The one who wasn't afraid to sing explicitly and honestly about sex. Yes, he's 51 but I disagree with the idea that if you're old that you're a dirty old man if you sing that way. Sexual expression doesn't have an age limit and it doesn't have to mean that you're singing about 18 year-olds, there are a lot of milfs out there. A lot of Prince's most inspired work, like Dirty Mind, was made when he was sexually free. Sex frees you up and inspires you beyond the obvious. Prince is a very religious man, but back in the day he realized that religion and sexual candor are not at opposite ends.

jimmyrogertodd said:

Sexual songs are not for children, just as working is not for 7 year-olds.

peter430044 said:

LOL too funny!!!!!
Anyways, Prince seems to have lost his muse when LG came along and converted him to the cult that he is in now.

Genesia said:

Watch out! The age police is here.

I'm 29 and being right doesn't have a 40-year-old age limit. Sex is central to the human condition and is to be celebrated, that includes being free-spoken, otherwise you're holding back. Subtle and explicit singing about sex are not enemies of one another, it's variation, one should use all the tools, not throw some of the tools away and become prude.

Genesia said:

I bet the same folks that want the open off the charts sexuality of what he was doing in his 20's and 30's would be mortified if Prince turned up in some Cialis commercial or did a commercial for male enhancement.

peter430044 said:

He's not a prude. Perhaps you should expand your vocabulary. You might discover that he still sings about sex.

prince's foolishness is not behind him. He's 51 and still playing games.

peter430044 said:

He's not a prude. Perhaps you should expand your vocabulary. You might discover that he still sings about sex.

I've been a Prince fan since the early 80's, and Prince and I are about the same age. I have followed his career and life and kind of grown at the same time and matured in the same way that he has. Now it bothers me in ways I can't express why people won't respect the man that he has become, and are disrespectful of his religious choices and care more about what they want him to be, that for who he really is. I guess most of them just are too young to realize that as you grow you leave a lot of foolishness behind you. Prince has paid his dues in ways that many can't even begin to imagine and he's not going backwards for anybody. So to cut this sermon short with a line from the man himself. Letitgo.
Mind your own motherfucker, let a man be a man.

peter430044 said:

LOL too funny!!!!!
Anyways, Prince seems to have lost his muse when LG came along and converted him to the cult that he is in now.

kenlacam said:

Well, as you age you begin to see somethings in a different light and maybe he see those songs and the mentality that he had at that time as something that he should just put on hiatus and just sing things that he could sing in front of all audiences. Like all those cartoons that sneak adult humor in but over the heads of the children in the audience is basically what I am suggesting but at 29 you would not feel this way cause you want him to say and do things the way that you at your age would do them but life doesn't always work that way. Prince has gotten more into religion and what he thinks is more appropriate for him at this time. I am close to his age and I can understand how when you feel your mortality tug at you and think of some of the things that you have done in your past and the moral implications, you actually question your previous response to the same situation so cut the man some slack. Pray that your day will come if you live to be that age. Cause you make a lot of decisions when you are young that you would never want to revisit in your older years, trust me.
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I think Prince stood for something importnant back when he sang more freely. It was an ideological point of view. It sent a message that sexual expression doesn't need to go through a conservative moral filter, doesn't need to be deprived of it's full potential and thereby the whole truth. I think it's sad that an importnant artist like Prince relented to political correctness.

Genesia said:

Yes he does but "subtle and explicit singing about sex are not enemies of one another".[/b]

peter430044 said:

Maybe singing lines like "In my daddy's car..." or "I was only 16..." don't sound the same when you're 51! At 51 you shouldn't be trying to "lay anyone down in yo' daddy's car...". By then you should have your own ride!

Genesia said:

Watch out! The age police is here.

I'm 29 and being right doesn't have a 40-year-old age limit. Sex is central to the human condition and is to be celebrated, that includes being free-spoken, otherwise you're holding back. Subtle and explicit singing about sex are not enemies of one another, it's variation, one should use all the tools, not throw some of the tools away and become prude.

peter430044 said:

You can't get much more unsubtle than "I don't want to kiss your lips until I get to (Umph!) your hips"
from 4ever, off lotusflow3r, released just this year. Remember? I won't mention the way he sings Elixer. OK it's a pun but damn that's pretty explicit. Prince. Has. Not. Changed. That. Much.

HonestMan13 said:

If he sang "in my daddy's car" at 51 it wouldn't be taken literally.
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