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Thread started 05/27/08 4:41pm

Purplerain7772
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Animal Kingdom

Now anybody that read my other forum and disagreed what I said about TRC
then I know I will really get AGREEMENTS on this song.

Ok when I first heard it I must say without a doubt I was repulsed and more so creeped out.

feeling ill was my first reaction NO JOKE!

I have never found a prince song I disliked so much I had to make a thread about it NOT EVEN ON RAVE!!!!!

But if there is anyone that likes this song or understands it please explain to me so I won't have a one-sided opinion on this song.
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Reply #1 posted 05/27/08 4:43pm

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I like this song. But then again, I am a hard-core animal lover, so I could be a bit biased. giggle
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Reply #2 posted 05/27/08 4:45pm

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But I mean really the song kinda freaked me out from beginning to end....then in the middle it kinda got better but then it kinda blew me away again with the dolphin and the hollerin and the wierd guitar strokes.....(didn't know how else to describe it)
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Reply #3 posted 05/27/08 4:50pm

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This song is just...embarrassing. disbelief
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Reply #4 posted 05/27/08 4:52pm

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I dig this song.
Some people think I'm kinda cute
But that don't compute when it comes 2 Y-O-U.
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Reply #5 posted 05/27/08 6:22pm

prplrasta

Its talkn about how the world is just a circle of life and more so focused on vegans. ? would u eat the dolphins? Wat did they do 2 u? It all goes back 2 biblical days.
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Reply #6 posted 05/27/08 6:32pm

ThreadBare

I'm a big ol' carnivore who loves this song. woot!

I love the weird guitar sounds, Rhonda love Smith's wonderful fretless playing, the Hendrix-style chords (that's right... copying him again), and the super-cheesy lyrics make this a keeper. thumbs up!
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Reply #7 posted 05/27/08 6:33pm

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Rinluv said:

I dig this song.

me too. just cuz it's so weird. i don't know about the lyrics, but i still say it's okay anyways shrug bringiton giggle.
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Reply #8 posted 05/27/08 7:16pm

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I love it....I pray 4 the animals.
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight...
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Reply #9 posted 05/28/08 7:46am

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There is the one part of the song that is kinda weird, the part where Prince sings, "sha sha sha sha". giggle But the one part of the guitar playing has always kind of reminded me a bit of Stevie Wonder. I still love this song, and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.
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Reply #10 posted 05/28/08 8:30am

sexxydancer

Great song-and the reason I'm vegetarian. wink
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Reply #11 posted 05/28/08 8:36am

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I quite like it.
Apparently the line "I saw a friend of mine today,in an Ad saying what would do my body right" is aout a Milk commercial Spike Lee was in... smile
Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
woot!
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Reply #12 posted 05/28/08 9:14am

Dayclear

Love it! biggrin
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Reply #13 posted 05/28/08 9:17am

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Rinluv said:

I dig this song.


Yeh, me too biggrin Dunno what is it about it, its just kinda chilled and a bit weird, but i really like it.

Doesnt really fit the truth album tho confused
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Reply #14 posted 05/28/08 9:28am

theodore

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Great song-and the reason I'm vegetarian. wink


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Reply #15 posted 05/28/08 9:30am

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Every time I hear Animal Kingdom, I want to eat a steak - purely out of spite. lol
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Reply #16 posted 05/28/08 9:31am

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Genesia said:

Every time I hear Animal Kingdom, I want to eat a steak - purely out of spite. lol

lol

every time i hear it i want to wash my ears out neutral

HE'S COMING AGAIN
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Reply #17 posted 05/28/08 9:34am

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Animal Kingdom makes me want to take a trip to Burger King and get a Double Whopper w/Cheese. lol I used to hate this song with a vengenance but truth be told, it's an interesting song and one of his memorable songs off of The Truth. His voice on the song cracks me up. lol While I'm not going to stop being the T-Rex that I am with meat and poultry, I can respect his point in the song and the music fits with the lyrics. I can agree with P on one thing, I'm not down with fish, so I will leave the fish in the sea lol
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Reply #18 posted 05/28/08 9:52am

theodore

Protege said:

Genesia said:

Every time I hear Animal Kingdom, I want to eat a steak - purely out of spite. lol

lol

every time i hear it i want to wash my ears out neutral



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Reply #19 posted 05/28/08 10:11am

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after all the talk about this song prior 2 its release, i couldn't wait 2 hear it ..then i heard it eek i never thought prince could make this an embarassing effort on a song ..until i heard the planet earth album ..so i wrong big grin
man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81
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Reply #20 posted 05/28/08 8:10pm

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the only song that can literally make me sick to my stomach.

and i'm not kidding confused
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Reply #21 posted 05/28/08 9:36pm

theodore

InsatiableCream said:

the only song that can literally make me sick to my stomach.

and i'm not kidding confused


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Reply #22 posted 05/28/08 11:28pm

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Funky funky blue cheese on the lyrics.

Love the music though!

"Sheeeeeeeeit"
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Reply #23 posted 05/28/08 11:29pm

Amaxx

It's a blight on an otherwise beautiful album!
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Reply #24 posted 05/29/08 4:14am

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The instrumentation and melody are on point so you can only assume it's the confrontational element of the lyrics that causes so much upset.
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Reply #25 posted 05/29/08 4:20am

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Lyircs are bleh, but the music portion is damn cool
Maybe we can go to the movies and cry together
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Reply #26 posted 05/29/08 4:37am

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Dsoul said:

The instrumentation and melody are on point so you can only assume it's the confrontational element of the lyrics that causes so much upset.


Is that it? I have always wondered why this song is so disliked. So all you animal kingdom haters is it the lyrics that u hate so much? I really don't get why people should be offended that Prince gives his personal view on killing/eating animals. It seems to me people react to this song as if they have a guilty conscience by denouncing the song so veitmetly (sp). I eat animals and animal products daily but that doesn't effect how I view the song at all. It just brings up an issue most us rather not deal with. In all honesty none of us really need to eat animals to live. We do it because we like how they taste. So in essense it really is about us fulfilling a selfish desire at the cost of these animals lives. It is what it is. People just don't like be called out on the truth though. Remember the album was called the Truth and the truth hurts evidently.
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Reply #27 posted 05/29/08 4:40am

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tricky99 said:

Dsoul said:

The instrumentation and melody are on point so you can only assume it's the confrontational element of the lyrics that causes so much upset.


Is that it? I have always wondered why this song is so disliked. So all you animal kingdom haters is it the lyrics that u hate so much? I really don't get why people should be offended that Prince gives his personal view on killing/eating animals. It seems to me people react to this song as if they have a guilty conscience by denouncing the song so veitmetly (sp). I eat animals and animal products daily but that doesn't effect how I view the song at all. It just brings up an issue most us rather not deal with. In all honesty none of us really need to eat animals to live. We do it because we like how they taste. So in essense it really is about us fulfilling a selfish desire at the cost of these animals lives. It is what it is. People just don't like be called out on the truth though. Remember the album was called the Truth and the truth hurts evidently.


Correct.
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Reply #28 posted 05/29/08 6:28am

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tricky99 said:

Dsoul said:

The instrumentation and melody are on point so you can only assume it's the confrontational element of the lyrics that causes so much upset.


Is that it? I have always wondered why this song is so disliked. So all you animal kingdom haters is it the lyrics that u hate so much? I really don't get why people should be offended that Prince gives his personal view on killing/eating animals. It seems to me people react to this song as if they have a guilty conscience by denouncing the song so veitmetly (sp). I eat animals and animal products daily but that doesn't effect how I view the song at all. It just brings up an issue most us rather not deal with. In all honesty none of us really need to eat animals to live. We do it because we like how they taste. So in essense it really is about us fulfilling a selfish desire at the cost of these animals lives. It is what it is. People just don't like be called out on the truth though. Remember the album was called the Truth and the truth hurts evidently.

I don't think it's really that people are offended or guilt-tripped by Prince giving his view, but that the lyrics are cringe-worthy.

If one looks beyond them it's a good song. There's some lovely wavy synth at the beginning, the vocal effects are well, interesting. But the lyrics are awful - it's not the message within them, it's the way they're written.

Or maybe it's the chirping.
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Reply #29 posted 05/29/08 6:48am

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AsylumUtopia said:

tricky99 said:



Is that it? I have always wondered why this song is so disliked. So all you animal kingdom haters is it the lyrics that u hate so much? I really don't get why people should be offended that Prince gives his personal view on killing/eating animals. It seems to me people react to this song as if they have a guilty conscience by denouncing the song so veitmetly (sp). I eat animals and animal products daily but that doesn't effect how I view the song at all. It just brings up an issue most us rather not deal with. In all honesty none of us really need to eat animals to live. We do it because we like how they taste. So in essense it really is about us fulfilling a selfish desire at the cost of these animals lives. It is what it is. People just don't like be called out on the truth though. Remember the album was called the Truth and the truth hurts evidently.

I don't think it's really that people are offended or guilt-tripped by Prince giving his view, but that the lyrics are cringe-worthy.

If one looks beyond them it's a good song. There's some lovely wavy synth at the beginning, the vocal effects are well, interesting. But the lyrics are awful - it's not the message within them, it's the way they're written.

Or maybe it's the chirping.


So u are saying that the lyrics are worse then the average Prince lyric? Unless they are several grades below the average Prince lyric that doesn't explain the very vocal hate this song gets. Can u enumerate what's so bad about the lyrics with specifics? I have never found myself cringing when listening to the song, but then I'm not one of those Prince fans that are continuely "embarrassed", "cringing" over the music. The closest I've come is the "stuff is not brown tonight" in I think "Baby Knows" lol.
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