Comments on: Oooh yeah, Prince rules! http://paulaitken.com/2007/02/05/oooh-yeah-prince-rules/ the website of paul aitken, guitarist - improviser - scholar Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:04:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: basil chiasson http://paulaitken.com/2007/02/05/oooh-yeah-prince-rules/#comment-16 basil chiasson Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:03:40 +0000 http://www.paulaitken.com/?p=10#comment-16 'Prince and American Football' At the risk of revealing my intense obsession with Prince, i have been considering the previous poster's remark re 'the half time phallus controversy' in conjunction with past superbowl performances--such as the infamous Jackson/Timberlake collaboration. I think we ought to ask the following: are the Jackson tit and the Prince phallus all bought and sold... and, moreover, is the resultant social and moral turbulence accomodated within the half-time budget? You know i used to play football and this just comes up more and more disapointing. ‘Prince and American Football’

At the risk of revealing my intense obsession with Prince, i have been considering the previous poster’s remark re ‘the half time phallus controversy’ in conjunction with past superbowl performances–such as the infamous Jackson/Timberlake collaboration. I think we ought to ask the following: are the Jackson tit and the Prince phallus all bought and sold… and, moreover, is the resultant social and moral turbulence accomodated within the half-time budget? You know i used to play football and this just comes up more and more disapointing.

]]> By: basil chiasson http://paulaitken.com/2007/02/05/oooh-yeah-prince-rules/#comment-14 basil chiasson Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:44:51 +0000 http://www.paulaitken.com/?p=10#comment-14 prince, you really treat a guitar like it oughtta be treated. You know, there's alot of people on whom we can turn our backs for 'phallusising' the guitar, but i ask: does Prince not own it? i don't even have the right to put it to you as a question. i often lose track of where i am as i rewind and rewatch him do it in god knows how many ways in god knows how many videos... well maybe not that many videos. and i don't think he does it in 'little red corvette'. have i mentioned that that's my fav? prince, you really treat a guitar like it oughtta be treated. You know, there’s alot of people on whom we can turn our backs for ‘phallusising’ the guitar, but i ask: does Prince not own it? i don’t even have the right to put it to you as a question. i often lose track of where i am as i rewind and rewatch him do it in god knows how many ways in god knows how many videos… well maybe not that many videos. and i don’t think he does it in ‘little red corvette’. have i mentioned that that’s my fav?

]]> By: Susan http://paulaitken.com/2007/02/05/oooh-yeah-prince-rules/#comment-15 Susan Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:29:28 +0000 http://www.paulaitken.com/?p=10#comment-15 Did you read the controversy over the 'symbolism' in Prince's performance? Evidently a little "guitar as phallus" doesn't go over well when shadowcast on a fifty foot rippling curtain. Ah Prince....way to give it to 'em with one hand and take the cash with the other. Did you read the controversy over the ’symbolism’ in Prince’s performance? Evidently a little “guitar as phallus” doesn’t go over well when shadowcast on a fifty foot rippling curtain. Ah Prince….way to give it to ‘em with one hand and take the cash with the other.

]]> By: basil chiasson http://paulaitken.com/2007/02/05/oooh-yeah-prince-rules/#comment-13 basil chiasson Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:34:04 +0000 http://www.paulaitken.com/?p=10#comment-13 'well i guess i should of known, by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn't last. but you're the kind of girl, who believes in making out once, love em' and leave em' fast. I guess i must be dumb, she had a pocket full of horses, trojan and some of em' used'. who the hell can get away with singing this kind of shit? it's so bad... yet so good. i think that what's 'refreshing' aboout Prince at the superbowl is that he just takes their money and then does his best Jimmy Hendrix for a crowd that i suspect might prefer a little more Shania. Awww hell, i don't know what a superbowl crowd prefers. have i read you my latest favorite poem? It's actually called American Football. Not much to do with Prince unfortunately. b. ‘well i guess i should of known,
by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn’t last.
but you’re the kind of girl,
who believes in making out once,
love em’ and leave em’ fast.
I guess i must be dumb,
she had a pocket full of horses,
trojan and some of em’ used’.

who the hell can get away with singing this kind of shit? it’s so bad… yet so good.

i think that what’s ‘refreshing’ aboout Prince at the superbowl is that he just takes their money and then does his best Jimmy Hendrix for a crowd that i suspect might prefer a little more Shania. Awww hell, i don’t know what a superbowl crowd prefers. have i read you my latest favorite poem? It’s actually called American Football. Not much to do with Prince unfortunately.
b.

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