Genre bending. Innovative. Controversial. And overall absolute genius, Prince can take anything .. I mean anything!!!! and express it with equal parts eloquence and shocking vulgarity.


Prince has never been one to shy away from controversy. Obviously, this whole lawsuit business lately is proof of that. Even if he's stopped cursing, and singing about having sex with virgins who are on the rag, he still knows how to stir stuff up.

But there was a time when his music was what ilicited all the responses. When it spoke for itself. No need for wearing assless pants, no need to make outlandish statements on magazines and other means--you could just get it from a record.

But one thing that always struck me was that Prince juxtaposed all manner of subjects, otherwise blush worthy to any other musician, effortlessly and with no sense of shame or embarassment whatsoever. It was like he pulled his nuts out of his silky lace panties and said, "Look bitches--check these hairy bad boys out. I may strut around in lace women's underwear, but I overflow with machismo!"...then boomerang his pumps at cha.

Anyways, sex, love, and spirituality -- these things are always pitted against each other in strange dualistic battles on his albums. but when viewed from afar, Prince is actually treating all these as one continuam. They are just different colors of his passion. He went from one end to the other with his songs.

Speaking of the other end, one of the things he seems to have an obsession with is the female hind quarters--perhaps even male, but that's always up for debate. But you always hear him talking about "ass" but never what he wants to do with it. It's as if he's not totally confortable with that region of the human body.
One could probably reckon that this was due to some repressed latent homosexual fantasy that was surfacing but being stiffled before it could shine in all its glory, but I propose that Prince was probably just revealing how hygenic and sometimes prissy he could be. The anus, after all, is more difficult to keep clean than vaginas and penises. Sure, Prince could easily say "I sincerely want to fuck the taste out of your mouth", but you'd never catch him say "I sincerely want to slush the poop in your ass with my dick"--There's a line that even Prince wont cross, especially if it involves hygiene.

His obsession with hygiene is apparent in his interview with Oprah Winfrey. When she asked him if he always dressed nice, he replied, "On a normal day I'm clean". Now obviously, he's being hip with lingo here, cause being "clean" also means to look sharp, but let's not kid ourselves here--Prince loves double meaning. He obviously means that on a normal day he keeps his ass fresh.

But if you think about it, the asshole or anus is just the other opening of a very long tube leading to your mouth. And in between there's digestion. Digestion of the words, the ideas, the very visualizations that flow throughout his work. Even when he says "Dont hate me cause Im beautiful", he says it like he's got food in his mouth. He goes further in that very same song (Pretty man) and says "Maceo--can U blow?" , which again HAS A DOUBLE MEANING! Always with the double meaning. But you can also hear this in many many songs. In Poom Poom Poom, he sings the chorus as if he's taking a massive dump, and he even does the Poom Poom rap like he's chewing on something. Its as if ALL bodily functions are not sacred to Prince. They're all worthy of expression.


And express he does. It was said once in some magazine that where Marvin Gaye cracked the bedroom door open a wee bit with "Let's Get it On", Prince tore that bitch off it's hinges!







obsolete-to-absolute Freudian slip edit
[Edited 11/5/07 20:28pm]

Oh Imago where have you been?

What would the org be without Imago? That was too funny.

imago-- AAAAAND what am I soppose to say to that??? What is the topic or question here??

There were a couple of funny ..vulgar lines but eh..
If its about ranting,raving and venting for Prince's fondness for power and control..yes I truley believe he has lost his sane mind..but eh..i got so caught up in the reading im quite as to what the topic is truley..about...especially the digestion
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What, did u have a bad day and felt like taking it out on Prince? i don't like how talk about him or his music.

Krystal666 said:

Missed you

Fucking A!

1KissAtATyme said:

It's Imago so it's always about the same thing...trying to fit square peg Prince into the same round hole. (No pun. Really)
That very "long tube" line was really reaching. That's what makes it so funny.

anon said:

I guess I do forget that it is Imago...but all I can do is gasp, shake my head, sigh, looked suprised and laugh at his posts.

Imago said:

I think it's fair to say that Prince aint really got what it takes to rip a door off its hinges...he would certainly need to get a step stool and a screwdriver to remove the hinges....plus an attorney to hold the door for him...

roodboi said:

Thanks for taking my thread seriously Jason.

It speaks volumes to your character

You made me come in this forum to read about ass?

Imago said:

just doing my part...as for speaking for my character, I dont do that anymore...I let Prince do that...

1KissAtATyme said:

You anon make me feel so...sooo....I don't know actually



oh crap. I just read the thread again, and you're right
It's a bit unfocused.


I'm going to need to refocus my efforts and post another more fine tuned thread.

CarrieMpls said:

Read between the lines! It gets deep Carrie!

Imago said:

I'm not so sure I want to hear you say that, considering the subject matter.

Imago said:

*laughing* U just took a long fearless dive off the deep end with this one ..even though at parts I was laughing..I couldnt understand what the topic was...ive been in to many boring straight forward threads! tho reading it ..i went crosseyes several times

CarrieMpls said:

LOL! this is stupid ridiculously funny
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1KissAtATyme said:

OMG, totally help me out with this thread. : http://prince.org/msg/100/251028

I promise, it's totally uber focused compared to this one.

Do u think he is fascinated with the idea of bondage and s/m foreplay? He had them in his shows/video's or do you think it is a prince gimmick-- no reality to the real him?

khoskhal said:

Im not one to believe that rumors or talk is true but didnt he have an Ex girlfriend a couple of years ago that said he threw these wild and big sex parties and use to make her participate and watch?? any1 remember that??

khoskhal said:

Prince or Imago???

roodboi said:

pfffhahahaha

Wow Imago...well written, I didn't really realize your honesty until now...
Don't be mad because Prince has chosen, a nicer woman over you.

Tame said:

Hhmmmm.... in some way, Imago´s thread reminds me of one of those colon cleansing book recommendations by the NPG camp back in the mid 90s...

Dr. Richard Anderson´s Cleanse and Purify Yourself, or what was that title again ?


There was this NPG flyer back in 95.

Imago said:

KoolEaze said:

omg, i kind of remember