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Thread started 03/22/09 12:37pm

2freaky4church
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Can anyone explain the Come On video?

What's with the old guy? What does that have to do with the songs lyrics? Two lesbians has nothing to do with Prince fucking with people in a park. I also heard that he really pissed off some people in the park.. Wonder how long he stayed there? Did they know it was Prince...any info?
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Reply #1 posted 03/22/09 12:40pm

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it was shot on 27th august 1998 in london, with the live footage at cafe de paris and the park scenes at hyde park. it was shot early in the day and they didn't take long to shoot as prince was at cafe de paris at about 1pm to start soundchecking

prince turned up at the esquire awards in london dressed as the old man. as to why, god knows
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Reply #2 posted 03/22/09 12:48pm

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didn't he accept an award in that disguise as well? perhaps he was affraid
to be recognised at that time. scared that people would throw their copies
of "new power soul" at him

lol

j/k, i seem to be one of the few people who don't mind that album and like
quite a lot of it's tracks.

don't know what was up with the old man disguise. perhaps just some fun.
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #3 posted 03/22/09 1:33pm

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There were rumours at the time, that we was handing out £50 notes to the homeless while he was dressed up as the old man. Not sure how true that was mind.
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Reply #4 posted 03/23/09 4:28pm

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Didn't know england had homeless.
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Reply #5 posted 03/23/09 5:41pm

nurseV

blacksweat said:

There were rumours at the time, that we was handing out £50 notes to the homeless while he was dressed up as the old man. Not sure how true that was mind.


eek
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Reply #6 posted 03/23/09 5:48pm

eaglebear4839

2freaky4church1 said:

What's with the old guy? What does that have to do with the songs lyrics? Two lesbians has nothing to do with Prince fucking with people in a park. I also heard that he really pissed off some people in the park.. Wonder how long he stayed there? Did they know it was Prince...any info?


It had about as much cohesiveness as any of the hip hop/rap vids that came out in that day.
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Reply #7 posted 03/23/09 5:48pm

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I just wanna know what all the lightining fast text was scrolling at the bottom of the screen.
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Reply #8 posted 03/23/09 6:57pm

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He was dressed up as an old man in the video and when he was on the award show he was presenting an award to Chris Rock. He was cracking jokes while he was up there "I asked Chris to sign a copy of my book and he said fool you know you can't read." When Chris came up he thank the artist and said "Now you tried comedy I might pick up a guitar.

Prince later discussed this on BET interview with Tavis. Tavis showed him all of the dogging articles about how he was dressed and Tavis even said "If they would have seen the video first...."

"I got the butter for your muffin honey, I'm just too old to hold the knife."
Prime aka The Kid

"I need u to dance, I need u to strip
I need u to shake Ur lil' ass n hips
I need u to grind like Ur working for tips
And give me what I need while we listen to PRINCE"
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Reply #9 posted 03/23/09 7:07pm

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there is absolutely no excuse... i mean explanation... for that video.
"does my cock look fat in these jeans?"
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Reply #10 posted 03/23/09 7:12pm

KeyLimePy

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I mean really can you explain any of Prince videos? All I know is Come On is one of my favorite song. I would love to hear that song live!
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Reply #11 posted 03/23/09 7:48pm

EmeraldSkies

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I love that video. It makes me giggle
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
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Reply #12 posted 03/24/09 3:06am

squirrelgrease

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That's the video that Mani was in, right? The question is: Did Prince boink Mani with the old man costume on?
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Reply #13 posted 03/24/09 3:08am

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2freaky4church1 said:

Didn't know england had homeless.

It's only happened recently since our castles all started to crumble.
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Just somewhere in the middle,
Not too good and not too bad.
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Reply #14 posted 03/24/09 3:10am

Dayclear

That video is cute, and funny, Prince trying to pick up young girls in the park. Yes that was Mani who was his secretary at the time. He was also still married to Mayte too. smile

[Edited 3/24/09 3:19am]
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Reply #15 posted 03/24/09 3:11am

MattyJam

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It's called having a shoe-string budget and no major label funding.
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Reply #16 posted 03/24/09 6:54am

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He almost picked up those girls. Even as an old man, the dude is a major player.
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Reply #17 posted 03/24/09 7:57am

robertes71

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Never seen it.

Maybe it will be available soon on the Lotusflow3r.com website?
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