christos7 said:

LOVEandLIGHT said:

Amen!
I love this pic and I am about to put it on a t-shirt and I don't give a damn who don't like it....fuck em'

I studied the picture with a magnifying glass. I finally know what that strange black thing is he is wearing:

it's a straitjacket

Raze said:

i dont know about the bob dole thing but I thought the same about the nipples but wasnt gonna say it

OMFG

this pic is just SCREAMING to be made fun of

wlcm2thdwn said:

They may look that way but sure don't feel delicate. I was lucky enough to shake his hand in Vegas and was VERY surprised by how "manly" his hand felt. Then I remembered how much guitar he plays....Those hands might not be fixing cars or whatever, but they sure do work! His handshake did not feel "girly" at all.

Oh, and I LOVE the picture!

IstenSzek said:

yep...thats a great idea...too good of an idea for P...he could have the world in the palm of his hand but doesn't know how to go about it. Does anyone remember that cover to the short lived magazine that Puffy put out. Lord I wanted to hide for him. He just doesn't know know how to do the right thing when it comes to pictures of himself. In any case the woman and the belly being the earth with him embracing her from behind would have been perfect. makes too much sense. Oh well

LOVEandLIGHT said:

oh please save the BS call a spade a spade...he looks like hes queer, gay as a queen at the gay pride parade. While you might not think there is anyhting wrong with that...there are people that could dig him if he didn't upset their sendabilities by posing like a woman. Thats life...that the way it is. The masses don't like that sh*t....and like it or not I don't know if there has ever been an artist that writes more pop oriented songs than Prince. Of course he wants to be back in the spotlight...of course he graves the adoration thats what the last 4 or 5 years have been about. Its been his re-introduction. The problem is way to many people can't take this dude seriously when he looks like that. Now thats the reality and I don't care if you like it or not. It is how things work. Do you know how many people for example would here a live version of Fury for example but wouldn't but that thing is Prince used that gay a$$ picture as a cover for the single. Its called Marketing dude

And its not about being eccentric...thats not eccentric thats looking like a girl. P takes pleanty bad a$$ rock star picture and doesn't look like a girl. Including the picture that promoted the single "guitar" when it was first released. He was holding his guitar and had a goatee. I'm sure somebody can post it

paisley16 said:

yup. alot of ppl who interview Prince write that they are surprised to find he has a firm handshake and has a manly hands. and he keeps his hands well manicured.
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Jakeasaurus said:

funny thing; as he ages i find him more and more attractive...mmm

Personally i think he looks to 'girlie' on the picture. I mean, it will not help convincing people who think he is 'gay' and 'weird' that Prince is / can be a musical genius.

Personally i prefer his stylish, but more masculine look like on the cover of the ONA-box set and some suits he wore during the musicology era, or the lennonesque, quasi-intellectual look of him during the sign of the times period (the glasses, the contemplative facial expressions).

I know, its part of it charm, the risks he takes with his 'image', wearing a 'corset' and posing like a fifty-fifty girl, but sometimes i think (especially now he is approaching his fifties), that its a bit overdone, and that it sure doesnt help him for getting the artistic credits he deserves.

christos7 said:

I was thinking the same thing...

to me such big Prince fans ya'll sure are being harsh. what kinda of fan doesn't expect Prince to wear stuff like this? dang think about all the crazy stuff he's wore over the years! this is just him going back to normal and getting out of the oversized suits! now bring back the high pants and cut off shirts and I'll be in the closest thing to heaven on earth.

Riverpoet31 wrote, "posing like a fifty-fifty girl"

I think the proportion is closer to 80/20, with "girl" predominating.

Thats the most androgynous I've seen him in a while. Good for him.

Christaro said:

christos7 said:

"Let's Do The Time Warp Again!"
[Edited 6/19/07 22:30pm]

A splendid epiphany of androgyny and Princehood.

Jakeasaurus said:

Let me b the 1st 2 say... He looks lkie Jessica Rabbit.

I'm sorry but this is one of the more normal pics of Prince has ever taken in his career. Compared to some of the stuff he was wearing back duirng the much ballyhooed Lovesexy era this is down right tame, not to mention the "Joan Collins bouffant hair and too much eyeliner" era from 1993.

I guess some of ya'll must be new to Prince.


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Haystack said:

I tried soooo hard to egnore.. it but now this is ALL I see...

Alexandernvrmind said:

Whaaa? Wait! Wait! Puffy had a magazine and Prince was on the cover? When was this and where the hell was I?

KidaDynamite said:

Notorious Magazine 1999.





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[Edited 6/20/07 7:48am]

Jakeasaurus said:

OMG!

SamanthaDawn said:

lol!!! Why go back? Who goes back at to wearing the things they did when they were 20 when they are 50? You want to see this flabby 50 year old man in a cutoff shirt? Hes matured.... P looked great in those suits and personally for me I hope he doesn't start trading that look in for the one in that picture. I don't believe that is a corsett either...they are high waist pants...but its not what hes wearing its the pose. I have been a P fan for 30 years...and of course I don't want to see this dude wearing teh crap he wore on the cover of Dirty Mind! And yes I suprised by the picture given some of the growth I've seen from him over the last 4 years

Ifsixwuz9 said:

Thats the key word...back in the day. 1993 was 14 years ago...Dirty Mind was 27 years ago. You don't wear and dress in your 40s and 50s the same way you did when you were a teenager or in your 20s

Stand up straight...pcik-up that guirtar and show some grit. Bad ass rock star I'm all for. Girly, angrodgenous freak with hair on the chest and a hair stayle that puts Oprah to shame...I'm not feeling

be a man
[Edited 6/20/07 10:39am]

MsLegs said:

Noooo.... now i have to listen to the soundtrack

jeezuz kryst on a cracker!!!!