Even the ding dongs who don’t have the balls or werwithall to admit they enjoy something instead choosing to save face and act indignant and blatantly blasé’ blasé’…you know who you are. Love this era so far.

The expression 'won the war' was never used in my reading of recent threads for the sake of 'parsimony', so trying to pretend that it's useful shorthand sounds weak to me - unless 'the war' was shorthand for 'a simplistic and puerile argument used by people who, for whatever reason, desperately needed to validate their particular enthusiasm for Prince's music.' And suggesting that some people engaged in this argument are acting blatantly blasé, out of indignance, or in denial, is a covert way of perpetuating the argument, despite claiming that the 'war' is won.

But it's an argument you clearly wish to perpetuate because you've simply lifted your own post from the original hater thread which was being done to death anyway and reposted it here for no good reason.

For every 'For You' fanatic who believes that Prince's muse departed when he left his bikini briefs at the dry cleaners, there's a 'Rave' raver who can't understand why each post-1999 song and concert is seemingly slammed more than the last one.

But in between there's all shades of the spectrum, some of whom think it's sometimes fun to debate, but futile to try to convert or damn people, over whether they like or dislike one melody, lyric, instrumental arrangement, mix, production, song, album, tracklisting, concert performance, band, tour, television appearance, radio interview, magazine article, video, film, costume, hairstyle, alter ego, album cover, font style, era or even 'zeitgeist' over another.

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[This message was edited Thu Apr 8 6:04:34 2004 by langebleu]

SENSHY said:

This is great.

U do understand how ridiculous this is right?

There's something slightly warped about it. However, I'm open minded to all forms of pap. It takes all sorts, and ineptitude is a trait in people and deserves as much space as intelligence, wit or sanity.