Does anybody here at the org remember an interview led by mel b (melanie brown,from the spice girls) to prince back in the emancipation days ( or slightly
after emacipation)? I'm from Italy, and I distinctly remember it was aired on tv as a special on prince, and it featured questions from mel b to the "Artist".
I remember Prince to be particularly messianic ( in a sort of cult way) in that interview.

OK, I'll go way out on a limb and believe you when you say you're Mel B.



So, here's all i have to say. Please please please please sleep with me.



OK, there I've said it. I made my peace.

anguilla said:

yeah, it was part of a special called "beautiful strange". it was a very scripted interview, held at paisley park if memory serves correctly, and prince was discussing his newly-formed (at the time) JW beliefs with scary spice.

You could buy it on VHS from 1800NF at one point.

Anx said:

I own the video and watched it recently. It was around the New Power Soul album. In my opinion, Prince was not messianic in that video nor was he discussing his newly-formed beliefs at length. They discussed a lot of things, I was taken more by the flirtations. Some of the questions might have been scripted, but there was a lot of free flow to that interview.

The bit out on the playground where Mel asked Prince to say "Romeo, Romeo let down your hair" and he first asked her if that's her hair, then starts to say it, but stops mid sentence and says "It's Rapunzel" then stops didn't seem scripted. I also found Prince staring at her butt and telling her not to cover it because brothas liked that to be quite natural.

The word association seemed scripted with regard to the words that were chosen. However, the two of them sitting on the steps and talking didn't seem scripted either. You just have to watch it for yourself and judge.

It was first aired in the UK on Channel 4. There was the interview with Mel B at Paisley Park (there was a brief bit with Prince producing the song 'Beautiful Strange' in the studio), Newpower Soul had just been released. Interspersed with it were parts of a performance of an aftershow at the Cafe de Paris featuring Larry Graham and Chaka Khan and Dougie Fresh. The video used to be available to buy from the 1800 New Funk store.

Haven't watched it for a long while, don't remember Prince being particularly messianic or dicussing his JW beliefs at any length, it was just a very simplistic non-challenging interview with Mel B fawning over him.

metalorange said:

it wasn't necessarily prince doing a full-on witnessing thing, but he was going on about birthdays and christmas and nimrod's birthday...it seemed like he was anxious to start sharing what he'd been starting to learn, though it would be a while before "onesong" and "the christ"...this was kind of the first rumbling of all that would come in the following years leading up to 'the rainbow children', or so it seems to me.

Anx said:

All I remember was him talking about "We're getting closer to the Truth", and laughing my ass off.

i remember the night that came on channel 4.
it had the cafe paris gig,the innerview,sign o the times and some videos
it was great.

anguilla said:

You can watch it on HQ. It's the Beautiful Strange interview, I believe.

Anx said:

Who?

FunkMistress said:

please. don't ask.

Anx said:

But I already did!

UCantHavaDaMango said:

(it's quite cringe-able)

FunkMistress said:

oh gawd, i remember that...he was totally a n00b jehovah's witness too, so he was all like "omgz, nimrod! i don't beeleeve in birfdays no more, lolz!". it bordered on cute.

Some of you all are REALLY exaggerating the birthday/Christmas thing. It was a few seconds. They were playing the word association game. She said Christmas and he said Nimrod's birthday. She's asked what or something like that and he gave a brief response, it was not a JW diatribe. I don't get where that is coming from. They talked about music and she mentioned something about a movie and he said he would be in her movie. He said it had to be about the truth and that there was only one truth.

I wish that when someone asked a question on here, people woulddn't overstate things. It is very misleading. Again, I say to the original poster watch the interview and decide for yourself.

He called Jesus a nimrod??

I actually quite like that interview. They had a good flow going
and Prince seemed like he was really having fun with her.

There are a few religious references, but he didn't whip out
a bible or anything.

It's over at housequake.com

you mean Prince and the future Mrs. Eddie "golden child" murphy

It's one of the best interview he's ever done IMO, and he seemed really normal. Only that part about getting closer to the truth seemed a bit much considering it was about NPS. And of course saying he didn't write songs about sex, when he'd already said the comment about "mad sex" was a little hard to swallow.

The "interview" if you can call it that was totally embarrasing. Mel B was like some star struck fan, all doe eyed. I watched it again a few weeks ago and it hasn't improved with time at all.

She kept saying stuff like "you're lovely you are" repeatedly, and basically agreeing with everything he said. She came across as exactly what she is a brainless, talentless idiot

The funniest thing was she said something, one time and he mimicked her, basically taking the piss out of her accent and she never even realised

To paraphrase Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons...worst interview EVER!!!

FunkMistress said:

no, he was referring to satan. if he called jesus/gawd/jehovah/whoever's clever that, dude would be getting all of his brownie points revoked.

onecrush said:

yes, we all know she's an idiot, but he was less elusive & annoyingly mysterious than usual.

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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Is Nimrod his special name for Satan?

FunkMistress said:

i suppose.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

nah, I think Nimrod was a descendant of Noah, and founded Babylon