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Reply #30 posted 06/19/19 4:16am

violetcrush

Nonamesfan said:

Never thought it was that dirty



but like many Princely lyrics open to interpretation by the mind of the listener.



Passing cum back and forth - no thanks


I agree - it’s not about swapping jizz. It’s referencing great sex during war time. Prince discussed it in the liner notes for the Crystal Ball record.
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Reply #31 posted 06/19/19 4:47am

poppys

violetcrush said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:


Hi Susannah!

Brilliant way to change the thread topic from "What is the Crystal Ball" to a full on Susannah Stan Fair, and dissing every other woman in Prince's life.

Keep up the good work!


pimp2 pimp2



lol lol lol * Not really changing the thread when the song was written about her. And if you take time to read the posts it was actually Pete who “dissed” the other women - I just didn’t argue that point because I tend to agree with it.


Not really changing the thread - R U kidding me?? You ruined it with an absolute Susannah hijack.

Took something amusing and wrung the life out it with your tedious brand of fan fiction. zzz

"if you can't clap on the one, then don't clap at all"
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Reply #32 posted 06/19/19 7:13am

violetcrush

poppys said:



violetcrush said:


ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:




Hi Susannah!

Brilliant way to change the thread topic from "What is the Crystal Ball" to a full on Susannah Stan Fair, and dissing every other woman in Prince's life.

Keep up the good work!


pimp2 pimp2





lol lol lol * Not really changing the thread when the song was written about her. And if you take time to read the posts it was actually Pete who “dissed” the other women - I just didn’t argue that point because I tend to agree with it.



Not really changing the thread - R U kidding me?? You ruined it with an absolute Susannah hijack.

Took something amusing and wrung the life out it with your tedious brand of fan fiction. zzz


“Fiction” to those who refuse to believe that any song was written for or about her. The reality is there were many, and most are some of his best smile
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This song was Prince and Susannah in the studio together, and it is about having great sex(“only the sounds of love and prayer echo on the yellow floor”) during the apocalypse. Read Prince’s Crystal Ball liner notes.
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However, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Urban Dictionary term was born out of this song. That would totally make sense. smile
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Reply #33 posted 06/19/19 8:24am

violetcrush

Prince’s words about the song Crystal Ball on the 1998 record:
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“Crystal Ball - the song Crystal Ball was written
in a deepbluefunk depression as Prince pondered
his future in a music business that had become
more business than music. His only solace during
that time was his continuing search 4 a soul mate.
"All that matters is the love we make 2night. The
notion of making love during the apocalypse was
an interesting notion 2 us at the time." Susannah
Melvoin lent her voice 2 the track and Claire
Fischer arranged and conducted the orchestra. All
other noizes are made by Prince.”
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Reply #34 posted 06/19/19 12:53pm

MarshallStacks

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In 'Hot Thing', sounds to me like he's referring to 'the Crystal Ball' as yet another imaginary nightclub.

Thus joining virtually every other Prince album title as being a name for an imaginary nightclub, run by Prince! cool wink

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Reply #35 posted 06/19/19 1:26pm

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MarshallStacks said:

In 'Hot Thing', sounds to me like he's referring to 'the Crystal Ball' as yet another imaginary nightclub.

Thus joining virtually every other Prince album title as being a name for an imaginary nightclub, run by Prince! cool wink

Related imageImage result for glam slam club princeRelated imageRelated image

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

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Reply #36 posted 06/19/19 2:19pm

violetcrush

MarshallStacks said:

In 'Hot Thing', sounds to me like he's referring to 'the Crystal Ball' as yet another imaginary nightclub.



Thus joining virtually every other Prince album title as being a name for an imaginary nightclub, run by Prince! cool wink




I don’t think Prince is referencing a nightclub when he sings “Crystal Ball” in Hot Thing. He’s singing about dancing with a hot young thing and then taking her home to give her the “crystal ball” - as in the best sex - “tell your parents you’re going to the crystal ball, tell them you’ll be comin’ home late if you’re comin’ home at all..”
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He first used the words “Glam Slam” in his song Big Tall Wall - “baby you’re so glam every time I see you I wanna slam!”. Then he wrote the first version of the song Glam Slam in 1988, then the next one in ‘91, and then he opened the night clubs. Quite the journey for a two-word phrase that definitely connects to “wham bam” biggrin
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Reply #37 posted 06/19/19 2:42pm

herb4

A state of mind, an erotic evening with Prince and a double entendres.

Triple entendres, really, if you factor in the seeing the future element.

I think it's mainly a play on words combining something delicate and beautiful with sex.

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Reply #38 posted 06/19/19 2:58pm

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If it's an object, its the orb like in Wizard Of oz where you can see things as theye happenign etc. If its about a place, its a ball akin to one that Cinderella went to.

"Climb in my fur."
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Reply #39 posted 06/19/19 3:05pm

PeteSilas

rdhull said:

If it's an object, its the orb like in Wizard Of oz where you can see things as theye happenign etc. If its about a place, its a ball akin to one that Cinderella went to.

i figured wizard of oz had some connection.

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Reply #40 posted 06/19/19 3:33pm

rdhull

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PeteSilas said:

rdhull said:

If it's an object, its the orb like in Wizard Of oz where you can see things as theye happenign etc. If its about a place, its a ball akin to one that Cinderella went to.

i figured wizard of oz had some connection.

The whole SOTT album is tribute.

"Climb in my fur."
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Reply #41 posted 06/19/19 3:50pm

herb4

rdhull said:

If it's an object, its the orb like in Wizard Of oz where you can see things as theye happenign etc. If its about a place, its a ball akin to one that Cinderella went to.


Nah.

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Reply #42 posted 06/19/19 3:55pm

rdhull

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People are going to put their repressed sexual feelings and desres as they wish

herb4 said:

rdhull said:

If it's an object, its the orb like in Wizard Of oz where you can see things as theye happenign etc. If its about a place, its a ball akin to one that Cinderella went to.


Nah.

"Climb in my fur."
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Reply #43 posted 06/19/19 3:55pm

PeteSilas

rdhull said:

PeteSilas said:

i figured wizard of oz had some connection.

The whole SOTT album is tribute.

ya, the "i'm melting" one that "I wanna melt with you" showed that the wizard was a perennial love o fhis, as it was mine, my ma used to make me watch it every easter. My great grandma, I was told, was an extra in the crowd at the end.

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Reply #44 posted 06/19/19 4:20pm

violetcrush

herb4 said:

A state of mind, an erotic evening with Prince and a double entendres.

Triple entendres, really, if you factor in the seeing the future element.

I think it's mainly a play on words combining something delicate and beautiful with sex.


YES, I think you are on point with this explanation. It is sexual, but special sexual, not dirty sexual.
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Reply #45 posted 06/19/19 9:01pm

Kobe

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A one ball bigger than your two pair testicles?

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Reply #46 posted 06/19/19 9:14pm

ISaidLifeIsJus
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poppys said:

violetcrush said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:


lol lol lol * Not really changing the thread when the song was written about her. And if you take time to read the posts it was actually Pete who “dissed” the other women - I just didn’t argue that point because I tend to agree with it.


Not really changing the thread - R U kidding me?? You ruined it with an absolute Susannah hijack.

Took something amusing and wrung the life out it with your tedious brand of fan fiction. zzz



hahahaaaaa you got this poppys!

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Reply #47 posted 06/20/19 12:32am

mediumdry

violetcrush said:

It is sexual, but special sexual, not dirty sexual.

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If it's not dirty, you ain't doing it right...

Paisley Park is in your heart - Love Is Here!
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Reply #48 posted 06/20/19 12:40am

Vannormal

darkroman said:

luv4u said:



https://www.urbandictiona...tal%20ball


after a girl squirts her load into her lover's mouth, her lover spits it back into her mouth. if they care to, they can orally pass the squirt load back and forth. it's similar to snowballing, however, girl cum is clear, making it a crystal ball, instead of a snowball.
"After I found out my girlfriend could squirt, I wanted to crystal ball her!"
by cathlex May 27, 2009


Good lord!

Don't tell Mary "Tipper" Gore - she would surely drop down dead knowing that!


cool

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I personally think she and Al swapped some squirt load back and forth, mor than often on the sounds of Darling Nikki, or Sex Shooter. Now wouldn't you when you see this pretty face ?

...not that I would like to imagine that in detail...

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Afbeeldingsresultaat voor tipper gore

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)
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Reply #49 posted 06/20/19 6:50am

violetcrush

Vannormal said:



darkroman said:




luv4u said:





https://www.urbandictiona...tal%20ball





after a girl squirts her load into her lover's mouth, her lover spits it back into her mouth. if they care to, they can orally pass the squirt load back and forth. it's similar to snowballing, however, girl cum is clear, making it a crystal ball, instead of a snowball.

"After I found out my girlfriend could squirt, I wanted to crystal ball her!"


by cathlex May 27, 2009



Good lord!

Don't tell Mary "Tipper" Gore - she would surely drop down dead knowing that!


cool



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I personally think she and Al swapped some squirt load back and forth, mor than often on the sounds of Darling Nikki, or Sex Shooter. Now wouldn't you when you see this pretty face ?


...not that I would like to imagine that in detail...


-


Afbeeldingsresultaat voor tipper gore




Perhaps the lady next to her in the photo would join them?? I can see a ménage trois happening biggrin razz
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Reply #50 posted 06/20/19 10:34am

khemseraph

luv4u said:



poppys said:


Expert lover, my baby
Ever had a Crystal Ball?
Take off your clothes, baby
Come on, get the Crystal Ball

crysball cool





https://www.urbandictiona...tal%20ball





after a girl squirts her load into her lover's mouth, her lover spits it back into her mouth. if they care to, they can orally pass the squirt load back and forth. it's similar to snowballing, however, girl cum is clear, making it a crystal ball, instead of a snowball.

"After I found out my girlfriend could squirt, I wanted to crystal ball her!"


by cathlex May 27, 2009

Oh my fucking god dude. That was awesome and I need to be your friend.lol
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Reply #51 posted 06/20/19 10:35am

khemseraph

violetcrush said:



luv4u said:




poppys said:


Expert lover, my baby
Ever had a Crystal Ball?
Take off your clothes, baby
Come on, get the Crystal Ball

crysball cool





https://www.urbandictiona...tal%20ball





after a girl squirts her load into her lover's mouth, her lover spits it back into her mouth. if they care to, they can orally pass the squirt load back and forth. it's similar to snowballing, however, girl cum is clear, making it a crystal ball, instead of a snowball.

"After I found out my girlfriend could squirt, I wanted to crystal ball her!"


by cathlex May 27, 2009



Oh good lawd!!! I guess anything's possible - he also sang about the "vulva splash" on Screams of Passion - "only you and I can understand..."


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I think Prince's meaning is more along the lines of the best sex one can have with a partner - "expert lover, my baby - ever had a crystal ball? take off your clothes baby c'mon get the crystal ball..." "my baby, my baby, my baby kiss me, lick me, trick me, whoa!!"


*


Susannah stated this song was about their time together - she was painting a mural on their wall at the Galpin house which was mainly sexual in nature - "my baby draws pictures of sex (yes she does), all over the walls in graphic detail, sex!".


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In his song Violet The Organ Grinder, in which Prince sings about an ex lover that he still thinks about and masturbates to her pictures, he says:


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"I was on my way to another room
When an image of you sweetly
Appeared in the mirror
Perhaps you recall
You and I were neatly
In the middle of a Crystal Ball
That now serves as a reminder
On the wall of you and I the organ grinder
In the greatest concert of them all"


*


I think that song may have been about Susannah as well....



He does not say vulva splash it is velvet splash
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Reply #52 posted 06/20/19 12:18pm

poppys

^^ geezus 2.0 Went over that ad nauseum in another thread.

"if you can't clap on the one, then don't clap at all"
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Reply #53 posted 06/20/19 1:02pm

violetcrush

khemseraph said:

violetcrush said:

Oh good lawd!!! I guess anything's possible - he also sang about the "vulva splash" on Screams of Passion - "only you and I can understand..."

*

I think Prince's meaning is more along the lines of the best sex one can have with a partner - "expert lover, my baby - ever had a crystal ball? take off your clothes baby c'mon get the crystal ball..." "my baby, my baby, my baby kiss me, lick me, trick me, whoa!!"

*

Susannah stated this song was about their time together - she was painting a mural on their wall at the Galpin house which was mainly sexual in nature - "my baby draws pictures of sex (yes she does), all over the walls in graphic detail, sex!".

*

In his song Violet The Organ Grinder, in which Prince sings about an ex lover that he still thinks about and masturbates to her pictures, he says:

*

"I was on my way to another room
When an image of you sweetly
Appeared in the mirror
Perhaps you recall
You and I were neatly
In the middle of a Crystal Ball
That now serves as a reminder
On the wall of you and I the organ grinder
In the greatest concert of them all"

*

I think that song may have been about Susannah as well....

He does not say vulva splash it is velvet splash

https://prince.org/msg/7/459019

Please check out the above thread. Paul and Susannah confirmed the lyric is "vulva splash" on a recent live stream video. I'm sure Prince used "velvet" on the lyric sheet to make it cleaner. Also, in the context of the song "velvet" makes no sense. It's about a woman reaching orgasm, and it's why they had the ocean backdrop for the video.

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If you really listen to the song you can hear "vulva" pretty clearly, especially on the demo version.

[Edited 6/20/19 13:03pm]

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Reply #54 posted 06/20/19 1:57pm

PeteSilas

funny thing about tipper and women like her, they always just seem to tick my intuition as women who are the biggest freaks, she looks like a freak and she's hot as fuck, knew a pastor's wife like that.

violetcrush said:

Vannormal said:

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I personally think she and Al swapped some squirt load back and forth, mor than often on the sounds of Darling Nikki, or Sex Shooter. Now wouldn't you when you see this pretty face ?

...not that I would like to imagine that in detail...

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Afbeeldingsresultaat voor tipper gore

Perhaps the lady next to her in the photo would join them?? I can see a ménage trois happening biggrin razz

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Reply #55 posted 06/20/19 2:16pm

purplethunder3
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violetcrush said:

Vannormal said:

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I personally think she and Al swapped some squirt load back and forth, mor than often on the sounds of Darling Nikki, or Sex Shooter. Now wouldn't you when you see this pretty face ?

...not that I would like to imagine that in detail...

-

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor tipper gore

Perhaps the lady next to her in the photo would join them?? I can see a ménage trois happening biggrin razz

spit

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #56 posted 06/20/19 2:45pm

PeteSilas

purplethunder3121 said:

violetcrush said:

Vannormal said: Perhaps the lady next to her in the photo would join them?? I can see a ménage trois happening biggrin razz

spit

i'd be down, prudes are hot as fuck, but then, i'm a sicko like my idol prince, i got kicked out of high school for harassing my big bootie vice principal, miss. atterberry, i called her "miss 'atta-booty'".

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Reply #57 posted 06/20/19 2:54pm

violetcrush

PeteSilas said:



purplethunder3121 said:




violetcrush said:


Vannormal said: Perhaps the lady next to her in the photo would join them?? I can see a ménage trois happening biggrin razz

spit



i'd be down, prudes are hot as fuck, but then, i'm a sicko like my idol prince, i got kicked out of high school for harassing my big bootie vice principal, miss. atterberry, i called her "miss 'atta-booty'".


lol we’re you singing “I like big butts and I cannot lie” or did that one come out later?
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Reply #58 posted 06/21/19 3:37pm

herb4

Vannormal said:

darkroman said:


Good lord!

Don't tell Mary "Tipper" Gore - she would surely drop down dead knowing that!


cool

-

I personally think she and Al swapped some squirt load back and forth, mor than often on the sounds of Darling Nikki, or Sex Shooter. Now wouldn't you when you see this pretty face ?

...not that I would like to imagine that in detail...

-

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor tipper gore


Yeah, they look open minded and not all sexually repressed or uptight.

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Reply #59 posted 06/21/19 3:56pm

PeteSilas

violetcrush said:

PeteSilas said:



purplethunder3121 said:




violetcrush said:


Vannormal said: Perhaps the lady next to her in the photo would join them?? I can see a ménage trois happening biggrin razz

spit



i'd be down, prudes are hot as fuck, but then, i'm a sicko like my idol prince, i got kicked out of high school for harassing my big bootie vice principal, miss. atterberry, i called her "miss 'atta-booty'".


lol we’re you singing “I like big butts and I cannot lie” or did that one come out later?

Little later
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