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society has been dumbed down and has become desensitized to filth and obscenity... the so called Human Race is regressing

EmmaMcG said:

The only Prince songs I'd be embarrassed about are his rap songs. But that's only because they're awful 😂

Well there's that.

I can't listen to "Sister" on the regular. I like the live version from "Lovesexy" but otherwise it's creepy.

I would never listen to "Lady Cab Driver" in front of my mom, and that's the apex of purity next to Cardi B's "WAP".

I do indeed remember being embarrassed to listen to some Prince songs in front of my parents, but of course that was during a time when people actually had morals and showed their parents and others respect.

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I had to fight to listen to most anything, especially Prince. My mother hated Prince. HATED him. She didn't mind Michael Jackson too much, but she saw Prince as full on dangerous and unseemly. She tore posters off my walls and threatened to throw away every record. I hid them. She either didn't look under my bed, or didn't care on another level. But I had to hide listening to Prince, but I was never embarrassed or ashamed of it. I never strayed from loving everything I heard from Prince.

Our church did this whole anti-rock music thing one evening. They played "DMSR" and "Let's Pretend We're Married" while passing around the cover and sleeve. The church had an amazing sound system, so I was jamming out to both songs. "Notice the long intro. The beat is what gets 'em." As if kids are somehow hypnotized by a drum beat. (When exactly do children snap out of being hypnotized to being mindless oppressive church drones?) So that night, it was hell coming home from church. That's when the posters were torn down, etc.

Years later, I bought every one of those posters again on eBay, and told my mom about it. "Well, I don't know why." "Because they were mine to begin with, and they're mind to end with." One of them was the white window poster from 1984. I loved that poster, and have it framed now.

The irony is this: my mother died on April 21, 2012. Prince died on the same date 4 years later. I texted my brother that day and said, "imagine the look on mom's face when Prince showed up this morning." He said, "I thought the same thing."

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No way I would have played P in front of my Dad but I did play some Purple Rain when it came out at my Grand parents house. Of course, I was grown then.

alphastreet said:

Also, why is this on the music forum when it’s clearly a prince topic?

It's more precisely a WAP topic.

My mother doesn't speak nor she understands english so I got no problem,be that as it may, from time to time I do explain to her what some of his songs are about and she knows he's very sexually explicit and she's ok with that.

Nope, not me. They couldn't understand what he was saying, or the innuendo's.

Prince is for teenagers and adults who are still 28 years old (+body aging).

PKids shouldn't listen to Prince. Kids shouldn't listen to pop music, tbw.

If you are teenager and your superconservative father is ashamed of Prince, perhaps you should tell him "maybe I could teach you how to fuck, after all"...

My mom was a Prince fan almost as long as me(the beginning), so i never really had that problem. As far as WAP? i would never voluntarily listen to that song again, let alone play it for my mother, if she was still alive. WAP has zero value to me.

^I never thought a joke would get old so fast and so hard.

CynicKill said:

^I never thought a joke would get old so fast and so hard.

Agreed. It's not even interesting enough to be boring.

CynicKill said:

^I never thought a joke would get old so fast and so hard.

So true, agree 100%.

onlyforaminute said:

Embarrassed isn't the word. It was never discussed or known. However it was a pleasant surprise to find out decades later my aunt was into Prince and I got to take her to 2 Prince concerts which we enjoyed a lot.

RJOrion said:

society has been dumbed down and has become desensitized to filth and obscenity... the so called Human Race is regressing

That's exactely what my parents told me when i listened to prince!

you are getting old

Why is this in non Prince music?

nextedition said:

RJOrion said:

society has been dumbed down and has become desensitized to filth and obscenity... the so called Human Race is regressing

That's exactely what my parents told me when i listened to prince!

you are getting old

Every single fucking generation tells the same shit to the next one, nothing new here, he's getting old, too old for his own sake.

I don't have to hide my music heroes. I play them via Apple TV when the family gathers. It's good music.

nextedition said:

RJOrion said:

society has been dumbed down and has become desensitized to filth and obscenity... the so called Human Race is regressing

That's exactely what my parents told me when i listened to prince!

you are getting old

your parents were right, my parents were right. yes, we are all getting old. and Yes, humanity is regressing more and more as each decade passes....