SCARLETTPUZY said:

you kinda put all the labels and types of fandom on yourself dont'cha now.

That's what fans like us LOVE about the org... we throw you Fams a bone and you come back with some of the best craziness the world has ever seen...

Prince, I fully understand why you hide yourself away, play shows in places like Monaco, and charge maaad money to join your website and see you live! Separating the wheat from the chaff, smart move dude, smart move!

XxAxX said:

RenHoek said:

wait a second here... if i read you right looks like you're saying you think prince WOULD make a great goatherd? don't get me wrong it's okay if you disagree with me, there's room enough for all. there are likely a LOT of people who think prince would take excellent care of his goats, if he had some. others who will stand with me in the I Don't Think So crowd. so where are YOU standing? with the pro-goats folks? because, it's just, i mean if that's the case, i think it would be better (and frankly make it far easier to understand your post), if you could explain in some detail exactly WHY you think prince would be good with goats??

The first group is easily pleased, Michael Bolten, MJ, MC Hammer, anything shiny and sparkly

The middle of the roaders are used to compromise and hand-me-downs, and tolerate abuse because they know they don't deserve any better, know when something is cheesy, but wont complain too much because mehh whatever...

The second group with the herpes and hemorrhoids have impossibly high standards in music and that's why they became Prince fans in the first place.

...just saying


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Lordy chile, by this thread's standards
I've gone from being easy to please (a ho),
to gettin' hellfire herpes to finding
enlightenment all in about 2 presidential
terms. whew!

The first group is easily pleased, Michael Bolten, MJ, MC Hammer, anything shiny and sparkly

The middle of the roaders are used to compromise and hand-me-downs, and tolerate abuse because they know they don't deserve any better, know when something is cheesy, but wont complain too much because mehh whatever...

The second group with the herpes and hemorrhoids have impossibly high standards in music and that's why they became Prince fans in the first place.

...just saying

...so yes Imago, you're suffering from low self esteem. :lol

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[Edited 8/24/09 21:57pm]

XxAxX said:

I think Prince would do well with goats because he's short... they kinda see eye-to-eye...

Also, GOAT stands for Greatest Of All Times in some circles, so he's probably "coo' wit dat"!

Me? I love goats, used to have one when I was little. I am pro-goat! (They're delicious too )

RenHoek said:

thanks for the clarification. that means a lot to me. and it just goes to show you, when two people make a real effort to communicate walls can be broken down. have a nice day, dear.

XxAxX said:

RenHoek said:

C'mere my throbbing bratwurst

Imago said:

Get ready cuz here I come!!

will there be a vote for best fan at the end of this thread?

XxAxX said:

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Imago said:

so, do you think we're almost to the end of the thread yet? can we vote yet?

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?? 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 blahblah 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!!!

Imago said:

Question?? does wanting to prince in the have its own catagory?? if soo you win man!! hands don!! you and your "boot crew" can HAVE the part as Prince's "biggest" fan...i can imagine Prince's face ohh no sir..i dont want 2 Plaayyyyy..... :Lol:

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]

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]

violetblues said:

I'd love to know what that was a picture of.

SCARLETTPUZY said: