say what you will about that freaky ass footage of him during JB's concert, but it doesn't begin to make me as embarrased for him as i was when he performed "the christ" at the NAACP awards

But what happened at the NAACP awards performance?? sorry but I dont know.. Though I'm pretty sure nothing could be more embarasing than the James Brown thing..
[This message was edited Thu May 1 9:03:51 PDT 2003 by Sandra]

I haven't seen the Christ footage but I've heard the performance and it FUCKING ROCKS!

"The Christ", with Prince letting LARRY GRAHAM sing half the song, was among his lowest moments. I think we witnessed an artist hitting rock bottom that night.

STAUROS, people!

Can we download this somewhere? Kazaa maybe?

When I've listened to the performance the crowd sounds like it's going crazy at the end, so someone must've enjoyed it???

BTW the strongest substance that Prince had taken, the night of the JB performance was Sherbert Fizz, complete with that Strawberry lollipop thing that comes with it. True.

the christ performance for those that have not seen it:

he was recieveing a lifetime achievment award if i recall correctly, and the crowd was crazy excited about him being there, and i in the watching on my tv at home audience was too. i get really whipped up when they introduced him and the NPg, and they started playing the intro to the cross... as this is one of my all time favorite P songs, i go apeshit.

suddenly he starts talking over the music saying things like "somebody lied about how somebody died" and explaining the concept of the stauros, which the JWs apparently believe Jesus was actually nailed to instead of a cross...

cue my confused and deflated reaction.

then he starts singing the song, but changes a lot of the lyrics around, and it is no longer called the cross, now it it the christ.

oh, it was painful. now i can't even listen to the cross anymore, cause it was suc and embarrasing experience

cborgman said:

I thought "The Christ" performance on the NAACP performance was the bomb...full of spirit! It's just the haters that didn't like it cause he changed HIS song to fit HIS beliefs at the time...

BlackandRising said:

That's a good point. Let go of your opinions people and Behold the Spirit of the performance.

cborgman said:

You've just summoned a herd of Fams to come and rabidly defend how great that performance was and how happy they are he's found such a fantastic form of spirituality. The rest of us can just barf.

Tom said:

thank you tom

shall we?

ConsciousContact said:

yeah the guys that edited the Christ performance enjoyed dubbing in the crowd noises...

Tom said:

First of all, I'm not a "fam." I'm simply giving my opinion...and it's unbiased. The performance was very charged. It was obvious that he felt what he was playing. That is what music is all about.
You don't have to defend a performance that was obviously heartfelt...if I saw Justin Timberlake perform something with obvious passion, I would give him his due, even thought I dislike him.
I think those who don't like the performance are jaded by the whole JW thing, which is ridiculous, and obsessed to the point of not liking alything that is remotely in synch with their beliefs. I didn't read where anyone thought that they liked it or were haoppy because he found a new form of spirituality. But as an adult, I can I respect his beliefs, just as I respect a Muslim's faith, a Catholics, etc., etc. I mean, grow up. Seriously.

cborgman said:

Chaka didn't help in the end either. I was overjoyed to see him, even though the performance had me wondering what had happened in his life at that point. I hadn't been into any of his works in the nineties until "Emancipation".

You can also add his "assless" pants performance of Gettoff as another embarrising performance.The song rocked though. Maybe the ladies will disagree with me.
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BlackandRising said:

well, obviously you are a very mature and wisened person... yes, we should all strive to be much more like you, who took a simple question of one's opinion and turned it into an attack. yes, that's obviously the grown up thing to do.

PhilG said:

yea, that was pretty embarrasing too

PhilG said:

I paid a grip to see that performance live! I was 8th row til he came on stage then i rushed up front...but the only foul up was when his sleeve caught onto the mic at first otherwise i thought it was a splendid show... if you mean the pants then all I can say is hey that's just Prince...(even though I was surprised seeing it right then and there ...

The assless pants were so Prince. He can get away with anything like that. At least he could back then. I disagree with some of the comments about "the christ". Some of you may know from my previous posts that I hate anything to do with organized religion. I wish Prince had never met Larry, but I did not dislike this performance. I thought it was charged and very well done. Also, just for the record, I do not hate Larry or his JW beliefs, I just wish he had never been introduced to Prince. If this had never happened, we would still have our SMF around instead of the uncertain, phony JW he is so bent on becoming (at least until the next religion comes along that excites him).

cborgman said:

No, I gave my opinion, then responded to a generalized statement regarding "fams." If you consider this an attack...then you must have a spine made of white bread.

kisscamille said:

it really wasn't the fact that he changed the lyrics to the song to reflect his new beliefs that bothered me so much as it was that as a song the new lyrics were not as good as the old ones.

to be completely honest, i really don't buy into the original version's religious belief either. but as as ong, it really really worked well. lyrically, the new version didn't work at all. "the christ?" it's not even proper english.

not to mention that, as mentioned earlier larry sang half the song. well, correct me if i am wrong, but prince recieved the award, not larry, correct? so wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have prince sing the song instead of having to speak over it to explain the new version so it made any sense to the people who aren't exposed to the whole stauros thing?

BlackandRising said:

actually, i have not used the word "fams" until the moment i typed it just now.
wow, i hope i become just like you when i grow up. you're obviously a much nicer person than the rest of us

cborgman said:

Correcting you...since it's Prince's song, and his award, I think that pretty much gave him the right to do as he wanted to on stage. When you get an award, and are allowed to perform your material on stage, I feel that should be your right as well.

pejman said:

I remember the "Living Color" show spoofing that performance in a skit once. It get mentioned again when Prince was on the Muppet show, so I guess he was cool with all the attention it got.

anyway, i have yet 2 see either of these performances--in fact i'ma be gettin a hold of the jb performance next week on tape, so i'll give that a look...the naacp-thing i've never seen but i've heard about it.

sounds more puke-worthy than embarrassing, imho...

cborgman said:

Your attempts at wit are wasted.
You should not have responded to my post then, which was in response to Tom generalizing those who thought the performance was pretty good as "fams." Either learn to follow along or do not reply.

BlackandRising said:

good god, did i say someone whould have gotten up there and stopped him from performing it? did i say that someone should have passed a law that forbid him from performing it?
no.
i simply said it was an embarrasingly bad choice.

I thought that Bjorky Rooster lookin' hairdo of his from the Tonight Show "Come On" performance was pretty embarrassing...

Anxiety said:

BlackandRising said:

actually, i was following along just fine. you were the one that wasn't following along properly when you attributed the comment to me.