Are Prince fans like, totally wacko, eccentric, offbeat or anything? Do you think that Prince fans are crazy? I saw one fan at the MSG show in Feb who was dressed like Prince head to toe and met a lot of random hipster purple hippies. Are we the weirdest group of fans out there for any artist?

YES.

You just have to find out in what way.

Not all........ most of us are quite "normal",

........... but some Prince are weird.......

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from the NPG Festival in Denmark 6. august 2011,

Prince asked the fans to arrive dressed in purple colours.

Pic credits from Gaffa.dk

[Edited 8/11/11 22:18pm]

Weird? Probably. One things for certain, we like to piss and moan and bitch every fucking chance we get.

Wow, even her is Purple!

-Prince should ask fans to each bring a purple:balloons: to the open festivals. People can let them go around the Purple Rain song and video taped it.

-All the Prince Fans I know are classy people so far. Well, except for one person but that is a good ratio.

thedance said:

thedance said:

Not all........ most of us are quite "normal",

........... but some Prince are weird.......

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from the NPG Festival in Denmark 6. august 2011,

Prince asked the fans to arrive dressed in purple colours.

Pic credits from Gaffa.dk

[Edited 8/11/11 22:18pm]

so wolfy got to see prince in the end

My other half thinks I am weird - not sure if its because I just adore Prince though

thedance said:

Not all........ most of us are quite "normal",

........... but some Prince are weird.......

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from the NPG Festival in Denmark 6. august 2011,

Prince asked the fans to arrive dressed in purple colours.

Pic credits from Gaffa.dk

[Edited 8/11/11 22:18pm]

The Cure fans

Spice Girls fans

Oasis fans

Madonna fans

Dolly Parton fans

These are actual fans in their actual gear. So who's the weirdest?

The answer is of course Oasis fans. Because the music sucks.

At least Prince fans listen to good music.

All pictures from the James Mollison book "Disciples". Propably blah blah © James Mollison.

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If you're a fam, then you're weird. If you're a hater like Bart, then you're weirder.

unique said:

thedance said:

Not all........ most of us are quite "normal",

........... but some Prince are weird.......

[img:$uid]http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/781/10rengaffa23.jpg[/img:$uid]

^

from the NPG Festival in Denmark 6. august 2011,

Prince asked the fans to arrive dressed in purple colours.

Pic credits from Gaffa.dk

[Edited 8/11/11 22:18pm]

so wolfy got to see prince in the end

SeventeenDayze said:

Are Prince fans like, totally wacko, eccentric, offbeat or anything? Do you think that Prince fans are crazy? I saw one fan at the MSG show in Feb who was dressed like Prince head to toe and met a lot of random hipster purple hippies. Are we the weirdest group of fans out there for any artist?

Nah, there's fan communities that are wayyyyy crazier.

I´m reAlly weIrd .......... I just haven´t told that anyone yet

thedance said:

from the NPG Festival in Denmark 6. august 2011,

Prince asked the fans to arrive dressed in purple colours

Some idiots are so fucking deluded that if Prince asked them to turn up smeared head to foot in dog shit then they would do it.

TheDigitalGardener said:

thedance said:

from the NPG Festival in Denmark 6. august 2011,

Prince asked the fans to arrive dressed in purple colours

Some idiots are so fucking deluded that if Prince asked them to turn up smeared head to foot in dog shit then they would do it.

See, here's where I might be kinda fammy, because I'd show up in purple and don't see anything particularly weird or creepy about it.

armpit said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Some idiots are so fucking deluded that if Prince asked them to turn up smeared head to foot in dog shit then they would do it.

See, here's where I might be kinda fammy, because I'd show up in purple and don't see anything particularly weird or creepy about it.

Nothing particularly strange in turning up dressed in purple if that is what you choose to do.

What I meant was (and should have clarified) that certain loonies would do anything that Prince told them to do.

TheDigitalGardener said:

armpit said:

See, here's where I might be kinda fammy, because I'd show up in purple and don't see anything particularly weird or creepy about it.

Nothing particularly strange in turning up dressed in purple if that is what you choose to do.

What I meant was (and should have clarified) that certain loonies would do anything that Prince told them to do.

Yeah, Prince fans who dress like him are not the weird ones, it's the ones who believe EVERYTHING he says. And I mean EVERYTHING.

Timmy84 said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Nothing particularly strange in turning up dressed in purple if that is what you choose to do.

What I meant was (and should have clarified) that certain loonies would do anything that Prince told them to do.

Yeah, Prince fans who dress like him are not the weird ones, it's the ones who believe EVERYTHING he says. And I mean EVERYTHING.

And worship, everything he puts out, says, does, shits etc etc. Those "fans" are not weird, they are scary, however, i'm glad we have them, because they give everyone else someone to laugh at.

TheDigitalGardener said:

Timmy84 said:

Yeah, Prince fans who dress like him are not the weird ones, it's the ones who believe EVERYTHING he says. And I mean EVERYTHING.

And worship, everything he puts out, says, does, shits etc etc. Those "fans" are not weird, they are scary, however, i'm glad we have them, because they give everyone else someone to laugh at.

That's true.

.

"...and If all of this Love Talk ends with Prince getting married to someone other than me, all I would like to do is give Prince a life size Purple Fabric Cloud Guitar that I made from a vintage bedspread that I used as a Christmas Tree Skirt." Tame, Feb

.

As I'm sure most of you know by now, Prince and MJ are my equal two favorite artists of all time.

Now I used to be active in the MJ fan community as well as here. Mostly in the late 90s and early 00's. I went to a MJ fan party once in London. Jeffrey Daniels was there speaking, Adrian Grant, peopel like that. Think Michael may have left a message for the fans about the event that was played over the speakers. Navi the MJ impersonator was there, there was a singing contest, that sort of thing. There's some weird people in the MJ fan community for sure.

Anyway I was thinking recently about something that I read concerning Morrissey attacking his fanbase and one of his main fansites for whatever reason, and there was this theory that fanbases tend to take on the traits of their idol in many ways and something clicked in my head about it.

Basically, I had a hard time with a lot of MJ forums (before he died) because, basically, there was this overwhelming flow of what I only describe as the kind of behaviour you expect from young teenage fans. Lots of sparkly glittery OTT signatures with pictures of Michael, lots of discussion about how hot he was, lots of tyPinG lYK diZZ oMG SMILEY FACE! kind of thing. Basically, think your average teenager's myspace page circa 2006 and you get the picture. Shit gets annoying really fast.

The kicker? A solid proportion of these people WERE NOT TEENS. They were in their 30s and 40s. Now, if it can be said fanbases take on the traits of their idol then that makes this kind of thing extremely logical. Michael of course was in a state of arrested development himself, the fixation on childhood and the innocence of it. But with Michael, his stellar talent made it endearing and you completely understood the psychological reasoning for it (lack of childhood, superstar since pre-puberty) etc. Of course when the fanbase mimics that behaviour it's not endearing at all, it's just really fucking annoying.

So, to bring it back to the topic, are Prince fans weird? Well, we might well seem weird to outsiders who think Prince is weird himself. But that perspective tends to come from people who don't actually know much about Prince at all. They tend to know the bigger hits and music vids and actually, very little about his supreme musical talent as an instrumentalist and songwriter with incredible range. Look at any pop-culture parody of Prince and they always portray him from the 1999/Purple Rain era, focusing on frilly outfits, purple trenchcoats, big hair, etc. Whereas we know that that era and style lasted less than 3 years, we know all the different eras and how they differentiate in both style and sound. As far as the traits we take on from him, we're clearly mostly very sexual and sexually liberal (a look through the General Discussion forum will show that much ), we're quite musically educated in a wide variety of styles and genres, like Prince, and we're generally not bound specifically to religion but spiritual and believe in things from a wide variety of ideologies, like pre-JW Prince.

For me one of the beauties of being a Prince fan is that his own diversity as an artist has led to an extremely diverse fanbase. We're all so different here but share something in common. I haven't seen that in any other major fanbase of any artist and certainly not massively commercial succesful artists. You pretty much know what to expect when dealing with hardcore Elvis fans, or Springsteen fans, or Madonna fans, you know? Definitely not the case with us!

Militant said:

As I'm sure most of you know by now, Prince and MJ are my equal two favorite artists of all time.

Now I used to be active in the MJ fan community as well as here. Mostly in the late 90s and early 00's. I went to a MJ fan party once in London. Jeffrey Daniels was there speaking, Adrian Grant, peopel like that. Think Michael may have left a message for the fans about the event that was played over the speakers. Navi the MJ impersonator was there, there was a singing contest, that sort of thing. There's some weird people in the MJ fan community for sure.

Anyway I was thinking recently about something that I read concerning Morrissey attacking his fanbase and one of his main fansites for whatever reason, and there was this theory that fanbases tend to take on the traits of their idol in many ways and something clicked in my head about it.

Basically, I had a hard time with a lot of MJ forums (before he died) because, basically, there was this overwhelming flow of what I only describe as the kind of behaviour you expect from young teenage fans. Lots of sparkly glittery OTT signatures with pictures of Michael, lots of discussion about how hot he was, lots of tyPinG lYK diZZ oMG SMILEY FACE! kind of thing. Basically, think your average teenager's myspace page circa 2006 and you get the picture. Shit gets annoying really fast.

The kicker? A solid proportion of these people WERE NOT TEENS. They were in their 30s and 40s. Now, if it can be said fanbases take on the traits of their idol then that makes this kind of thing extremely logical. Michael of course was in a state of arrested development himself, the fixation on childhood and the innocence of it. But with Michael, his stellar talent made it endearing and you completely understood the psychological reasoning for it (lack of childhood, superstar since pre-puberty) etc. Of course when the fanbase mimics that behaviour it's not endearing at all, it's just really fucking annoying.

So, to bring it back to the topic, are Prince fans weird? Well, we might well seem weird to outsiders who think Prince is weird himself. But that perspective tends to come from people who don't actually know much about Prince at all. They tend to know the bigger hits and music vids and actually, very little about his supreme musical talent as an instrumentalist and songwriter with incredible range. Look at any pop-culture parody of Prince and they always portray him from the 1999/Purple Rain era, focusing on frilly outfits, purple trenchcoats, big hair, etc. Whereas we know that that era and style lasted less than 3 years, we know all the different eras and how they differentiate in both style and sound. As far as the traits we take on from him, we're clearly mostly very sexual and sexually liberal (a look through the General Discussion forum will show that much ), we're quite musically educated in a wide variety of styles and genres, like Prince, and we're generally not bound specifically to religion but spiritual and believe in things from a wide variety of ideologies, like pre-JW Prince.

For me one of the beauties of being a Prince fan is that his own diversity as an artist has led to an extremely diverse fanbase. We're all so different here but share something in common. I haven't seen that in any other major fanbase of any artist and certainly not massively commercial succesful artists. You pretty much know what to expect when dealing with hardcore Elvis fans, or Springsteen fans, or Madonna fans, you know? Definitely not the case with us!

YES!!!! we all have Gemini traits

imago said:

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"...and If all of this Love Talk ends with Prince getting married to someone other than me, all I would like to do is give Prince a life size Purple Fabric Cloud Guitar that I made from a vintage bedspread that I used as a Christmas Tree Skirt." Tame, Feb

.

BTW, whatever happened Tame? That was a strange one...

OldFriends4Sale said:

YES!!!! we all have Gemini traits

That is a possibility, I dated a Gemini for 6 yrs, but we both agree that I am the truly split one, altough I am Sagittarian, I was fondly named 1 & 2, even my current GF is beginning to mention it...I guess it is a good way of double dating...

TheDigitalGardener said:

thedance said:

from the NPG Festival in Denmark 6. august 2011,

Prince asked the fans to arrive dressed in purple colours

Some idiots are so fucking deluded that if Prince asked them to turn up smeared head to foot in dog shit then they would do it.

Totally agree, but they would reason that they wanted the front of the stage to themselves and the flies...

OldFriends4Sale said:

YES!!!! we all have Gemini traits

Javi said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

YES!!!! we all have Gemini traits

Well, I'm a genuine Gemini! Born 2 weeks and 19 years after The Man...

I am too, June 5th !!!

My dad is June 3rd

and my older brother is June 6th

TheDigitalGardener said:

thedance said:

from the NPG Festival in Denmark 6. august 2011,

Prince asked the fans to arrive dressed in purple colours

Some idiots are so fucking deluded that if Prince asked them to turn up smeared head to foot in dog shit then they would do it.

There is nothing wrong with dressing in a particular color for a concert or show, that other stuff you said of course is not cool lol

But he would do stuff like that for the Controversy thru SOTT years

wear some leather and lace, wear purple, wear Peach n Black