Prince has completely spoiled us with terrible videos.



GOLD from the GOLD EXPERIENCE: holy Jonas brothers, what the hell was that?

the conveyor belt and the gold glitter
and the girl with the squiggle on her face. oh.my.

BATDANCE: It looked like a Goth Club after 'last call'.

i like that video, it was nice for it's time altho the batman's
look kind of low budget compared to the jokers

BLACK SWEAT: If you're working up a black sweat, at least do SOMETHING.



Diamonds and Pearls: SWEAR TO GOD, I thought Barry Manillo was going to pop out and help him sing the song.

it was a bit odd to see him do the gett off video and the cream
video and go straight to the diamonds and pearls one, blowing bubbles with
kids. it's a real WTF?! moment


The Holy River: It looked like a Student film. A community college student film.

imagine someone describing it to you: "there's big prince holding
little prince in his hand and there's a waterfall..." get the picture? lol

Thieves in the Temple: It's not terrible at first. But once the extended version starts kicking in, it gets terrible. I mean, C&C Music Factory terrible.

i love this video. everyone got hysterical at the mtv buttless pants
but he already wore his ass out in full sight in this video. it's more subtle
but his cheeks are showing all the way for sure, lol. the extended version is
so horrible it's good. but perhaps that's due to the music because the music on
the extended portion is sheer heaven to me

Mountains: Although my adoration for the song never diminishes, the video is so incredibly terrible, I don't even know where to begin. First, WHAT IS THAT OUTFIT? During what time period and in what country did men dress like that? That's an ass kicking BEGGING to take place in my neighborhood. The poorly done blue-screen affects added to the tackiness of the video. Believe it or not, even though it's terrible, I love the video

i never watch that video out of fear it might spoil the song for
me, which is brilliant on it's own and could only be tainted by that tragedy
that passes for a video


Betcha By Golly Wow: Prince is relentless with the cringe factor here. I've seen ABBA videos that were less sugary than this thing.

the intro is ok with him pumping gass. it's hysterical to be honest.
the rest is not too easy on the eyes. the ballet dancers. the flute player. he
could not have promoted "emancipation" worse if he'd held a press conference
on national tv stating "don't buy this album, it's a turd". that would have
been better promotion than releasing this with THAT video as a lead single


Paisley Park: Holy Homemade movie, Batman.

i always imagine it is filmed through his see through lacy
underpants, that makes it half watchable

All the Controversy & 1999 videos: Little Red Corvette is the only one I can tolerate of the bunch. Prince would later perfect the lip-syncing-on-stage music video with U got the Look and ICNTPYM from SOTT. But early on, it was like watching back to back episodes of Solid Gold.

i never get why people love these vids so much. perhaps it's because
jill and lisa strike such whorish poses. i could see the appeal of that. but
the rest is just a big pile of nothing much at all


I wanna Be Your Lover: Released around the same time as the original Alien, The Thing, and Halloween, I truly believe Prince's video closely rivals all of them for scream factor.

what about Morning Papers? Think her legs were closed in that one.

He does seem like Liza Minnelli in the Most Beautiful Girl video, but it's kind of like Liza by way of a geisha. I love it.

He does seem like Liza Minnelli in the Most Beautiful Girl video, but it's kind of like Liza by way of a geisha. I love it.

He does seem like Liza Minnelli in the Most Beautiful Girl video, but it's kind of like Liza by way of a geisha. I love it.

what? he looks like a Vulcan in it. Mrs Spock or something.

what? he looks like a Vulcan in it. Mrs Spock or something.

I'm telling you, the whole time he was with Mayte he looked like Mr.Spock, all skinny and pale. Yuck.

prince's attempt at a grunge look in this video makes me giggle.

I always thought When Doves Cry had a lame video... Generally, I don't think Prince has very good videos...

When Doves Cry is unintentionally hilarious.

Halfway through the video, we get this mirror image effect thing, like someone discovered a button on the camera right then, and it continues like that until the end.

My least favorite would be Te Amo Cortizone. Not artsy. Not entertaining. Just shoulder-shruggingly not anything.

By the way, the best video is Let's Go Crazy, 'cause I'm in it.