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Thread started 05/15/11 6:26am

formallypickle
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Do you think prince can dance?

i really dont think hes that great of a dancer

he just does stupid movements , shakes and rolls his hips, splits, and feels on himself

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Reply #1 posted 05/15/11 6:48am

TheDigitalGard
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He is better at prancing than dancing. lol

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Reply #2 posted 05/15/11 6:51am

TheOneUWannaC

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Idk if its a different style of dance but what he does I don't like. He looks stupid.

"In the distance, 6 others will curse me. But thats alright, I will watch them fall."

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Reply #3 posted 05/15/11 7:50am

SeventeenDayze

TheOneUWannaC said:

Idk if its a different style of dance but what he does I don't like. He looks stupid.

I think he looks hot when he dances. Miles Davis once compared Prince to Charlie Chaplin and the comparison is pretty accurate in my opinion. Man, for a "fan site" lots of fans here are super critical of Prince, geez stay home then, LOL!

Trolls be gone!
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Reply #4 posted 05/15/11 8:21am

hhhhdmt

Prince's main strengths have always been songwriting, musicianship and his vocal range. I dont think of him as an amazing dancer but he's still very good.

I agree some fans are too crticial. He already does alot of other stuff, i doubt he's spent too much time practicing dance moves. Still very good at it though

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Reply #5 posted 05/15/11 8:28am

prittypriss

He's a dancing genius when compared to his appearance on American Bandstand.

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Reply #6 posted 05/15/11 8:33am

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I think he's in control of his dance moves. He's doing exactly what he wants to. Even in Purple Rain days, he made a marketing decision to avoid and change his type of movements away from anything related to Jackson, since the two were being competitively compared and he was the newcomer to the spotlight. He's careful on choosing his moves to fit his image at the time.

compare how he moves in say... the Partyman or Batdance videos to someone like Lady Gaga on her videos. You can see which one can actually dance.

Or look at any number of live performances like Pussy Control, The Gold Album Medley, Aresnio Hall Show #1, or even the SOTT film.

Check out the solo dancing segment in the bootlegs of US Lovesexy shows.

Also check the Thieves in the Temple video.

Not to mention he breaks out into ballet moves on the Nude tour.

Actually much of the Nude tour was his most precise and swift dancing.

Or do you mean just standing and moving to a beat? Like what would he do at a night club?

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Reply #7 posted 05/15/11 9:21am

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and then again.. he does it in heels also... where micheal never have tried...

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Reply #8 posted 05/15/11 9:21am

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Seems a stupid question to me. Man is an amazing dancer. I've not studied dance or gone watching it or owt, but seems a no brainer, musically he has rhythm in abundance - all the instruments he plays, and would've thought that rather helps him in being able to dance. Can Prince Dance??? Next question will be does the Pope shit in the woods!

Comin str8 outta Preston...
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Reply #9 posted 05/15/11 9:29am

Spinlight

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TheOneUWannaC said:

Idk if its a different style of dance but what he does I don't like. He looks stupid.

Go to bed.

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Reply #10 posted 05/15/11 9:57am

Timmy84

Nothing against you but...

[img:$uid]http://files.sharenator.com/Are_You_Fucking_Kidding_Me_What_is_your_favorite_Video_game-s370x333-137730-580.jpg[/img:$uid]

OF COURSE HE CAN! lol

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Reply #11 posted 05/15/11 10:06am

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SeventeenDayze said:

TheOneUWannaC said:

Idk if its a different style of dance but what he does I don't like. He looks stupid.

I think he looks hot when he dances. Miles Davis once compared Prince to Charlie Chaplin and the comparison is pretty accurate in my opinion. Man, for a "fan site" lots of fans here are super critical of Prince, geez stay home then, LOL!

Yeah i try to avoid criticizing Prince, but like i said, its a different style of dance and its just a style of dance that i just don't like.

"In the distance, 6 others will curse me. But thats alright, I will watch them fall."

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Reply #12 posted 05/15/11 10:15am

novabrkr

He's done some silly moves along the years (the video footage from the Dirty Mind era can be hilarious to watch). It would be absurd to state that he cannot dance though.

You try to do a split in heels.

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Reply #13 posted 05/15/11 10:17am

Timmy84

novabrkr said:

He's done some silly moves along the years (the video footage from the Dirty Mind era can be hilarious to watch). It would be absurd to state that he cannot dance though.

You try to do a split in heels.

nod nod nod

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Reply #14 posted 05/15/11 10:59am

Maytiana

If he were my dad and showed up to my birthday party dancing like that I would go in the bathroom and slit my wrists do to being so mortified.

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Reply #15 posted 05/15/11 11:27am

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Maytiana said:

If he were my dad and showed up to my birthday party dancing like that I would go in the bathroom and slit my wrists do to being so mortified.

Good job he's not then.

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Reply #16 posted 05/15/11 11:32am

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Is this question based on his dancing recently on the W2A tour or throughout his entire career?

Anyway I've got two words for you naysayers...

WOODEN LEG!!!

The man is a genius and the dance is funky as hell!

When eye go 2 a Prince concert or related event it's all heart up in the house but when eye log onto this site and the miasma of bitchiness is completely overwhelming!
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Reply #17 posted 05/15/11 1:58pm

Emancipation89

Timmy84 said:

Nothing against you but...

[img:$uid]http://files.sharenator.com/Are_You_Fucking_Kidding_Me_What_is_your_favorite_Video_game-s370x333-137730-580.jpg[/img:$uid]

OF COURSE HE CAN! lol

well....I'd say it's partially Prince's or whoever controls his videos on Youtube's fault because it's harder for fans like me who've only been a fan for very short period of time to find dance clips of Prince ... lol

Splitting in heels is not hard...but I did see some videos where he did b-boy in heels +_+!

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Reply #18 posted 05/15/11 2:21pm

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watch delirious and irresistible bitch/ possessed syracuse 85 and then tell me prince wasn't a great dancer, or housequake during SOTT, or the future through to kiss during nude tour, i could go on and on. when prince was young his dancing was raw, primal and charged with energy, inevitably as he's got older his athleticism has diminished and consequently we now get the prancing and posing which is starting to look ridiculous. but in his day prince was a fantastic dancer, nobody looked better doing stepover microphone and dropping into splits, not even jb.

don't play me...i'm over 30 and i DO smoke weed....
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Reply #19 posted 05/15/11 3:31pm

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I think Prince is dancing less because of some leg injurie ,

he is only 52 and that is not old,

James Brown was doing acrobatic stuff when he was Prince age.

Prince didn't know how to dance until 1999 tour.

FROM 1982-1998 he was amazing dancer

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Reply #20 posted 05/15/11 4:09pm

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Spinlight said:

TheOneUWannaC said:

Idk if its a different style of dance but what he does I don't like. He looks stupid.

Go to bed.

falloff

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Reply #21 posted 05/15/11 4:36pm

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i really made this post because i posted in the wrong forum and i had to think fast and make up a new post , lol i didnt think it would get this many post

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Reply #22 posted 05/15/11 4:45pm

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r u kidding?!?!?! he is the best dancer i have ever seen! u need to get ur eyes checked!

Don't need no reefer, don't need cocaine
Purple music does the same 2 my brain
And I'm high, so high
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Reply #23 posted 05/15/11 5:33pm

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novabrkr said:

He's done some silly moves along the years (the video footage from the Dirty Mind era can be hilarious to watch). It would be absurd to state that he cannot dance though.

You try to do a split in heels.

i used to be a level 8 competitve gymnast when i was 15

and i was in a pageant

so a split in heels aint shit to me ..not brag or anything lol

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Reply #24 posted 05/15/11 5:36pm

ThisIsDirec


Man, for a "fan site" lots of fans here are super critical of Prince, geez stay home then, LOL!

My sentiments exactly..

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Reply #25 posted 05/15/11 5:46pm

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yes he can perform his ass off

and he can dance well for an average person

he just looks alittle off

like certain people you can "feel" them speaking through their body

i dont get that with prince

for example beyonce can dance but cant dance

she looks slightly off, likes she trying to hard its not natural

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Reply #26 posted 05/15/11 5:55pm

kok

formallypickles said:

novabrkr said:

He's done some silly moves along the years (the video footage from the Dirty Mind era can be hilarious to watch). It would be absurd to state that he cannot dance though.

You try to do a split in heels.

i used to be a level 8 competitve gymnast when i was 15

and i was in a pageant

so a split in heels aint shit to me ..not brag or anything lol

hmmm I was a high school and college cheerleader and won a major gymnastic met and I still say Prince is a great dancer...he has great muscle control and can do current dances when he wants plus he still does it in heels and does it well yeahthat ...love his energy and electic movements. He has skills with and without singing and playing instruments nod..still the man, hands down...so my answer is, of course he can, was there any doubt...U better ask somebody lol just sayin ... sun

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Reply #27 posted 05/15/11 6:12pm

smartguy

no he cant do the souljah boy

or macarena

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Reply #28 posted 05/15/11 6:18pm

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kok said:

formallypickles said:

i used to be a level 8 competitve gymnast when i was 15

and i was in a pageant

so a split in heels aint shit to me ..not brag or anything lol

hmmm I was a high school and college cheerleader and won a major gymnastic met and I still say Prince is a great dancer...he has great muscle control and can do current dances when he wants plus he still does it in heels and does it well yeahthat ...love his energy and electic movements. He has skills with and without singing and playing instruments nod..still the man, hands down...so my answer is, of course he can, was there any doubt...U better ask somebody lol just sayin ... sun

like i said he can dance but he cant DAYNCE

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Reply #29 posted 05/15/11 6:23pm

Maytiana

formallypickles said:

yes he can perform his ass off

and he can dance well for an average person

he just looks alittle off

like certain people you can "feel" them speaking through their body

i dont get that with prince

for example beyonce can dance but cant dance

she looks slightly off, likes she trying to hard its not natural

exactly he wouldn't t fit in with other dancers on the dance floor because he's just too Prince-like with his movements. I saw him dancing in a club and he sicks out badly.

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