I mean, has his style of music shaped the type of music you listen to? Prince isnt the only artist I listen to, theres so many more but I formed a whole new respect for live band/music because of him. It made me add in performing on stage with a band on my singing "to-do list". And while Im good but not as good as Prince (of course), he influenced me and continues to.

His music is the only form of music that tempts me to want to take my clothes off on a dance floor in front of a lot of people.

~Of course I don't.

Oh... I'm not a 4F.

Freespirit said:

Oh s'okay, hunny...I mean, the meetings are for 4F's but others can stand by and watch or say sumthing if its worth it...and yours was!

CherrieMoonKisses said:

It has affected me in many many ways!! But what has affected me most is his lyrical style! I love the way he plays with words it is amazing and clever.Love it!

I discussed this at dinner tonight:

Prince turned me on to many poeple... James Brown, George Clinton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Joni Mitchell, to name a few

it's sorta odd for me, cuz i've always had an eclectic musical taste way before i started gettin into ol' boy's work. i guess that's one of the reasons why i got into 'im, cuz of the musical amalgams.

it's lots...lots...lots of things in one!

CherrieMoonKisses said:

I was "into" funk & blues B4 Prince with James Brown, Temptations, 4 Tops, Otis Redding, Jimmy Smith, etc. but Prince got me "into" MORE of the jazz/blues genre, ( as of late ) like TRC, His piano solos, (which I never cared 4 before ) and his ballads, that R just gorgeous. I never cared 4 slow ballads much till I heard his. BTW, didnt know U had a band. COOL. Good Luck in ALL U accomplish CherrieMoonKisses.

hmmm, from prince I went on to 60' and 70's soul and funk (Brown, parliament, sly, motown..) ->jazz & soundtracks-> african percussion ->india and arab music-> classical ...
(I was mostly hooked on his rhythms and percussive sounds)

His dancing was always very impressive to me, so I hooked up on contemporary dance with fav's like Rosas. Rosas actually uses a bit of prince in their last performance. Through this group I git to know more contemp classics like steve reich and classical like bartok. It's a sidetrack but it all started with Let's go crazy waaayyy back in time when I was still a very goood boy listenin to everything mommie said

His version of "one of us" was used in another group's performance "something on Bach" where a dragqueen performed the song on stage while another girl ran and crawled through the theatre public. That was entertaining :0)

I happened to come across Prince's music when I was 14 in the late 90's. I connected with it deeply. It opened my mind to "real" music because I saw that it didn't have to be boring or really angry, etc. I'll always be grateful for that. God knows what I would be listening to otherwise *shiver*