What a fucking asshole. If it is beneath him then he should not have done it. I thought he was a professional. It just shows how low his career has falling that he needs to do a show that he does not like. I hate that damn show and I did not watch it even with him on it.

duke919201 said:

and you're still here because...

He's so bad ass...I was kinda disappointed he did the show too...only because its so damn cheesy and mass-marketed tripe...but I am sorry...the fact the he strolls up at the very moment..does the two songs...stolls back out.

yeah well I missed it. I was out linedancing and my son called and told me he was on so...

Ha! Which more than explains the terrible make up job. It was done in a limo in bad lighting.

Now I'm positive Universal nagged him into doing the show.



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rave323 said:

as much as i hate those shows...prince would have been a fool to have not done it....50 million people watching it or something!!...he still likes to sell records and remember, aint getting much airplay these days so i say he has to take it. he made his point about not liking the show and used it for his own ends...thats fine by me...we all know prince has more musicial talent in his left nut than all these so called singers have put together so i have no problem with it.

SammiJ said:

HELLO!!!!!

Anyone who thinks that he truly left there in 5.5 minutes is deluded.

Nigel Lythgoe, the executive producer, said that Prince met with all 12 of the contestants.
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Prince is a bad motha....SHUT YO MOUTH!

This will go down in the anals of Prince yore.

Now see heah, all yaw'll fools who s'posed to be pimpz'n'playaz - THAT'S HOW YA WRECK A SHOW! All yaw'll need ta know - Prince iz in da HOOOOOUUUUSE!!!!

Okay, I'm done with my gangsta moment (hey, if Christina Millian can "keep it gangsta" (whateva da fonk dat means), why not the rest of the us?)

purplecam said:

That's pretty cool that Prince got to meet all the contestants. Do you think Kelly Pickler and that Bucky kid knew who Prince was? You gotta wonder about that, since they both said that they had never heard of Stevie Wonder.

purplecam said:

Yep - that was it, the Prince "Master Class" in Pop stardom - the final lesson, the finishing school for the little idols before they are released into the wild...

Spinlight said:

Darn to bad I missed it, because I hate AI. I can't stand how people talk about that show, good thing is over.

jone70 said:

He outgrew that??

Are you guys clutching at straws here? Does it matter how long he stayed? You seem to be looking for ways for Prince to redeem himself. Too late, he performed on AI, you'll just have to get used to that fact!

I was thinking, from the reports it sounds like he just turned up and did his thing. But there must have been a certain level of pre-planning and perhaps even rehearsal. For one thing, Prince uses the white light at the beginning to begin the performance in silhouette (very MJ, actually!) so he obviously knew that was going to be there. Also he must have known the distance from there to the mic, since he times the start of his singing perfectly. The camera work also is usually reheased - okay, a few times the cameras showed close-ups when they should have pulled back to show him dancing, but apart from that the camera work looked pretty organised. And finally, there was that strobe lighting effect when Lolita breaks down, so the lighting director at the very least must have had a tape of the music of the performance in advance to work out what the lights should be doing.

Anyway, the great thing about this performance is how wild the crowd went when they recognised Prince - obviously the surprise aspect and being gee-d up by all the previous performances helped. The surprise aspect seems to be one of the things that got a lot of people talking after the show.

Performance wise, Prince has done a lot of tv performances over the years and has set an incredible standard with some of them, such that many on here don't rate this performance particularly. But in the context of the show and surprise, I thought it was excellent. Certainly, I've heard many of these AI contestants struggle to stay in tune or hit a note, never mind exude charisma at the same time - Prince effortlessly showed them what real star quality and singing ability was all about (although of course he's had 20 odd years of practice of course!)..

This is a non-news event.

For all the slack that people give AI for being a commercializied piece of junk, notice that Prince still showed up, and took advantage of the the fact that tens of millions would see him pull this. Looks like "good business" to me, nothing more, nothing less .

I'da done that too, just to avoid having to talk to that Seacrest douche.

funkpill said:

exactly!

whether he was there for 5.5 minutes or 15 minutes,

he still proved that....

he's still a bad purple muthafucka!!!!!

rave323 said:

There is no other mofo like Prince!

I just love him!

That's the reason he's called His Royal Badness.

Cheek said:

Here! Here! Long live the bad mofo like no other

Prince - the ultimate entertainer of our times.

He came back in 2004
He ruled the land in 2006

Good story but I highly doubt he kept producers guessing.

Of course he did it that way. That's not "pimpin". It's certainly not "hit it and quit it" if you saw that bullshit "performance". It's Prince being a dick. As usual.

And the fact that he even DID American Idol proves how desperate the man has become in his old age to sell some records.

Good lord.

thinking about it, it does seem a little logistically improbable that someone could stroll into an auditorium and traipse on stage for a televised performance at the last minute. the 15 minute scenario seems a lot more plausible. if the band really was playing in the pit, i'm very impressed - "lolita" sure sounded like a backing track to me.