Best/funniest thread I have read for a loooong time!

Masterpiece

purplecam said:

This is my reaction to your thread Imago


Am I readin correctly?...u didn't throw any sucker punches?

jcurley said:

Prince is role model but the sex of the '80's kind of clouded this? Who's sex?

I got into Prince's music and he was inspirational to me long before I ever had sex and when I did start...who he was having sex with had nothing to do with who I was having sex with. So I have to say that I don't understand what you mean by that.

I will agree that was inspirational in the '80's...being that he used to epitomize the American dream...ie...that anyone can be free!
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Huh?

what a uniquely amazing pop star.






Oh the riot of youth. You believe everything is possible. You run around living your days in the present moment without a care in the world, only stressing out about current conditions. The future is an abstract cloud that is still somewhere far out on the horizon.

Then the next you know, you’re working way too many hours, bogged down in an office job where dinner parties, meetings, nights out on the town, and the like, all bleed in to one big blur. The routine consumes you, and all creativity you once exhibited is sunk into a thankless job--you’re very existence is wrapped up in day-to-day mundane ‘routine’, and before you know it, you’re grossly heavier than you were 10 years ago, you’re not sleeping well, and you look and feel terrible. You simply have lost control of ‘balance’.


Prince didn’t do this.


What an amazing man he can be sometimes. At 17 he TURNED DOWN a major record company because he wanted full control of his music? A 17 year old black kid during the late 70’s, only a few short years after desegregation, stared the record industry in the face and said, “I want to do this on my own terms motherfuckers! eeeoooowwaaah!” “And motherfuckers, I’m going to do it in bikinis and a trench coat!”
He taught himself to play. He wrote his own songs. He dressed as he pleased. He spoke his mind, and he did EVERYTHING for the sake of his music. The man was mental concentration incarnate.

At an age when most of us are doing our first drops of ACID, experimenting with same sex college escapades, smoking our first joints, attending our first orgies, tasting ass for the first time, Prince had probably already done all of these things… in the fucking studio, writing several dozen songs in the damned process!
He had sold his first millions before most folks graduate from college. Before most folks start a family, he had already become a musician, an actor, a director, a screenplay writer (sure not a good one, but still), and an inspiration to millions around him.

Before the age that most of us slept with our first 100 or so sex partners, Prince had already gone on and released an album that is credited for saving people’s lives, LoveSexy. How many people reading this can claim to have inspired someone to save their own lives? Hell, I already know most of my threads make some of you want to kill yourselves.

Now, here he is, a man passed 50 years of age. And he looks…. very well put together. He hasn’t gained any weight. He doesn’t show any signs of real aging. He releases albums when he wants to. He makes millions still. He plays 3 shows in one day around L.A., all with different set lists? The man….is brilliant.


Look, if a very gay looking 17 year old, poor black kid barely 5 foot 3 in height in the late 70s can go on to becoming the one of the most important, powerful, influential, pop acts of the century, you certainly can find inspiration to get off your ass and get on that tread mill. Or to get up, put a little makeup on, and do your hair before you leave the house. Or to find that job you’ve always wanted.

Take a Chance, as he said. It can only make you stronger.


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Imago said:

this post was the shit....even the tasting ass part lol

xlr8r said:

Thanks!


The tasting ass part was merely a generalization. I think the general public doesn't actually taste ass until in the 30's around the time Prince was going through his symbol years.

But I figure this being the org and all, most folks would have tasted ass at least before his LoveSexy release.


But I digress. We taste ass---But Prince tasted ass AND changed the world while he was at it. amazing, really.

Imago said:

Well they say you do your best work before 30-35. If you are going to make your mark on th e world then it comes at a very early age.

Of course there are outliers who do great works at middle age (some great authors first seminal books were in their 40's for example). So it seemed destined that Prince was doomed to fall off in his 30's and beyond.

I remember thinking in the years 1982-84 that I could not imagine that Prince would continue or be still making music ten years from that time. I expected hi ot drop it, disappear, me die...or SOMETHING. But as life went on, I kept on and so did Prince.

He never took any time off. Any.

Maybe he should have, maybe he should now who knows. But yeah, to have such an impact early on and be so brave (and crazy) early on is badass. But now its elderstaesman time. I guess thisnis how fans of the oung and dangerous Rolling Stones felt after 1973. But even they had a Some Girls album relevant rebirth. Was TGE Prince's? Or TRC and Lotus Flower?

xlr8r said:

The Gold Experience could have been the start of some amazing rebirth.
But I think he was overwhelmed by a love and a marriage that probably taxed him.
And by the music industry in General.

His embarrassing public speeches, like the one at the World Music Awards or whatever in the UK during that time indicate this his attention was pulled away from the actual music and more towards how to 'control' his future.

The symbol years represented great potential but fizzled.

What's amazing is that for any other musician. I mean ANY OTHER musician, their careers would have been over at that point.


Prince just marched on, and went on to stage a comeback in 2004... ON HIS TERMS.

Imago said:

Yep, on his terms, for better or for worse. Thats very brave of him, which many people dont realize, they'd rather crticize.

I think the speeches, public fight, child incidents, marriages, were times when most people take time off to deal with such things. But he always was out there in public with it and even weaving them into his art for better or for worse.

I think most people take time off to deal with those things. Maybe burning the cnandle at both ends in ones (his) youth brings forth great output artistically, but after 30, a rest perhaps is needed. I wonder if he ever did rest, what his output in the later years would have brought forth. Maybe if he took a 5 year leave like Lennon did he would have came back with his own Double Fantasy (even though Emancipation is his Double Fantasy), but it would have been a different perpsective and not so 'rushed." And he wouldnt have followed with NPS.

And thats the thing. No matter how private this dude wants to be and is, we have been through everythig with him every step of HIS life. Many people say "prince music has been with me throughout my life and gotten me through ...." when it's actually been a reciprocal relationship. He never really went away, he kept keeping on letting veveryone know whats happening through his work (releases, appearances, media, speeches etc) as we went on with our lives as well.

Sorry for veering off the subject matter.
[Edited 5/15/09 11:26am]

don't ever make a thread like this again

don't ever make a thread like this again

InsatiableCream said:

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Protege said:

omg

Alej said:

You, Myle and protomuffin AIN'T RIGHT!

Imago said:

We ain't

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Alej said:

there is clarity (plus the safety laughs) in your thoughts...

lalalailoveu said: