Guys, I'm still reeling after my Christian Baptist pastor told me that he and his wife are big Prince fans. He talked about the movies and about Musicology, and is surprising his wife for Mother's Day with the album. I was floored!!! I couldn't believe it. My pastor is so cool, anyway. But here's a man who loves country music and grew up in a fundamendalist Baptist home in the Bible Belt. He is probably the most unlikely Prince fan to ever exist.

Anyway, anyone else come across people who you thought would never be P fans but actually did?? Share your thoughts...

My brother had an asthma attack when I was 16 and he had collapsed on my bedroom floor...

When the ambulance came, a paramedic saw my Prince posters on the wall. He started a lengthy conversation about the Black Album whilst my brother was turning blue on the floor.

A lot of people on this board seem like unlikely Prince fans...especially the youngsters....it's really cool to know that there are teenage fans of his music considering he is well past his heyday...
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After years of denial and resistance, my Dad [who relentlessly hated on P] finally admitted that he "likes" him. Why are people so afraid to admit that they actually dig P??? I've always wondered that. [My sister believes it's because if you admit that then you're a freak or you're gay or weird.]

I'm 31 and have been into Prince since the "1999" era, so that's the majority of my life...

about a year ago, I found out that one of my coworkers (I'm a high school English teacher) who's in her late 50s and an admitted "Jewish princess" was a HUUGE Prince fan when we had a department party at her house and she was playing "SOTT" on her stereo! She told me more than I ever wanted to know about how she and her husband have...um..."enjoyed" using Prince as a soundtrack over the years.

HAHAHA!!!!

Keith/Kacey

PurpleCharm said:

I'm very proud to be a teenage Prince fan.

r1ghteousone said:

I'm with you! (I'm only 15, and my mother had a conversation with a co-worker about me liking Prince. Her co-worker was amazed. This amuses me.)

My mother mentioned she'd read something about Prince in a newspaper, the other day. It really freaked me out hearing my mum talking about Prince. It was like she was trying to discuss sex with me.

SAVAGE

col said:

Hi Col.

Not that I know him, but Bill Oddie. What's that all about?

BinaryJustin said:

Anyone else remember that cute old lady who was a member of 'Controversy'?

I think she was from Ireland or Scotland, - she was like 95 or something! SO cool!

JDINTERACTIVE said:

Bill Oddie, goofy lates 70s early 80s comedian. You folks probably never got a show called the Goodies! Anyway his favorite P album is Dirty Mind.

Some guy working on a friend of mine's house.An electrician who was playing P Control when I walked up to the house he was working on.Still cracks me up.Dude was a white guy, about 50! The singing Electrician

...Couldn't find the one I was after, but thought this was cute, and worth sharing:

GRANNY BEASY

"My Granny is 82 years old (born 21st August 1907). Her name is Brigid McCarron but everyone calls her 'Beasy'. She has been living in the same house in Muff, County Donegal for 79 years. She doesn't look her age and is still very lively with a very active mind and great memory.

She is quite familiar with prince's music as she is used to hearing it blaring from my stereo although she doesn't really like it (aren'y grannies wonderful! - EM). Her favourite Prince song though is 'The Cross' (the first half of it) and she also likes 'God' (Instrumental), 'Free' and 'Sometimes It Snows In April'. She has seen 'Under The Cherry Moon' almost as many times as me, and thinks it's a great story.

Whenever I get a new issue, she alsways looks at the photos and comments on them saying things like: 'I like this one' or 'I dont like this one - he's too dangerous looking', or 'I like his suit in this one' She thinks some of the clothes he wears are 'daft' but, at the end of the day, she thinks that Prince is an ice-cool, red-hot sweet-talking humdinger of a guy!

Breasy also likes Sheila E. and says that she's lovely looking and a very talented drummer"
~ Carl McCarron, Eire.

HERE'S 2 U GRANNY BEASY U COOL, COOL CAT, WHEREVER U MAY NOW BE!!!

Thanks for sharing. Cute story.

I am good friends with the daughter of a local MPLS evening newscaster. He is from WCCO NEWS and he was telling me how he likes Prince and, he was invited to and attended the Paisley PArk party/concert and got to see Miles Davis play. This party was around '87-'88- A New Year's party I believe.

laylow03 said:

Same story for me: my dad, who once broke my Purple Rain album into pieces because of evil messages, is now enjoying releases like the Vault, Crystal Ball, TRC. If you told me 20 years ago, I would have never believed it!

I went to school with the most homophobic, meat-head, bully known to man...and he was a huge Prince fan. Still didnt stop him and his mates waiting for me after school to beat me up cuz they thought I was gay!!!

my friends mom-i was singin somethin 2 myself.She heard me and got all hype.Than she started goin on and on how she loved that song and how she loved and had all prince's cds and stuff.blah blah

I think I am the most unlikely P fan a lot of folks have met. I always get the same reaction,..."Really?, I never would have guessed that." People who entered my room in college always had a bewildered look on their face when they saw the oversized Grateful Dead poster on one wall and the huge Sign O' the time movie poster on the other.

PurpleCharm said:

I love Prince, I also love Sly & the Family Stone, James Brown, etc. And I'm 15. Yeah, you try fitting in as a high school sophomore in 2004 surrounded by Hilary Duff and 50 Cent fans. It's not fun.

skywalker said:

That isn't Don Shelby, is it?

I am studying chemistry and my chem prof and the course co-ordinator (chair of chemistry) are both Prince fans.

SoSaysEye said:

I'm with you! (I'm 15 also)

At least I converted a Hilary Duff(DAMN I hate her!!-Hilary Duff I mean) into a P fan! I burned her a copy of my Musicology CD and she really likes it. It sort of scares me.

I also found out my English Teacher is pretty into Prince too. I even borrowed her Emancipation CD. I have lengthy conversations with her on Prince. And I have two friends who really like Princes Ass. They watched Purple Rain with me (again for me)

overcast said:

Co-sign! I'm 14.

overcast said:

U should have burnt her Hilary Duff CD instead!

MrSquiggle said:

that was me, back in the day. only the 50 cents & hilary duffs were other silly people...

people get a bit shocked when i tell them im a prince fan, especially cause im in an underground australian hip hop band, they cant see the influence prince has on my music, in a way i guess he doesnt, but i still love his music though...