Did /mu/ actually like Prince's music? His music specifically.
Before he died he was mentioned occasionally. Certainly not as loved as Bowie or whatever, but a few people definitely respected him. Probably the whole 'not allowing your music on the internet' thing ruined his popularity among young people.
After he died there have been a bunch of threads.
No. Like many popular things, Prince is a meme that people delude themselves into enjoying even though they actually don't/can't because it is not a manifestation of what is actually good in the slightest.
It's great. /mu/ generally have shitty taste though so don't expect people to understand him.
>>70358416
I love him
>>70358652
What the entire fuck is this shit? You should feel ashamed.
Extremely underrated guitatist.
>>70358416
yeah, up until the mid-'90s his stuff was top-notch. his death hit me just as hard as Bowie's, but that's because I'm from Minneapolis and he was such an integral part of our culture here; Bowie's death was more of a personal thing to me. there's still a little somberness here
>>70358416
I like a few of his mainstream songs, but other than that, he's pretty boring.
it's pretty depressing that he's basically only known for Purple Rain and that's it.
>>70358914
He's had lots of popular albums and songs, that's nor all he's known for, just the most famous.
Purple Rain (album) is essential - haven't heard anything else
>>70358914
>I Wanna Be Your Lover
>When You Were Mine
>1999
>Little Red Corvette
>Delirious
>When Doves Cry
>Let's Go Crazy
>Darling Nikki
>Raspberry Beret
>Pop Life
>Kiss
>Sometimes It Snows in April
>Sign o' the Times
>U Got the Look
>I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
>Alphabet St.
>Batdance
>Partyman
>Thieves in the Temple
>Round and Round
>Gett Off
>Diamonds and Pearls
>Money Don't Matter 2 Night
>7
>Letitgo
>The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
>I Hate U
yeah no one knows these songs that made the Top 30 on Billboard
>>70359096
>implying anyone knows half of those songs anymore
i'm not knocking those songs, but when was the last time you heard them on the radio.
is that a custom sized guitar? because prince was a midget and if that was a regular sized guitar it would make him look really small
>>70359110
they played Let's Go Crazy and Raspberry Beret the most when he died and When Doves Cry is his most famous song
>>70359110
Little Red Corvette and Raspberry Beret, all the fucking time. The others, not so much.
Sign of the Times is his best album.
>>70359229
>not Love Symbol
>>70359127
Probably
A bit unrelated but does this song sound like a Prince song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHsOEQtt3u4
>>70359127
telecasters are pretty small themselves
>>70359281
not really. they're longer than les pauls
>>70358416
He's a mixed bag but a musical renaissance man nonetheless.
>le cheesy falsetto pop rock
>good
>>70359446
>>70359270
yea , that's because it samples a prince song: http://www.whosampled.com/The-Dream/Fast-Car/
also, thanks for showing this song to me, it's really good!
>>70359491
Post one good Prince song. The only ones I've heard are just really camp overproduced typical 80s pop songs. I'm more than happy to be proven wrong.
>>70358416
Nah never really liked his stuff, seemed like too much of a homo. How can you listen to something like "Kiss" and not think it's some faggot shit.
When Michael Jackson died, I was devastated, he was a true icon and had the music in every era to back it up. I feel like Prince always tried too hard to push the idea that he was a genius and a legend, while his music was always cheesy bullshit. Way overrated
>>70358416
being dead serious. I'm 21 and have never listened to prince. I think he wrote that one song in happy feet tho
>>70359617
That was kinda his thing though, pushing the king popstar persona and being edgy just because he could.
Not a massive fan of his music but I can respect his career and influence. Unbelievably talented musician too.
Hell no and I'm sick of all this retrospective praise he's getting because he just died. My dad never said a thing about him our whole lives and now he says he's a better guitarist than Jimi, a better songwriter than Paul McCartney, and a better dancer than Michael. Like what the hell?
>>70358706
>You dare to have a differing opinion??
>have at you, good sir!!
>>70360011
Maybe your dad realizes you're old enough to stop being a fucking pleb and appreciate Prince now
>>70360011
I mean he's like seriously at least in the running for top 100 for all of those things.
>>70359229
>>70359240
>not Parade
>>70359096
Right up to I Could Never Take the Place this is phenomenal, after that it's mostly nothing
>>70358495
Prince has REM syndrome. Where Bowie in his post-worthwhile phase would disappear for a few years then come up with something half decent Prince put out a shitload of stuff in the 90s. He even published a full length album given away as a [conservative] newspaper promo in the UK. He destroyed the respect people had for im