You know there has always been some mockery to us Prince fans, from his movies, to the symbol change, writing slave on his face. We are still here standing by our "icon". Now 2004 comes around, all pop stars are on the band wagon, media is loving him again, are the most iroic of all...old fans are coming back into the fold.

We can now say "who is laughing now", with a great tour and album. We are the loyal ones.

But I don't hear anyone laughing

I see your point, yet no need to rub it in, or say "I told you so..." Whomever decided to leave Prince alone during these past years, had their own reasons. Some people believe commercial success is sucess, others disagree. I've been poked at and teased for being a Prince fan, and now, those same people either ask me questions about him, or to borrow my CDs The bottom line is, if Prince decided to disappear (commercially) again tomorrow, I'd still be a fan.

CalhounSq said:

seriously. everybody's payin their neverminds, like they always have.