DO YOU think the media’s fixation with the repulsive Prince is just interest? We’re even told he was a conservative Christian.

I can’t even bear to look at his face. Prince was another dark angel in the dark underworld foisted upon us on screens everywhere.

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Mark B. writes:

Never a fan of the guy. Found his persona off putting. An androgenous, dirty minded, mulatto runt who was more a sex addict than any kind of real man. As a musician, his musicianship never impressed me.

The whole – he played all the instruments what a genius he must be – was a huge hype. Funk, for one thing, is really easy as a genre to play all the parts. Same with rock.

If a guy can play like Segovia or McGlaughlin and then go to the piano and play like Gould or Van Cliburn, and then play bass like Chris White, and drums like Buddy Rich that would be impressive.

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Prince was not a great musician. He was a facile and rather glib one working in genres that aren’t that hard to master or seem to be good at. As a singer, not as good as Michael Jackson who was not as good as countless others before him.

Prince was a c**t hound who got lucky with a skill set, energy, ambition, and the smarts to imitate the idea of black entertainer in the tradition of Little Richard, James Brown, and Jimi Hendrix. He was a pretty soulless, bizarre, and pathetic character. A cypher to himself, no doubt, and at last, a junkie, it appears.

Neil P. writes:

Don’t know much about the guy. It seems like he had more musical talent than today’s “rappers.”

Merle Haggard passed away recently.  He was a “conservative Christian” by today’s standard’s, not that the media cared.

 John P. writes:

While I agree that Prince’s death garnered far more media attention than it warranted I think you’ve been a bit unfair in your judgement of him as a human being. He was by all accounts a very approachable, down-to-earth sort of person who was also generous with his time and attention toward new artists regardless of what he could gain from it. He was not an egomaniac as so many entertainers are and never trashed hotels or made trouble when on tour. Like his music or not he doesn’t sound like such a bad sort to me.

Laura writes:

I don’t know what his being nice and down-to-earth (a line endlessly promoted by the media in its nauseating coverage of his death) has to do with his celebration of androgyny and sexual perversion.

Perverts can be nice, you know.

Paul C. writes:

You hit the nail on the head yet again.  To the rare extent I have listened to his movements, I have no clue why people think he is anything more than me, a musical non-artist.  Almost everyone on YouTube is better than him.

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