Many of y'all parents didn't like Prince,remember?

Actually,it was my mother who went out and bought a Prince album when I didn't even know who he was She had been raving about a song called "Still Waiting" that she had heard at a friend's house.A few days later,she bought the record.

Spinlight said:

That comes with age. Many of y'alls parents didn't like Prince, remember? You're showing your age!

You're wrong. My mother brought Purple Rain home, and my own grandmother took us to see it. I wasn't a big fan of Prince because I considered him "girly" (though I did love "Lady Cab Driver"). I played that record out until ATWIAD came out, then I played that one out, I became a profit center for Paisley Park, and the rest is history.

I think my mother bought into PR because Prince's music came from the same musical tree of the sixties and seventies -- Sly, Stevie, Jimi -- the music of my parents' teens and twenties. And Prince was a 70's artist, too.

Which brings me to why you're RIGHT on the age issue. Today's pop music -- and I'm including R&B and hip-hop in that -- has less in common with the music of my youth than say Prince or MJ or big acts of the late 70's and 80's did with my parents' youth. We often get set in our ways from a musical standpoint, often exploring backward rather than forward. I had to really free my mind -- and learn more, thanks to the Net and the Org -- to break out of that.