...Maybe I should just blind myself, instead...

When I saw him naked on the white horse... You know what's it like to be diggin' a brotha's music and then see him for the first time I was real young and I have never seen a black man look like that....all the kats I knew including my dad where stylin' and here comes this brotha naked on a horse...

Just like not catching on as 11 and 12 year olds that Wendy and Lisa were bi/gay, I bet most of us also didn't understand why everyone besides us thought Prince was a bit weird. I believed that he wore high heels on the basis that he was just pretty damn short. Also, the music scene at the time with all the hair bands and such didn't make the way he dressed seem weird. It wasn't until I backtracked from 84 and saw his look from the Dirty Mind tour in 80-81 that I kinda got what other people were saying. The cover of the Lovesexy Tour program also wasn't a proud moment. The heavy girly makeup was a bit much. When did you start to realize Prince was a bit different?

Youre sounding as if him being different is a bad thing? The heels the make up e.t.c is what set him apart from alot of artists also his undeniable talent.
And he said he wears heels because girls like 'em not because hes short.
To many artists play it safe and are 'normal' which makes them..somewhat boring. Him thinking outside the box in his music and in his clothes makes him unique.