Nice outfit some good moves,the song is very uninterresting, too James Brown.I didnt care for the band much either.I would rather prince be a parody of himself.

psykosoul said:

Regardless of your feelings toward a particular song if someone else likes it ,cool.
I cannot tell you what to like and not like.

Hit songs are the work of record companies and not the artists.
If the company does not want you to have a hit ... you will not.I don't give a damn how good the song was.If you look at the top 10 chart who will be in the HOF 25 years from now ?

Outkast is the only "group" that has "IT" these days.

muleFunk said:

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Right on . I could not have said it better. Don't complain just keep listening to the old records.

psykosoul said:

I agree with you, actually, except as highlighted above. One good reason is usually sufficient for me.

Prince doesn't suck. Period. He's the best performer around and has been for a long time.

I actually hate the fact I missed his interview with Leno. I heard after-the-fact that it was really good!
[This message was edited Sat Feb 28 7:31:41 2004 by namepeace]

BlaqueKnight said:

yup. this is dead on what i felt as well. pretty much a smooth cool 'showman' like performance. Not nearly as bad as some are saying...but also not nearly as good as some are saying. I guess it served its purpose i suppose...a safe middleground performance aimed straight for the Leno audience to promote the tour. 'ladies & gents, bring the kids and the dogs, fun for the whole family!'. Nothing wrong with that i guess. Probably a good time to hype the 'safe for the entire family' thing with all the amount of concern out there over the SuperBowl halftime show and all...

heh...a Prince concert is now safer for your kids than network television.

wow. has the world turned upside down or what?

Go figure.

And actually I think it probably will be a fun show for the whole family. I'd probably take my kids to it if it aint too expensive. Let them see some musicians play some popular tunes. I'm sure it'll have some fun, and some funky, and some groovyness.

But personally...myself... I actually yearn for and prefer an edgier (at least musically speaking) type of performance. I've seen quite enough (too many) performances of 'Prince the smooth slick showman'....I actually prefer to experience 'Prince the creative expressive musician'. I prefer the 'aftershow jam session' Prince who was REALLY into the moment and emotion of the essence of the song at hand. The spontaneous 'rehearsal jam session' Prince who seemed to be always searching for another more powerful way to express a song through his instruments...always trying to take it to the NEXT level. Now THATS the concert I'd still pay nearly ANYTHING to see.

again...the Leno show wasn't completely awful like many are saying...it was alright. it was the 'smooth showman' prince having some orchestrated fun to a James Brown-like groove. Nothing more nothing less. My jaw definitely didn't drop to the ground in amazement at the performance, but i then again I also didn't change the channel either.

justhemusic said:

What do u want him 2 do take a dump on stage?????

JAMIESTARR said:

??? where the hell did that come from ?

no. like i said the Leno Performance ok. it was cool. it was groovy. it wasn't earthshaterring.

what I personally would love to see is this...."'Prince the creative expressive musician'. I prefer the 'aftershow jam session' Prince ...The spontaneous 'rehearsal jam session' Prince who seemed to be always searching for another more powerful way to express a song through his instruments...always trying to take it to the NEXT level. Now THATS the concert I'd still pay nearly ANYTHING to see."

I am not saying i want him to re-live the old Prince stuff at all. I would love for him to break out some completely new powerful stuff and perform within it as a Musician. Look there are folks who are fans of Prince for his cool showman performer star style skills...I've got no problem with that....and there are also others, like myself, who became fans of Prince for his expressive emotive and often explosive musician skills. Sometimes the two Princes overlap and usually then everyone is happy to some extent. But theres no doubt that the Leno performance was the showman performer Prince...which is why I didn't go nuts for it like some. I can assure you that whenever i do see a performance of 'the musician prince' I will go bannanas.

and besides he's already done the 'dump' thing anyway...didn't you get NPS, Rave & much of Emancipation?

PurpleKnight said:

Glad you liked it, but plenty of people have given memorable performances on the late night circuit, P included.


Stormbringer

Funny there is two sides to Prince One a smart business man and Two the Hella performer on stage...on this forum most don't see this Jay leno is a older viewing audience and in this economic time mybe the people with the cash to come to the show...BY THE WAY is the perpose of the appearance in the first place also Musicology is a best ok But even in TRC it was better LIVE and since you guys love to quote Prince also said he writes for the Live shows his music is best in that forum cuz i remember back when it came out Little red corvette in a club it was ok not much of a dance tune on the radio driving it was cool watching the video it was hot seeing him perform it LIVE was the SHIT so do u see my point.

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I too enjoyed the performance. Hell he could've stood there and sang the alphabet for all I cared, and I still would have loved it. It probably would've been the best damn rendition of the alphabet ya ever heard. Seems like Prince is damned if does, and damned if he doesn't on this site, but we all are entitled to our opinions. Prince is just a human being like all of us (albeit a HIGHLY talented and gifted human being). But cut him some slack, he's a man, not some kind of muscial superhero.

EvilWhiteMale said:

LOL Come on ppl, laugh along with the guy instead of getting all mad at him.

You know, I just thinks it's a nice little funk tune and not too flashy for a change...I think Prince is just maturing...he hasn't lost his edge, he's just experimenting with things like lyrics and a message instead of his usual pyrotechnical dancing, guitar, etc.

You just wait, naysayers...he AIN'T lost the funk or whatever you want to call it. He's just channeling it in a new direction, as any true artist should.

Sdldawn said:

Im a musician, and I too thought it had a terrible hook. But just like all this cats biggest hits, it took me a few listens to find it. Once the hook gets ya, it don't let ya go. i find that out watching Leno show. Now this "MUSICOLOGY" hook is stuck in my head.

And it sounds like friggin "Hot Pants"

JAMIESTARR said:

exactly

5 minutes of prince

is more exciting

than an hour of anyone

prince did his thang

I should have responded to this a while ago. I taped this performance the second it came on. Prince definitely rocked it along with the NPG. And he had on the badass beige coat and white suit with the glass-heeled boots. I definitely wanna see him live now.

PRINCE RULES!!!!!

Oh, and not to mention the fact that Prince kicked it old school with the "Tighten Up" bridge part.

He did what he had to do. He was fantastic, the performance, his attitude, throwing the Hohner, the swagger to the couch, confusing Mel Gibson, all cool as hell. Classic Prince.

The song's definately a grower too, it's not bad at all.


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Some of yall get on my nerves somethin terrible.We are talkin about the good qualities in the song and u bring up the things u didnt like about it

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

The performance was great and the song was ok -- no second coming of Housequake or anything but it's not even that kind of joint. File under Laid Back Funk song - it's not stunning because it's not meant to stun... At the risk of giving EvilWhiteMale an heart attack, I bet Musicology iwould be better if it was longer.

avatarfunk said:

I AGREE PRINCE TORE IT UP.....He was so sexy and cool the way he got down....I CAN'T WAIT TIL HE COMES TO MY CITY>>>>

PurpleKnight said:

Laura just has a big ol crush on me.

minneapolisgenius said:

Hey, where you been hidin'? I missed ya.

Aerogram said:

Hey now, with all the pain and suffering in the world, we don't need anymore.

goat2004 said:

Hi.
This is totally unrelated to the thread - but I had two things to say....

1. I just found out you're from MD, too
2. You're kinda cute

keep postin'

I loved it - far better than the studio version imho
great band with 3 hot talented women - I hope that Wendy will join soon - and it's funny to watch Renato move this guy was jazz before & now he's funky

It was a very good performance, but I think many fans are too close to the subject matter to really be objective, one way or the other.

On the one hand, many fans are blinded by everything he does, and just lavish praise on him, regardless of how good it was. On the other, you have folks who have such high expectations that nothing he does is good enough anymore. Of course, the "truth", if one can be found when dealing with opinions, is somewhere in the middle.

Prince is still a consumate showman, and blows away 90% of his peers when it comes to live performance. Many fans really can't get past the fact that they've seen so many incredible performances from him that the bar is raised too high. He can't get to the level of performance that they once saw, because their memories of how that was are so overwhelming.

I've learned to listen to what non-fans are saying, just to see if I'm jaded one way or the other. I thought this most recent TV appearance was solid, but not one of his better ones. HOWEVER, most non-fans I've talked to were completley floored by it. I talked to one guy the other day, who stopped me in my apartment complex because he saw my Prince T-shirt, who just raved about the Leno show. He was just blown away by how good Prince was, and went on and on about how he never knew how incredible he was live. Now, to us it sounds like this guy has been living under a rock, but you have to understand that he's never been exposed to anything other than his radio hits. To a newbie, Prince managed to pull them in. He had an incredibly tight performance, and he put on one hell of a show. Cool thing is, WE know that the man can do even better, so just imagine what it will be like when he sees the lil' dude in concert!