What is your point exactly?

This is a guy who used to sing into a microphone shaped like a gun.

MarcelS67 said:

I'd say its more of a statement on what he believes to be a culture with too many guns...if he's got that many references I guess he's really disturbed by it.

also there's a 'Gun control' reference on the Controversy album cover.

plus Lovesign (the song) is about Gun control, isn't it??

iZsaZsa said:

I think the noise at the end of "Gotta Broken Heart Again" is him blowing his brains out.

Askani said:

This is a guy who used to sing into a microphone shaped like a gun.

yeah and by chance when i saw the cloud that looked like prince holding the gun mic i had to take a photo! Now it is my avatar!

But yeah Prince has a bunch of gun refrences in his songs... like he dose to money... weird

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thedance said:

also there's a 'Gun control' reference on the Controversy album cover.

plus Lovesign (the song) is about Gun control, isn't it??

i do not think either was for gun control

In annie christian he seems to be saying that people react to things after the fact...someone gets shot then people cry gin control when the real problem is the person.

From Days of Wild:

"I've got a tech 9 too, and it's called my brain

Shoot another brother, not today

Death from envy is the only way

I could tear shit up, y'all, that's my style

These are the days of wild."

There's another similar lyric in Judas Smile:

"Pinocchio mentality on levels more than nine

From now on, the only piece you'll ever get from me's my mind"

(It occurs to me that the Judas Smile lyric but be referring to his art as a "piece," but I always interpreted it as a gun).

KingSausage said:

There's at least one gun reference in Sex Shooter.

Damn you beat me too it

Postivity!

warning2all said:

-"Pop Pop Pop go the pistol/Bang Bang Bang go the gun!" (Love sign) -"I got a Gun/ you think I don't?/Then What's this!?/Oh you quiet now!" (Bob George) -"Uzi gun" (Dance On) -Christopher Tracey gets shot (Under the Cherry Moon) -Clarence Williams shoots himself (Purple Rain) -"He shot John Lennon!/Shot him down cold!" (Annie Christian) Didn't then girl in Graffiti Bridge get shot by Morris Day?

there is a controversy poster with Prince holding a gun

warning2all said:

Didn't then girl in Graffiti Bridge get shot by Morris Day?

So you are thinking Moris shot her, and at the end Morris and Prince made up?
She was hit by a jeep

You might be confused. The kid did have a gun, As i recall at one point had thoughts of suicide

FragileUndertow said:

iZsaZsa said:

I think the noise at the end of "Gotta Broken Heart Again" is him blowing his brains out.

I always wondered what that was.

SoulAlive said:

iZsaZsa said:

I think the noise at the end of "Gotta Broken Heart Again" is him blowing his brains out.

I always wondered what that was.

I think it's a slamming door.

I've been a fan since 1982 (1999). I know there are a lot of gun references in his 36 years of releasing albums.

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My question was why are there so many NOW? If you consider AOA and PE to be a somewhat joint release (with overlapping players, themes and even an overlapping song) then essentially you have 3 gun references in the same era. And also in 3 of the songs that were released first.

Se7en said:

Se7en said:

I've been a fan since 1982 (1999). I know there are a lot of gun references in his 36 years of releasing albums.

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My question was why are there so many NOW? If you consider AOA and PE to be a somewhat joint release (with overlapping players, themes and even an overlapping song) then essentially you have 3 gun references in the same era. And also in 3 of the songs that were released first.

Maybe because there a lot of nutters shooting people in schools and a nine year old girl shoots a instructor with a Uzi in that accident.

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