TANKAEFC said:

You didn't have to come into the thread...

purplesweat said:

I came.
Right into this thread.

There was "one" cool line in Dirty Diana. "She said he's not coming home because he's sleeping with me"

Darling Nikki was an entire song of cool lines.

Diana wasn't as Dirty as Nikki anyway, shiiiiit.....Nikki was tickling her clit in a open hotel lobby warming that shit up for .....well....me. What the fuck was Diana doing?

Give me my Darling Nikki any day.

DANGEROUSx said:

Sorry, either very off topic or hit a nerve.

Well I've just listened again to Nikki and I have to ask how it's possible to make someone screaming sound so beautiful. Shouting usually comes with passion but it feels so heartfelt. We have that wonderful grinding guitar, those oh so simple lyrics and Prince screaming at her. I think the huge difference is that Prince knows how it is to love and lose someone: someone that is a lover. He knows the way it tears one's stomach apart to see them with another. It's the jealousy of the song and the possessiveness that comes through so strongly. It's raw emotion.

And that's why Jackson (the kiddie fiddler ) fails every single time.

iloveannie said:

before you judge him try hard to love him look within your heart and ask have you seen his childhood

I like Dirty Diana and Darlin Nikki equally, their both great songs!

SunsetDriver said:

I'm not saying I haven't liked some of his music. Hell I'm 36 and owned Thriller as a kid. I don't however think he is in the same league as Prince. It's all too smooth and produced, cream and candy. Jackson vs White Stripes. Hard to think they're using the same twelve notes.

As for loving a person? I've got to know them surely? Or at least have met them on equal terms. Love is a strong word.

I do understand that there are people fanatical about Jackson as many of us are here about Prince. That's ok. We had a guy at work who walked in and said everyone would remember where they were when Jackson was let off. I think everybody was mildly bemused and looked at him oddly. Anyway let me not start a rant about a man that I've never met and on whom I am basing all my opinions from having read tabloids. Bit late I know but oh well.

Perhaps it all stems from my inner-snobbery that prevents me from appreciating singers that can't play an instrument. People are born with a voice. Musicians study.

PS: Eric Roberson not included in the last paragraph God sings and uses his voice.

Are you kidding? Darling Nikki is the Best!

I will go with Dirty Diana ONly cuz I heard Nikki too many times

iloveannie said:

MJ plays many intruments, the only reason why you dont see him playing them that much is because he is dancing.

3232 said:

Of course Darling Nikki is the most hardcore!

I don't know. I like both.

SunsetDriver said:

Oh is that why? I just thought(believe)that he can't.

NO CONTEST
One song is legendary..(Fact)
The other is pretend pop!
sung by a child...(fact)
Bye!!

wlcm2thdwn said:

"DITO"

Dirty Diana is a novelty number and an artificial mix of urban/hair-metal The worst Bad single and certainly MJ's worst Nº1!

3232 said:

Darling Nikki



It was MUCH MORE hardcore then Dirty Diana.
[Edited 1/18/08 18:22pm]

fantasticjoy said:

he plays the paino for a start, and writes most of his songs

3232 said:

I THINK DARLING NIKKI IS ONE OF THE MOST DUMBEST SONG PRINCE COULD EVER PUT OUT.THIS SONG IS ACOMPLETE INSULT NOT ONLY TO HIS FANS BUT TO HIS OWN TALENT AND HIS LEGACY.IF YOU HEARD WAS WAS LEFT OFF THE PURPLE RAIN ALBUM FOR THIS YOU WOULD ALL AGREE.

jackson35 said:

Speak for yourself and I HIGHLY DISAGREE.

SunsetDriver said:

i knew he played piano but can he play anything else?

InsatiableCream said:

Besides the skin flute prolly NOT!

toots said:

jackson35 said:

You're probably all alone on that.

Both for me

dirty diana >>>>>
http://link.brightcove.co...id13406397

InsatiableCream said:

AWWWWW no lock!!

Wait.....that give me a idea hehehe(insert evil laugh)

To me there is no contest.


Darlin Nikki is a metaphor that explores guilt, frustration, and sexual abandon with no holds barred lyrically, musically, or in the tone of the song--Prince screams his brains out without so much as a care that it sound 'pretty'. Indeed the mix of the song is too bright, too rough, and too raw for it to be a safe 'likeable' song, but that's the genius of it--Prince gets away with it.


Dirty Diana is a contrived, methodical, albeit slickly executed pop song trying to evoke the lurid feel of Darlin Nikki, but it drowns in it's own dialogue, silly lyrics, and is about as believable as Jermaine Stewart mashin' on this poor girl here.... (bless jermain's heart )





Ergo, one is an shameless proclamation of guilt and intention, while the other is just a nice sounding pop song.




[Edited 2/23/08 10:50am]

like them both for different reasons, however i lean more toward darling nikki cuz i remember being 14, sitting in the theatre for the first time and being blown away by the darling nikki performance.

I like both songs equally.
I feel that Darling Nikki is just pure dirt, while Dirty Diana (because of the way Mike sings it) has a more regretful tone to it.
But that's just me.

Imago said:

I wanted to respond "is Jermaine dead?"
I just read on Wiki that he died in 1997 I'm a little bit behind I knew Diana and Mother Theresa did that year but Jermaine?