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Thread started 07/24/19 7:27am

feeluupp

Prince To Receive Video Vanguard Award At 2019 MTV VMA's.

Prince will posthumously receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2019 MTV VMA's on August 26.

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Reply #1 posted 07/24/19 7:43am

TwiliteKid

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Cool (but most of his videos were shit).

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Reply #2 posted 07/24/19 7:46am

renfield

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Is this real? I saw it tweeted by one fan account but can't find any official confirmation.

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Reply #3 posted 07/24/19 8:36am

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I wish Prince had taken more interest in his videos. It could have been fantastic, especially in the WB days. Frankly, until "When Doves Cry", his videos were boring as fuck. All performance videos, filmed on the then-current concert stage. The most exciting thing was seeing Prince in a pair of Levi's in "Little Red Corvette".


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Reply #4 posted 07/24/19 8:43am

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Did anyone else find the "performance video" aesthetic kind of jarring with such electronic-based music? I mean it's all clearly one-man walls of drum machine and synths but visually you got a full live band there chugging along. It's like how in the Kiss video Wendy's wailing away on a consistent rhythm guitar pattern nowhere present in the song.

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Reply #5 posted 07/24/19 8:48am

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The guitar miming was so off on these, too. I remember there was a fantastic Org thread on it like a year ago.

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I'm starting to think it's intentional. I went and re-watched "Kiss" to confirm my Wendy guitar observations. Literally the only part where the guitar is actually audible in the track she suddenly stops strumming while she turns around.

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The guitar is literally on full-force funk rhythm freak out mode at this moment, well before the turn:

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Reply #6 posted 07/24/19 10:03am

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TwiliteKid said:

Cool (but most of his videos were shit).

It's true, his videos were really bad for an artist of his caliber.

I remember reading a Madonna interview, I think it was the early 90's, where she said the same. Saying the quality of his videos doesn't match an artist of his caliber.

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Reply #7 posted 07/24/19 11:42am

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Welcome to prince org! Why cant his fans be happy that he is being recognized on his videos! Why the critique?
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Reply #8 posted 07/24/19 12:14pm

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Shockadelica9 said:

Welcome to prince org! Why cant his fans be happy that he is being recognized on his videos! Why the critique?

Because it's funny that he's being recognized for something that he wasn't that good at?

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Reply #9 posted 07/24/19 12:20pm

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TwiliteKid said:



Shockadelica9 said:


Welcome to prince org! Why cant his fans be happy that he is being recognized on his videos! Why the critique?


Because it's funny that he's being recognized for something that he wasn't that good at?


When doves cry
Party man
Musicology
Cream
Get off
Diamonds and pearls
7
Raspberry beret
U got the look
Mountains
Ta amo corazon
All were amazing videos
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Reply #10 posted 07/24/19 12:35pm

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Shockadelica9 said:

TwiliteKid said:

Because it's funny that he's being recognized for something that he wasn't that good at?

When doves cry Party man Musicology Cream Get off Diamonds and pearls 7 Raspberry beret U got the look Mountains Ta amo corazon All were amazing videos [Edited 7/24/19 12:21pm]

If you say so.

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Reply #11 posted 07/24/19 1:20pm

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TwiliteKid said:

Shockadelica9 said:

TwiliteKid said: When doves cry Party man Musicology Cream Get off Diamonds and pearls 7 Raspberry beret U got the look Mountains Ta amo corazon All were amazing videos [Edited 7/24/19 12:21pm]

If you say so.

lol

Aside from a few performance videos that became classic, his music videos were extremely uninspired....

The production lacks so much for his videos, yes yes the fams who are about to say but it was about the great music he made, duh he made great music, we are talking about the videos. Really baffled how he could be a genius at creating the music and performing and expressing the music on stage, but he was lacking whenever he made his music videos.

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Reply #12 posted 07/24/19 1:44pm

Purplestar88

Wow! That is awsome! I thought Prince had very nice videos and deserves it!

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Reply #13 posted 07/24/19 2:18pm

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feeluupp said:

Prince will posthumously receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2019 MTV VMA's on August 26.


Where is the link to this?

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Reply #14 posted 07/24/19 2:25pm

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Shockadelica9 said:

TwiliteKid said:

Because it's funny that he's being recognized for something that he wasn't that good at?

When doves cry Party man Musicology Cream Get off Diamonds and pearls 7 Raspberry beret U got the look Mountains Ta amo corazon All were amazing videos

and let's not forget "Batdance".That one was amazing.

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Reply #15 posted 07/24/19 2:54pm

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Prince had made very good music videos back in the '80's. Too much good one in the '90's. Fair and descent ones in the 2000's.

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Reply #16 posted 07/24/19 6:00pm

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Shockadelica9 said:

TwiliteKid said:

Because it's funny that he's being recognized for something that he wasn't that good at?

When doves cry Party man Musicology Cream Get off Diamonds and pearls 7 Raspberry beret U got the look Mountains Ta amo corazon All were amazing videos [Edited 7/24/19 12:21pm]

I would add Batdance and Kiss to that list. God videos-I'm not certain about amazing though.

99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment
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Reply #17 posted 07/24/19 6:30pm

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luv4u said:

feeluupp said:

Prince will posthumously receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2019 MTV VMA's on August 26.


Where is the link to this?


Here, and it ain't Prince. It's Rihanna.

The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards will be held on August 28, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. Adele’s “Hello” is the most nominated video with seven categories. Beyoncé led the nominations with a total of eleven, followed by Adele, who had eight. Rihanna is set to receive the Vanguard Award at the ceremony. Britney Spears is slated to perform at the show, marking her first performance on the VMA stage since her critically panned performance at the 2007 show nine years prior.



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Reply #18 posted 07/24/19 6:59pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

luv4u said:


Where is the link to this?


Here, and it ain't Prince. It's Rihanna.

The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards will be held on August 28, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. Adele’s “Hello” is the most nominated video with seven categories. Beyoncé led the nominations with a total of eleven, followed by Adele, who had eight. Rihanna is set to receive the Vanguard Award at the ceremony. Britney Spears is slated to perform at the show, marking her first performance on the VMA stage since her critically panned performance at the 2007 show nine years prior.



Thank you.

Thought it was too good to be true... Numerous posts on twitter stating that he was going to receive it this year. Guess not.

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Reply #19 posted 07/24/19 7:52pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

luv4u said:


Where is the link to this?


Here, and it ain't Prince. It's Rihanna.

The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards will be held on August 28, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. Adele’s “Hello” is the most nominated video with seven categories. Beyoncé led the nominations with a total of eleven, followed by Adele, who had eight. Rihanna is set to receive the Vanguard Award at the ceremony. Britney Spears is slated to perform at the show, marking her first performance on the VMA stage since her critically panned performance at the 2007 show nine years prior.



That's not accurate either. Rihanna won in 2016. You think Adele's 2015 hit "Hello" is nominated this year? We don't know who is getting this year's Vanguard Award yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...uard_Award

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Reply #20 posted 07/24/19 8:00pm

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renfield said:

TrivialPursuit said:


Here, and it ain't Prince. It's Rihanna.

The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards will be held on August 28, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. Adele’s “Hello” is the most nominated video with seven categories. Beyoncé led the nominations with a total of eleven, followed by Adele, who had eight. Rihanna is set to receive the Vanguard Award at the ceremony. Britney Spears is slated to perform at the show, marking her first performance on the VMA stage since her critically panned performance at the 2007 show nine years prior.



That's not accurate either. Rihanna won in 2016. You think Adele's 2015 hit "Hello" is nominated this year? We don't know who is getting this year's Vanguard Award yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...uard_Award

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Hmmm so maybe the rumours of Prince receiving it are still true...

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