How many people have you sat down and played 3121 for? Sit your friends down and ask them to listen.Come on let me turn you out .
Peace , Carmy

...and one person: me.

i'm affraid to play prince music for people since oh about 1994
which is when i stopped trying to convert others.

only one friend of mine made the jump onto the prince bandwagon
and she only likes the 'days of wild', 'good life' type songs.

people just don't like his music, which is probably why he has
such bad sales figures globally these days.

even when they don't even know it's prince and one of his songs
pops up in my car on a mixed mp3 cd, people -without exception-
always always ALWAYS say "what's this shit? SKIP!"

i guess prince these days is just an acquired taste.

altho i have to admit that one friend was forced to listen to
3121 by me when i just bought it and she was driving home with
me so i really wanted to play it in the car.

now this girl never liked any prince music but she liked 3121,
even remarked on it more than once on the way home, how it was
a really nice album and by the time we got to Fury she even
said that she liked every song that far very very much.

which was a totally new experience for me, i was like "you ill?
let me feel your forehead"

For me, inviting your friend around and then expecting them to sit down and listen whilst you impose your music on them ... is a bit like knocking on someone's door and expecting them to listen to your beliefs.

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I did. Most of my friends and my boyfriend have similar music tastes. So I listened to 3121 alone first, then yes, my boyfriend and my bestfriend (and me) just sat and listened to the all album without saying A WORD. We enjoyed. And because I had it soon, some people were happy to hear it for the first time and they usually liked it.

langebleu said:

it makes me feel uncomfortable myself when i put music on if i have
company around. it makes me start to hate my own music. just some
really watered down unintrusive stuff, softly in the bg is ok when
i have people visiting.

but even songs that i am absolutely crazy about at the moment, if i
make other people sit down and say "listen this song is so good", i
immediately start hating the song, lol.

i've listened to "cripple and the starfish" by antony & the johnsons
for about 7000 times recently and so i made the mistake of letting
my friend hear it in the car. halfway through the track (he hadn't
even commented negative or positive yet, was just listening) i just
wanted to pull the cd out of the dashboard and cut it up.

lately i can only really enjoy music when i'm working on my computer
and listening to it privately.

i guess im just a neurotic wreck

I know exactly what u mean,I thought it was just me but when I listen 2 his music in company it changes it somehow. Maybe its because it is so personal 2 us and close 2 our hearts.

I have nearly always had some issues with others and Prince.

Since I don't base my friends on commonalities, it happens all the time.

The best example I can give, is my history with girlfriends. It's like, nearly all of the women in my past couldn't stand Prince. Like an unfair curse. Here's someone, who besides what he did musically and lyrically, also influenced me tremendously (musically). Who knows? Those lyrics could've actually contributed 2 me being a great lover. Scratch that... That comes naturally like music.

Anyway... it's someone who liberated my thinking, which was already quite liberal and open.

It's been a real drag that most of them just couldn't stand Prince. How does that happen? Then... meanwhile, through the years, I go 2 concerts, on the guest lists, checking out the chicks (yeah I said it), and I'm like, "Why not her?"

It sounds petty, coming from me, as I don't care about commonalities between lovers tastes, but it has been frustrating.

Damn. That's about as candid as I can get...

4 now...

Easy.

G.

Yes. My boyfriend thinks it's crap. He thought Musicology was quite good though.

My friends really got into Prince thru me, yeah they knew his popular material, but when I play his other material it might take a while but they usually start picking their favorites Don't Play Me, Sun, Moon & The Stars & The One R very popular amongst them.

at this point, nobody i know cares much when i get a new prince cd, and i've given up on trying to make them listen. and that's....okay. imagine if i had a creed fan in my life. there have to be borders drawn somewhere.

I never just pop in a Prince CD when my friends are over, or in my car. I'll always have it playing already when they come in. Even if they don't like Prince, I'll have it playing just to piss them off. But the rest, they don't seem to mind tho... most even like it. One guy who's always made fun of me liking Prince was in my car once and I was playing The Hits CD1 and ICNTTPOYM came on and he was bopping his head in approval, then he was singing along to Thieve in the Temple!