namepeace said:

So it would have been alright if Sly Stone or Stevie chided Prince when 1999 came out?

EDIT: Hope I'm not being antagonistic. Just playing devil's advocate.
[Edited 11/20/06 10:18am]

coolcat said:

Naw, I feel ya. And my answer would be yes. Marvin Gaye reportedly said, after 1999 came out, "everybody's talking about this cat Prince. Don't they know that I'm supposed to be the only Prince." And he could say that. He's Marvin-hot-durn-Gaye. Sly is Sly and Stevie is Stevie. They had the cred to say something like that to the new kid who was clearly influenced by their sound.
[Edited 11/20/06 11:09am]

namepeace said:

Cool! I see what you're saying.

namepeace said:

how do you feel about the song "Tricky"? Prince telling George Clinton he's too old and too fat to do anything, and that he needs to retire?

Isel said:

That actually makes more sense. Dissing Prince and.... Jared Leto wtf!

KidOmega said:

Prince was being a jagoff. Period.

KidOmega said:

I didn't even know that's who "Tricky" was talking to.

Justin was really dissin' this guy who also said that sexy never left

namepeace said:

Help me out on this, Namepeace. How is SexyBack a bite of any Prince song? If so, which one? I honestly don't hear one lick of Prince in "SexyBack". I was the first one to post about "Damn Girl" and "Until The End Of Time" but "Sexyback doesn't sound at all like Prince to me.

BlaqueKnight said:

if u look real close u will find some similarities

BlaqueKnight said:

Oh, I wasn't referring to any particular song, BK.

namepeace said:

Oh, my bad. Thanks.

EmbattledWarrior said:

Oh is that the point you were making? I mistook you for another self-righteous Prince fan hater who joined the org to make generalizing, one-sided, pointless statements to piss people off....so sorry.

Flowerz said:

I don't know but there's more SEXY in that little curl of hair than Justin could ever hope and pray to possess. He needs to go back to imitating Michael Jackson and stay the hell out of the grown and sexy realm, he's got no place here!

Justin's a fool, mocking Janet for her poor chart placings. The same will happen to him one day - and sooner than it did with Janet. Silly pathetic little knob.

Justin is nothing but a punk ass motherfucker....exposing Janet's breast on a Super Bowl show,then trying to distance himself from her.He appeared at the Grammys a week later with his mother (!),trying to look all wholesome and innocent.Janet should have kicked his sorry ass!

SoulAlive said:

You know what? I'm sure Janet herself told Justin to be quiet so she could come up with her own version of what happened. She had many different positioning statements about the incident during that period.

CinisterCee said:

From the start,didn't she always say it was a "wardrobe malfunction"? And if she's right,this means that it was Justin's dumb ass who screwed up and exposed the titty.

SoulAlive said:

To this day I do not believe it was an accident.

CinisterCee said:

I don't know if it was an accident or not but Justin punked out,regardless.This is what Janet meant when she was on Oprah and said that "loyalty is important to her".

SoulAlive said:

But if she asked him to be quiet in the first place (which he did loyally), then she can spin the story however she wants, even with that statement.

CinisterCee said:

Except Justin has never been quiet about this. Whether going around at the Grammys with his mom and "apologizing" on stage or saying "We gave you what you really wanted" right after the performance, or mentioning that he thought the media may have given Janet a bad time because she was a woman, and, you know, "ethnic".

Janet basically refused to talk about the SB until Oprah, and she said that is the LAST time she will talk about it.
[Edited 12/1/06 7:17am]

VoicesCarry said:

CinisterCee said:

Regarding whether it was an accident or not:

1. I do not believe that Janet was stupid enough to believe that such an incident could have been anything but damaging to her career and legacy. She was coming off a very successful project (All For You) and had absolutely no reason to do it. But then Madonna had absolutely no reason to gross everyone out with Erotica, and yet..... Janet also had to know that as a black woman she would get much more flack than a white artist would have received. And the ridiculously disproportionate response pretty much confirmed it.

2. I think both their reactions when it happened were genuine. I think if anything was planned it was planned at the last minute and not in rehearsals, and I *do* think it went further than they wanted.

3. Timberlake tried to capitalize on it with his comments immediately after the incident, because he realized that it would cause a sensation, although at that point I don't think he envisioned the backlash. He implied that it was planned, but I don't believe anything that comes out of Timberlake's mouth and his behavior towards women (ex. I took Britney's virginity) has never inspired confidence in his statements.

4. Regardless, Janet's career for a lot of people is now reduced to a large joke and she will never live it down. While the guy goes on and has his biggest hits ever. Only in America.

VoicesCarry said:

That's the weirdest part, I don't think anyone even asked Justin about Superbowl when he was trying to promote FutureSex.

CinisterCee said:

It's not weird, really. He's a white dude

VoicesCarry said:

... with horrible tits!

In talent terms, Justin dissing Prince is like an anorexic picking a fight with an on form Mike Tyson. What a silly little prat! He's taking a leaf from Fiddy's book - even if Fiddy's an illiterate mofo.