I've always heard it was about Carmen Electra, and the fact that she slept with Tony M. (I mean, talk about a downgrade. LOL) She really fawned over her when they were together. Some would say obsessive.

I heard it was about Carmen too

train23 said:

Damn! Million point 8??!!??.. Brings to mind that comment in the Rolling Stone interview with P's former music associate; "Stop doing A&R with your d#%k!"

SPYZFAN1 said:

train23 said:

Around this time,wasn't Prince also involved with Troy Beyer? There were even rumors that she was pregnant with Prince's child.In any case,whatever happened with Carmen,it inspired Prince to write one of his best songs "I Hate U" is probably his finest single of the 90s.imo.

irresistiblebitch666 said:

The story of "I Hate U" is rather simple. Carmen found out about Mayte and Nona and confronted Prince about it. Prince was sleeping with all 3 but they didnt know about each other. Prince obviously denied what he was doing to Carmen. Carmen was not the village idiot that she has always seemed to be. Carmen decided to enact a revenge of sorts on Prince by fucking Tony M.

I Hate U... maybe Prince's best song in the 1990's...

Brilliant,


I love everything about this song, especially the short guitar solo.

Mayte is friends with all Troy, Carmen and Manuela. Weird!

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SoulAlive said:

Prince gets a lot of flak for the sexpot proteges and for "doing A&R with his dick," but if the music industry stopped doing A&R with its collective dick, pop music would grind to a halt. Step-by-step music industry mentality: a: find attractive teenager who can sing and/or dance; b: groom them with singing and/or dance lessons, name changes, and guidance toward a marketable persona; c: assemble a gigantic team of songwriters, producers, videographers, album artists, hair and make-up artists, marketing professionals, etc. to package this person for infiltrating as many markets as possible. Take Katy Perry for example. Real name: Katie Hudson. Gospel singer, releases failed album. Changes name, goes secular, has a huge hit with a sex-themed song, "I Kissed a Girl," released when internet videos of girls kissing at college parties were all the rage. Look at Justin Bieber: his last album used 25 producers and more song writers than I could bother to count. Prince wasn't totally exempt from this process - his superstardom was somewhat dependent on it - but he was exempt from the songwriters and producers and eventually he took total control (notably, his market share declined in those years). He gave many of his proteges careers - Carmen Elektra is a success story, despite the flop album - but a major difference is he exercised creative control, writing the songs and producing the music. Now Prince is an excellent songwriter with a handful of #1s, but the proteges weren't his top priority, and other corporate-groomed artists benefit from more extensive resources than one superstar artist alone can provide, even if that person is Prince. Would you rather have Prince or David Fincher directing your videos? You couldn't ask for a better producer, but would you trust Prince to design or select your album art? Would you rather have Warner Bros market and distribute your album, or an online release through the NPG Music Club you know Prince will get tired of promoting when your fifteen minutes are up? Prince took the same approach to his proteges as Warner would take, but ultimately he didn't have the same corporate resources, and a lot of them ended up singing his lesser material. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm thinking his most successful protege projects happened when he was still aligned with WB.

SPYZFAN1 said:

Damn! Million point 8??!!??.. Brings to mind that comment in the Rolling Stone interview with P's former music associate; "Stop doing A&R with your d#%k!"

Very nice pic above... Mayte & Carmen.... thanks for sharing..

thedance said:

Very nice pic above... Mayte & Carmen.... thanks for sharing..

And funky side note about Carmen. She was on MTV Cribs once. She had this nice duplex she lived in. White exterior, tall columns (romanesque) in the front. Then she says, "Let's go next door". She knocks on the neighbor's door, right next to her, and it's Apollonia & her husband! They'd been neighbors for ages. haha

When someone asked Prince once (in an interview) about monogamy, his answer was simple....

''I'm only monogamous with God!!!''

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So true Prince, so true

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TrivialPursuit said:

thedance said:

Very nice pic above... Mayte & Carmen.... thanks for sharing..

And funky side note about Carmen. She was on MTV Cribs once. She had this nice duplex she lived in. White exterior, tall columns (romanesque) in the front. Then she says, "Let's go next door". She knocks on the neighbor's door, right next to her, and it's Apollonia & her husband! They'd been neighbors for ages. haha

wow really..?

if this is true, then its funny and so strange.....

thedance said:

TrivialPursuit said:

And funky side note about Carmen. She was on MTV Cribs once. She had this nice duplex she lived in. White exterior, tall columns (romanesque) in the front. Then she says, "Let's go next door". She knocks on the neighbor's door, right next to her, and it's Apollonia & her husband! They'd been neighbors for ages. haha

wow really..?

if this is true, then its funny and so strange.....

Well, I didn't make it up. I mean, folks gotta live somewheres.

Go to the 3:13 mark.

TrivialPursuit said:

ok thanks... but still very strange.. haha!

U gave your body 2 another in the name of fun

I hope U had some baby,if not,boo hoo

love the lyrics! And that courtroom segment is great,isn't it?!