cardinal 
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Yewdale said:
cardinal said:
Yewdale said:
I don't give a sh*t about the world's attention. He rarely got the level of world attention that his talent warranted anyway, so what's new? He'll always have a place in my heart, and I don't think the Org is going anywhere soon. His legacy will always be the music, not the number of column inches dedicated to speculation, sentiment (much of it empty and self serving), rumour and lies.
If YOU know how good Prince was, do you really need validation from on-going tributes and stories? Just put your earbuds in and blast out SOTT or Dirty Mind, or whatever.... and that's all the attention he needs now.
U R right. we should not need the ok of the world to affirm his awesomeness, and as many have said, much of the world dissed him when he was here. i just felt some sadness at the idea that for so many, he so quickly faded into the past. like the world just doesn't care.then again, the world is a harsh place, as we are often reminded.
It was August 1985, and Raspberry Beret had just stalled at #25 on the U.K Charts. Madonna held both of the top 2 slots with Into The Groove & Holiday, while such luminaries as Princess (I kid you not), Amazulu and Five Star were charting much higher than Prince. And this was 1985, when Prince was supposed to be God. It was that very week that I decided it didn't really matter to me if I was the only person on earth who knew how good he was...at least I knew.
I was just turning 16 then, and of course the teenage me still loved it when Lovesexy hit #1 and Kiss hit #6 and so on and so on, but it didn't matter. The success or failure of a single or album was fleeting, but I still had the albums and no one could take them away from me, though lord knows my dear departed mother tried, lol.
The day my dad died, I was sitting with my brother on a bench in the hospital gardens, and there in the distance we saw a bus going in to town. My dad had just died and yet people were still going in to town, going to work, doing shopping, laughing and joking. It seemed wrong, as if the world should have stopped, or at least paused for a minute or two. But it didn't. So I did understand what you meant, on both points and I'm glad you saw that I wasn't being pissy with you. It's just, it really doesn't matter. oh no i didn't get a pissy vibe at all, it sounded like a loyal prince fam saying "hey who cares what the world thinks, WE know he has it going on." and what happened after your father passed...yeah...sucks...i was reading this chapter in a book by this woman who had been dx with leukemia (she is fine now) but she remembered going down the elevator in the dr office and everyone was just going about their normal biz and her world had completely changed. she said it was surreal. and you are right...what the masses think does not matter...especially now. the heirs will have all the money they will ever need, and prince doesn't need it anymore..... "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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benni |
Prince was very controlling of his image when he was alive. He made sure to live in such a way that he was not constantly in the news, unless it was related to a new release or a concert. He would not have wanted all that media coverage, being such a private individual. And he deserves the respect now, to not be included in the media circus. While it's sad that the world's interest has waned, it's not unsurprising. The interest was never fully there but for the hard-core fans. For some, Prince was a footnote in music history, for those that truly saw his genius, he was the epitomy of music. It will be many years from now when the rest of the world truly understands Prince's genius and will pay him the respect he deserves.
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Think of the greats, Mozart, Bach, Brahm, all musical genius', but in their time they were not given the respect they truly deserved either. Unfortunately, we may never live to see the time that Prince is given his just dues, but our children's children may - and they will have our collections passed down to them over the years, and will know their grandparents, great-grandparents, were a significant part of that history, having lived through the times and experienced that musical genius throughout his career. |
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Astasheiks said:
nursev said:
I have been a Prince fan since I was 9 years old and his death truly hurt me, but yesterday before I went to work I gathered all my Prince stuff and I do mean everything. Posters, t-shirts,cd cases, books and vinyl and found the biggest boxes I have and went about the hurtful business of putting them away. I have not got around to putting them in the closet yet  I guess it'll take a few more days to do that, but life has and will move on. As long as I'm alive Prince will always be in my heart and I have his gift of music to carry me along the way.
CD cases, :-|That doesn't mean you are not going to listen to his music anymore, does it?
Hell Naw  i said cd CASES  Im still playing the cd's |
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nursev |
PurpleSpirit319 said:
nursev said:
I have been a Prince fan since I was 9 years old and his death truly hurt me, but yesterday before I went to work I gathered all my Prince stuff and I do mean everything. Posters, t-shirts,cd cases, books and vinyl and found the biggest boxes I have and went about the hurtful business of putting them away. I have not got around to putting them in the closet yet I guess it'll take a few more days to do that, but life has and will move on. As long as I'm alive Prince will always be in my heart and I have his gift of music to carry me along the way.
Why are u packing all your Prince memorabilia and stuff away just because he has died?? I am not and I am sure millions of other fans are not doing that!! In fact you should see my place right now!! I have so much Prince stuff lying around(magazines, Cds, books, posters, etc.), and everything will continue to be "out in the open" in my place, not relegated to boxes in a closet!! I am still listening to his music(the only REAL HONEST TRUE way to remember him and to carry on his legacy in my opinion), will still continue to collect stuff, download music and live the Purple Life, only in a different way!!! 
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Everybody works through tthings differently...they still havent been put in the closet yet so I may put them back...dont know yet. |
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phoenixrising |
Life has to move on...but it doesn't change how important Prince is to you. You don't need the validation of the world to love Prince |
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passione |
He will forever and always be remembered by the people that mattered most .. those that loved him.
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nursev said:
Astasheiks said:
CD cases, :-|That doesn't mean you are not going to listen to his music anymore, does it?
Hell Naw i said cd CASES Im still playing the cd's
Just wondering... You were boxing everything else up. lol   [Edited 5/29/16 19:17pm] |
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Conor |
When the toxicology report/results come out there will be a new round of Prince news. |
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What's the alternative? Lamenting over it forever? |
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this all makes total sense given how much/little he was appreciated over the last two decades. Artists of a decent level of experience knew he was an astounding talent or grasped that he may have been the most broadly talented musician to have ever lived. his WB tussles and his musical experiments post the 90s didn't help and to compound it there was the reluctance (with good reason) to concede and use services like itunes, spotify etc.
now we have the youtube policing (which was always there but is in a different context post humously) - this is THE time to school young people and people who ignored him on how talented he was .. but we can't! the estate are playing whack a mole as it their right.
I think two things will happen after this current golden age where his record sales are through the roof. in 2 years the vault releases will be coming thick and fast (fingers crossed) and people will be snapping them up then in a decade there will be kids who weren't listening to music properly in 2016 cause of their age and they will think Prince is this gem they have found thus there will be a resurgence, in time I do believe his place will be assured in history and he will be ranked where he deserves to be.
don't be sad, listen to what you've got, enjoy the stories of his life that people are putting out there then distract yourself for as long as possible so the estate can get its stuff together and release some magic. ** do something,before we're gone , and we're just a rock where a world went wrong...** |
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