Mine: "Why settle 4 a star when u can have the sun?"

I like The Continental as a song but find that line annoying. The sun of course is a star and not a very impressive one at that. Much bigger, hotter and brighter stars are out in the universe.

Your choices?

Money dont matter 2nite................prince comming out with that o lordy!!.........eye no prince has done loads 4 charity but come on prince.....money dont matter?????

davetherave6767 said:

Money dont matter 2nite................prince comming out with that o lordy!!.........eye no prince has done loads 4 charity but come on prince.....money dont matter?????

if you have money then money don't matter!

Another:

"Upload: the evolution principle
U c a rock on the shore and say
"it's always been there"

Dumb nonsense.

Dsoul said:

Mine: "Why settle 4 a star when u can have the sun?"

I like The Continental as a song but find that line annoying. The sun of course is a star and not a very impressive one at that. Much bigger, hotter and brighter stars are out in the universe.

Your choices?

I have heard a lot of people complain about this line. It never really bothered me though. Yes, the sun is a star, but being closer to Earth, it's much brighter to us than any other star out there. I think that is what he was going for.

How about, in "Race" he says, "Thank God this ain't monopoly, you'd make us all go back to start" Monopoly doesn't have a "start", it has a 'GO".

exodus said:

Dsoul said:

Mine: "Why settle 4 a star when u can have the sun?"

I like The Continental as a song but find that line annoying. The sun of course is a star and not a very impressive one at that. Much bigger, hotter and brighter stars are out in the universe.

Your choices?

I have heard a lot of people complain about this line. It never really bothered me though. Yes, the sun is a star, but being closer to Earth, it's much brighter to us than any other star out there. I think that is what he was going for.

How about, in "Race" he says, "Thank God this ain't monopoly, you'd make us all go back to start" Monopoly doesn't have a "start", it has a 'GO".

I considered that interpretation but think it much more likely he just didn't know the sun is a star. Just like how he manages to completely misinterpret evolution in my other one.

Good one from Race. He doesn't know how to play Monopoly either clearly.

Valentina's mama, the "Mexican bombshell, come to conquer the West"...

Final grade, Geography: F!!!

Laydown "Yall know what im talkin bout, that Purple bounce bounce." I think thats the reason alone, why I dont enjoy this song, as much as I would/could/should

just a lame line

or half the lyrics to Kiss "You dont have to watch dynasty to have an attitude." "My love will be your food." "Act your age mama, and not your shoe size, & maybe we can do the twirl." ??? Um okay P, I know its a classic but still WTF???

I am here Where are you....I cringe everytime I hear this for some reason

"its fourth and goal and I aint about to punt"

Who would punt? Its stupid. I guess he must have gotten 5 holding penaties in a row and its 4th and goal from the 50

PoomPoom PoomPoom PoomPoom PoomPoom PoomPoom



whenever at the end of a song he starts rambling some nonesense in a pseudo-rap voice.

98 in the dark

dj owns the race car

"Cream, sha-boogie bop." I didn't buy a Prince album for almost ten years after that. No shit.

eyewishuheaven said:

Valentina's mama, the "Mexican bombshell, come to conquer the West"...

Final grade, Geography: F!!!

Could he have meant "the Wild West"? Mexico to California, the old cowboy film route.

Dsoul said:

Another:

"Upload: the evolution principle
U c a rock on the shore and say
"it's always been there"

Dumb nonsense.

I always thought he was making

a dig at a theory in Philosophy

(which he has suggested he doesn't care for)

which seeks to prove that God does not exist?

[Edited 6/3/11 12:44pm]

ItsGonnaBLonely said:

Laydown "Yall know what im talkin bout, that Purple bounce bounce." I think thats the reason alone, why I dont enjoy this song, as much as I would/could/should

just a lame line

or half the lyrics to Kiss "You dont have to watch dynasty to have an attitude." "My love will be your food." "Act your age mama, and not your shoe size, & maybe we can do the twirl." ??? Um okay P, I know its a classic but still WTF???

Why don't you care for the Kiss lyrics?

Dynasty, I believe, was a Soap Opera...all about the drama?

So the attitude comment would make some since.

"The Twirl" was slang for have sex

My love will be your food seems to be a response to the saying

that "Love conquers all/ all we need is love." People usually

reply with "love can't put food on the table." His response is

that it actually can?

Extraloveable...

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to rape you now.

UGH!!!

Dreamin About U

when my sane twin reigns claiming your aim is to maim my subconscious into being with you

Acknowledge Me

Yeah baby that's what I do believe I am talking about

[Edited 6/3/11 13:33pm]

Dogsinthetrees said:

"Cream, sha-boogie bop." I didn't buy a Prince album for almost ten years after that. No shit.

hahahah.. right.. I HATED THAT.. SHA BOOGIE bop..WTF MAN.. and I hate all of Prince's NPG "RAPS" as well and the fools he had rappin with him.. they were just corny and unacceptable.. not really emcees at all.. and this was during his "I hate hip hop" period.. I missed that hole Cream, Sexy Motherfucker, era although i loved the music in SMF.. but his steez was just suspect.. and corny.. During those years i just relished in what was..

OH yeah I also didn't like " I'm over 30 and I don't smoke weed... SO ..LOL.. I AM OVER 30 AND I DO..

Prince i love u but please stop preaching to me.. about shit . let me just enjoy you.. Thank U..

LadyCasanova said:

Dsoul said:

Another:

"Upload: the evolution principle
U c a rock on the shore and say
"it's always been there"

Dumb nonsense.

I always thought he was making

a dig at a theory in Philosophy

(which he has suggested he doesn't care for)

which seeks to prove that God does not exist?

[Edited 6/3/11 12:44pm]

He seems to be saying that a key part of "the evolution principle" is rocks on the shore have always been there. I've never heard anyone say that, expert nor believer in evolution.

what the duck

long time ago we be the shhh ut oh

Most of MPLSound. It's really annoying when he tries to be down wif da young people.

Colonized Mind. Prince has written a lot of horrible lyrics, getting progressively worse since the 1990s, but Colonized Mind makes Prince sound about as crazy and stupid as Sarah Palin. He should have just made it an instrumental.

CallMeCarrie said:

Extraloveable...

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to rape you now.

UGH!!!

This indeed has to be the worst line he ever recorded. Even if it was meant to be some kind of joke (listening to the vocals this must have been the objective), it just isn't funnny and definately not a subject for joking around with. There must have been a reason this otherwise great song didn't get released and this mus be it. Prince can consider himself lucky this line didn't get any publicitly, would have been a serious PR problem...

YUCK!

Dsoul said:

Mine: "Why settle 4 a star when u can have the sun?"

I like The Continental as a song but find that line annoying. The sun of course is a star and not a very impressive one at that. Much bigger, hotter and brighter stars are out in the universe.

Your choices?

Perhaps what Prince is expressing here is, although a star is beautiful from afar, it gives off no heat to the planet earth. While the sun makes us earthlings warm and happy in a feel good kind of way.

Maybe the question is part of a riddle.

[Edited 6/3/11 22:53pm]

Old Friend 4 Sale:

"Last night a stranger took my picture and then he, uh..
He asked if I'd buy it, huh
I said I guess I don't know how"

That line make absolutely no sense...

eelco said:

There must have been a reason this otherwise great song didn't get released and this mus be it.

Nah. There's plenty of great unreleased songs with no questionable lyrics.

The original "Jerk Out" had a line in it that Mazarati allegedly weren't too happy with, the lyrics were:

I took her to my crib and I tied her up, I figured that's what she liked / Maybe I was wrong, what the hell, it didn't matter to me, she was white /

So when The Time re-did it, they simply changed it to:

I took her to my crib and I layed her down, her body felt kinda right / Maybe I was wrong, but what the hell, I figured it was what she liked /

No reason why that line wouldn't have been taken out of "Extra Loveable" had it been released. Plus, it's been said that Prince considered giving the song to Vanity 6 at one stage anyway.

jpnyc said:

Colonized Mind. Prince has written a lot of horrible lyrics, getting progressively worse since the 1990s, but Colonized Mind makes Prince sound about as crazy and stupid as Sarah Palin. He should have just made it an instrumental.

Colonized Mind had already been released sans the ignorant lyrics by Miriam Makeba, it's called Quit It. It's a total sham that Prince fans seem to regard Colonized Mind as one of his modern displays of his genius:

exodus said:

Dsoul said:

Mine: "Why settle 4 a star when u can have the sun?"

I like The Continental as a song but find that line annoying. The sun of course is a star and not a very impressive one at that. Much bigger, hotter and brighter stars are out in the universe.

Your choices?

I have heard a lot of people complain about this line. It never really bothered me though. Yes, the sun is a star, but being closer to Earth, it's much brighter to us than any other star out there. I think that is what he was going for.

How about, in "Race" he says, "Thank God this ain't monopoly, you'd make us all go back to start" Monopoly doesn't have a "start", it has a 'GO".

YES! AND even if you do go back to "Go", you get $200! Sounds like a good deal to me.

Return of the Bumpsquad: "add an e to rap and it spells rape" - WHAT? What does that have to do with Nona Gaye selling records???

Judas Smile: "How dare you call a robot 'Mecha'" - oy vey. Homophones, dude. Homophones.

Don't Play Me: "I'm not the ganda you prop in my way"... in fact any of this mid-90's word games. Dude needs an etymology book.

gunner82 said:

Old Friend 4 Sale:

"Last night a stranger took my picture and then he, uh..
He asked if I'd buy it, huh
I said I guess I don't know how"

That line make absolutely no sense...

Maybe he was trying to be smart?

Taking a picture of someone is pretty personal,

it captures them in that moment "forever."

The second line could be taken two ways, 1) buy it ($)

which turns Prince into a commodity, or 2) buy it (as in belief)

Third line if (1) is true: Prince doesn't understand the act

of regarding himself as a commodity, as an image to be bought

and sold at will. He isn't willing to pay money for his projected self.

Third line if (2) is true, Prince can't buy into

the belief that what the image captures is who he actually is.

He doesn't know how to regard himself from the eye of the other?