I never liked the Liza Minelli look. Why did Prince use all this makeup that made his face look white? Was he trying to signify that "Prince" was dead? I always thought it was kind of morbid.

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Pretty sure they were all wearing face powder during the Purple Rain era into Parade when he cuts his hair short. I think he goes with the pompadour and stops blending the pancake makeup as well, and it just contrasts. I think it was for the same reason he ever wore makeup.

Who is Lisa Minnelli? It's Liza with a Z, not Lisa with an S, because Lisa with an S goes ssnozz. It's Z instead of S, Lie instead of Lee, it's simple as can be. See? Liza.

I don't remember Liza being gaunt or wearing half jackets with no blouse underneath or soloing on "Endorphinmachine."

All short-haired people aren't going for a Liza Minelli look. It's just short hair. (If anything was Liza, it was the wig he wore during "Raspberry Beret.")

His makeup was horrid during that time, though. I don't know if he was using a lighter foundation or setting powder, but it certainly didn't make him look good. I don't think he was trying to look dead because 'Prince was dead.' It sorta seemed to progress lighter around 1992 or so. I don't know why he wasn't using a bronzer or contour - something to add color and warmth to his face. I think he was sorta pale during the Lovesexy shows, too. Some of those closeup shots from Dortmund are just weird. The longer hair was never a favorite for me, but his teeth seemed gap-py and his makeup was lighter. Bad look all the way around.

His make-up is pretty light on the Purple Rain album cover..... Of course I'm looking at the giant in-store promo poster that I've had since the album was released and it may have faded over time but it still looks pretty light to me.

TrivialPursuit said:

Who is Lisa Minnelli? It's Liza with a Z, not Lisa with an S, because Lisa with an S goes ssnozz. It's Z instead of S, Lie instead of Lee, it's simple as can be. See? Liza.

I don't remember Liza being gaunt or wearing half jackets with no blouse underneath or soloing on "Endorphinmachine."

All short-haired people aren't going for a Liza Minelli look. It's just short hair. (If anything was Liza, it was the wig he wore during "Raspberry Beret.")

His makeup was horrid during that time, though. I don't know if he was using a lighter foundation or setting powder, but it certainly didn't make him look good. I don't think he was trying to look dead because 'Prince was dead.' It sorta seemed to progress lighter around 1992 or so. I don't know why he wasn't using a bronzer or contour - something to add color and warmth to his face. I think he was sorta pale during the Lovesexy shows, too. Some of those closeup shots from Dortmund are just weird. The longer hair was never a favorite for me, but his teeth seemed gap-py and his makeup was lighter. Bad look all the way around.

I agree the makeup was horrible as were the outfits. It really didn't get better until the 2000s.

yeah,Prince looked kinda weird during that era (1993/94)....too thin and with too much make-up his hairstyles during that time were also very odd

Yep, just like Little Richard, the man seemed to love his pancake.

Its just as or even more exaggerated on the Purple Rain tour.

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... because of Mayté next to him ?

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Prince always had issues with reconcilling the white side of his family with the black side of his family.

Yet he did manipulate this to his advantage.

He created white pop/rock music that would be played on white radio stations to attrack the white dollar to sell out stadiums. Prince was never ashamed about making money, whether it be black or white!

However, he kept black people in his band and portrayed a black persona in order to prevent people criticising him as selling out. The aftershow gigs were usually funk based to reinforce the facade.

The reality is that Prince was mixed race yet he would identify himself as being black yet visually and musically portraying himself as white.

Sadly Prince did abuse the white side of his heritage to make money and in doing do he sacrificed the black side.

Certainly in the very early days he was represented as being black as the record label would have had issues with him being mixed race! They would never had been able to sell him to radio as being mixed race as people would have been confused. People like neat and tidy boxes and labels!

Yet, in Prince's final years he took to wearing his big afro, again to remind people he was black, while taking the white dollar.

In conclusion Prince was either very clever, a master manipulator, or he had identity issues or he was clinically bipolar!

darkroman said:

Prince was light skinned, but he was black, not of mixed race.

darkroman said:

He was a Gemini

darkroman said:

Prince always had issues with reconcilling the white side of his family with the black side of his family.

Yet he did manipulate this to his advantage.

He created white pop/rock music that would be played on white radio stations to attrack the white dollar to sell out stadiums. Prince was never ashamed about making money, whether it be black or white!

However, he kept black people in his band and portrayed a black persona in order to prevent people criticising him as selling out. The aftershow gigs were usually funk based to reinforce the facade.

The reality is that Prince was mixed race yet he would identify himself as being black yet visually and musically portraying himself as white.

Sadly Prince did abuse the white side of his heritage to make money and in doing do he sacrificed the black side.

Certainly in the very early days he was represented as being black as the record label would have had issues with him being mixed race! They would never had been able to sell him to radio as being mixed race as people would have been confused. People like neat and tidy boxes and labels!

Yet, in Prince's final years he took to wearing his big afro, again to remind people he was black, while taking the white dollar.

In conclusion Prince was either very clever, a master manipulator, or he had identity issues or he was clinically bipolar!

WTF world do you live in??

White side of his heritage? FFS

This is offensive.

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

rogifan said:

darkroman said:

Prince always had issues with reconcilling the white side of his family with the black side of his family.

Yet he did manipulate this to his advantage.

He created white pop/rock music that would be played on white radio stations to attrack the white dollar to sell out stadiums. Prince was never ashamed about making money, whether it be black or white!

However, he kept black people in his band and portrayed a black persona in order to prevent people criticising him as selling out. The aftershow gigs were usually funk based to reinforce the facade.

The reality is that Prince was mixed race yet he would identify himself as being black yet visually and musically portraying himself as white.

Sadly Prince did abuse the white side of his heritage to make money and in doing do he sacrificed the black side.

Certainly in the very early days he was represented as being black as the record label would have had issues with him being mixed race! They would never had been able to sell him to radio as being mixed race as people would have been confused. People like neat and tidy boxes and labels!

Yet, in Prince's final years he took to wearing his big afro, again to remind people he was black, while taking the white dollar.

In conclusion Prince was either very clever, a master manipulator, or he had identity issues or he was clinically bipolar!

Not sure where you got your information from,but both of Prince's parents were light-skinned black people.He was not "mixed race".

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missingprn said:

He was a Gemini

Astrology isn't real. Those idiots thought the sun went around the Earth and they couldn't even predict solar eclipses to (literally) save their own lives. Complete fake nonsense made up by charlatans trying to make $$.

SoulAlive said:

darkroman said:

Prince always had issues with reconcilling the white side of his family with the black side of his family.

Yet he did manipulate this to his advantage.

He created white pop/rock music that would be played on white radio stations to attrack the white dollar to sell out stadiums. Prince was never ashamed about making money, whether it be black or white!

However, he kept black people in his band and portrayed a black persona in order to prevent people criticising him as selling out. The aftershow gigs were usually funk based to reinforce the facade.

The reality is that Prince was mixed race yet he would identify himself as being black yet visually and musically portraying himself as white.

Sadly Prince did abuse the white side of his heritage to make money and in doing do he sacrificed the black side.

Certainly in the very early days he was represented as being black as the record label would have had issues with him being mixed race! They would never had been able to sell him to radio as being mixed race as people would have been confused. People like neat and tidy boxes and labels!

Yet, in Prince's final years he took to wearing his big afro, again to remind people he was black, while taking the white dollar.

In conclusion Prince was either very clever, a master manipulator, or he had identity issues or he was clinically bipolar!

Not sure where you got your information from,but both of Prince's parents were light-skinned black people.He was not "mixed race".

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Probably got his information from Prince, who said he was mixed race for years and portrayed himself as biracial in Purple Rain.

Weird how he never got any flack for minimizing his blackness like that...

steakfinger said:

Mikado said:

SoulAlive said:

Not sure where you got your information from,but both of Prince's parents were light-skinned black people.He was not "mixed race".

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Probably got his information from Prince, who said he was mixed race for years and portrayed himself as biracial in Purple Rain.

Weird how he never got any flack for minimizing his blackness like that...

He never got any flack for minimizing his blackness like that, because black people knew that he used his light skin to get over in the business that he was in. In other words, Prince played the game he needed to play in order to make it big, and we (black people) knew it, I guess that's why they didn't give him flack for it. He did what he had to do, and after he made his fame and fortune, he owned his blackness completely, and didn't try to hide his true self and pretend to be anything other than who he was, a black man.

ask his former make up artist. Truly awful to go from the D&P look to that.

looby said:

Mikado said:

Probably got his information from Prince, who said he was mixed race for years and portrayed himself as biracial in Purple Rain.

Weird how he never got any flack for minimizing his blackness like that...

He never got any flack for minimizing his blackness like that, because black people knew that he used his light skin to get over in the business that he was in. In other words, Prince played the game he needed to play in order to make it big, and we (black people) knew it, I guess that's why they didn't give him flack for it. He did what he had to do, and after he made his fame and fortune, he owned his blackness completely, and didn't try to hide his true self and pretend to be anything other than who he was, a black man.

Did Al Sharpton call him whitey like he did Whitney Houston?

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rogifan said:

looby said:

He never got any flack for minimizing his blackness like that, because black people knew that he used his light skin to get over in the business that he was in. In other words, Prince played the game he needed to play in order to make it big, and we (black people) knew it, I guess that's why they didn't give him flack for it. He did what he had to do, and after he made his fame and fortune, he owned his blackness completely, and didn't try to hide his true self and pretend to be anything other than who he was, a black man.

Did Al Sharpton call him whitey like he did Whitney Houston?

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I don't know, but tell me, should have Al Sharpton called him whitey like he did Whitney Houston? What's your point?

RJOrion said:

darkroman said:

Prince always had issues with reconcilling the white side of his family with the black side of his family.

Yet he did manipulate this to his advantage.

He created white pop/rock music that would be played on white radio stations to attrack the white dollar to sell out stadiums. Prince was never ashamed about making money, whether it be black or white!

However, he kept black people in his band and portrayed a black persona in order to prevent people criticising him as selling out. The aftershow gigs were usually funk based to reinforce the facade.

The reality is that Prince was mixed race yet he would identify himself as being black yet visually and musically portraying himself as white.

Sadly Prince did abuse the white side of his heritage to make money and in doing do he sacrificed the black side.

Certainly in the very early days he was represented as being black as the record label would have had issues with him being mixed race! They would never had been able to sell him to radio as being mixed race as people would have been confused. People like neat and tidy boxes and labels!

Yet, in Prince's final years he took to wearing his big afro, again to remind people he was black, while taking the white dollar.

In conclusion Prince was either very clever, a master manipulator, or he had identity issues or he was clinically bipolar!

"white side of his family"???.. Prince didnt have a "white side of his family"...he was a black man with 2 black parents...you say white side, as if Prince were half white like in the movie Purple Rain...

In all fairness, it wasn't just the movie, there's interviews where he pervades the myth in his own words verbatim.