{"id":188,"date":"2016-04-21T19:12:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smellthepowerglove.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2017-02-10T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:22:01","slug":"188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smellthepowerglove.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"RIP Prince (1958-2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The world is a little less funky today.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Based on the amount of people who have been contacting me today about the news, I must be a known Prince fan.<\/div>\n
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9 year old me adored the Batman (1989) soundtrack, even though at the time that’s all I knew of him. I still grin ear to ear when I see Joker cue one of his henchmen to throw on some Prince while they deface the museum in that movie. My eventual love for Prince came later.<\/div>\n
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Prince was pure fucking talent, which came hand in hand with\u00a0its share of eccentricities. The man was so prolific that I haven’t heard his entire published\u00a0catalog yet, and I’m sure a substantial amount of what has been released\u00a0was for his own pure amusement. I swear some of his songs are jokes we just don’t get, but I’m sure they kept Prince giggling behind some purple velvet curtains.<\/div>\n
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Whole tours where you only perform instrumentals and no hits? Concert venues announced two days in advance? Three shows in one night? Who does that?! Prince.<\/div>\n
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Due to his YouTube allergies and his on-again-off again relationship with social media, I think the bulk of his fanbase are old fans. Which is a real shame. Maybe the mystery was worth more than the album sales to him, and it’s not like he had trouble selling out venues.<\/div>\n
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I’ll leave you now with a few photos. You’ll see my Prince costume from 2009 and the Prince\/Chappelle pin I currently wear on my winter coat. You’ll also see a grainy photo of the Prince symbol stage from when I saw him in 2011 in Montreal. That concert was drenched in funkiness, and it was an all out dance party. I’ll post a few videos in the comments too, but who knows if I’ll find working clips or ones that will stick around for very long.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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