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I thought that the dissolution of Prince's wedding vows with Mayte was a very "Prince" moment. Not a divorce - they were breaking what they said were "man's" laws and choosing to be married only in God's eyes instead.
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johnart said: XNY said: Sorry you didn't get the beauty or message of the Lovesexy cover, but it was amazing when it came out and still amazing today. It's a work of art. Not just Prince showing us his nether regions. It was and is a statement of transformation, beauty, and emancipation. The flowers symbolize a rebirth as he bravely and brazenly shows you his male and female sides. If you can't hear any of that on the album, then it is simply your loss.
Lovesexy is in my Top 3 favorite albums. Who's questioning the integrity of the album? Or the cover even? If you weren't a Prince fan you were not looking at that album cover as some deep artistic meaning. I'm sorry but it was just a girly nekkid dude on a flower to most other folk. That's what I'm talking about. That's like saying you can't go to an art museum and see paintings as anything more than a splatter of lines and colors, or the sculpture of "David" as anything more than some "nekkid dude". Every artist has a plan or idea behind any work of art when they compose it, regardless of how you see it. It simply says more about you than the composition, and I'm sorry that you aren't able to see it. Maybe stop watching pro wrestling or thinking about what "what other folk" think -whoever that is?- and spend some time listening to the album. It is quintessential Prince, at his boldest time in the 80's. "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion" -- Martha Graham | |
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Se7en said: I thought that the dissolution of Prince's wedding vows with Mayte was a very "Prince" moment. Not a divorce - they were breaking what they said were "man's" laws and choosing to be married only in God's eyes instead.
Weird. Prince likes to put spin on many things he does to suit his actions. It's likely that they annulled the wedding so Mayte, someday, could get remarried. I'm only guessing she was raised Catholic, but it's common in Catholicism that you need to annul a wedding before you remarry, not simply divorce. I could be wrong. "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion" -- Martha Graham | |
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meow85 said: jone70 said: Whenever he does interviews and dodges the questions, or answers them with abstract concepts about chemical trails, Jehovah, and time being a trick; and his constant crusade against record labels. Although record labels/WB/not owning one's masters may be a valid issue, he ends up sounding bitter.
I'd have said crazy, but  I was trying to be diplomatic and avoid getting flamed.  The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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The 1990's | |
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darlingomo said: The 1990's
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the whole Scandalous video | |
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DesireeNevermind said: Too Prince for his own damn good. If you're going to brand yourself then at least come out with something that smells good and not like baby oil vinnegrette windex.
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XNY said: johnart said: Lovesexy is in my Top 3 favorite albums. Who's questioning the integrity of the album? Or the cover even? If you weren't a Prince fan you were not looking at that album cover as some deep artistic meaning. I'm sorry but it was just a girly nekkid dude on a flower to most other folk. That's what I'm talking about. That's like saying you can't go to an art museum and see paintings as anything more than a splatter of lines and colors, or the sculpture of "David" as anything more than some "nekkid dude". Every artist has a plan or idea behind any work of art when they compose it, regardless of how you see it. It simply says more about you than the composition, and I'm sorry that you aren't able to see it. Maybe stop watching pro wrestling or thinking about what "what other folk" think -whoever that is?- and spend some time listening to the album. It is quintessential Prince, at his boldest time in the 80's. 
I am and artist and I can tell you 2 things about art and artists: 1) Guess what? Some people do go to a museum and see art as nothing but splatters of lines and colors. No matter how much thought or meaning an artist puts into a piece, there will always be folk who just don't see that in it, as art is totally subjective. 2) Umm, no, every artist does NOT have a plan or idea (or meaning) behind every composition. Sometimes we create art just for the sake or creating art  Sometimes a piece of art has no deeper meaning to its maker than a pleasing visual composition. And we know that someone like you might come along and try to find the meaning of life in it. Even if we just sat down butt nekkid on a flower.
But that's cool, and you can if you wish, because like I said, art is totally subjective. PS. Me watching pro-wrestling. | |
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johnart said: XNY said: That's like saying you can't go to an art museum and see paintings as anything more than a splatter of lines and colors, or the sculpture of "David" as anything more than some "nekkid dude". Every artist has a plan or idea behind any work of art when they compose it, regardless of how you see it. It simply says more about you than the composition, and I'm sorry that you aren't able to see it. Maybe stop watching pro wrestling or thinking about what "what other folk" think -whoever that is?- and spend some time listening to the album. It is quintessential Prince, at his boldest time in the 80's.
I am and artist and I can tell you 2 things about art and artists: 1) Guess what? Some people do go to a museum and see art as nothing but splatters of lines and colors. No matter how much thought or meaning an artist puts into a piece, there will always be folk who just don't see that in it, as art is totally subjective. 2) Umm, no, every artist does NOT have a plan or idea (or meaning) behind every composition. Sometimes we create art just for the sake or creating art Sometimes a piece of art has no deeper meaning to its maker than a pleasing visual composition. And we know that someone like you might come along and try to find the meaning of life in it. Even if we just sat down butt nekkid on a flower.
But that's cool, and you can if you wish, because like I said, art is totally subjective. PS. Me watching pro-wrestling.
  i love when people get pretentious about what is or isn't art, not knowing the one they're bellyaching to IS an artist
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sammij said: johnart said:
I am and artist and I can tell you 2 things about art and artists: 1) Guess what? Some people do go to a museum and see art as nothing but splatters of lines and colors. No matter how much thought or meaning an artist puts into a piece, there will always be folk who just don't see that in it, as art is totally subjective. 2) Umm, no, every artist does NOT have a plan or idea (or meaning) behind every composition. Sometimes we create art just for the sake or creating art Sometimes a piece of art has no deeper meaning to its maker than a pleasing visual composition. And we know that someone like you might come along and try to find the meaning of life in it. Even if we just sat down butt nekkid on a flower.
But that's cool, and you can if you wish, because like I said, art is totally subjective. PS. Me watching pro-wrestling.
i love when people get pretentious about what is or isn't art, not knowing the one they're bellyaching to IS an artist
love it. me too! 
that reply was just brilliant! ...then he turned to me and said "I dare you". | |
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johnart said: XNY said: That's like saying you can't go to an art museum and see paintings as anything more than a splatter of lines and colors, or the sculpture of "David" as anything more than some "nekkid dude". Every artist has a plan or idea behind any work of art when they compose it, regardless of how you see it. It simply says more about you than the composition, and I'm sorry that you aren't able to see it. Maybe stop watching pro wrestling or thinking about what "what other folk" think -whoever that is?- and spend some time listening to the album. It is quintessential Prince, at his boldest time in the 80's.
I am and artist and I can tell you 2 things about art and artists: 1) Guess what? Some people do go to a museum and see art as nothing but splatters of lines and colors. No matter how much thought or meaning an artist puts into a piece, there will always be folk who just don't see that in it, as art is totally subjective. 2) Umm, no, every artist does NOT have a plan or idea (or meaning) behind every composition. Sometimes we create art just for the sake or creating art Sometimes a piece of art has no deeper meaning to its maker than a pleasing visual composition. And we know that someone like you might come along and try to find the meaning of life in it. Even if we just sat down butt nekkid on a flower.
But that's cool, and you can if you wish, because like I said, art is totally subjective. PS. Me watching pro-wrestling. this reply is so hot | |
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This thead should be renamed....When keeping it real as a Princefan goes Horribly wrong PRINCE IS WATCHING U  " When an Artist Creates, whatever they create belongs to society"
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Imago said: Sah, you create the best threads ever
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chillichocaholic said: This thead should be renamed....When keeping it real as a Princefan goes Horribly wrong
why do i feel like that pressing "post" for that thread would turn time backwards and and existence would be no more... | |
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regarding the lovesexy cover. get over it. its just a pic of a semi-naked guy. it's not the end of the world. Seems to me it says alot about western culture and so called morals -and more specifically american culture. | |
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purplegary73 said: regarding the lovesexy cover. get over it. its just a pic of a semi-naked guy. it's not the end of the world. Seems to me it says alot about western culture and so called morals -and more specifically american culture.
Dude, there's nothing to get over. We're discussing it, not dwelling on it
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sammij said: johnart said:
I am and artist and I can tell you 2 things about art and artists: 1) Guess what? Some people do go to a museum and see art as nothing but splatters of lines and colors. No matter how much thought or meaning an artist puts into a piece, there will always be folk who just don't see that in it, as art is totally subjective. 2) Umm, no, every artist does NOT have a plan or idea (or meaning) behind every composition. Sometimes we create art just for the sake or creating art Sometimes a piece of art has no deeper meaning to its maker than a pleasing visual composition. And we know that someone like you might come along and try to find the meaning of life in it. Even if we just sat down butt nekkid on a flower.
But that's cool, and you can if you wish, because like I said, art is totally subjective. PS. Me watching pro-wrestling.
i love when people get pretentious about what is or isn't art, not knowing the one they're bellyaching to IS an artist
love it. The thing is that I think some folk are so wrapped up in defending it, that they've not heard one thing I had to say about it.
I've yet to put it (or the album) down, in fact I mentioned them to be favorites of mine.
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johnart said: sammij said:
i love when people get pretentious about what is or isn't art, not knowing the one they're bellyaching to IS an artist
love it. The thing is that I think some folk are so wrapped up in defending it, that they've not heard one thing I had to say about it.
I've yet to put it (or the album) down, in fact I mentioned them to be favorites of mine.
Oy! this is true...
i tried to "help" by pointing out "...as much as we love him..." but i forgot true love says prince's (or any artist's) ambitions never get the best of him | |
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johnart said: XNY said: That's like saying you can't go to an art museum and see paintings as anything more than a splatter of lines and colors, or the sculpture of "David" as anything more than some "nekkid dude". Every artist has a plan or idea behind any work of art when they compose it, regardless of how you see it. It simply says more about you than the composition, and I'm sorry that you aren't able to see it. Maybe stop watching pro wrestling or thinking about what "what other folk" think -whoever that is?- and spend some time listening to the album. It is quintessential Prince, at his boldest time in the 80's.
I am and artist and I can tell you 2 things about art and artists: 1) Guess what? Some people do go to a museum and see art as nothing but splatters of lines and colors. No matter how much thought or meaning an artist puts into a piece, there will always be folk who just don't see that in it, as art is totally subjective. 2) Umm, no, every artist does NOT have a plan or idea (or meaning) behind every composition. Sometimes we create art just for the sake or creating art Sometimes a piece of art has no deeper meaning to its maker than a pleasing visual composition. And we know that someone like you might come along and try to find the meaning of life in it. Even if we just sat down butt nekkid on a flower.
But that's cool, and you can if you wish, because like I said, art is totally subjective. PS. Me watching pro-wrestling. it's true...i made a song imagining i was a prostitute once. for no other purpose. but then again, this is prince we're talking about....he'd never.... | |
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SirPsycho said: johnart said: The thing is that I think some folk are so wrapped up in defending it, that they've not heard one thing I had to say about it.
I've yet to put it (or the album) down, in fact I mentioned them to be favorites of mine.
Oy! this is true...
i tried to "help" by pointing out "...as much as we love him..." but i forgot true love says prince's (or any artist's) ambitions never get the best of him  | |
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SirPsycho said: johnart said:
I am and artist and I can tell you 2 things about art and artists: 1) Guess what? Some people do go to a museum and see art as nothing but splatters of lines and colors. No matter how much thought or meaning an artist puts into a piece, there will always be folk who just don't see that in it, as art is totally subjective. 2) Umm, no, every artist does NOT have a plan or idea (or meaning) behind every composition. Sometimes we create art just for the sake or creating art Sometimes a piece of art has no deeper meaning to its maker than a pleasing visual composition. And we know that someone like you might come along and try to find the meaning of life in it. Even if we just sat down butt nekkid on a flower.
But that's cool, and you can if you wish, because like I said, art is totally subjective. PS. Me watching pro-wrestling. it's true...i made a song imagining i was a prostitute once. for no other purpose. but then again, this is prince we're talking about....he'd never.... BWAAAAAH!!! | |
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veronikka said:  No no no. This, I very much liked and it was all anybody was talking about the next day. This was gangsta. | |
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PEJ said: "Alive?" surviving on the thought of loving you, it's just like the water
I ain't felt this way in years... | |
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KidaDynamite said: PEJ said: "Alive?" funny shit huh!!! To Sir, with Love | |
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