Oh, the solidarity that disaster brings!

My mother, who has always HATED Prince, (I hid my collection from her as a teenager, natch), went out and bought me "The Hits" and Purple Rain when she thought I'd lost my entire Prince collection in the fire!



The entire family is in shock. Not about the fire so much as my mother!

Viva your momma!

PANDURITO said:

There's always hope.

And now she goes on about how handsome he is.

Heiress said:

next thing you know she'll drag you along
to an aftershow at 4 in the morning. lol.

IstenSzek said:

one can dream...

cool mom

MikeMatronik said:

she's come a long way, baby!

My mother bought me Lovesexy on vinyl when I was 13!

We've never talked about the cover!

Your moms rocks, Heiress. That was thoughtful of her.

My mom and I have drove to Nashville, TN and North Little Rock Arkansas to see Prince. We both have the same Prince inspired tattoo on our back.

In 1985, my mom made me a satin and lace purple outfit to wear to the Purple
Rain tour concert, since the ticket said "wear something purple".

I had 2 hide Prince stuffs from my parents when I was teenager.....My mom keeps hating him....I dont know why but she considers Prince more satanic than Marilyn Manson.....booh.....Life is strange

did you lost your collection?

My mom listens to Garth Brooks and Alabama.

My mum and dad were quite square and don't know anything about music but they've always supported my love for him.

Whenever he's on the telly or he's mentioned they'll phone me "Prince is gonna be on..!!" or "Did you see Prince on such and such??" or "Prince was mentioned on such and such.."

I think they've grown to secretly love him too !

Cheek said:

heh heh, when my daughter is older, i'll show her what "100 best album covers" has to say about lovesexy, and what i wrote about it in a research paper.

1sexymf said:

especially all the fuss she went through to find two without "parental advisory" stickers on them. she had my sister help her pick them out.

BKOOLBABY said:

that'll no doubt be us, by next year.

uptown26 said:

i'll bet she had plenty of practice with that sort of thing, making you costumes for school plays and getting notes like that from teachers. sweet!

Lilith said:

well see, there's hope for your mom, because that's the way mine used to be back in the 80s! parents mellow with age, sometimes.

and besides, prince's new look is more classic and accessible, which just may be calculated to please the older woman.

talk2bill2 said:

that's the funny thing - most of my collection is intact! it was downstairs in a cupboard - smokestained, but still mostly playable...

so, given these are presents from mom, i'll probably hang on to them anyway.

DarkKnight1 said:

I do too, occasionally.

My mother actually went to a concert by one of those little star academy people, or whatever you call them in America (I live in France, and can only think of the ubiquitous French version). I can't remember his name - Clay something???

pepper7 said:

My parents do that now. They record appearances for me, and tune in to see them first and tell me about it later long-distance on the phone.

And with my mom, it always starts off with: "he was so beauuuutiful..."

Heiress said:

Cheek said:

Does conservativism skip a generation? Maybe this is a topic for P&R!

Heiress said:

What do you really mean???

Cheek said:

as in to say, will my daughter rebel against me by hating prince?

Heiress said:

I am very conservative. (as is Prince this time of year) I do not think that has anything what so ever to do with liking Prince or not.

talk2bill2 said:

maybe we should take a public opinion poll of some kind?

have you hung out much in P&R?

Heiress said:

no i am sure i have read a topic or two but that was a while ago.