You listen to an Artist for the first time

You think WOW! how come he/she/they aren't better known? Why aren't they getting the press? How can something this good stay ignored/hidden/undiscovered?

You try and get everybody you can to listen to it. "seriously listen, you'll like it i promise just give it a chance", and once in a while somebody agrees with you.

Then one day the radio plays it.

Then the press talks about it.

You feel proud/happy/excited about this.

Then people at work/friends/family tell you they love it.

You say "i told you so, i've been in the know for x years"


THEN you feel jealous that people like what previously you thought was only a very select club.

and then it starts again, sometimes with the same artist people asking "i didn't realise he/she/they were still recording/together/alive?"


this has happened so many times with me and Prince it just goes to show that "man is never happy" i suppose.

Jukebox With A Heartbeat.....why u giving people what they want, when
you ought to give 'em what they need?

I talk about Prince alot, have ah pretty descent amount of Prince and NPG merchandise (T-Shirts, writbands etc.), I'm always bumpin Prince in the car or at home. So when Prince's popularity gets any kind of surge, everyone thinks of me. For example, earlier this year when he was on a bunch of award shows. I got tons of calls, texts and 2ways, with people telling me "turn to channel 7, your boy is on TV!" I reply, "Thanx anyway, you know I already know." I guess I wear my Prince fanhood on my sleeve so well, that when he gets some airplay and media hype, I'm the talk of the town too.
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TheBluePrince said:

i'm exactly the same

as a kid at school though it wasn't too advisable to admit to being a prince fan-I'd have been smacked!!

TchoFessio said:

I fucking hate that shit. That's why i don't listen to Kelis anymore. Soon as that fucking "MILKSHAKE" song came out, that just ruined her for me.

it also happpened to me with the Black Eyed Peas, Goldie, Moby, Chili peppers Prodigy, TLC, Lucy Pearl.....

TchoFessio said:

Yeah, I've been there. Til all the ladies started realizing the benefits of their man being a Prince fan Then it was considered cool. Thank you LoveSexy: When 2 R N Love.

The Media perpetuated this "Flava Of The Month" crap. I kind of thought the same thing last year. People were jumping on the bandwagon for the Prince tour & as soon as it left town they started forgetting him all over again.I bet they only went to the show to hear Dover Cry & Little Red Corvette anyway.
Like David Lee Roth used to say "Here today, gone later today."

no.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

no? never? i don't like feeling it but subconciously i feel as if some part of the experience gets diluted, that somehow i need to justify for example being a prince fan, that i need to show people i have been making mix tapes of his music since i was 8 years old, just to prove that i've not just jumped on the next 'trendy train'

does this make sense?

TchoFessio said:

I understand where you're coming from with this but I never really felt that way. I was talking about Prince when it was a nightmare to do so, the whole name change period up til 2003. When the media came back, I was still doing what I did before but I had magazines and TV reports to back it up (not like I needed them). Now that it's died down, it's still business as usual. And I was never one of those people that felt like Prince had to be to myself. I felt and still feel like Prince is for EVERYONE. That's why the period of him on the Internet was a pure horror but I made it through. If anything 2004 made it easier for those who didn't know much about him to get educated. Many friends came around last year alone and even now so it's all gravy for me. As long as the music's bumpin, it'll continue to be a stone gas baby!
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TchoFessio said:

I can see most of the others, but TLC? Their first single went top 10 in just a few weeks. How far ahead of the curve could you have been? Unless you're secretly Pebbles...

renfield said:

in the UK their first hits weren't from their first album, and to be honest they only had huge success with their fanmail album, but i do realise what you mean-i was just trying to highlight what i meant about prince.

as for Lucy Pearl, i sort of meant the parts of the group, i love Toni Tone Tony and ATCQ so i felt weird when people talked about it like it was a new thing/sound.

TchoFessio said:

yes. and the answer's still no--i've never felt a "need" to prove anything i listen to to anybody. if somebody thinks what i listen to is shit, then right on for 'em. to try and prove someone otherwise is an absolute waste of time and energy.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

i don't know anything about you but surely when you were at school, no confidence, inseciure (i can't spell after too much wine sorry!), you must have felt the need sometimes to justify your tastes?

TchoFessio said:

no. i never gave a fuck about what anybody thought of me, nor did i wanna do what everybody else was doing.