MacDaddy said:

You are sooo gonna get some lovin when I get to Amsterdam

Because you're a type 3 fan y::k

SCARLETTPUZY said:

C.H.I.L.L.A.X girl..here, take a

Imago said:

Promises, promises.....le sigh...

I fucking LOVE this thread!

Imago said:

thank you dear, i'd appreciate that i 0(+> and yes goats are a lot more challenging than most people realize. to be clear, what i said above about our hero prince - i hope you understand i'm not being negative when i state i don't see him as a goatherd. i'm being positive, in the opposite direction.

first of all, i don't think prince would enjoy looking after goats because being a goatherd does involve a lot of walking. some of it entirely uphill. and secondly, imo prince would look kind of weird wearing the traditional knee high leather boots and leather vest of the goatherd after all these years of wearing high heels and silk in public. would he be comfortable in that role? could he be comfortable~?

so, like i was saying, even though i'm a huge fan of prince i think as long as he sticks with making music and albums and videos and such he'll be just fine. but, as you pointed out above he's full of surprises and i'd be really surprised if he were ever successful at goat farming.


[Edited 8/22/09 18:00pm]

MacDaddy said:

ingamilo said:

whatever...ya'll dont like what I have 2 say u can all kiss my twice!!!
I LOVE PRINCE

SCARLETTPUZY said:

and who said that I didn't like Prince? my Prince!!!

I tell everyone I love when I think their shit stinks.

Hi Prince.

i cringed so hard at this. Please higher power, don't let Prince read here.

I class this as MJ fanatic equivalent.

Holy crap. This thread is brimming with 'middle way' orgers.


We're like the silent majority


OK, maybe I'm not all that silent, but still...

Okay, I admit it. I'm one of those fans who just joined for the free [s]food[/s], [s]t-shirt[/s], [s]cookies[/s], [s]badges[/s], someone help me out here??

Can I have my hugging emoticon now?

Okay, I admit it. I'm one of those fans who just joined for the free [s]food[/s], [s]t-shirt[/s], [s]cookies[/s], [s]badges[/s], someone help me out here??

Can I have my hugging emoticon now?

Isn't Prince just that distant cousin that comes out of the woodworks once in a while (usually at Christmas time) and gives you extravagant gifts you either have a use for, or you don't? Sometimes he throws a party. Some of us like this cousin because of all the gifts, others think his gifts aren't genuine. We all have a good time at the parties.

I like his gifts sometimes, sometimes they're "recycled gifts". Other times I hate his hair. His proteges are usually quite predictable. His live music is great. He may have VD. He's pretty.


Now excuse me while I go listen to some of the other musicians I like.

I take the good with the bad with Prince. His bad is usually better than the best of what 90% of the industry has had to offer me in the last thirty years. That's not to say that I love his music so much that I can't enjoy anyone else's songs. Far from it. I just know I've listened to him for twenty years [30] or more now and the affection I have for him and his work hasn't waned. I have no idea what type of fan that makes me. His music makes me feel hot and invincible, from For You to No More Candy 4 U, even when it teeters on the edge of silly and laughable (and it does at times), because of the personality that comes through in the albums.

exenn said:

I'm probably in the first category. Yet, I can differentiate between what I personally like and what I consider well-crafted art. For instance, I love Graffiti Bridge even though I would not use it to teach someone how to make a well-crafted film. Also, Prince's rapping doesn't bother me, but I don't listen to enough rap to be able to say what is excellent rap. Three, Prince is my favorite guitar player because the way plays speaks to my emotions, but I would not rate him above B. B. King and Jimi Hendrix. So, I'm in the first category by default. Like the post that I quoted, even some of Prince's work does not move me as much as what I consider his high end work, but it still seems to move me more than what else is out there. Much like internet explorer, he is my default music server. When the radio sucks, put in LotusFlow3r/MPLS

exenn said:

I'm probably in the first category. Yet, I can differentiate between what I personally like and what I consider well-crafted art. For instance, I love Graffiti Bridge even though I would not use it to teach someone how to make a well-crafted film. Also, Prince's rapping doesn't bother me, but I don't listen to enough rap to be able to say what is excellent rap. Three, Prince is my favorite guitar player because the way plays speaks to my emotions, but I would not rate him above B. B. King and Jimi Hendrix. So, I'm in the first category by default. Like the post that I quoted, even some of Prince's work does not move me as much as what I consider his high end work, but it still seems to move me more than what else is out there. Much like internet explorer, he is my default music server. When the radio sucks, put in LotusFlow3r/MPLS

4Eternity said:

no!


[Edited 8/23/09 22:31pm]

Of course this is all debatable, no? I mean, one man's vagina is another man's scary furry melting thing.

But I guess we all have our criteria for what we think a good Prince fan is.
There are some who think a good Prince fan is one who should love everything
that the man does, focus only on the positive, and reprimand those that don't
think the same.

But upon pondering this method or mode of fandom, I find it to be a bit taxing
on the person. Firstly, being a fan in this 'all or nothing' category requires
that you've seen this:



..dreadful movie, and then find something positive to say about it. Perhaps,
we could point out his wonderful hair? I mean, it is nice hair.

But after so many Jugheads, Wedding Feasts, and Arms of Orions, you ended up
losing yourself to this singular devotion to Prince I think. You went to see
him perform in O2... perhaps 3121 at Rio... and you thought the truncated,
jazzed up versions of Kiss or Delirious were brilliant, didn't you? And even
if you didn't, you dare not mention your true feelings of it. For how could
you do so now that you're in just that deep? One can't say Graffiti Bridge
was a great movie and then turn around and say they didn't like Musicology. It
just doesn't make any damned sense. So the 'all or nothing' approach is a
path that can only lead you to insanity.


But then there's the other type of 'fan'. The one that only likes one part
of Prince's career. Or only likes one part of his musical palette. Maybe
you only like the funk of his pre-Purple Rain era. Perhaps you only like his
booty shaking, panty droppin' plastic years music. Or perhaps you only like
it when he rocks. Either way, you hate everything else he's done and you
think that he is over. That Prince, is...done.
The problem I see in this is that you may think Prince is done, but there's
one thing I know about Prince. It's that he loves hair relaxers and a good
hair iron. But one more thing: He absolutely loves to surprise us. You can't
go about thinking his career is over, because Prince will prove your ass wrong.
Lest we forget that everyone thought Prince's career was over after Graffiti
Bridge. And if the law of karma was true or if there really was a God, Prince's
career should have been over--cause that shit was rank. But what
happened? Prince released Diamonds & Pearls, worked that album like a 9-to-5
and scored several top 10 hits while wearing assess pants, pencil think beard,
and a scary typhoon do. He can, if anything, achieve the impossible. To write
him off at ANY point in his career will end up with you being proven totally wrong, for sure.



Then there's the fan like me. One who has found 'the middle way' of Prince
fandom. I still buy his albums even if I dread what they may sound like. I
dreaded the thought of Lotusflow3r and believed it to be a potential suckass
album. But I wasn't going to just write him off. I knew that Prince had a few
tricks up his sleeve yet. Prince is like that innocent girl in biology class
you happen to run into at the party. In school she seems so reserved and
predictable. But after a couple of beers at the party, she's giving the most
amazing blowjob of your life.
So no matter what is going on his Prince life. No matter what religion he joins
and barely lives by despite what comes out of his mouth, I know.... believe
me.... I know. Prince will surprise us.
So the middle way fan loves parts of Prince's catalog that make us happy.
We detest the parts that just isn't our thing. But we know that in the future
he'll always throw something else at us that may make us quite happy.

We view the first type of Prince fan with only pity and sometimes repulsion.
We view the second type of Prince fan as being very similar to us, but with
a scorching case of herpes and a bad temper. We are comfortable in our
pragmatic and practical approach to our fandom. We are comfortable enough
to praise when praise is needed, criticize when we don't like something, and
in the end realize that Prince is just a singer/musician/song writer that
has for one reason or another turned our ear his way.




What are your thoughts? I'm particularly interested in hearing from you
fans in the first category because you're the ones that have a uni-bomber
vibe to you.


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methodcal's keen eye edit
[Edited 8/22/09 17:06pm]

XxAxX said:

FIRST OF ALL.. you have NO RIGHT to tell me what type of fan i am or put a label on me..just because i honestly DO love all of his music and i did enjoy GRAFITTI BRIDGE because of the message, and the music..OMG you went to my profile....your point is what??? just cause i pointed out not even a scratch to some of my favorites that Prince has made, makes me a "fair weather fan" and who gives you authority to label anyone?? do you know how ridiculous you sound?? [b]i AM NOT and will not divulge in any PRINCE BASHING on a site that is "sopposed to be for FANS of PRINCE!!! soo that makes me crazy or a "fam" or obsessed..i can go on and on about my love and respect for the man who has brought soo much in my life...INSPIRATION< LOVE you still dont impress me..when i first came on the org, sooo long ago, i thought i would find others who understood the message of loving one another, without labels, or a whole lot of spiritual inspiration...i thought that others that really enjoiied PRince was really in tune with the concept of a "universal love" ..i can ONLY count a handful of those who do...the rest are a bunch of sad,sad, miserable people...soo if Prince ever shut this site down...i wouldnt be mad at all!!!

SCARLETTPUZY said:

This reaction is hilarious

XxaxX, I'm sorry if you read it and had food or drink in your mouth when doing so.