guarinigirl2000 said:

70s artist.
Had a wonderful falsetto voice.
Sang "Superfly" and "Freddy's Dead" to name two U might recognize...

(I have to be honest- I checked your profile to see if your age was listed )

chocolate1 said:

ehhh! I know what you mean.
My science teacher comes in almost everyday and says something to me like

You mean the artist formerly known as prince?
Im like, no it's PRINCE now.
And he will say.. so basically it's "The artist formerly known as the artist who was formerly know as Prince"

hmm, I'm sure i can think of a few.

-When people refer to Purple rain as "Purple Pain"
-When people call him gay.
-When people mistake his name and then think they have the right to judge someone when they DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT HIS NAME IS???
-When people say he sings like a girl.
-When people try to sing his songs and don't even know the words.
-When people comment on his movies negatively yet haven't even seen him. For instance, my math teacher once said to me when I was wearing my Purple Rain Tshirt "Purple Rain? Didnt that star Whoopie Goldberg? Wait no, that was the color purple."
-When people tell me I can't like him because I'm too young.
-When people try to tell my I don't know something about him that I do.
-When people call him short.
-When people make purple jokes.
-When people negatively talk about him JUST because they know I'm in ears reach.
-When people try to tell me I cannot enter a certain place because I have on a Prince Tshirt.
-When people bring up the Superbowl just to tell me how bad princes performance was.


I'm sure I can think of more

SaraWright10 said:

When did THAT happen?

I HATE it when People attempt to sing Kiss.
NO.
Why ? only Prince can sing that song.

When people say mean things about his "do-rag" "It looks like something Lucy wore when she cleaned her house"

When I mention Prince, and they make the "owwwahhhh!!" sound.

SaraWright10 said:

I'll comment on the ones in bold. If I faced those, I definitely would flip out on whoever brought them up.

That one about 'you can't like Prince becuz you're too young'... I think that would have applied to me, had I started on this journey when I was... say, 13-16. Because I'm legally an adult, I don't think my parents would object to my liking Prince for that reason. My dad encouraged him initially by having me sit thru Purple Rain's 2nd hour. My mom just says that Prince is an "acquired taste", meaning she's not quite as crazy about him as my dad is.
Then again, I haven't really discussed Prince with my dad since I started coming here, so I dunno. I'll get back to you on that.
And yeah, Prince is an acquired taste, I'll admit. In the very beginning, his screaming wasn't something I was into (this was back when I was 17 and was a casual fan), but now it bounces off me like its nothing at all. I willingly accept every aspect of Prince w/o a second thought.

And for the SuperBowl performance, I haven't heard anyone call it terrible. In fact, my Ecology professor brought it up and wondered how he didn't get electrocuted... but he likes Prince, so I've no complaints.

trc1 said:

yesssss i hate that too!!!! and can you even imagine how much he must hate it himself; people not recognizing the amazingly brilliant work he's done since then. that must be so frustrating for someone like prince who's so severely gifted and has used his gift to bless the rest of us with such amazing goodies for they eyes and ears.

SexyBeautifulOne said:

I have a friend who told me "I used to like that song he sang about the Birds" .I later found out she meant "When the DOVES cry"!! help me Jesus
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I hate it when people say: "I really do not like any of his new stuff" meaning his new songs

my best friend says this to me all the time...why, when she knows how I feel about him

chocolate1 said:

People say that at school all the time haha!
Like "oh you can't come into this study hall today hahahahaha"
God people should grow up.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

oh i know what you mean. rediculous right? but whatever, they can say what they want its NOT going to change how feel.

SaraWright10 said:

Exactly!

Boy... this makes me feel like I've sold my soul to Prince's music... but is that really so bad?

(he might think so if I ever said that to him)

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

haha, yeah im sure after that girl showed up on his doorsteps, and then you confess your love he might just ignore fans permently. oh well. It might be worth it. I feel that way to. Prince it practically my life in a wierd way.

i get on here and sit for as long as possible.

What made me mad was in The Sun so-called newspaper here in the UK, during the time of the Brits last year, some reporter snapped him coming out of the Dorchester & wrote an article basically tearing him apart saying 'who does he think he is? where has he been for all of these years? Had no music output since Purple Rain' blah blah blah. Think the reporter was about 12 years old & had done no research on him! I have no idea how to pull up old newspaper articles, but if anybody could find it, its worth a read just to make you fume!!!

SaraWright10 said:

That makes two of us... I bet a lot of people here do that, though. But I can't help it. I love talking with his fans because they understand him and in pretty much every case, they know more about him than I do. It's a good learning experience.

Not that this is much of a comparison, but the two other forum communities I've joined for Jesse McCartney and The Click Five are nowhere near this. JMac's forums are usually full of tense and fans attack one another (im usually involved) just because they think a certain way.
The Click Five forums were great, but there's only so much you can say about them. Sure they write their own music and play their own instruments... but they're still nowhere near Prince's league.
Prince is someone you could talk about forever, always learn something from, etc. And his fans have been the most helpful and the greatest to talk to. (again the Click Five forums were helpful too, but we're in a diff. league here).

I gotta go for class, so I'll be back in a couple of hours.

lalalailoveu said:

That person was in the nuthouse

trc1 said:

DAMN!!!

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

i understand. I think that the reason I do is because no one around here likes him.. and if they do they only like him casually not like i do. on here, EVERYONE understands what i mean. and id rather talk to people who understand and agree and are similar rather than people who have NO CLUE

SaraWright10 said:

Yeah, it's easier to have a conversation about Prince with someone who has an understanding of him. It's also a lot more fun to compare notes with people who've been there and done things I've yet to do or won't get the chance to do.

Although I could learn more about how I feel about Prince and connect with him by talking about him/defending him to people that aren't as familiar with him, I'd rather learn more about him.

Regardless, being a Prince fan is always a learning experience. I don't get that from any other musician.

I think my biggest pet peeve (if I ever encounter it) is/will be that someone either doesn't know who Prince or doesn't understand him enough for me to have an intelligent conversation about him. (My intelligence on the matter isn't enough to make it an intelligent conversation).

I'll definitely need to send this website to my roommate from last year cuz she understands Prince as well as I do and I think she'd have a lot to say here.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Me I don't waste the time because I do not feel like explaining 30 years worth of P.

Negritaluvyu said:

Yea hate it when i mention Prince and every one thinks he is gay.

1."hes gay...and dont even try 2 tell me hes not"
2."why does he wear makeup" BECAUSE HES PRINCE!!!
3."why does he dress like that...heels tho?" BECAUSE HE HAS HIS OWN STYLE...y do u dress like that?
4."You know hes short rite" OH 4REAL...CUZ U KNOW I MUSTVE MISSED THE MEMO AM I SUPPOSED 2 THINK LESS OF HIM NOW!??!?!?
5."Didnt he get his d*ck pierced" THAT WAS LENNY KRAVITZ RETARD!
6."hes crazy" ...ARENT WE ALL?...DEFINE CRAZY...
7."hey, I like that random Prince song" GOOD 4 U!2 BAD THATS ALL U KNOW!
8."Is he really black...I thought he was mixed...hes mixed rite?" PLEASE LET THIS ONE DIE!!!
9."whats his real name cuz c'mon...Prince is not his real name n u know it"
10."His music is okay" OKAY?!?!?!?JUST OKAY?!?!?!




THE LIST GOES ON!

cloudsrule said:

I know, that's like the biggest misconception about him (beside the fact that people don't think he's doing anything current).
Until I was 17, I didn't even know what "gay" meant. Under diff. circumstances, I think I would have thought Prince was... but either way, it wouldn't have made a difference to me. I'd find him amazing no matter what he is because the inside's what counts.

I hate it when people catagorize me as a "purpleneck".
It's so demeaning,
even a caveman can do it.

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chocolate1 said:

Funny that ya'll mention Curtis Mayfield cuz I'm watching Money Talks as I type and "I'm Yo Pusher" is playing. Curtis was the bomb and is definitely one of Prince's biggest influences, he's even said so. Get you some Mayfield in yo collection and you'll hear the similarities.

chocolate1 said:

Hey now!Jay Manuel is cute!The outfit was ugly but the guy wearing it was beautiful!