ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

babynoz said:

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*This is a gif of Prince himself. It is not a body double or a photoshop or something made up by middle-aged women and we are going to comment on it as we see fit because it is NOT against the site rules to do so.*

I wonder what chord progression he was using on the piano during this performance?

I dunno....probably started with "F".....

NinaB said:

jayseajay said:

Right...he surrounded himself with women his entire life, and not only for sex, but because he preferred being with women...because we got him, and he got us. And panel after panel after panel we get to hear what the fanboys thought, and very rarely do conversations about his work or his legacy pay any attention to what we thought, despite the fact that this man spent his life with women, and made music that communicated very directly with women....and there are plenty of spaces for the men to talk about their experience of P...and still they decide they need to shut down one of the few places where we're doing our thing, because we're doing it wrong according to the fanboy bible. Sheesh to the power of the purple goddess and then some.

Lawyers, engineers, assistants, designers, management, musicians, chefs...etcetera etcetera. Unfortunately what u speak on is not just in P fan circles. It's in the music/art world all over. Sickening. Some mf's need 2 do the real herstory on creativity/art & women.

Yeah, I know. I just think I have higher expectations for male fans of Prince, that they might have actually learned something from his example, rather than just finding ways of ignoring the stuff that makes them uncomfortable... but guess not....

Okay lovely women, bedtime in the UK, I'll see you in new happy gifland soon. In the meanwhiles....

Nanight

NinaB said:

SpinsterSister said:

I love all these women on this and the previous thread! Wonderful, strong, unashamed and sensual/sexual that only LIFE (and Prince) could ever give us. We are true beauties, ladies, all of us and nobody can ever take that away. Prince would be in our corner on this one...he'd be the one fanning us down - only to work us up again!

& remember Sis P didn't like fanboys, wasn't comfortable with that ish. Jill, Robin & others have spoke on it. Last thing he wanted was them 2 bring some fanboy up 2 meet him, women? Now that was all good

I know someone who worked at PP and said P wouldn't give him the time of day

NinaB said:

jayseajay said:

Yeah, I know. I just think I have higher expectations for male fans of Prince, that they might have actually learned something from his example, rather than just finding ways of ignoring the stuff that makes them uncomfortable... but guess not....

Yeah. Disappointing. There's some cool ones, u kno like the secure ones we spoke on earlier. Obviously not the majority tho. (Don't wanna derail, but u ever read 'The women's encyclopedia of myths & secrets' by Barbara G. Walker? If not I highly recommend it. Along with 'Women who run with the wolves' by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

thanks for the heads up....will hit B&N and pick them up!

P was using his beautiful hands and fingers as a musical instrument here.

Please note the slow lick of his middle finger which mimicked the sound of a F chord.

NorthC said:

Dunno. I did think Bonatoc had a few good things to say. He and I were basically in agreement on one thing: talk about sexuality all you want, but "Prince in the bedroom" makes it a little too personal. It seemed (and notice that I say seemed) as if a lot of people here find Prince's sex life more important than his music. That's what I wanted to say and I said it. And yes, it seems like I touched a nerve there. So what can I do? As I said before, I'll say what I want to say and you can say whatever you want to say about that. As George Clinton said, censorship is far worse than anything anybody might have to say. I was a little surprised that all the ladies were getting so worked up about my little post, I felt like a little male spider ina web full of black widows. But that ain't gonna stop me.

Following what Terriq has said upthread about this, I actually really do want to know if you seriously think you can make this distinction between sex and music when it comes to Prince. We mostly weren't discussing his sex life - we don't know shit about it - we were mostly just expressing our appreciation of his unsurpassed sexiness...and yes we can giggle about gifs of his dick (why the hell not)...but its not really the issue, because as she says, the sex is in the music. Prince knew this...he knew his guitar sounded and felt like a woman coming...and that's what he wanted it to sound like, he did it, deliberately. Do you not hear it? Do you not understand what we are responding to? It's all the same thing, the groove, the grinding, the gasping and panting and groaning and shreiking, the come faces, the fucking guitar stands, the hip chain, the leaving his packet on full display his entire career, the never ending guitar climaxes, the ecstatic orgasmic funk...it's all completely soaked in sex, every note, every groove, every shred, every move he ever made...all of it. We don't need to see the images...the music does exactly the same thing to us...the gifs are just a bonus and a way for us to share with each other...but the idea that what we're doing is distracting from the music by focusing on sex is absurd...maybe this is just how we communicate with each other about our experience of the music...and our experience of the music is that it designed to get us as hot as all hell and it delivers. And maybe you don't get that, maybe it is different for you...when I listen to men talk about P's music, I do hear something very different...and that's fine, I don't go around sending Peach and Black irate letters saying that they're missing the sex of it and so they should stop...they're talking about what speaks to them, and we're talking about what speaks to us...and what we're trying to say is that Prince was speaking to us, and he knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew exactly what effect it had on us, and he loved it, and so did we...and you don't get to police that, or tell us that we're doing it wrong, and you don't get to interject yourself between us and Prince when we know full well that we are understanding him perfectly, and the fact that you think you do get to do that is because you're a man and we're women, and so you're used to thinking that what you experience about something is more valid or true than what we experience, and us, and Prince, are like, fuck that noise.

jayseajay said:

NorthC said:

Dunno. I did think Bonatoc had a few good things to say. He and I were basically in agreement on one thing: talk about sexuality all you want, but "Prince in the bedroom" makes it a little too personal. It seemed (and notice that I say seemed) as if a lot of people here find Prince's sex life more important than his music. That's what I wanted to say and I said it. And yes, it seems like I touched a nerve there. So what can I do? As I said before, I'll say what I want to say and you can say whatever you want to say about that. As George Clinton said, censorship is far worse than anything anybody might have to say. I was a little surprised that all the ladies were getting so worked up about my little post, I felt like a little male spider ina web full of black widows. But that ain't gonna stop me.

Following what Terriq has said upthread about this, I actually really do want to know if you seriously think you can make this distinction between sex and music when it comes to Prince. We mostly weren't discussing his sex life - we don't know shit about it - we were mostly just expressing our appreciation of his unsurpassed sexiness...and yes we can giggle about gifs of his dick (why the hell not)...but its not really the issue, because as she says, the sex is in the music. Prince knew this...he knew his guitar sounded and felt like a woman coming...and that's what he wanted it to sound like, he did it, deliberately. Do you not hear it? Do you not understand what we are responding to? It's all the same thing, the groove, the grinding, the gasping and panting and groaning and shreiking, the come faces, the fucking guitar stands, the hip chain, the leaving his packet on full display his entire career, the never ending guitar climaxes, the ecstatic orgasmic funk...it's all completely soaked in sex, every note, every groove, every shred, every move he ever made...all of it. We don't need to see the images...the music does exactly the same thing to us...the gifs are just a bonus and a way for us to share with each other...but the idea that what we're doing is distracting from the music by focusing on sex is absurd...maybe this is just how we communicate with each other about our experience of the music...and our experience of the music is that it designed to get us as hot as all hell and it delivers. And maybe you don't get that, maybe it is different for you...when I listen to men talk about P's music, I do hear something very different...and that's fine, I don't go around sending Peach and Black irate letters saying that they're missing the sex of it and so they should stop...they're talking about what speaks to them, and we're talking about what speaks to us...and what we're trying to say is that Prince was speaking to us, and he knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew exactly what effect it had on us, and he loved it, and so did we...and you don't get to police that, or tell us that we're doing it wrong, and you don't get to interject yourself between us and Prince when we know full well that we are understanding him perfectly, and the fact that you think you do get to do that is because you're a man and we're women, and so you're used to thinking that what you experience about something is more valid or true than what we experience, and us, and Prince, are like, fuck that noise.

THANK. YOU!!!

Sheeeit, lemme go open up ma GIF file and put on ma damn WalMart glasses up in here.

jayseajay said:

NorthC said:

Dunno. I did think Bonatoc had a few good things to say. He and I were basically in agreement on one thing: talk about sexuality all you want, but "Prince in the bedroom" makes it a little too personal. It seemed (and notice that I say seemed) as if a lot of people here find Prince's sex life more important than his music. That's what I wanted to say and I said it. And yes, it seems like I touched a nerve there. So what can I do? As I said before, I'll say what I want to say and you can say whatever you want to say about that. As George Clinton said, censorship is far worse than anything anybody might have to say. I was a little surprised that all the ladies were getting so worked up about my little post, I felt like a little male spider ina web full of black widows. But that ain't gonna stop me.

Following what Terriq has said upthread about this, I actually really do want to know if you seriously think you can make this distinction between sex and music when it comes to Prince. We mostly weren't discussing his sex life - we don't know shit about it - we were mostly just expressing our appreciation of his unsurpassed sexiness...and yes we can giggle about gifs of his dick (why the hell not)...but its not really the issue, because as she says, the sex is in the music. Prince knew this...he knew his guitar sounded and felt like a woman coming...and that's what he wanted it to sound like, he did it, deliberately. Do you not hear it? Do you not understand what we are responding to? It's all the same thing, the groove, the grinding, the gasping and panting and groaning and shreiking, the come faces, the fucking guitar stands, the hip chain, the leaving his packet on full display his entire career, the never ending guitar climaxes, the ecstatic orgasmic funk...it's all completely soaked in sex, every note, every groove, every shred, every move he ever made...all of it. We don't need to see the images...the music does exactly the same thing to us...the gifs are just a bonus and a way for us to share with each other...but the idea that what we're doing is distracting from the music by focusing on sex is absurd...maybe this is just how we communicate with each other about our experience of the music...and our experience of the music is that it designed to get us as hot as all hell and it delivers. And maybe you don't get that, maybe it is different for you...when I listen to men talk about P's music, I do hear something very different...and that's fine, I don't go around sending Peach and Black irate letters saying that they're missing the sex of it and so they should stop...they're talking about what speaks to them, and we're talking about what speaks to us...and what we're trying to say is that Prince was speaking to us, and he knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew exactly what effect it had on us, and he loved it, and so did we...and you don't get to police that, or tell us that we're doing it wrong, and you don't get to interject yourself between us and Prince when we know full well that we are understanding him perfectly, and the fact that you think you do get to do that is because you're a man and we're women, and so you're used to thinking that what you experience about something is more valid or true than what we experience, and us, and Prince, are like, fuck that noise.

THANK. YOU!!!

Sheeeit, lemme go open up ma GIF file and put on ma damn WalMart glasses up in here.

laurarichardson said:

Let's discuss this with no pics so no one's eyes burn out of their heads.

I'll be back when I can stop laughing!