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Prince's phallic, purple guitar may be legendary, but his Guitar is limp


Each week, Rosie Swash buckles up her headphones and takes the latest singles for a test drive. Today, she is underwhelmed by Overpowered, convinced by Province and goes ooh for Uh

Tuesday July 3, 2007
Guardian Unlimited


The one currently known as boring: Guitar, Prince
"I love you baby," screeches Prince, "but not like I love my guitar." With a string of aborted romances and two failed marriages behind him, it's understandable that the 50-year-old would prefer fidelity to wood and strings to fidelity with an actual person. Sometimes it's just easier that way. Empathy aside, much as I'd love to report otherwise, this song is pretty dull. The verses are too short, cutting all too frequently to the chorus, which is bland and predictable. It sounds like a musical inferior doing an impression of Prince. But this is a man who, despite it being a decade since he released any decent new material, just sold out a month's worth of arena dates based on legacy and one remarkable Superbowl medley alone. And interesting he should bring up his guitar, because it's his playing of the instrument that is so legendarily remarkable. If only it weren't shaped like a big, curly, purple phallus. Hear an excerpt and see the guitar in this promotional video; listen to the whole thing here.

*shrug* that was sort of a semi-review. it seemed more of a complaint aside from one sentence. i think the song's simplicity is nice, and i think the fact that it is raw and short kind of helps to make it a good summer/drive fast song. the lyrics make a bold and simple statement, so i don't think it needs to be carried out longer. just an opinion.
[Edited 7/3/07 9:24am]

Wow.
Purple
Phallus (ie SEX)
and a "known as" reference.

Every crutch a shitty writer needs to address Prince.

I don't mind a bad review, but at least write about the music and leave the sex and jokes in the 90's.

Reviews are always about the man not about the music. I bet they only listened to it once as well.

Mars23 said:

u know? and u could tell by the tone of the "review" this person thought they were being so witty and inventive... sad

alrighty then


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Im still buying it

Sounds like she's sexually deprived!

qoq

shes sounds like a unhapy bitter single woman i know if Prince approached im sure she pee on herself

=]

I don't know, can you take anyone seriously who thinks Prince hasn't released any decent material in 10 years? Absolutely nothing at all that was decent? Come on... How many songs has he released in 10 years?

The Truth
Crystal Ball
Newpower Soul
Rave
The Vault
The Rainbow Children
Musicology
3121

Not one decent song on any of those collections? Uneducated people really like to bag on Prince for not having any "hits" recently.

Prince is a Genius!!!!

im sick of reading reviews saying its a comeback, "purple" this, "purple" that, beyonce, superbowl, he's old man, he's divorced,phallic, best CD since Purple Rain or Sign of the times, whatever.

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC YOU STUPID FCUKING BITCH!

Mars23 said:

Wait, there's one more crutch that most writers use - any variation of the word "short".

I admire the review. If fans quit patting him on the back and saying everything he makes is genius maybe he'll put out some quality music. The three tunes I heard suck bad and are not hit materail or quality Prince music for that matter. I would tell him to his face if I had the chance.

I'm not excited about this new lp at all.

Thumparello said:

lol uhhh sorry to hear that

Thumparello said:

For me it has nothing to do with the fact that the review is negative or that the person reviewing it doesn't like the songs.. What I find troubling about this review is the need to make the same lame phallic jokes, name change jokes etc to make a point. It shows how out of touch these reviewers are when they do that. It seems its been eons since the name change and still this is like an undiscovered punch line to some...

Some will like it, Some will dislike .....we will judge for ourselves.

Mars23 said:

Preach on, Mars, Preach on!!

I disagree with some parts, but ´Guitar´ is a real dull song.
I like the guitar sounds, because Prince is one of my fave players, but as a composition, the song is dull. And the chorus is almost a rip-off of ´Back in the USSR´ by The Beatles. For me, it´s a shame that Prince chose this song as first single. People will hear and think ´wow, is this the guy that people call genius´?

adorable2 said:

yup, that's the Guardian single reviews thru-and-thru. Bunch of smug, sarcastic f*ckwits, and never short of entertaining if u enjoy the fun being taken out of everything by some chin-stroking city-dwelling tosser.