I was looking at one of the those Priceline ads, you know the ones with Captain Kirk? And who should pop up in the vid with him but that chick from the Love 4 One Another movie--that Corrie Dana babe. She was lookin mighty hot. What that did was remind me of that cheesy special that VH1 had on in I think 1995. Remember it like it was yesterday.

The film pretty much proved that Prince was given plenty of freedom, beyond the guff about Warners, if VH1 would soil its airwaves with this crap. The damn thing makes zero sense and the acting is horrible. You have Prince cutting out dictionary words, this chick acting loopy, the band members making faces at Veronica Webb, Nona Gaye looking like she wanted Princes balls on a hot stove. The whole thing was a major mistake, beyond the excitement I had when I first saw it.

Sure, the music is good, but the other stuff is just tripe. He should have just filmed a concert, did some backstage stuff around Paisley and maybe do an interview. Why do something that nobody but hardcore fans would watch? I bet that plenty of people turned the channel soon after it started.

Odd that VH1 would do this since this is a period of time Prince was very unpopular.

This is surely one of his most cheesy moments, even though it felt cool at the time.

Remember it like it happened yesterday. Who here saw it live like me? Impressions? Do you agree that it was embarassing?

Newsflash for you. To the non-hardcore fan, 99.9% of Prince's career is just one big ball of cheese.

Take out '82-'84, and most people either don't care about, know about, or flat out view his career as an embarrassing failure. I don't know how any long time Prince fan can't realize this.

About the L4OA special, at that point in his career it wouldn't have mattered if they had aired the Lovesexy Dortmund concert or the lost video footage of Small Club, the general public wouldn't have given a shit.

I personally like the L4OA movie and the vast majority of all of Prince's cheesy videos, music, and antics. I just like Prince cheese. It's like a nice asiago cheese.

I really couldn't give a shit less what the general music public likes or dislikes. Let them have the Ga Ga cheese. Limburger.

jockeyb4u said:

Newsflash for you. To the non-hardcore fan, 99.9% of Prince's career is just one big ball of cheese.

Take out '82-'84, and most people either don't care about, know about, or flat out view his career as an embarrassing failure. I don't know how any long time Prince fan can't realize this.

About the L4OA special, at that point in his career it wouldn't have mattered if they had aired the Lovesexy Dortmund concert or the lost video footage of Small Club, the general public wouldn't have given a shit.

I personally like the L4OA movie and the vast majority of all of Prince's cheesy videos, music, and antics. I just like Prince cheese. It's like a nice asiago cheese.

I really couldn't give a shit less what the general music public likes or dislikes. Let them have the Ga Ga cheese. Limburger.

This just in:

Basically, most of what you typed is simply way fucking incorrect. Unless you have some pie graphs or charts somewhere backing up your bullshit 99.9% "facts/figures".

It's odd that someone with an avatar of Prince at The Superbowl (aka one of the most watched and acclaimed halftime shows ever) would have such a skewed view of how the world actually views Prince. Your avatar is rock hard evidence that flies directly in the face of most of what you just said. Prince single most mainstream/largest televised audience was in 2007 at that very moment. It is regarded as one of the least cheesed out halftime shows, and viewed as (arguably) the best ever.

That said, I dig Love 4 One Another the movie as well. More that Graffiti Bridge for sure. Has Prince has cheese ball moments? Sure, but moments like those are a prerequisite for being a legendary rock star. On a scale of all time cheesey moments in Prince's (or anyone's) career L4OA is nothing. I especially love it just for the performances of "The Ride" and "Days of Wild".

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jockeyb4u said:

Hold your lightsaber there Luke. I read your posts semi regularly, and 75% of the time I agree with you 100% of the time. I have been a fan for 30 years, have talked with more people than I can count about Prince (on one hand). With absolute certainty, I can almost guarantee that 99.9% of non-hardcore fans think that at least 87% of Prince's career is pure gargonzola, with a third provolone. I have a complete pie chart available, but it's only half done.

Okay. If I don't know anyway to say this delicately. Maybe you are talking to/hanging out with the wrong people.

I mean, most people (that I know) with an ounce of discernment know (even if they aren't a fan) that Prince is one of the baddest and most well respected musicians around. At this stage of his career, it's slowly just becoming one of those things written in stone on the walls of rock n' roll history.

Are there cheesey moments in his career? Sure. Name me one music icon that doesn't have a list of them. As I said, it's a prerequisite.

Bottom Line: Only those who are dangerously out of touch with popular music/culture in the last 30 + don't realize that Prince is one of the most talented ever. You really hanging with folks who still cannot see past the heels, mascara, and girly clothes? Tell me you are not with your friends and having to still explain the difference between Prince and Michael Jackson? Again, what are you basing your percentages/figures on?

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I love cheese. And I love this TV special.

This one was really a bit strange but I think its predecessor, "The Beatiful Experience: A Night in Erotic City" is an underrated masterpiece. The music, the live renditions, even the storyline were great, way ahead of its time and probably even better than the lipsynched Sign of the Times movie.

Very futuristic, too (internet, loneliness, coocooning at home instead of going out, downloadable music or streams, depression and sadness) . Very underrated movie. A true masterpiece in hindsight. But yes, the Love4OneAnother movie was not really that great.

Maybe you watched the edited version? There are at least two versions.

KoolEaze said:

This one was really a bit strange but I think its predecessor, "The Beatiful Experience: A Night in Erotic City" is an underrated masterpiece. The music, the live renditions, even the storyline were great, way ahead of its time and probably even better than the lipsynched Sign of the Times movie.

Very futuristic, too (internet, loneliness, coocooning at home instead of going out, downloadable music or streams, depression and sadness) . Very underrated movie. A true masterpiece in hindsight. But yes, the Love4OneAnother movie was not really that great.

Maybe you watched the edited version? There are at least two versions.

Yes, I The Beautiful Experience film. Why wasn't it ever released to the public?

I didn't mind it. I was 13 when it was released. It was amazing to me at the time. As well as the 30 minute spot they had on VH1 where P and the band take over the network. I forget what videos they played, but I remember the end had Mayte opening a door and tripping a wire that shut down the NPG's takeover of the studio and it cuts to P lookin' pissed at her. lol.

edit to say: I do remember they played Dolphin and I thought some other Gold videos.

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2freaky4church1 said:

The damn thing makes zero sense and the acting is horrible.

You can say that with most Prince films with a story and acting.

Spinlight said:

They also did Count The Days. You can tell Prince hated Madonna.

Jockey is so far off. The Dortmund show was for only fans anyway. I doubt any casual fan could watch that. You're a fan, so you think something that is bitchin will be bitchin to the general public. This reminds me of when Micheael Dean mentioned that when Lovesexy came out he thought for sure Eye No would be a club banger, but when his friends heard it they hated it.

Also, the Musicology concert did good on Vh1. Prince can do good stuff that gets airplay. That's why it makes no sense to do something he knows only hardcore fans could stomach.

I believe there were 2 different VH1 tv specials back then:

1) Love 4 One Another - with the girl Nikki, and: including the danish fanzine "Scandalous Magazine" shown in the beginning, we were very proud (P fans in Denmark) of this magazine's editor Klaus Egelund, to see 2 copies of this danish fanzine suddenly on TV in a Prince TV special wow. Shhh, Days Of Wild, live is shown as well as the video (long version) to: "Gold".

2) the second, called the VH1 video break: taking the piss on Madonna and her video Take a bow. Prince is "interrupting" the VH1 video station, showing some if his performances/ related artists videos

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So, I missed out on all of that. Don't have acces to it

^ Djj,

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As much as I love Prince, most of his video stuff has been fairly cheeseball lame. At the end of the song Gold...after I was told I was now an "official" member of the New Power Generation, I was waiting for that voice to tell me that my NPG Lunchbox and Membership card would be in the mail.

Remember, this guy let Tony M in the band, and then made Tony M, Damon D, and Kirk Johnson wear those sad Star Trek Next Generation Uniforms on tour. Those things were a laugh fest the day I saw them in 1991, and still give me a Graffiti Bridge sized laugh.

Prince just should've hired somebody good to help him with these things, but I can tell you no sane consultant would've let Tony M within 4,000 miles of Paisley Park.

I thought The Beautiful Experience and The Love 4 One Another specials were awesome. I was at the filming for both and am glad to have them for memories sake. Ofcourse the story lines weren't good, neither were the ones for Graffiti Bridge, 3 Chains O' Gold, or the Undertaker. He just should have given us what we really wanted...the music and left all the other crap out. As far as him dumping on Madonna during the video special, at least she was still selling records in the multi millions.

7souls said:

Oh shit, I almost forgot about that...and I was an extra in it. The scene where the main girl is at the reception desk at P Park asking for Prince. When the guy at the front desk gets up to go, he says "Jim, watch the desk." (or something like that). I was that guy in the background he was talking to. I even had a speaking roll that ended up being cut out. My line was "yo." That was the 1st time I met Prince and the longest I talked to him. Damn, I miss those late night P Park parties.

That's nice. Exciting time to be a fan I'm sure.

I recently just found this and watched it a few months ago. Cheesy and corny acting but that a'int nothing new with him. I like the songs and I'm willing to watch all his attempts at movies, a lot of them become my guilty pleasures anyways.

I didn't mind it at all.

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Never saw this film.

7souls, was that girl as fine as she seemed from the video?

The VH1 Honors. Now that was one of the greatest moments. I was stunned at the time.

I loved the first part where he "took over VH1" and he was such a bitch about it too. Sounds like some shit I'd do myself.

Harlepolis said:

Never saw this film.

Actually, it was just a two part TV special that came on VH1 back in the mid 1990s. The first half was Prince interrupting VH1's broadcast and playing his own videos and protegee's videos while employees of VH1 were pissed and running around trying to get him off the air. It was a 30 minute special. I enjoyed that one.

The second part was a 30 minute special that aired directly after it with some crazy ass "fam" girl roaming Paisley Park trying to get to Prince.

Who was that dude that looked like Flava flav in the balcony with the band?

2freaky4church1 said:

I was looking at one of the those Priceline ads, you know the ones with Captain Kirk? And who should pop up in the vid with him but that chick from the Love 4 One Another movie--that Corrie Dana babe. She was lookin mighty hot. What that did was remind me of that cheesy special that VH1 had on in I think 1995. Remember it like it was yesterday.

The film pretty much proved that Prince was given plenty of freedom, beyond the guff about Warners, if VH1 would soil its airwaves with this crap. The damn thing makes zero sense and the acting is horrible. You have Prince cutting out dictionary words, this chick acting loopy, the band members making faces at Veronica Webb, Nona Gaye looking like she wanted Princes balls on a hot stove. The whole thing was a major mistake, beyond the excitement I had when I first saw it.

Sure, the music is good, but the other stuff is just tripe. He should have just filmed a concert, did some backstage stuff around Paisley and maybe do an interview. Why do something that nobody but hardcore fans would watch? I bet that plenty of people turned the channel soon after it started.

Odd that VH1 would do this since this is a period of time Prince was very unpopular.

This is surely one of his most cheesy moments, even though it felt cool at the time.

Remember it like it happened yesterday. Who here saw it live like me? Impressions? Do you agree that it was embarassing?

Embarrasing? hell no - I remember watching TV and it suddenly came on and I about lost my mind. Yes, prince's sense of humor and weird romance stories can be less than hip - but overall the whole idea and concert was bad ass. This was when prince was cool and edgy. How is the good life and days of wild cheese?

I remember he cut away from a lame madonna song too - that was awesome. I'd hardly call L4OA embarrasing - I wish we had more of these style antics

I love thought it was great, but that's just me.

2freaky4church1 said: