prince

Nile Rodgers is saying it's true. and the associated press is calling it.

citing a publicist

it's true.

jesus christ.

this is crazy
i can't believe it

nooooo

and I had just introduced my son to Batdance

I am having a mental block -- I'm not even sad yet because it seems impossible. No way. No way no way no way.

Singer Prince has died at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota at the age of 57, his publicist tells AP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36106778?post_id=100007815545246_1721788461424989#_=_

As i just said on the obituary thread, I feel like I got punched in the solar plexus. Like I'm about to cry and throw up at the same time. This doesn't seem possible.

I just, still getting over Bowie

i really can't with this

fuck 2016

I wonder how far, if at all, he got with that memoir.

This feels so unreal

Incomprehensible. Only 57. This is horrible.

The year the music died.

unbelievable

don't put RIP on this thread

Had to go in the bathroom at work where I am currently bawling

don't put RIP on this thread

― nomar, Thursday, April 21, 2016 1:23 PM

^^

HEY

like i can't even put the music on right now
i almost certainly spent more time with this guy than with with any of my actual friends.

don't put RIP on this thread

― nomar, Thursday, April 21, 2016 1:23 PM

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius)

Don't do it

whoever did it UNDO IT

Thread Title Edit request

what the fuck

No.

why do you guys want to remove the rip?

because Prince can't ever really die. (no sarcasm, whatsoever)

got a lot of strength from PRINCE's music. helped make life better.

thinking about the first time I saw the video for Little Red Corvette, the first time I heard Darling Nikki and my next door neighbor friend's older sister explained what "grinding" was, picking out "Starfish and Coffee" on the piano as a kid and years later playing it at some uber-rich friend's Halloween part on a big white grand piano, my girlfriend/future wife's extensive collage of Prince posters/ephemera in her walk-in closet wall

fuck

so gutted

i think having a separate thread to mourn, as we did with Bowie, is the best solution, so i started one.

i feel like i'm going to vomit, like i'm surrounded by ppl stabbing me or beating me w/ clubs. i had the weirdest feeling about this, there was the illness and this year, but i shrugged it off. i've listened to prince more than anyone else in my life and it's not close. i loved him as a fanatic and as a nerd and then in a more casual way like breathing. his music is a part of me in a much more concrete way than anyone else's. every second just feels like i'm learning it again, just a shock wave after shock wave. i loved that man so much.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-bowl/0ap3000000633788/Prince-rocks-out-Super-Bowl-XLI-halftime-show

xps because if we keep doing this every single artist's thread will have RIP after it.

use a separate thread IMO (like the one Morbs just made)

^^^

removed the rip. not sure who put it in there but I'm sure it was only with the best of intentions.

Balls otm
I cannot begin to articulate how important prince is to me
This is intolerable

go here: Prince RIP

Did that party at Paisley Park take place night? I knew there was on scheduled. This is unreal. RIP

When he was hospitalized with the flu I had this thought 'what if he is like Jim Henson and won't slow down and stop working to recuperate'

Prince in the "Batdance" video, the assless pants dance on the MTV awards, audio taping half of my collection for an old lover while my new lover disapprovingly watched, dancing across college campus to "Pope", blowing fifty dollars on my first boot, watching bad "Kiss" karaoke, wearing a 0+-> earring in high school and having it ripped out in a fight, being overjoyed to discover that my new dorm room was #319, shaving lightning bolts into my goatee after seeing the "Slave" portrait, crying over "Another Lonely Christmas" after my girl left me, having my first doubts after buying the 1999 Remix CD, digging through piles of thousands of cassingles looking for "Cream" and the "Horny Pony" B-sides, fingering an until-then platonic high school girlfriend at her house while we were both listening to the Diamonds and Pearls album, exploring Prince bulletin boards in a pre-google greenscreen internet, loudly shouting the words to "Billy Jack Bitch" out the window of a moving van on the way to Queens, asking my folks for the "Hits and Bsides" box for Xmas (didn't get it), discussing the grammatic disorder of "Darling Nikki" with a flirty man at a bar, meticulously practicing the accompanying sign language for I WOULD DIE 4 U, falling in the shower while jumping up and down to "Housequake", spending two days unsuccessfully P2P hunting for the extended version of "Shockadellica", "what the fuck is Kirstie Allie doing on this?", ecstasy when I found the Prince Interactive CDRom in the remainder bin (where'd I put that damn thing?), lost in the suburbs for hours looking for a party with "A Love Bizarre" playing on the Walkman, going through a brief period in which all email communication of "you" was spelled U and "for" spelled "4", numerous frustrating redneck confrontations over a mostly naked Prince Parade-era Tshirt, calling for a taxi in New York while listening to "All the Critics Love You In New York" just as Prince yelled "Taxi!", bargaining a copy of the "Bright Lights, Big City" OST off of a friend in exchange for my stolen Fu-Schnickens CD (so worth it), a few years in the mid nineties where all first dates would begin with the litmus: "So do you like The Simpsons? Do you like Prince?"

my first kiss was to "Erotic City"

http://www.thecurrent.org/listen

Thank u for that list <3

nice list <3

was your first sex to "kiss"?

funny you mention it but the first time i got head was on a bed with the parade poster hung on the ceiling

funny you mention it but the first time i got head was on a bed with the parade poster hung on the ceiling

dirty mind poster would have been more appropriate but i'll let it go