MarySharon said:

Et les frigos...

Heiress said:

Je ne crois pas avoir entendu son dernier single sur les radios nationales, juste la pub à 2 balles à la télé "le retour de la legende"... mouais.
Prince & la France, not a love affair anymore.

Moi non plus mais c'est bien la mentalité des Français de toujours se plaindre de ce qu'ils ont et/ou de ce qu'ils n'ont pas. C'est cool d'avoir foutu en l'air ce "thread" qui était cool. Si c'est pour ramener votre fraise à la mentalité négative et puante vous auriez mieux fait de vous *abstenir*

Entre 1986 et 1988, Paris a été la capitale princière entre les concerts, le Palace, les Bains, avenue Foch, Libération, Canal + : Prince régnait sur Paris.
Dans mon lycée, aimer Prince, c'était "in" car incompréhensible pour les rustres. Il y avait même, en 1988, une station de radio qui avait une émission "Mutation" entièrement dédiée au Kid de Minneapolis.
C'était nos années pourpres...

Le lien entre Prince et la France se retrouve ici :je ne pensais pas trouver un si grand nombre de "crazy French" sur le site.

ChimChimBadass said:

Et pourtant, nous sommes beaucoup en France à toujours apprécier Prince, peut-être plus qu'ailleurs en Europe.

scapin said:

Arrête, tu vas les énerver...

je rencontre de plus en plus de gens qui apprécient Prince, pour telle ou telle période, surtout pleins d'ex-fans ou fans musiciens, qui font eux-même leurs trucs maintenant. On est tout de même un peu nostalgiques, surtout ceux qui ont un peu lâché et qui reviennent maintenant... Il m'a vraiment marquée, pour moi musicalement c'était une époque super génératrice de talents et de nouveaux styles. Pas comme on vit maintenant : on a de plus en plus d'interprètes mais pour la créa ça pêche... Heureusement qu'on a le net pour voir l'émergence de nouveaux trucs vu la sclérose des labels... De ce qui passe à la télé et de ce que les gens chantent...

Et puis on a le français, on a gagné en musicalité mais les chansons à texte se font rares... C'est bien, je suis sûre que le marché va bientôt évoluer, enfin j'espère.

Quelqu'un connaît les ventes pour 3121 en France ?

ChimChimBadass said:

Ici à Montpellier... je l'entends souvent sur la radio Nova. Beaucoup de TRC, en fait...

I must comment on how godamm glamourous it is to have a thread en francais.

I would join in, but my french is
'comme une vache espagnole'

no offence to the chicas/chicos on here xx

maleeboo said:

in fact, the original expression was "comme un basque espagnol..." how it became "vache," i'm not sure.

so maybe all the basques here should get up in arms.

Heiress said:

brilliant, that makes much more sense.

My boyfriend bought me a sexy basque for christmas.But ETA want him back. tee hee

(apols)

Pour retrouver la nostalgie princière, je regarde le DVD "SOTT" : quel album et quelle tournée géniale, absolue.

scapin said:

Es-tu allé à des concerts récents ?

maleeboo said:

exactement...ce la même pour moi. mais même si Prince n'aime plus la France, je l'adore! (La France et le Prince!)

Salut... allez un français de plusss...

...j'ai découvert prince avec Gett Off j'avais 13/14 ans... et de là découvert ses albums précédents et quasiment pas décroché depuis... Et là aussi j'avais l'impression d'être un ET, ce qui ne m'empêchait pas d'écouter aussi Nirvana ou Rage Against the Machine, ce qui déstabilisait d'autant mes camarades...

Prince amoureux de la France. Un temps oui, mais plus globalement n'aurait-il pas "quelquechose" avec les latins ???

Quand est-ce qu'il revient par chez nous, au fait ?

C'est la grande question, la mienne en tous cas !

Here are several of the replies and posts translated...hope this helps

Prince liked France so much because it made him a triumph at the time of the Parade tower whereas he did not expect pas.En effect it, all the places of Zenith were sold in 2 hours whereas he did not think mème of not filling it, within sight of its sales of rather weak discs then here. Moreover, it apprehended much this concert because it had been said to him that the public of Paris was very difficult, but the reaction was incredible, the public sang so extremely during Purple Rain which it collapsed while leaving scene, it would have been said that it was in larmes.Ce which also touched it, it is that the Minister for the culture, Jack Lang at the time, stops his holidays in Greece and takes again the plane for France to only see it in concert.Après, Steve Fargnoli offered an apartment Foch avenue to him and it often passed there, I believe that its intéret for France was not I remember, with the second rank with Bercy during the round Sign of the times, to be surrounded of a whole heap of mannequins equipped in Vanity/Appolonia, it was besides enough affolant!A the end of the Nineties, between Mayté and Mani, it attended some time a dancer of Crasy Horse, which regularly made it come to Paris. As for France, she loved Prince so much because, like everywhere, she found that Prince was a genius, but that more than elsewhere, the girls truvaient it super sexy and knew well to render comprehensible to him!

Stop, you will irritate them... I meet more and more people who appreciate Prince, for such or such period, especially full with ex-fan or fans musicians, who make them-even now their tricks. One is a little nostalgic all the same, especially those which released a little and which returns now... It really marked me, for me musicalement it was one generating super time of talents and new styles. Not as one saw now: there are interpreters more and more but for created that fishes... Fortunately that one has the Net to see the emergence of new tricks considering the sclerosis of the labels... From what passes to tele and of what people sing... And then there are French, one gained in musical quality but the songs with text are done rare... It is well, I am sure that the market soon will evolve/move, finally I hope. Does somebody know the sales for 3121 in France?

Hello... go French of plusss... ... I discovered prince with Gett Off I were 13/14 years old... and from there discovered his preceding albums and almost not taken down since... And there too I had the impression to be one AND, which did not prevent me from also listening to Nirvana or Rage Against the Machine, which destabilized as much my comrades... Prince in love with France. Wouldn't a time yes, but overall have "quelquechose" with Latin??? When it returns by on our premises, with the fact

Firstly, I must say that it is through a French mag that I really included/understood who was a Prince. Current a rather good article had published on Prince and its protected (at the time, The Time and Vanity) and the whole was presented like the last cry as regards pop American. I am not surprised that Prince consequently joined some connected, more especially as it had already fans in certain higher realms of the tricolour musical press. A few years later, whereas Lovesexy had been a failure in America, I had the surprise to note that Wish U Heaven was with the palamarès in the Hexagon. Does that mean that at the time, France was one of the markets most opened with the less commercial tendencies of Prince? It is what I thought, especially that thereafter, it lost much of its seal while being marketed more. Of course, there always were faithful fans but the public took down. I do not know what it would be necessary so that it hangs up again, because the success of Prince in France was in rather great part founded on its reputation of pop terrible child American, it what aesthetically he gave up when he délibèrément made albums with tubes like Batman and Diamonds and Pearls.

thanks for translating