The Purple One
I went to see Prince a couple nights ago, and am still reeling from the pure joy of seeing such an icon (sometimes, literally an icon) of modern music. Even if my seats were a little far back and he looked approximately an inch tall. He had more costume changes than J.Lo, danced like James Brown, and was more than gracious when he discovered through the invitation of many young ladies onstage that Seattle women can NOT dance (or manage to clap on the 2 and 4). Except for the blond girl, who whipped her hair around like a stripper and was wearing hot pink vinyl and a boa (but even SHE couldn't keep the beat). And Maceo Parker was in the band! The Musicology Tour is wonderful, I highly recommend it to anyone within the tour range - over two hours of pure Prince and the band, playing new and old and even a couple funk/r&b covers.And he invents new uses for the English language. Example: In the most recent Prince-speak, there is a replacement for the ever-popular "Represent!"
(common usage: "Human Resources Department, represent!")
His version? "ANOINT!"
(Prince usage: "You guys hear this band? Anoint!")
Learn it, love it, spread the strangeness
Another great bizarre thing Prince did during last night's concert was to riff during his acoustic guitar-playing section about some "rules" he wanted to tell us ladies. He instructed the men that if they wanted us ladies to listen, all they had to do was "pour a little sugar" on the instructions and we'd follow along (sugar of course was characterized by blazing guitar work and a few strategically raised eyebrows).
The rules were:
1) Learn how to work the toilet seat (a.k.a. put it down)
2) Sunday afternoons (after church) are for sports, don't try and take the men shopping (this was followed by a howling song about not wanting to go shopping)("I DON'T WANT TO GOOOOO-OOOO")
3) If you have a headache for more than 17 months, go see a doctor because something is wrong with you ("Men, you know what I mean")
4) "Yes" and "No" are perfectly good answers to any question
5) If you want your problem fixed, talk to the man. If you want sympathy, talk to "one of yah BIG-MOUTHED girlfriens" (he seemed legitimately pissy when saying this, then quickly switched back to sugar mode)
6) Only talk to men during commercials
I think there may have been more, all mixed in with solos and adorable smirks towards whichever of the 20 cameras were pointing his direction, but I was laughing too hard to catch the whole list. Then he capped off his Maxim advice column by admitting that he was probably going to sleep on the couch that night, but it was okay 'cause "I just pretend I'm camping".
He wears 3" flamenco heels and more makeup than three normal women.
PRINCE DOES NOT CAMP.
posted by LadyJay @ 8:00 AM
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