DesireeNevermind said:

ha~! fine. laugh if you want to but isn't it about time prince stepped up and took responsibility??? well??? innit??

LizaWoman08 said:

See, I think it is crazy that sex is part of what people consider morality. I do not find any immorality with people consentingly engaging is sex for whatever reason.
Teens have been getting pregnant for a long time. In the past, pregnant girls would get sent away for a year or simply banished from society. Now, pregnant girls are treated with more respect. To me, that shows how we have increased our morality as a society.
Recent pregnancy and STD increases are partially due in part to the lackluster sex education we have in our country. If anyone objects, google sex education in Sweden.
Divorce is on the rise for a host of reasons. Divorce is easier to obtain now than it used to be; plus women have more divorce rightss. Along with that, people feel now as if they are freer to make the decision to divorce because it is not as much as a social taboo. To me, increased feelings of freedom are a good thing.
Objecting to Prince's style is well within the rights of anybody. What causes troubles for me is when someone's opinion that Prince is corrupting the minds of the youth turns into a society-wide witch hunt. For those of you who are not civil libertarians like myself, you may not know that this is officially "Banned Books Week." So when I hear people talking about how someone is corrupting the moral fiber, I tend to get a bit nervous, that is after I chuckle to myself. Not that anyone here has advocated legal censoring, but in case someone does, let me be the first to say "Get your hands off of my music; get your hands off of my books."
[Edited 9/29/08 12:32pm]

XxAxX said:

He gotta give you back your socks and me my underwear!

DesireeNevermind said:

dang right he gotta! just because he's a rockstar extraordinaire is NO excuse for him hiding other people's garments.

XxAxX said:

OH WAIT IT WASN'T PRINCE AT ALL....THIS BITCH GOT OUR SHIT!!!

reminds me of a pastor's tape on music from back in the 80's

"Prince, the filthy pig, he needs to start cleaning up and stop perverting the mind of the youth of America..."

Prince help feed my perversion with "Lady Cab Driver" and helped clean me up with songs like "God"....

So, YES he did and NO he didn't !!!

JEDINATION said:

NICE

PurpleKnight said:

there we go, I like it. The reason i love prince is that he's destined to be totally misunderstood, and i can relate to him. "i don't want to hurt you, I only want you to have some fun".

DesireeNevermind said:

Rainbow children...rise...
Desiree and XxAxX done corrupted this whole darn thread... speakin' of undergarments and now...visuals... God help us all!!!

Anyhow...it's not just the overt sexuality that played a part.. and the rest...

http://prince.org/msg/7/283980?&pg=1

http://prince.org/msg/7/232204?&pg=2

2 many, Prince has been an Anti-Christ 4 years, and occultic references r prevalent in much of his music... Like it or not he's messed with many minds.

DesireeNevermind said:

WHoA!! Im not even into girls and I think that's H O T

MrBiGsTuFf said:

Rise huh? I give her three thumbs up.

carlcranshaw said:

Do we even want to know where?

chillichocaholic said:

MrBiGsTuFf said:

ur kidding me right?

The strange thing 4 me here, is that I have paid attention to this all along...

I loved Prince, in a Donny and Marie, Puppy love for 2 years before I learned about lust....and although Prince's lyrics were sexual, I didn't even cling to the meaning of them because I was so conditioned to love his voice and his music without a sexual side...and then as I became 14 years old or so...and started learning about sexual love....Prince's lyrics were there, but so was a spiritual man that I saw simultaneously...A Godly man I loved was always there, with another man that I wanted to get to know. I could write a book about it...but I burned those diaries.

MrBiGsTuFf said:

People do what they want to with their own lives...And My opinions of Prince are sincerely very deep and organized.

I can't say on one hand that I am any different loving Prince as a musician and a man than a lot of other girl's, yet on the other hand, My heart is unique unto itself...and my dreams and my lifestyle that had Prince in it all along...I became a person that has made mistakes, although I also became a very spiritual person that has poetry blessings close to the heart of GOD...and I do thank Prince for that inspiration.

I have kept my motor clean for the majority of my life, in the lap of lust, so Prince cannot be held responsible for anything, and if he is...Prince can be held responsible for a beautiful Christian relationship that I have, as well as loving music.

chillichocaholic said:

OH GOSH PLEASE NO!

he corrupted my mind. I was very young when I started listening to him. My mother would always say to me: "I know what he's saying" while waving her finger at me

union119 said:

Not @ all

U havin' some troubles?

DesireeNevermind said:

C what I mean...? That's the 'Prince' in her...

MrBiGsTuFf said:

would anybody buy em? or your opinions?

union119 said:

U'd b surprised what people peddle...

MrBiGsTuFf said:

wtf???

An artist has responsibility for the image and values he puts out there. That doesn't mean people have to accept them, and they might have those values before. But by having certain values you're advertising those values and there's responsibility in that.

My main point however is that I like Prince's past image with sexually explicit songs. He didn't corrupt, he was a liberator and he shouldn't have gone soft in his older years. One doesn't have to strut around in underwear on stage at 50 but one should continue to uphold liberated values. "Don't hate me cuz I'm sexy" is the way to go. In terms of liberated values, joining The Jehovah's Witnesses was a bad move.

luv4u said:

'Anti' comes from the Greek meaning both 'Against' and 'In Place Of'.
Take ur pick.

MrBiGsTuFf said:

He's definately not the anti-christ

MrBiGsTuFf said: