PRINCE NEW YORKER ARTICLE FULL OF MISQUOTES!!!!
We were just sent this:
Prince did an interview with the New Yorker recently and it is CHOCK full of misquotes!!
The reporter was not allowed to use a tape recorder, and so paraphrased nearly everything.
We are told the parts about religion are especially misquoted.
Prince never said “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever and he just cleared it it out. He was like ‘enough’”. Those are the WRITERS words, not Prince’s.
Next time, there will be a tape recorder. (Eye roll)
We want to thank Prince’s people for clearing that up.-Dr.FB
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aaaaaaaaand here we go again!! (shakes head) If true.. the “reporter” really needs to take a good look in the mirror. Being in the man’s HOUSE and disrepect him like that..
DO NOT SUPPRORT PRINCE MUSIC!
PRINCE IS A HOMOPHOBE – WHO ONLY BELIVES THAT REUPBILCIANS ONLY WANT TO DO GOD’S WILL – WAKE UP PRINCE FANS AND STOP SUPPORTING ARTIST WHO HAVE NO LOVE 4 U OTHER THAN YOUR MONEY!!
DO NOT SUPPRORT PRINCE MUSIC!
hahah I’m so LMAO at this comment above. (ignore and moving on)
DO NOT SUPPRORT PRINCE MUSIC!
DO NOT SUPPRORT PRINCE MUSIC!
Read both sides before you judge.
The article does not seem well written and I am taking Prince’s word on this one.
The article sucked…I kinda wish the whole thing was misquoted!
Boycott Prince ???
Nah … I don’t think so, it’s just music. Prince is not GOD …
Just boycott the boycott lol.
DO NOT SUPPRORT PRINCE MUSIC!
well tell me if this Dr. Funkenberry is this also a misquote from Prince’s ex Paisley park artist Jill Jones -
JILL : No. I have not had any contact with Prince since 1992. I thought after my mother died in 1995 or even after my uncle died in 1997 (he was his hairdresser), he’d have sent condolences, but he never did. So I certainly was not going to expect to be invited to sing on his new master of 1999. (:
lol – i have no doubt that Prince said and meant everything in the New Yorker.. he could careless about his fans and since the revolution his music has been lifeless like his this interview!
boycottprince … Come on!!! So you didn’t like what you surmised from the article ….leave off raking over old coals when some one has no way of defending themselves.
who has no way of defending themselves?? surely Prince does, this is his site, duh!!
Defense from what?
Boycottprince … it ain’t all that … relax … it’s JUST music … I’d hope no one lives their life by P’s lyrics. Speaking as the resident Sunni Muslim and P Fam/Fan …
if it was just music then Prince “misquotes” wouldn’t be all over the news!!!
see if Prince was making good music instead of trying to make a good conversation this misquote would have never happened!
An article full of jibberish, nothing mentioned about music?? what’s was the purpose for the interview??
Knowing how Prince has been misquoted in the past, I’m taking this “interview” with a huge grain of salt!
Prince is a complete package, although the music is MY main concern…there is more 2 him than just his music…
Thank you for posting this clarification Doc.
It would be frustrating to be misquoted, as Prince was in this article.
This is soooo not Prince’s site. Wow.
Celeb news and gossip. Just because we cover him does not mean this is his site.
Its my site for celeb news and gossip. Man, some people.
Makes sense to me. The whole article seemed fishy from the jump. Thanks for clearing things up.
Boycott prince music? that’s the dumbest thing I have ever heard… I tell you what boycottprince, why don’t you and you only boycott his music that way it will be one less sale on Itunes that Prince himself is the least worried about and one less idiot the true fans have to deal with when he’s performing a concert that we’ve paid our good MONEY to see!!!
boycottprince whose your favorite artist??? hmmm let me see, David Archuleta? I know Britney Spears???? !!!!!!!
Privatejoy…a good one!
my how u stand corrected i’ve been down with Price since 83, the age of 10, i’ve supported him, the revolution, the paisely park records even the whack souinds of good question and 3 o clock, traveled at time state to see him perform, bought bootlegs etc, so i’m not a new comer..
my money has value and if some of you would get your head out your ass you would see how much he doesnt care about you, just your dollar, he doesn’t care to put out quality music and promote it, he doesn’t care to play concerts for you unless you spend crazy money to get in or if your a celebrity.. so why should i care, one less satisfied fan will lead to many unsatisfied fans, my eyes have been opened, my ears have heard his truth.. and i no longer wish to contribute to his success or any other artist who dont’ respect their fans..
can you tell me what was the purpose pf the article.. did he even talk about music, or promote his book? i like it better when Prince talked thru his music, at least there was room for interpretation…
The purpose of the article Mr Boycott is for him to deliberately piss you off–> I see he succeeded
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… good 1 rockalicious … LoL …
Dear Prince: Fan’s Response 2 the New Yorker interview
As much as we love him/his musical genius, many of us aren’t so high on the purple kool-aid to not know that Prince has said and done some bizarre–or even messed up–things over the years… If what the reporter in the “New Yorker” magazine interview has quoted him as saying is true… he could lose a huge part of his fan base — and income.
I’d like to invite you to read an open letter to Prince from one of the fans who would like (and, I think, deserves) an explanation… some clarification on what he actually, truly said that day to the reporter. Not from his “people,” but from Prince’s own lips.
http://gascot.blogspot.com/2008/11/dear-prince.html
Pass it on if you like..
~ PT
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mmm from Prince’s own lips…that visual made me stop paying attention to the rant. In my mind it’s simple. Music is the voice of Source/Great Spirit/Godhead/One Energy/Unifying Force what ever you want to call a concept that is beyond the laws of this space and time. Religions are institutions that enforce the laws of man by using acceptance and companionship as the carrot and fear of supernatural retaliation as the stick. They are tools used to control, to instill fear, to extrude obedience and money. ProFITeers restrict people with laws and belittle them with shame and judgment. The unadulterated mission of the prophets of every era of every doctrine has simple been to encourage people to have love for one another, end of story. (Most religious people read/listen/sing between the lines accept what makes sense and have full happy lives) Pure honest love. Just love. Only our spatial selves are separate for a heart beat in time. Our true selves will always be one. It is our spatial selves that get to complicate things and embrace fear and agonize about being separate. When we can witness things from the point of view of our true selves and realize that our spatial self is just going through some crap right now life is much more fun. I think that is what witness was originally referring to, I bet it had nothing to do with knocking on doors (of course if Prince knocked on my door…). I bet it had everything to do with getting to a point in your own personal development where you can witness the world from your true self the eternal part of you that is one with all else. From your true self that is one with all you could calmly sit back a witness the interactions of the part of you that has been sent here to grow, experience and explore the timebound and spacebound aspects of being. Prince has never stagnated in any one spot for long he is always experiencing, growing and making music. He does not owe us an explaination or anything else for that matter. I decided I loved him when I was a little girl and I will stand by that decision no matter what (sorry I can’t join your boycott – but I sympathize with your pain and I understand your longing to see him speaking out for the right to live completely free)
OMG…1st of all, Boycott…I’m with you and I totally agree with most of what you’ve said, but…man…calm down. There’s life besides Prince. He is not the be all end all.
And April….you either 1) need to find a life 2) take some kind of daily medication or 3) are 13 years old.
I can picture him saying that sticking it wherever sentence and then being embarrassed after the fact and trying to go back and say it was a misquote…I would…..but either way, who cares??? I’ll just go on listening and dancing to my Prince oldies, reminisce about JoeyandBoss ; ) while he’s knocking on doors preaching and eating his carrot soup. That’s the Prince I’ll hold onto.
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