Did anyone ever spoil your love of prince?

Teighgirl33.

Teighgirl33 said:

Many times between 2 and 4 in the morning...as a teenager..playing "She's always in my hair 12" and Erotic City 12" OVER AND OVER AND OVER!!!

Hearing the bangs on the door from my parents..."HEY..TURN THAT DOWN NOW...and GET YOUR ASS TO BED!!!!"

They bought me some headphones at some point during that summer!!!
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My parents were really cool about my music back in the '80's. Prince, Punk and New Wave... they never complained once. Now I'm lucky enough to have a wife who loves P.

just last weekend. it was about 7 pm on a saturday. was playing "ona..it ain't over" and i get a call from the f'ing doorman of my building saying there were complaints that my music was bothering other residents. something about the "bass being too loud." i was like... and then i was like...

my sibs used to always ask me "Don't you have anything else to listen to?" for that i used to turn the music up louder and sing at the top of my lungs.

oh god yes, every single one of my friends! they all can't stand him! and my mom especially. i have headphones but she thinks that them being on zero is too fuckin loud. she always rolls her eyes when i talk about him, and my sister hates it too. I always turn my music up louder. I remember last year on the bus to school my friends were like
"turn ur music down! damn, can't u listen to someone else? like how could someone be hott when they wear high heels and makeup? isn't that making him GAY???' and my responce was a concise note and a big

cuz lawd knows i've been through hell defending myself and my man...

Mike Kids until they got hooked. Now they go to concerts with me.

My mom came into my room a few months back and screamed out when she heard me singing Darling Nikki at the top of my lungs. My mom was like" OMG,what is this? Is this X-rated?"

my dad thinks he's the spawn of satan

....
then again..my dad doesn't know much

when my sister was my age and had his posters all over her walls my dad threw a fit and in a fit of rage ripped everything off her walls....she was only able 2 salvage like 2 posters and those r the two i have now
that was like 18 or 19 years ago...before i was born

Quite the opposite, since my mother loves Prince as much as me. She would always have his music on full blast in the house.

Back in 1985 when I was 15yrs old I was in my room listening to the 1999 album when my father came in to tell me that he had just read a New York Times article about Prince and his sex oriented lyrics on some of his albums, then he went on to tell me that I better not be listening to any of those songs. I told him I wouldn't, and after he left I quickly grabbed my head phones from the walkman and pluged them into my stereo.
Other than that he was really cool about Prince, and my obsession with him. He even asked what tape I had the "Baby....a star/I would...4u concert video on so he could watch it whenever he wanted.

seduction747 said:

The same thing happened to me too in 1985, after Tipper Gore with the PMRC started calling Prince and the Revolution "Porn Rock".

rudeboynpg said:

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that. I can't believe that was 20yrs ago.

I had the 1999 album when I was 12 years old, and I would purposely NOT play certain songs around other people -- there was no way I was gonna risk someone taking it away from me. I remember one time playing the song "Jack U Off" really loud, thinking that my mother had no idea what it was about (yeah, we teenagers thought we knew it all and that everyone else knew nothing) and she yelled at me, "I know what that song's talking about!" That was embarassing! So I tried to keep the really sexual stuff on the down low.

Ah, yes constantly. I catch so much hell from everyone except my grandma for listening to Prince music. It's always "There she goes listining to that damn Prince again" And when Im on the school bus listining to my cd player and people put on my headphones, you should see the mouths drop. Im blasting "Automatic" in my room right now, let's see what happens.

Just ask my father! Thankfully my Mom was way cooler and we used to watch Sign O' the Times movie rocking out all the time.

no. my dad didn't mind me listenin to prince at all.

My mom drove me and my friends to the Purple Rain tour in 84 in Detroit so she didn't mind.. but I do remember keeping certain songs (Head, Sister, LPWM) away from her....

I wish somebody would tell me to turn my Prince music down.

adorable2 said:

turn your prince music down.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

What's that? I'm sorry Dansa, I can't hear you. Your avatar is too loud. It looks like Prince in 'My Little Pony' mode.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

it is prince in "my little pony" mode! i bought this my little pony dvd box set yesterday and on one of the episodes, i noticed the 'pony prince'. funniest thing about it is that the pony dude was singin this little song that said "do the moonwalk, ponies!" in it. so '80s. anyway, i did a screencap and made it into an avvie.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

It certainly has that 'No, you look great, I wouldn't have got in that water' look.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

oh man, the episode was so funny cuz it had a lotta pr-type moments in it....he kept fightin the bad guys during most of the episode. i was waitin for a francis l. pony to come out...

i'm gonna make screencaps of the pony prince and put 'em up on here tonight.

Oh my God, I was so upset one day when I was playing GOD. My dad came in and said that it sounded like two cats fighting. I was sooooo upset. I told my dad "Dad, it's a song about God." He looked at me in a strange way and left.

One of my favorite mom moments was hearing her sing When Doves Cry, well actually not the words just the ooo, oooo, ooo parts. This is an old school Mexican woman doing this. She would look at me and do the parts and laugh. I miss her.....For my graduation she dedicated a Purple Rain on the radio, the spanish version "Purpura, purpura"

Miguel

No, my mother has always been into prince , not as much as i am, but pretty
close. I took her to his musicology concert
and boy look out . nowdays,we are building our collection together., either one of us will call the other from whatever music store i'm in or she is in, and pick up a cd that neither one of us don't already have.
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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

squirrelgrease said:

shuddup. i grew up watchin that show!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I suppose. I've actually been tempted to pick up the H.R. Pufnstuf DVD set.