it's weird, i'm just listening to DOW from Crystal Ball and listening to him swearing so freely just sounds so out of place. If he started again i'd be gutted, there's no need + i couldn't play a new cd to my 5 year old kids who love him!.[they get just as excited when a new cd comes out!!]

I would feel like he was just doing it for sales, and not being true to himself.

Well, if he did an occasional "Shut up, already...Damn!" from housequake, I wouldn't be all that disturbed.


But if he ripped into Pussy control, I'd be scratching my head. Then laughing my ass off.

i saw an emancipation show and he was playing a solo and said "awh shit", that gave me hope.....

All warm and fuzzy inside.

as long as he's not changing 'sexuality' to 'spirituality', i'm happy.

ya'll kill me, what makes ya'll think he dont cuss behind closed doors?

Anx said:

So I guess you're not happy?

Don't know about the rest of you, but I like a good 'fuck'
nothing beats it.

FruitToAttractBears said:

within contexts not applicable to this thread, i'm very happy. smartypants.

I miss his (this is gonna sound funny) "shit" or "oh shit" in the live setting.
an occasional fuck once and a while wouldn't bother me at all. () Over use of swearing in general would seem odd but...it wouldn't bother me.

Whatever floats his boat.

I doubt it'll happen, though.

if he hadn't made a big announcement about stopping swearing, would we have noticed as much? would this thread have even happened? i think fans would have noticed, but it wouldn't have been as big a deal if he'd just stopped without announcing it.

Anx said:

The man has made a career of hanging a lantern on his problem.

Genesia said:

oh, i know. i was just imagining a thread in some alternate reality org:

"OMFG! is it just me or has prince stopped swearing?!?!?"

the same way i felt when he was still using them: couldn't care less.

Prince should be whom he is. They are just words.

I agree, you got to let an artist be who they need to be at that time in their career. As far as I how I would personally feel, I would want him to express himself any which way he wants, it makes no difference to me!

one word y'all, HEAD

I mean, I would love to hear him sing that again,
"enough of that lame shit, I'll give you HEAD"

Graycap23 said:

this could be taken in 2 ways...
1)Prince (now) is not the swearing type and just let him be..they are only words
OR
2)Prince is Prince...he swears and he should do so if he so chooses (regardless of what "some" might want him to do or not do) they are only words.


I'm gonna go with #2
[Edited 11/28/06 7:54am]

EDD said:

If expletives were the only issue, he could sing Head. There aren't any in the song, itself.

"what the duck" was an all time low for Prince... I mean really, just say it for christ's sake.

Someone should stomp on his foot or something, and see if they can get him to swear again.

well now that he's almost 50 i guess it'd be ok.

After stopping and encouraging us and others not to do it?....if he started again....I would be so f***** pi***d off at that motherf**** I would just sh**!

I am so f***ing sick of this bulls***!

Oh...sorry.


Colossians 3:8
KJV: But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

mano said:

well that's kinda hypocritical! LOL

Tom said:

Totally. Pray for me.




I admire most people who can say everything they need to say without cursing. I hope to get there one day. I'm workin on it!
[Edited 11/28/06 9:12am]

OMG people, they are just words. This has always bothered me about society. I can't believe how somehow we think words can be evil or wrong. I mean I certainly understand it when it comes to racial slurs but beyond that, a word is a word. most of the people who make such a big deal out of them are christians (which I am too) but these words didn't even exist in Jesus' time. I mean who sat around a table and said this word, that one and that one are bad. Cursing is wrong, but I take cursing to mean hateful, hurtful language. Why is it that in this society we can say whatever we want not matter how cruel or manipulative but as long as we don't use one of six or seven arbitrarily selected words it doesn't matter. It's all about self expression and context. If P is mad and he feels like saying, these are the motherfuckin days of wild, then he should let it out and be real.
And people say well it just sounds so unintelligent, like those are the only words people know, please, how many times do we say the word "the" it doesn't make us unintelligent. No artist or comedian, except for a few that are really bad, has ever walked on stage and said nothing but shit fuck suck my dick. We should stop trippin on words, and start thinking about meaning. We really need to take a minute to reevaluate things when we are so distracted by a word that we can't hear the meaning behind it.

I ain't even gonna try to lie...I'd be thrilled! I miss his random fucks, shits, damns and bitches. What can I say...hearing Prince say something bad was always fun for me.
[Edited 11/28/06 9:49am]

I'd be fine with it. Some songs just sound silly w/o the cuss words (e.g. we don't give a duck...), he should just not sing it instead of saying that. I'd love hear some "motherfuckin' Days of Wild." Although I could live without "I sincerely want to fuck the taste out of your mouth."

I would feel good.