umm...doesn't everyone know he got a hip replacement? It's not a rumor I don't think... But yeah, about the dancing, you're takin it for granted! He's good at it, but ya know at 50 you can't meet all expectations. Just watch Sign o' the Times back to back to back if you miss the dancin so much

MarcelJ said
a "limp" to his "pimp".

Who remembers when Prince didn't know how to dance?

Like it has been said before, between Controversy and 1999, P took some dance lessons. He must have been a practicing fool during that time period because prior to that, P looked like he was a part of the Rhythmless Nation.

PurpleCharm said:

i was there !.he was no better than the new wavers doing little rhythmic robotic moves..I think Michael Jackson made him get on his J-O-B !

I heard that he had hip surgery. Wearing heals constantly for years, especially dancing, damages the hips.

I think that all that outrageous jumping around on stage has finally caught up 2 him.

Negritaluvyu said:

just what kind of dancing are u wanting 2 see? u want him 2 jump off a speaker stack and land into the splits again? come on, that was over 20 years ago and sadly 4 u, those days are over. get over it, already.

and last i noticed, he's still getting his "dance on".

vainandy said:

vainandy said:

thats not true Prince danced a lot especially on the lovesexy tour, the nude tour, diamonds and pearls tour, the symbol tour it was choreographed, and he even returned to doing splits on the love 4oneanother tour... mayb he should go to Yoga with Madonna and workout to "Love Song"

kjamal said:

Uh when I said "earlier in his career" I meant pre-Parade. He used to be HEAVILY into the guitar onstage on his first few tours. Diamonds and Pearls, album, Lovesexy, were not "early" in his career. He'd been around 10 years when Lovesexy hit.

Another reason Prince may have toned down his dancing (especially at the superbowl) is that the general public often ridicules his prince signature twirls and splits as stereotypical of him.

He was said to have consciously edited his dancing style in Purple Rain as more RockNRoll to avoid comparison to Micheal Jackson at that time.

He got more into "Jackson" style choreography just past Lovesexy (although he did the dance solo in the spotlight in that tour and the opening antics)... I personally liked the "dance" shows like the lip synched Pussy Control performance, or Gold Medley....

HELLOOOOO !! I'm 52 and I still dance. Used to do the splits in high school but dropped off.
Prince's music style has evolved and the high energy dance movements and gymnastics just don't work. He's more mature. I like what he's doing including using back up dancers for the entertainment angle. This way he can focus on the music.

Exactly. I never really saw him do any what you would call "fancy" dance moves until the "Little Red Corvette" music video. Although, on the bootleg video of the "1999" tour, I did see him jump up and do a split in mid-air (kinda like David Lee Roth) during the song "Let's Work".

vainandy said:

Amen to that!!!

MarcelJ said:

I too have been following Prince for more than 25 years and he does not appear to limp to me. I know that it is all a matter of perception. I don't know if the hip replacement rumor is true or not. (I just wish for health and happines for our boy). However, I was up close and personal with him at two 3121 aftershows and he wasn't limping at all.

I agree that he doesn't jump around on stage like he used to, but it would look a bit ridiculous at this point, because it doesn't fit his current style of music. IMHO

He still grooves to the music like he did earlier in his career. I think his career has come full circle. He is now back to focusing on the music first. He doesn't have to do all the theatrics to earn the moniker of "greatest live performer around." He's earned that with his many tours. So now he can wow us with his unbelievable musicianship. He is letting the music "dance" for him. I also think that Prince's stripped down shows are an intentional antithesis of these overproduced, overchoreographed shows that are standard now.

Oh yes it does. He's the only one these days that makes music uptempo enough to be jumping around on stage to. Everyone else's music is so damn slow they need to be waltzing to it.
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vainandy said:

Oh, don't get me wrong. P is still the funkiest man on two feet. Only a corpse can stand still to the funk he's putting down. I just don't think they're the kind of grooves that would allow for all the spinning, splits, jumping on speakers, etc. I think the groove is great for what he does now - groove.

I should have said that it doesn't fit his "style" now. He's not all wild on stage anymore. He's so much more laid back - the energy is still there, but channeled in a different way now. I dig it!!

BELL6983 said:

He does'nt need to, Yet he's still more entertaining to watch then some of these new cats half his age.

I aint complaining..the man was pretty swift on his feet when I danced with him at Butter!!! He even got down in front of me swaying back and forth!

ThePunisher said:

MarcelJ said:

Dunno about his pimp walk but he did injure his foot back in 98, don't know if there were any long term problems with the injury.
At a show in Atlantic City his foot slipped on a monitor due to condensation from a faulty smoke machine. He strained a ligament in his right foot and had to cancel some shows. Upon his return to the stage 3 weeks later Prince remarked "Even with a bad leg I'm still gonna kick yo ass tonight!".

My old dude had hip repalcement surgery and it's a dangerous surgical procedure and it took some long rehablitation to walk normal again.And he still walk with a limp.

Negritaluvyu said:

You forgot an apostrophe: "Why doesn't Prince".

In fact, you forgot three. Still, nobody's perfect.

R u sure about this? I believe having surgery is against JH religion. I definitely know having a blood transfusion is so I was under the impression he never had the surgery.

pacey68 said:

He is old.

Plus who cares when he is rippin guitar solos like he does

Everyone cant pretend they are still 26 years old. But he has allot to fall back on, his musical talent.

I wouldnt mind seeing him in a chair at 68 years old, just jammin the guitar I wouldnt complain

The last split I saw Prince do live was at "Jam of the Year." I am glad a caught one. I didn't see him live again until "Musicology."

He may be old, but I am amazed every time he does that squatting thing when he plays guitar.

I don't know where y'all get that he's old. The man ain't even quite 50 yet. He's still got another good 15 years left in him, and as good a shape as he's in, he's probably got 20.