Dayclear said:

Me 2!

He's a grown ass mature man-so no he doesn't need to go backwards.

Prince don't give a duck if you guys care if he curses.

IstenSzek said:[quote]some of his best early albums don't contain any cussing:

purple rain
around the world in a day
parade
sign o the times
lovesexy

so it's not even like prince has always been cussing and
throwing around f@cks left right and center.[quote]

I like this, and I agree totally,

You can go even further back to 4 U, Prince even Dirty Mind doesn't have a bunch of curse words in it, 1999 might have just a bit more Sign o the Times has just a few in Housequake
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IstenSzek said:

Sign Of The Times doesn't have cursing? You might wanna pull that one out again, dude.

OldFriends4Sale said:[quote]IstenSzek said:[quote]some of his best early albums don't contain any cussing:

purple rain
around the world in a day
parade
sign o the times
lovesexy

so it's not even like prince has always been cussing and
throwing around f@cks left right and center.


That's actually one of the things I always loved about Prince. He could say what he needed to say in a way that didn't hit you over the head. The double meaning lyrics that after singing the song 50 times you went...

Listen to that!!!

"She had a pocket full of horses, trojan and some of them used."

La la la.... That's so NAUGHTY! LOVE IT!!

Anxiety said:

I would have to agree with you as well. I was kinda shocked when I heard Madonna cursing in a recent interview as if she was a young teenager again. She was never the epitome of having class, but I'd think that since she's written a children's book, the mother of 3 and so much into spirituality with her kaballah and such that she would at least have a bit more tact. She's 50 years old and cursing like that for no reason just looks like an act of desperation to try to be hip and cool with the younger generation.

If Prince started cursing again, I'll start to view him as a nasty old man with no class. He would no longer be cool in my book cause to me, cool peeps have no need to spew profanities from their mouth just because they can. It'll seem fake to me either way. Prince seems to be in a place of peace and fulfillment in his life, so why would he feel the need to curse? I've always seen him as more suggestive and cleverly sexual in his lyrical content anyway. The most I've heard him curse in a song is Days of Wild and I couldn't see him singing a song like that in this stage of his life.

dartluv5 said:

I don't know about you all but most 50 year old curse,

lol I've never read anywhere where at age 50 you don't use curse words

No, I don't curse either unless the sex is like a point9
But Prince doesn't have to curse if he does want 2 and Madonna can curse if she wants 2. They also told her to spot being sexy... WHY?

Hugh Heffner is still getting it at 80 something with 2 women
I'm going to be sexy and sexual till I can't anymore and if the sex is a point 9 I'm gonna cuss

OldFriends4Sale said:[quote]IstenSzek said:[quote]some of his best early albums don't contain any cussing:

purple rain
around the world in a day
parade
sign o the times
lovesexy

so it's not even like prince has always been cussing and
throwing around f@cks left right and center.

There's a pretty big one in "Sister".

IstenSzek said:

playing baby i'm a star backwards will reveal swearing

listen closely 2 new position and u'll hear another word 2 call a kitty

and the song it does contain the line with a F word not 2 mention a certain chant in it's gonna b a beautiful night

OldFriends4Sale said:

I didn't read it anywhere either, I was just stating my opinion. How cursing and being sexy coincide? Unless you believe that cursing is sexy, but that's your opinion, not a fact. I see it as a turn off.

dartluv5 said:

I like your opinion...especially saying that Prince is more suggestive and cleverly sexual in his lyrical content. I agree.

As we age as people...Our spirit's have the need to be cleaner I believe, setting a better example about personal expression.

they're just words.

Tame said:

I like this statement...very true.

stanleylieber said:

not in kingdom hall

#@$!

PEJ said:

what makes one word a cuss and another word just a word?

seriously.

stanleylieber said:

oh beleive me I agree with you what's in a word. but seriously how many times do you hear cunt on public television or fucker in Church

stanleylieber said:

remember Prince is religious obviously he stopped cursing in his music because of his newfound religion. as far as I'm concerned you can curse as much as you fuckin want stanley and I won't think any less of you.

PEJ said:

i'm not familiar with the jw rationalization on so-called curse words. i was just curious.

PEJ said:

let us pray

lotsa gr8 post here... some actually altered my view on this a bit. 1stly, would love 4 prn 2 slip a word or 2 in on me. so, can get that not-so-up-tight feel. think he has 2 really work much harder bc he's fighting a war within. it's not completely out his system "don't worry, 'm clean" bc occasionally he has 2 slip a line in that comes close 2 vulgarity and the worst is "give a duck." however, this was a new walk 4 him at the time. so it's understandable. there's some curse words that enhances the matter; then there's some tease without saying it that is gr8. ex. love the edited version of sexy m.f. more with the sensuous scream. though if he went back full fledge he would appear as a hypocrite 4 statements like "all these others need 2 stop it. bc everything these artist 2day r doing 've already done it. nobody can push the envelope in the way that have. and he's right but would so love 2 hear something like, "get the funk up" "we can funk until the dawn" " sincerely want 2 funk the taste out ur mouth" "shut up already, dang... bullhit" etc. etc. so guess over-all, it doesn't really matter bc 've become accustomed 2 the latter-day prn nd when really want the notion, just go back nd listen 2 the funk that initiated me as an aficionado.
last note, so nobody loses their wig if it happens... the prince of old has forwarned us, "'ve got 2 sides and they're both friends." "now don't 'chall mess with me no mo'."

I think people probably still think he does curse. I don't think many people have the awareness of his actions we do.

L4OATheOriginal said:

good call, 1 of my favorite parts of igbabn is a 5:42 during the "soul clap" and the rap, over a dozen times we let everybody in the world know "can't nobody funk with us."

L4OATheOriginal said:

Still those are not prominent examples. I listened for years before I ever noticed that stuff--not quite Let's Pretend We're Married

dannyd5050 said:[quote]OldFriends4Sale said:[quote]

IstenSzek said:

Yeah but as an album titled Dirty Mind the songs don't have a bunch of curse words, most of his earlier albums didn't

dartluv5 said:

No cursing & being sexy don't coincide.
but a curse word said at the right time and place can be
It's all about the individuals

I'm just saying that age has nothing to do with curse
neither does sex have 2 do with age


Make Love Not War

sexually frustrated people tend to be more violent, aggrivated

50, 60, 70, 80, year olds curse and many of them do it with class
A year or 2 ago on Dancing With The Stars there was a 80yr old actress very class, and she had a sexuality about her and she used curse words, and it wasn't classless at all

Everyone has their idea of class and decency
Chris Rock curses in his stand up acts and I think it's not needed and disgusting and vulgar
Cedric the Entertainer uses curse words and it's funny and placed just righ
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L4OATheOriginal said:

If U have to do all that to hear a curse word, it can't be that bad

The only curse word on the Purple Rain album is.... hmmmm there are none

New Position, spells out P U S S Y and is done in such a muted way, you have to listen really carefully

Anxiety said:

I don't think it's the same

I don't curse in my everyday conversations
A few years ago the family went out to the beach and it was terribly hot
I'm the (good)son who likes to really do up family/friend gatherings
I brought my beach torches, my large mesh tent to keep away the insects while we ate etc etc

My older brother likes for the things to be right but doesn't want to do the work (that's supposedly my role) we were at the parking lot waiting for my parents and the heat was oppressive, couldn't wait to set up.
My brother was bitching "you brought too much, why did you, you should have,...."
I'm very patient, I pray, hold my tongue
and after 20 min of his bitching
in a stern even voice commanding voice
I say "Pick up the damn tent" before I even finished
He shut up, picked up what I was asking him nicely all along to pick up and started walking to the designated spot

A few years prior I would have felt bad about that
Guess what? I didn't, and I think he learned a lesson

I think strongly, post Batman in the 90's prince used more vulgar words and in a lot of places I thought "Is that really neccessary? aaahhhh Pussy Control oooohh, I can't stand that line, it get's in my head and I can't stop it from circulating

Irrisistable Bitch doesn't have the same affect on me, I hardly hear the B word.
your not going to hear a lot of cursing on his 80's albums and that includes the unreleased music too. and the places where U do, like my situation with my brother, it's no big deal
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