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Thread started 05/09/16 7:18am

allwaystired

Does anyone else feel a bit self centered and greedy?

Finally listened to him properly after his death.

The one thing that really strikes me is how upset I am that I'll never hear 'new material' (other than maybe Vault stuff of course) and how I feel deprived of what could have been many more years of music.

Then it struck me how utterly self centered and greedy that is- I'm sad for my own loss. I suppose that's the same for most of us. Makes me feel a bit weird about being sad.

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Reply #1 posted 05/09/16 7:25am

SPYZFAN1

I don't think it's being greedy. You (like all of us) are grieving his loss..we all wanted new music from him..we all wanted him to be around. It hit me the other night that I will never see his new hairstyle, new musical direction, new band, etc...but I have a feeling we're probably going to get a lot of new music once everything is settled. Nothing wrong in feeling the way you do.

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Reply #2 posted 05/09/16 7:31am

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allwaystired said:

Finally listened to him properly after his death.



The one thing that really strikes me is how upset I am that I'll never hear 'new material' (other than maybe Vault stuff of course) and how I feel deprived of what could have been many more years of music.



Then it struck me how utterly self centered and greedy that is- I'm sad for my own loss. I suppose that's the same for most of us. Makes me feel a bit weird about being sad.




i think we all have a tendency to frame things as to how they affect us. its natural. i know some on here are not a fan of dr drew, but I liked how he put it. he was pissed because prince was robbed of his life and we were all robbed of him. i think that about sums it up for me.


"do i have a friend tonight?" --prince at his last concert in atlanta bawl
"If u love somebody, your life won't be in vain
And there's always a rainbow, at the end of every rain."--peace and love, dear prince.....
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Reply #3 posted 05/09/16 7:36am

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Perhaps the new stuff he was working on will see the light of day, Pangea and other tracks that were to redefine the minneapolis sound, according to what Prince was quoted as saying in a recent article. Baltimore was the first example of this, where he plays guitar throughout, then has orchestration created directly from that guitar, in a lot of places, actually replacing the guitar solo completely. If you have the original version of Baltimore, and compare it to the released, you will see what I mean clear as day. I would like to think that this very new stuff will see the light of day at some point.

But I think it is only natural to wonder what could have been if this horrible tragedy never took place. One thing is for sure, the well would have never run dry, his best work could have still been ahead of him.

[Edited 5/9/16 8:01am]

"You always get the dream that you deserve, from what you value the most" -Prince 2013
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Reply #4 posted 05/09/16 8:00am

RiotPaisley

leadline said:

Perhaps the new stuff he was working on will see the light of day, Pangea and other tracks that were to redefine the minneapolis sound, according to what Prince was quoted as saying in a recent article. Baltimore was the first example of this, where he plays guitar throughout, then has orchestration created directly from that guitar, in a lot of places, actually replacing the guitar solo completely. If you have the original version of Baltimore, and compare it to the released, you will see what I mean clear as day. I would like to think that this very new stuff will see the light of day at some point.

But I think it is only natural to wonder what could have been if this horrible tragedy never took place. One thing is for sure, the well would have never run dry, his best work could have still be ahead of him.

[Edited 5/9/16 7:50am]



If he hadn't died people would be on here talking smack about his
Last eat antics.

No more Prince antics. No more shade... Side eyes. Bed room eyes...

I feel like I'm in the middle of THE worst break up ever.
Surprise, surprise.
Another treat. Another trick.
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Reply #5 posted 05/09/16 8:12am

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Not feeling greedy at all but I may be could be in the Angry phase of the mourning process right now ... confused


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Reply #6 posted 05/09/16 8:19am

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BombFunk said:

Not feeling greedy at all but I may be could be in the Angry phase of the mourning process right now ... confused

It's okay to be angry - find an outlet for it though and talk about how you feel. The anger should soon ebb away...

I feel crap.

Whatever you heard about me is true
I change the rules and do what I wanna do
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Reply #7 posted 05/09/16 8:26am

Cloreen

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allwaystired said:

it struck me how utterly self centered and greedy that is-

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Nothing at all wrong with how you feel. Unless you were having lunch with Prince once a week, or going to basketball games with him a few times a year, spending holidays with him...the man was just an entertainer. Those that were family and friends will miss him as a friend. The rest of us will miss our only contact that we had from him -- his music.

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Reply #8 posted 05/09/16 8:46am

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allwaystired said:

Finally listened to him properly after his death.

The one thing that really strikes me is how upset I am that I'll never hear 'new material' (other than maybe Vault stuff of course) and how I feel deprived of what could have been many more years of music.

Then it struck me how utterly self centered and greedy that is- I'm sad for my own loss. I suppose that's the same for most of us. Makes me feel a bit weird about being sad.

Nothing wrong with this at all. In fact, I wonder what else you feel you're 'supposed' to be sad about, other than your own loss? Someone mentions not knowing him personally, which is true and worth noting, but even if you had known him and he died, it'd still be your own sense of loss (of a friend or whatever) that you'd primarily be sad about.

Maybe you mean that you think you should feel bad for those closest to him. If so, I think that's unnecessarily beating yourself up (it's what my friend calls "the mind scaring the mind"). It's true that after a death, a person looking on from afar can imaginatively put themselves in the shoes of friends, family members, etc, left behind who were closer to the deceased, and feel bad for them, but I think that's always somewhat removed one's own sense of loss, which I would say always has primacy as it's the only thing you really experience directly. And, at its best, the imaginitive sense of sympathy with other people - thinking about how they must be feeling, etc - helps us experience our own grief (i.e. I think about how so-and-so must be feeling and I experience my own sadness through that).

"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
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Reply #9 posted 05/09/16 9:04am

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allwaystired said:

Finally listened to him properly after his death.



The one thing that really strikes me is how upset I am that I'll never hear 'new material' (other than maybe Vault stuff of course) and how I feel deprived of what could have been many more years of music.



Then it struck me how utterly self centered and greedy that is- I'm sad for my own loss. I suppose that's the same for most of us. Makes me feel a bit weird about being sad.



Same here. And I felt bad for being angry at Prince for not taking care of himself. sad
"Just like the sun, the Rainbow Children rise."



"We had fun, didn't we?"
-Prince (1958-2016) 4ever in my life
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Reply #10 posted 05/09/16 11:42am

MissMarySharon

I think all feelings are ok. I know we have a lot to be grateful/thankful for, but it's still crap that he died and I'm not going to feel guilty about feeling sad/angry/grumpy/depressed/hackedoff/whatever for a while. Go with the flow and don't worry about it.

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