Cool article, they even managed to find some non-banned videos!

http://pitchfork.com/feat...n-the-80s/

creepy article.

The article fails to make an actual point. I've read far better studies into Prince's gender-twisting, androgynous ways.

yup. I concur. creepy and pointless AND a gross misappropriation of the writer's own identity/sexual issues, then and now onto Prince's art. that seems to happen here at the Org a lot too. SMH.

Pitchfork just found out about Prince, but they don't quite "get it" yet...

Meh, I disagree with the harsh sentiment so far in this thread.

The author isn't trying to give us an indepth psychological profile of Prince's sexuality and
androgyny. Instead, he appears to have used Prince's comfortable-ness with his sexuality
and in-your-face sexual ambiguity as a source of strength when examining his own
burgeoning and experienced sexuality.

You see this when he says that an ex-girlfriend tells him that he appeared in her dream dressed
in drag and opposed to him getting all butt-hurt, because he's using Prince's sexual self-confidence
he doesn't flip out like most heterosexual men afraid of any possible ambiguity would.

In other words, for all you straight guys out there with a "streak of lavender," use Prince as a
model of being secure and confident.

Militant said:

It's a mere pretext to talk about his feelings of androgyny, all about the author and his feelings, nothing much about Prince who is basically just a person that made an impression for his looks, and his early music.

Aerogram said:

It's a mere pretext to talk about his feelings of androgyny, all about the author and his feelings, nothing much about Prince who is basically just a person that made an impression for his looks, and his early music.

You nailed it. I found it meandering and I couldn't even get through it.

Militant said:

The article fails to make an actual point. I've read far better studies into Prince's gender-twisting, androgynous ways.

Too few, if you ask me. Prince's gender performance was so off-limits when I was a kid. It freaked people out. It was on the same level as Boy George. I was really affected by it. I loved him for it. I thought it was heroic.