My Parents love Prince for 20+ years!

They actually watched the 2000 Rave PPV Concert & enjoyed it

I told this story once before:

I got my first taste of Prince through my older bros. My dad is a old-school pentecostal pastor and actually threw away the Gett Off single I had borrowed from my brother!!! As a teen in the 90's I was an on and off listener but I have to admit I sometimes didn't want to let on to my boys that i was a P fan. Oddly enough, it was the "clean" prince that turned me back on to the old school stuff. Sometime in '03 I came across the ONA DVD and immediately fell right back in love and soon bought the rave CD and DVD, and older LP's off ebay and at "wrecka stows". One day while driving my father somewhere, I purposely played the "The Work",live version, which i had burned from the ONA DVD onto CD.He said it sounded like someone doin a James Brown tune, still not knowing it was P. He was bobbin his head, and when he heard P call out "MACEO!" He smiled and asked who it was. When I told him it was P he almost wrecked the car! Anyway, now I myself am a Minister and a bigger fan than ever, my family, friends, and wife are sick of it.

doctamario said:

My mom didn't like it (2 "violent", musically speaking, 4 her), but respected P as a musician. I remember she kinda liked "How Come U don't Call Me Anymore", though.
My dad doesn't consider anything but jazz & classical european music 2 b music , so P didn't make an exception 2 him. I had him listening 2 Madhouse's "8" once & he said it was not 2 bad or something like that. I wonder what he'd think of "Xpectation", gotta try him with this one one day.
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My mommy and daddy know I buy Prince cds,they see the covers and are alright with it,my mom a little less. My mom thinks he's gay and my dad knows Prince is a genius. I showed my dad a video of prince performing on Leno and he was amazed!

My mom saw him as some type of Little Richard, only updated.

I'm 38, so when Prince was really on top of the world I was still
High School... My mom thought he was a total fox.. (and she still does
and the women is 74!)
She loves his eyes and she loved that one picture from
The PEOPLE magazine years ago..
"Would you trust this man with your daughter"... Remember
that one?? She would always say "Sure, but he'll have to get
through ME first"..
I was really lucky cause she never cared that my Bedroom
was FILLED with his posters, and pictures.
She would come in and say "Oh, is that a new pix?"
She was and is a COOL Mom..
My dad liked some of his music.. and he thinks he looks
MUCH nicer, and neater NOW.. but he didn't mind that I was
and Am a HUGE fan!