Purplestar88 said:

If that's the way you took it, that's on YOU. you got caught

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Caught? Please! You don't think I know my birth year is on display. You want a badge for your great discovery genius. Before you looked on my profile you did assume by birth year. YOU said "Assuming 88 is your birth year...." Then you claim you did not assume anything about me when YOU clearly said you did and then went on with you babble crap. If you are bringing up my birth year and generation x you are associating me with not knowing this and that. But you want to twist things around. My issue with you is that you are saying you didn’t assume anything about me but you saw 88 and went into this generation x statements. You’re clearly making judgments and putting me in a category. YOU don’t want to acknowledge that my birth year is why you brought up your generation x statements. Come on you said my birth year and directly went into went into g-x statements.

Purplestar88 said:

I'm psychic. You can't win against me. I know all

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Sure. I love the 1970's

Prince is sitting back laughing at the fools on here.

Why?

They are criticizing the music he's recorded in the past 20+ years and releases in drips for the past 20 years. If he had released some of the SAME music YEARS ago it wouldn't have been slammed as hard.

I somewhat agree with this. Prince is a genius, let's make no mistake. It's easy to feel that his music is above us all....but I yearn for the days when I would hear his current hit on the radio. It's been a minute, yes, and I am a fan until I die. That being said, I miss the days when I felt that his musical genius reached more that just those of us who get it...the new generation (my 19 yr old daughter included) don't hear him now like most of us used to...and I guess I just wish she could. He still moves me like no artist can - I remember being 13 and hearing Controversy...that album is still an amazing record that will always be tops in my book. I love U P, I always will. Your concerts are amazing and you are an icon. Peace to all and God bless.

Militant said:

I need to make ^^^^ this my new sig!

I somewhat agree with this. Prince is a genius, let's make no mistake. It's easy to feel that his music is above us all....but I yearn for the days when I would hear his current hit on the radio. It's been a minute, yes, and I am a fan until I die. That being said, I miss the days when I felt that his musical genius reached more that just those of us who get it...the new generation (my 19 yr old daughter included) don't hear him now like most of us used to...and I guess I just wish she could. He still moves me like no artist can - I remember being 13 and hearing Controversy...that album is still an amazing record that will always be tops in my book. I love U P, I always will. Your concerts are amazing and you are an icon. Peace to all and God bless.

Prince has done something that I never expected. He has left me bored. Just a little introduction to those who don’t know me. I was a writer and researcher for UPTOWN and have been a super fan of Prince for YEARS, but lately… he and I have had different paths. I can look through my CD collection and remember how much his music is the soundtrack for my adult life. I remember the date I had to Purple Rain, the girl at the Recka Stow that sold me SOTT (we ended up dating based on our mutual appreciation for Prince) and how I used to play his sexy songs to seduce the woman that became my wife, but somehow, Prince and I have not grown together. I still respect his art and his amazing artistry and would never tell the man what to do, but as a listener and a fan (oh sorry, FAM), I’ve stopped paying attention. I saw him in Vegas and he was amazing. It reminded me of when I used to be against the stage at GLAM SLAM LA back in the 90s, but I also saw him recently here in LA, and the stage set up looked like a high school dance decoration and his shtick hadn’t changed. He posed more than he performed. He was doing a greatest hits of his moves, but anyone who had seen him as much as I had knew that he was walking through it. His latest 3 disk set had so little memorable music on it, that I stopped listening to it after a few tries. It sits on the shelf next to his last several uninteresting disks… at least to me they are uninteresting and uninspired.

I used to want to hear every note, including the outtakes, but lately… it all blends into each other and I realized something important. Every album, every tour, every pronouncement is filled with the promise of greatness. Sadly, most of it goes unfulfilled. Yes he will occasionally do a Super Bowl show or Rock and Roll Hall of Fame show that blows us all away and reminds us of why he is indispensable to music, but the rest of the time it is largely a let down. I say this as someone who was right there during his biggest times and literally listening and watching every concert that was circulating. I say this as someone who thought the man could do no wrong (I defended UTCM for God’s sake!). I was an addict.

Back then there was a buzz for him. There was a solid group of collectors who traded music, videos, memorabilia and scripts. I remember waiting for packages from all over the country and for my issue of Prince Family magazine. I remember trading for tapes (yes tapes) and looking for a version of a song I may have already had that was 1-2 generations better than what I already had. I miss that time, and realize that my life has gotten more complicated and my Prince habit went from a daily jam to checking out the Prince.org site ever few weeks, or even months. I realized that with the lawsuits, etc. goofy videos, canceled plans, etc. that my interest in Prince has faded. His music went from erotic to erratic and (for me) sadly bland. If he was making groundbreaking music still, I could overlook how little respect he has for his fans, but he isn’t. He is cranking out music that he likes, but the songs don’t speak to me anymore. Again, I would never tell a talented artist like him how to make music, but I also don’t have any obligation to continue following him and I’ve realized that is what my interest in him is… obligatory. I can’t let go completely because I know that there is that amazing album or box set or something even better to come, but mostly… I am chasing a high and not getting the same buzz I used to get from his music. I know I am not the only person out there that hopes that Prince’s best days are ahead but wonders if they are mostly in the past.

I also wonder if he knows it too.

blackguitaristz said:

How about just enjoying an artist who after 31 years.....is still going strong? He won't be around 4 ever.

Graycap23 said:

PDogz said:

I'll second that too. When you think of how much good music Prince has brought out, he's a living wonder. Even though I don't like everything he does he's still the only artist who I could have 24/7 in my lounge just singing and playing pinao or accousitc guitar & never get bored.

I actually just read a study that stated that because of the way our brains are wired and how they develop, the music we hear between the ages of 16 and 25 will always sounds like the "most inspired" and will always be our favorites. We simply hear more of it, hear different levels and make emotional connections to it that we do not do later in life.

So, if you objectively take a look at some of the songs on LotusFlower, Dreamer and Colonized Mind come to mind...and compare them back to stuff in the 80s I think from an objective point of view they compare VERY well. We just can't make the emotional connection we used to make so it sounds "uninspired" to us...

This was actually a sad thing for me to read because it meant that I would never quite be moved again like I was at that age. But, it did explain a lot...

Why is one extreme saying you want to melt every prince record into a dildo and have your way with it any better than someone saying they want to pass that crap like a kidney stone?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

hi, supa. i'ma just take this post and use it as my new signature because it's so awesome, okay?

as for the initial post: whatevs. i'm bored too, so i've been coasting on non-princey stuff for the past several months. nothing wrong with that, ain't nothing wrong with a break.

BSK3478 said:

where's the namecheck
[Edited 9/14/09 18:16pm]

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

the stupid org signature box won't let me fit yer name in for some reason. i even put "supa" in there but it still messed up my sig!

BSK3478 said:

oh well, being quoted is more important!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I think there's a max character amount for sigs now.