I may sound like a creepy stalker here, but I'm really curious as to what Prince's family thought about him & his music during his early career. Does anyone know of any quotes or interviews they have given? The reason I ask is because I can't imagine his sister would have been too pleased about the song "Sister" & his parents mustn't have been pleased about the movie Purple Rain, what with him portraying his father as a wife beater even though he wasn't & portaying his mother being white even though she was black etc.

There was a white woman in Purple Rain? Where? Oh, you mean Brenda? Yeah, she wasn't Prince's mama.

TheScouser said:

PRain was fiction not fact. A movie not a documentary.

This is the dumbest thread of the month.

TheScouser said:

Just a word of advice here.

You might not want to start your post with 'I may sound like a creepy stalker'. Firstly, it makes you sound like a creepy stalker, and secondly, you'll offend all the creepy stalkers on here.
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great thread!

i think that during the days when he was really at his commercial peak,
his family would have had raised eyebrows

prince's music, though symbolic is very personal 2 him

i can imagine his parents sitting with him and asking him questions

nevermind the extended family

erik319 said:

Best answer, evar!

ernestsewell said:

Ask his sister, she is on Facebook

Oh what about under the cherry moon? What did they think when they portrayed his and living in a world where everything was black and white and shades of gray?

Or in 'Graffiti Bridge' that had him living and working on a sound stage that housed the facades of several miniature night clubs?

I've always wondered about his relatives, too. You don't ever hear about them. I think they would understand his creative license with his music and movies, but still...are they as strange as him?

Dear Creepy Stalker,

I personally enjoy this thread, and think this is a fairly decent question. I would keep writing but my mind went blank...

AP4MJ

erik319 said:

Hey, it's not fair to stereotype. Not all of us took offense.

CJBabyDaddy said:

oops, sorry to cause offence to any creepy stalkers who are happy to be labelled as creepy stalkers. There, sorted.

ernestsewell said:

2 of the creepiest stalkers on here possibly? (im not mentioning any names) just asking....

lotusboy said:

http://prince.org/msg/7/3...sg_7284023

You said it.

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erik319 said:

And? thats not a stalking post..that was just a question post...dont mean no disrespect and i aint trying to brag...but at least my post raised eyebrows, not tempers.

TheScouser said:

emotionally on his own very young and stayed with freinds and extended family. it kind of sounds like you think he grew up in the Brady bunch household/not much talk,just a lot of yelling,but son brought them into the limelight and gift so its all good as far as his"family" was concerned/ one more thing SISTER is not always saved for biological siblings/brother from another mother as example

lotusboy said:

if you get angry when other people have a differing opinion to your own, it says more about you than them. I'm here for the banter, don't take things so seriously.

erik319 said:

Im not angry my man, haven't been angry since the dr slapped me bottom!

lotusboy said:

Same here. I wouldn't mind but it was last week after my annual checkup.

CJBabyDaddy said:

Totally. I quote Tony M: "If you never stereotyped it, the stereotype would never be ho!

But for now..."

News Flash.....Princes real mother was white, Italian I beleive.

chriss said:

Phillipino.

lotusboy said:

Same thing.

chriss said:

whodknee said:

Yeah, same thing in that they are all WRONG. Both his parents were light skinned blacks and considered themselves black. His mother gives a pretty good explanation of their family history in Jon Bream's book Purple Reign.

Both Jon Bream's book Purple Reign (1984) and Per Nielsen's book DMSR, give a pretty good childhood/family history.
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