lezama said:

I missed the Maxwell performance.. hopefully it appears online soon.

It will. And if you have a DVR, it's going to air again directly after the aftershow. I think 12:40am...

I put down all 20 of my open tabs and my phone and my ice cream and my diet coke when Jesse started talking. Amazing, inspirational speech.

rogifan said:

GhostChick said:

As far as the Prince tribute goes; I think you just got to get the right people. To be honest, the best tribute could be Lenny Kravitz doing "Let's Go Crazy" with The Revolution backing him. And then somebody like Usher singing "The Beautiful Ones". Probably could have the New Power Generation do "Diamond & Pearls" and The Time could do something pre-1999 or even Little Red Corvetter with Dez Dickerson doing the solo. And then maybe have somebody sing "Adore" like Alicia or again Usher, somebody that could hit those notes and sound as close to him as possible on that song. And just do it throughout the show.

But again, I think the BEST tribute would be Lenny Kravitz doing "Let's Go Crazy" with The Revolution backing him, The Time doing "Little Red Covette" with Dez doing his solo and then maybe have Usher sing "Adore". And of course, NPG doing "Diamond & Pear;s".

If this was an after party, I would recommend Rashaan Patterson to do "Breakfast Can Wait".

Or get Lenny up there doing When You Were Mine or Dirty Mind.

Hmm, maybe Dirty Mind but I think that Lenny could really pull off the vocal techniques of Let's Go Crazy and of course the guitar solo.

That's one of the reasons people are getting upset about these tributes like for an artist like Prince; his vocals were just as important as his playing ability in these songs. I think people forget that Prince was helluva singer!

Jessie Williams!

Harkens back to when Bono went to church on the BET awards some years ago.

Well done.

Messages like this never gets old.

Aerogram said:

XxAxX said:

good show!

Exactly. It's an heartfelt tribute. Some people want it to be an historical reenactment. We're getting performers who were influenced or touched by his music, it's not yet time for Princemania, the br0adway show.

right. prince would be proud

Yay American Idol!

BTW I appreciated Alicia Keys performance a lot.

Anyone else?

I LOVE LOVE this tribute so far. Bilal just found a new fan..he killed TBO....so good! I loved Hudson's performance...those 2 were my fave and had the tears going!

I like this cut by Future

Apparently your choices for background effects at the BET awards are (1) fire, (2) fire or (3) fire. (Beyonce gets whatever she wants.)

suomynona said:

GhostChick said:

I think it would be great if Spike could do about 5 or 6 parts. He would be good at it.

And I think he would include a lot of those "misconceptions" of Prince that casual fans and even some fans on this board still think about Prince.

C'mon. It wouldn't be a Prince doc unless it had SE7EN parts.

No need to be clever with the response. Personally, I don't care if it runs over the course of 17 Days, just as long as it's good.

Shoot, Spike could do it in 5 or 6 parts and it would be good.

suomynona said:

GhostChick said:

I think it would be great if Spike could do about 5 or 6 parts. He would be good at it.

And I think he would include a lot of those "misconceptions" of Prince that casual fans and even some fans on this board still think about Prince.

C'mon. It wouldn't be a Prince doc unless it had SE7EN parts.

Can you imagine if Spike was given access to The Vault? Oh, man....

rogifan said:

ACharmed1 said:

While sitting here watching this does anyone else feel like this isn't a proper tribute? I mean Badu, was the best, Stevie poor guy is in pain, but he tried, and everyone else has put in a valiant effort, but to make us watch the whole show so they can get the ratings? Anyone else feel this?

This! I'm waiting for someone to get up and speak about the man they knew and loved. So far all the performances have left me a bit cold.

Shelia needs to close this mother out right and make them all recognize.

GhostChick said:

GhostChick said:

suomynona said:

C'mon. It wouldn't be a Prince doc unless it had SE7EN parts.

No need to be clever with the response. Personally, I don't care if it runs over the course of 17 Days, just as long as it's good.

Shoot, Spike could do it in 5 or 6 parts and it would be good.

3121 parts then.

XxAxX said:

Aerogram said:

XxAxX said: Exactly. It's an heartfelt tribute. Some people want it to be an historical reenactment. We're getting performers who were influenced or touched by his music, it's not yet time for Princemania, the br0adway show.

right. prince would be proud

Right, he would be.

I remember back in 2010 when so many "fans" on Facebook was talking about the tribute but Prince almost started crying when he did his acceptance speech. He was touched.

This ain't really about us, it's about him.

Aerogram said:

XxAxX said:

good show!

Exactly. It's an heartfelt tribute. Some people want it to be an historical reenactment. We're getting performers who were influenced or touched by his music, it's not yet time for Princemania, the br0adway show.

who is on now? I like!

dude is funky!

The Internet is in the audience! How are they not doing a tribute?

Show isn't over yet. So maybe...

I like this guy here.

Janelle is next. Please, no fingernails on the chalkboard...

I love Anderson .Paak! and seeing Syd dance to him

Anderson Paak just killed it. Never heard of him - but lemme find out.

sunmoonanddstars said:

I love Anderson .Paak! and seeing Syd dance to him

P.S. This new Atlanta show looks GREAT. (They just showed a clip promoting it.)

I'm going to stay up for the rerun for that young man! So glad Jesse spoke the truth. Also the two young girls, one on guitar and the other on a synth (?)....glad I tuned in!