The Artist Known as Prince

[Mark Kohut]

http://hyperallergic.com/293082/the-most-beautiful-subway-station-in-the-world-nyc-pays-tribute-to-prince/

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:04 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2016/04/dead-prince.html
>
> "Little Red Corvette" was the first song I listened to non-stop, the first
> Prince song I told others that they had to hear. Sure, you could get sick
> of "1999" or mock it (although it's got one of the funkiest grooves in
> music), but the slow thigh-thrust of the synths at the beginning of "Little
> Red Corvette" hit something deep and primal. After that, we'd talk about
> how crazy sexual Prince was, with songs like "Jack U Off" and its
> gender-neutral use of that phrase, and the winking subversiveness of
> "Sister," calculated to fuck with the tight-assed crowd. Sample lyric: "My
> sister never made love to anyone else but me/She's the reason for my, uh,
> sexuality." That's hilarious, and if you didn't know that, the joke was you.
>
> and
>
> The song "Come" is an ode to pussy-eating, encouraging women to want to
> fuck, too. In Reagan's America, that shit was practically treasonous. If
> you were old enough to fuck in the 1980s, at some point, you either fucked
> to Prince songs or with Prince's music in the back of your mind,
> controlling the rhythm of your sex.
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You know what? Purple Rain is incredible, and I can't stop thinking
>> about Prince - like, memories of his work keep coming at me in waves,
>> breaking in sadness on the Heideggerian shores of Dasein - but I can't
>> help but think he would have wanted his fans to remember him, at least
>> in part, as the sexy motherfucker he presents himself as in the video
>> for KISS.
>>
>> Go. Watch and enjoy.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_54PiPluXvU
>>
>> See what I mean? So playful and comic, too. Great timing in all things.
>>
>> He was a tiny Dionysus, a sophisto version of the Great God Pan.
>>
>> Fuck, the man was a giant.
>>
>> Jerky
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:31 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cdyy_sinead-o-connor-nothing-compares-2_music
>> >
>> > This has always blown me away.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> nice catch!
>> >>
>> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>> >>
>> >> > On Apr 24, 2016, at 11:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > <image.png>
>> >> >
>> >> > Male, female, & HORN!
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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