I dont hate Prince part,I hate it when Beyonce start singing along. She start walking on the stage like it's her song.She make it sound all sluty.lol.Hey that's my opinion.

nah.....i hates it too

Tha wasn't Beyonce' that was her evil twin 'Sasha'.

I hate her part too.

Dayclear said:

Indeed, the pink-bimbo-angle was not needed. The performance of the RnR Hall of Fame was a lot more prince doing his thing.

never seen it

I thought when Beyonce walked up those steps, it was like an angel coming out of the shadows. I thought she did well, held her own, and made Prince cool to a generation of kids.

agreed. But I'm not a big fan of Beyonce, It felt like we had to settle for bland appetizers while the tasty main course was right there next to them.

i don't hate it, but i don't love it either. i thought it was a pretty
solid performance but failed to understand why is was trumped up that
much. people talked about it as if prince had not performed on stage
and this was his first public performance in 20 years.

it made me think "what the hell?, where were all these 'supporters and
lovers of prince' from 1993-2003?".

can't say i totally hated beyonce. i don't like her at all but i could
stomach her during this short performance. plus, you know that prince
was the one who directed the whole thing.

Totally agree. The bit where Prince struggles to get to Beyonce's mic is embarrassing. Someone should have told her just to calm it down

Beyonce fucking ruined it. There was no chemistry between them at all.

I was not feeling the Beyonce portion either as he didn't need her up there with him!

it sucked!!!

85 grammy per4mance was wayyyyy better

thecloud said:

Prince doesn't need anyone up there with him. The greatest moment I ever had at a show was the ONA show in Cleveland when he came out by himself and did a few hits on the piano solo-style. It was actually that moment that brought me back to Prince after a 2 year long hiatus. Since then, I have never looked back.

I agree with Skywalkers comments... It is and will always be a major highlight in Grammy history and yes even though Beyonce is a goof ball it's still cool cause Prince is so bad-ass!

I liked the performance.
I think it helped spawn an interest in seeing Prince live during his Musicology concert.

I remember the years preceding this performance to be bleak for Prince musically and commercially. This was sort of the beginning of a marginal boost to his career (Musicology doing very well, and 3121 being his first #1 album this decade).



Overall that was a decent Grammy year --- I liked several of the musical performances that night. It was surprisingly better than dull.

I think it was backwards:

PR is HIS song
He is a legendary musician

Why did they have HER coming out mid-song as if she was the legend??

BUT Prince did say that they ask him every year to perform and that he only agreed to do it that year if he could perform with her.

I thought Beyonce did a good job of performing the song with him, but I don't think it was really necessary. Seems Prince wanted to do something with her, but it made him look strangely stationary!!

Here's the thing...

WE, the Prince fans, saw that as just another great performance....it's what we've become conditioned to from Prince.

However, the community, meaning Joe Public, saw it in a different light. Prince rocked their worlds because they hadn't seen him in so long.

It's the epitome of "Absence makes the Heart grow fonder"....




'cept, them mothaphuckas didn't buy LotusFlow3r

I think having Beyonce there with him made him water down the funk so she could hang with him. I would have loved it if they got some of the women he worked with in the past ot perform with him. It would have been cool to see Jill Jones, Wendy & Lisa, Sheila E., Mavis Staples, Taja Sevelle do a medley of his stuff with his band then for him to come out and rock it with them all.

Darwintheorgangrinder said:

I'm so upset...I was freezing by the backstage door that night.

zobilamouche said:

lmao @ pink bimbo!!!!

Yeah, I didn't like it either...

ranchero4vida said:

The awards shows try to pair up acts to fit more into the time slot and get a bigger audience. You windup with these supposedly honest collaborations (Prince/Beyonce, The Time/Rihanna, Tina Turner/Beyonce, Elton John/Eminem). It's already a cliche and overdone.

I thought she made it energetic and fun and sexy. Whole thing was right on,
hell they can be pinkbimbo & purplepimp! also liked her performance with Tina Turner.

I enjoyed the performance