I kinda feel bad

[aitm]

But….I never thought Prince was all that good.

[PickelledEggs]

But….I never thought Prince was all that good.

HAHAHAHA

[PickelledEggs]

In your defense, I am on the same page.

Also, in your defense, it seems like no one talked about prince for a good... almost 10 years, until his death this past week. All of a sudden they are all his biggest fans.

[_Xenu_]

In your defense, I am on the same page.

Also, in your defense, it seems like no one talked about prince for a good... almost 10 years, until his death this past week. All of a sudden they are all his biggest fans.

Same thing with Michael Jackson. He was the butt of late night comedy jokes for years, but he dies and suddenly people start glorifying him.

[Hydra009]

Also, in your defense, it seems like no one talked about prince for a good... almost 10 years, until his death this past week. All of a sudden they are all his biggest fans.

Chappelle's show did really popular bit about him, he also played at the Super Bowl in 2007 and made it into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2010.  He wasn't as huge as he was, but he was still playing shows.  Not bad, all things considered.

[SGOS]

I'm sure I've heard him play and sing something, but I can't remember that I did.  But still, that's too bad that he died, and fairly young too.

[Baruch]

America is jealous of China and Russia ... we want to put our dead celebrities into glass cases like Lenin and Mao.

[Johan]

But….I never thought Prince was all that good.

Neither was Elvis and we all know how that went.

Actually, you're kind of right. For a non-musician or someone who wasn't otherwise a dedicated fan, Prince was not by most measures all that good i.e. popular. But here's why. He didn't have to be.

He had some early minor success at a very young age. And at the exact right time, he did Purple Rain which made him a metric shit ton of money. And that allowed him the luxury of being able to put out whatever the fuck he wanted to put out for the rest of his life. He didn't have to do Purple Rain II and he didn't. Now it very true that lots of other acts have been in that same position and still put out lots of other easily accessible (i.e. popular) material over the course of their careers. But he didn't have to and he didn't. However just because it didn't get air play doesn't mean it wasn't good and it was. Tons of it. Springsteen is an icon, but he's put out some world class stinking shit piles over the years. Prince was truly a master. Not exactly hugely popular over time, but a master none the less. People like Joe Jackson will probably be regarded in similar fashion when they go.

[Hydra009]

I never particularly liked most of Prince's music, but he has this one really catchy song:

"Purple rain, all in my brain
Lately things they don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
Excuse me while I kiss the sky"

<-- may or may not be Wolf Blitzer

[Shukhov]

Prince? Don't know, don't care.

[Solomon Zorn]

I never listened to him either, but I hear he was a pretty talented guitar player, in addition to writing songs for a lot of other artists.

[Mike Cl]

From what I heard, he has enough unpublished stuff to make another 100 albums or so.  I guess he would go on long stretches where he recorded a new song or two every day.  Not too bad for a JW.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Time to piss off the little lady when I tell her that I could fucking care less about dead celebrities.  They're famous so we should all go into mourning for x days?
That said I'll be sure to sob uncontrolably into my pillow over the passing of prince just as soon as an airplane flies over and drops a million dollars in my front yard..

[FaithIsFilth]

Never cared for his music either.

[Draconic Aiur]

listened to some of his music slept through it