, on the other hand, purple also signifies gay pride!!!
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PURPLE STANDS 4 SPIRITUALITY.....

purple because it just fit...

i mean, you can't sing "RED RAIN!!! RED RAAAAIN"


just kidding

sexkitten04 said:

But "Lime-Green Rain! Lime-Green Rain!" woulda been magic.

Luv & Peace,
Alex
Clubbin' in Mpls/A Night w. Prince

Blue and pink are the traditional male and female colours. Purple is somewhere in between.

Purple is the colour of royalty and of sexual freedom. Also, he looks great in purple, so it may be for no other reason than he loves the colour.

Because he likes it.

sexkitten04 said:

Peter Gabriel did.

Purple symbolizes homosexuality. That's why.

i WAS told it is the colour of his favourite basketball team

popnchopstix said:

I like your views. Heard a lot over the years; but your interpretation is more profound than most.
The love-melancholy, and heaven-hell dichotomy is definitely Prince.

I read somewhere that he "borrowed" the color from the MN Vikings - the local NFL American Football team for Minneapolis area. Not sure how true that is or not. I would love it to be true - a great Prince joke on all those who dream up deep and meaningful reasons for why he chose purple - only for it to be the color of his team.....


"Screw you guys....
Im going home"

Im sure I read some where that Prince wanted to create something as great as the Hendrix 's Purple Haze, so wanted to sing about something purple and decided on rain.

purple has always been a color symbolizing royalty -- "what's my name?"

Purple - symbolizes: Royalty, magic, mystery, inspiration, imagination
Purple is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple is a good color to use in meditation.

Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color. Most children love the color purple. Purple is the color most favored by artists. Thursday's color is purple.



Purple,
is the color of royalty but rare in nature and perceived as artificial. Light purple or lavender is a fashion favorite while dark purple implies wealth. A combination of red and blue, purple is a color that has been associated with royalty since ancient Roman times. The color purple is symbolic of power, spiritual goals, passionate belief, visionary leadership, respect and wealth and has been worn by emperors, military commanders, and other high-ranking officials. It also has come to symbolize psychic ability, success, wisdom ,power, spiritual growth, and independence. Lavender has come to mean reverence and royalty. The word "purple" comes from the Greek porphura, a species of shellfish that yielded, through an elaborate process, the dye called Tyrian Purple. Very expensive to produce, it was reserved for special cloth and garments, such as those of kings. In Christianity, purple means penitence. In Hindu belief, purple is the color of the crown chakra.

popnchopstix said:

I think U're going 2 deep w/ it. Purple, is the color of Divine Radiance. It also was mentioned in one of his guitar hero's most famous songs: Purple Haze (Jimi). I think he combined the metaphysical meaning of the word, w/ Jimi's "taking U higher" concept in Purple Haze, and the fact that Purple is the color of Royalty, and took in2 the stratosphere. That's why I love purple 2 this very day, even though my personal favorite colors R olive & forrest green.

Pink it's my new obsession
Pink it's not even a question,
Pink on the lips of your lover, 'cause
Pink is the love you discover

Pink as the bing on your cherry
Pink 'cause you are so very
Pink it's the color of passion
'Cause today it just goes with the fashion

Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light, and
Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

You could be my flamingo
'Coz pink is the new kinda lingo
Pink like a deco umbrella
It's kink - but you don't ever tell her

Pink it was love at first sight, and
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

I want to be your lover
I wanna wrap you in rubber
As pink as the sheets that we lay on
Pink it's my favorite crayon, yeah

Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink it's like red but not quite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight
Aerosmith

GGD

yea i thought about it later and i rembered in those old school big ass boxes of crayola crayons, u always had royal purple, and princeis, well prince so the royalty thing makes sense. Maybe it is from the vikings, but i felt i had to go deeper cuz well some of the lyrics prince signs are pretty deep, so i thought purple had to be deep too. i gues its open to interpretation.

Why purple? Green was taken.

Research shows that creative people tend to like the color Purple a lot. Purple happens to be my favorite color, along with Black... I happen to be an artist.

popnchopstix said:

poppnchopstix, maybe it has more to do with the number"6"
than the color. See a few points below:

Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson) (each name has 6 letters)

666,666: The number of CDs Prince had to sell under his old record deal to make $1 million.

6 The number of musicians hired for Prince’s original band(in alphabetical order)

1 Gayle Chapman
2 Andre Cymone
3 Dez Dickerson
4 Matt Fink
5 Lisa Melvoin
6 Bobby Z (Rivkin?)

6 The number of members in The Time’s original lineup(in alphabetical order)
Morris Day
Jimmy Jam (James Harris III)
Terry Lewis
Jellybean Johnson
Jesse Johnson
Monte Moir

6 The Number of colors in the rainbow (in order)
1 Red
2 Orange
3 Yellow
4 Green
5 Blue
6 Violet/Purple (both have 6 letters)


6 in the names of his female singing groups consisting of three members.

Vanity 6 (Had a song titled 3X2=6)
Brenda Bennett
Denise Matthews
Susan Moonsie


Apollonia 6
Apollonia (Patrica Kotero)
Brenda Bennett
Susan Moonsie

In what month was he born? June(6) or July(7)?
Just something to think about!

GGD

popnchopstix said:

poppnchopstix, maybe it has more to do with the number"6"
than the color. See a few points below:

Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson) (each name has 6 letters)
Does any know anyone else with the first or middle name
of Rogers? I know a lot of guys named Roger!!!!

666,666: The number of CDs Prince had to sell under his old record deal to make $1 million.

6 The number of musicians hired for Prince’s original band(in alphabetical order)

1 Gayle Chapman
2 Andre Cymone (Anderson)
3 Dez Dickerson
4 Matt Fink
5 Lisa Melvoin
6 Bobby Z (Rivkin?)

6 The number of members in The Time’s original lineup(in alphabetical order)
Morris Day
Jimmy Jam (James Harris III)
Terry Lewis
Jellybean Johnson
Jesse Johnson
Monte Moir

6 The Number of colors in the rainbow (in order)
1 Red
2 Orange
3 Yellow
4 Green
5 Blue
6 Violet/Purple (both have 6 letters)


6 in the names of his female singing groups consisting of three members.

Vanity 6 (Had a song titled 3X2=6)
Brenda Bennett
Denise Matthews
Susan Moonsie


Apollonia 6
Apollonia (Patrica Kotero)
Brenda Bennett
Susan Moonsie

In what month was he born? June(6) or July(7)?
Just something to think about!

GGD

fascinating, GGD

MrSquiggle said:

cha ching!!!! we got a winner!

gvnblkr said:

hey! theres always EMERALD.

emerald rain...emerald raiiiiin...i only want 2 c u laughin n the emerald rain!

has a nice ring 2 it dontcha think?

GGDeVille said:

whoaaaaa...

Moonwalkbjrain said:

Hey...I'll buy that!!
Start pressing the vinyl, pull up the tourbus, shot the video,
and collect the Grammy!!! Oh yeah, this time let BrownMark talk
and let us see more of the Modernaires performance!!!
GGD

Moonwalkbjrain said:

Not bad at all.

He was born in June