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| I'll admit it, Prince: I do relate. |
| 02.26.04 (10:01 pm) [edit] |
I just saw Prince on Jay Leno, and even though he didn't hump anything, even though he didn't do that doing-the-splits-while-pl aying-guitar thing he does, even if his pants did have an ass on them...I'm excited. Why I am I excited? Where to begin? He's releasing a new record. Judging by the track he played on Leno, that record is going to be heavily influenced by old funk and soul (this song was James Brown-ified right down to the Hot Pants reference and Maceo Parker solo). Supposedly he was in the studio with his old partners/arch-enemies Wendy and Lisa. AND he's going on tour...even hitting Detroit by the end of the summer! I am, and this is no hyperbole, [i]thrilled[/i]. Seeing as I'm still smack dab in the middle of my ravenous Prince fan period, this is the best thing I've heard since the Pixies reunion.
Now, needless to say, I still have a grip on reality. The song he played tonight was catchy and funky, but it was no Kiss or Let's Pretend We're Married. It was more of a Sexy Motherfucker...in fact, when they first started playing, I thought it [i]was[/i] Sexy Motherfucker, and that's probably not even in my Top 20 Prince songs. And again, he didn't hump anything...worse still, he announced his new tour as a "family show," which means I probably won't ever get to see him hump anything again without the aid of my [i]Purple Rain[/i] DVD. But let's cut him some slack: for a guy who's spent the last year or so more famous for his door-to-door Jehovah's Witnessing than for his music, that was a damn good performance. He danced, he shrieked, he threw his guitar, he wore an asymmetrical gold jacket and high-heeled boots...he's still got it.
And I'm excited: for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, the new record and the tour (he says it's his last, but it's never the last when they say it is...I'm not missing it, anyway). Watching Prince put in even a merely solid performance like this one, 25 years into his career, makes me wonder why the hell somebody like Michael Jackson, who was never as talented as Prince in the first place and then proceeded to dry up a good five years before Prince supposedly did, is getting all these accolades and Prince is considered a has-been. Just compare the two of them...I'm not even talking about the whole child-molesting thing. Prince is a fucking musical genius and a brilliant performer, and the fact that he's not recognized as such when people like Jackson are just proves that mainstream music is all about money and politics. Oh, well. Enough of this belly-aching. I'm getting on Ticketmaster to see if there's any information about this tour...I can't wait to see Prince live!!
Listening to: Erotic City by...you know.
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