it's a bit ironic that in 1982 prince played punk version of bambi ,isn't it a disrespect to lisa she ws the keyboard player at that time.
it's a great song but that "i know what you need,maybe you need to bleed"(by the way he sang full version on 2002 celebration including that nasty line)
is offensive to lesbians.

thebanishedone said:

It's not offensive. It's not "anti-dyke". Its a song about a fantasy that every straight boy has at some stage... turning a lesbian straight.
It's about ego.

funkyfine said:

yup, it's a bit stupid, a bit lame, but a VERY common viewpoint from an 18 year-old, straight horndog like Prince was when he made that song...

(ps...I only think the lyrics are silly, the song ROCKS!)

funkyfine said:

or every girls fantasy.

Turning a cute gay guy straight.

Your Aunty is a dyke?

As a gay person, i can understand folks getting ticked off by this kind of "conversion fantasy," but yeah, I mean, I did much stupider crap when I was that age. Although singing it now without some kind of twist...like she talks him into getting with a man or something...would be a bit tasteless...oh, wait, like he did on Ellen

I'm a lesbian, and I'm not offended by Bambi in the slightest. I don't see it as being anti-dyke. Like funkyfine said, it's about a fantasy. If you got it bad for someone, you want to convince them that it would be better with you. Bambi rocks.

paisleypark4 said:

or every gay boys fantasy.

Turning a cute straight guy gay.

with 90 % heterosexuals homosexuals are having the hardest time.

dawntreader said:

Tell me about it.
It's even worse for us girls, with all this "lesbian chic" bullshit - they all want to tease you because it's trendy.


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"anty dyke" = a butchie ant?

I don't see 'Bambi' as offensive. Just as Randy Newman's 'Short People' isn't.

Don't assume that Prince writes or sings every song from his own point of view,
most artists don't. All we have in 'Bambi' is a song from the point of view of a
man who's in love with a beautiful lesbian and can't understand why she doesn't
fancy him. He thinks that if he gets her to bed and shows her what a 'real man'
can do, that he'll "turn her straight"... but of course he doesn't.

Bambi's great. It's still a song i'm having played at my funeral!

..even though that sig of mine's mysteriously vanished!

ok if it is not offensive,what did he mean in the last lines of bambi"i know what you need ,maybe you need to bleed".

thebanishedone said:

Well, Lisa wasn't in the band when Prince performed Bambi at first. Gayle Chapman was. Lisa joined in 80. P wasn't hardly going to stop performing that song cuz of Lisa. If anything, Lisa probably dug it. Lisa was a lot more open minded than Gayle was.

paisleypark4 said:

as if they could...

tritoncin said:

I'm sure Bush and the other conservatives think it's possible.

Uh oh, thread becoming political...

whoever said that was an anti-dyke song?
all he doing in the song is trying 2 convince a lesbian that
sex would be better with him. many men have tried 2 convince
me and other lesbians of this. it's ridiculous, yes. i have never been offended by
this song, not even when i was a child dyke.

thebanishedone said:

Not sure how old you are so you might be excused...
Its to do with a girl losing her virginity. Nothing vicious or nasty about it.

Bambi's a hella cool song. That song is not derogatory to any kind of lesbian. It's just homeboy in his youth, you know.

BAMbi.. don't you understand it's better with a man