Prince's First Ever Television Interview - MTV 1985 Reaction
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I was 11 when it came out. My older siblings /brothers and sisters been jamming to Prince since day 1. I couldn't draw the line between cinema and reality because it seemed like he was telling his story. All we knew is it was funky and he had the finest women in his camp. All
Of them white black or mixed race. He was essenteic. Like Lil Richard and the threads threw me but when houbused to listening to music and not watching it (video killed the radio star ) …it hits different. He is missed and worth his weight in stardust💟💜
It's funny how Prince was perceived to be a jerk for not attending We are the world but in today's time if Rihanna can't make a charity event but gives money to said charity event, no one would care. I think it was very egotistical to force someone to be a part of an event that they're uncomfortable in. Prince donated to we are the world & gave a song for the event, that's good enough. Every musician works differently and Prince clearly had anxiety for those kinds of things. Also i'm going to be honest we are the world is a terrible, cheesy song in my opinion. It is a beautiful event tho but the song isn't great and even Cindy Lauper said publicly that she couldn't stand that song & she knows many artists who attended that event, who disliked the song as well. What's also even stranger is that Quincy, Mike & Lionel had Prince singing Huey Lewis's part, which is odd because if you listen to Huey's part, it certainly was a weird range for Prince to sing in. Which makes me think MJ was trying to set Prince up for failure.
Also Quincy due to his ego would bad mouth Prince after he didn't attend the song. All the receipts are out there if you search Quincy Jones on Prince he would talk bad about him all the time. Called him an average piano player etc. because he was mad about that. Lionel Richie even lied on Prince on the Jimmy Kimmel show, stating that Prince only didn't attend WATW because he was supposed to sit next to MJ. Which is CAP, we know the real reason why. So i can totally see why Prince was bittersweet after that & even makes sense that famous video of Prince on stage during we are the world not singing, suckin on a lollipop and you see Quincy try to put the lollipop in his own mouth. Super sus btw lmao, especially for someone talkin ish behind your back all the time. I just think Lionel, MJ & Quincy had big ego's and got offended when Prince didn't attend. Also i'm glad Prince turned down BAD, that was such a corny idea lol.
You are filled with jealousy just like Prince, sorry he's dead but what are you commenting.??
All these Prince fans are just full of jealousy
Under the Cherry Moon is so much better than Purple Rain...in the sense that it's so campy and terrible but so so good. 😂😂😂 In the raw footage of this interview, he talks more about the USA for Africa project and how the song "Hello" was about his experience with that whole thing. You should check out Prince's full interview with Tavis Smiley from 2009. He talks a lot about his childhood and is much more comfortable sitting and talking with a friend later in his career. I'll reply to this comment with a link, but sometimes youtube blocks comments with links. 🙃
ruclips.net/video/FqtaKUm5c7M/видео.html - All of Prince's interviews with Tavis are phenomenal, but this is one of the best. :)
I LOVE UTCM! It’s my favorite P film. I love the campy-ness and you can tell it’s all P humor! The bat scene was real… Jerome and P really had that experience! 😆
The movie was perceived as autobiographical, but as Prince explains, he didn't write the movie; it wasn't about his life, he says.
“I just wanna be loved, Water!”
Purple Rain, the movie ,was a huge hit when it was released and received some pretty good reviews; Both Siskel and Ebert, probably the two most powerful critics at the time, gave it two thumbs up. What Prince was responding to was the domestic violence storyline in Purple Rain. That, and Morris Day's treatment of women in the film, was the main criticism.
Prince released a track called Hello that is about not doing We Are The World
This is not his first TV interview. His first was in 1979 on American Bandstand
There's a clip from a local news station of them interviewing Prince when he was like 12 years old. It was discovered about 5 years ago in the news stations archives that they made public. It had nothing to do with music.
Even at this time MJ was still higher than Prince.
More AMA’s for Thriller
More Grammy’s for Thriller
Both great don’t get me wrong but if you break it down MJ wins.
Prince seems like he's a hyperactive child in the presence of his overly strict father. It's like he starts to get worked up but then catches himself before he does 😂😂
He kept to that statement about living in a small town. He stayed in his hometown as his main home
The accusations levelled at Prince that he was a sellout were real. That he had left his black roots. That's why Prince recorded The Black Album as reply to some critics that his music wasn't 'black' enough.
That was bullshit how did he sell out at the time And Rock music belonged to us so that's a lie those that felt that way never did deep dives
What Do me Baby way 1981 78 was Soft and Wet
And yet no one says anything when they (the powers that be tried to create the White Man's Purple Rain called Hard to Hold Featuring Rick Springfield
You should do a reaction to his interview with Tavis Smiley on bet back in 98 as well.
bet ima check it out!!!!
This was not his first interview it the first time he Answered questions Without Freezing up
Did he sell out to the white audience? it wasn't that people thought he "sold out", they noticed that by the time 1999 came out his music, and concert audiences, became more and more white. The Time on the other hand hand the funkier and more RnB albums which is why most black audience members would leave the show after The Time performed. Former Prince guitarist Deb Dickerson remembers the tour staff keeping count of the audience demographic on the 1999 Tour and with each show the white demographic got greater and greater, this was because Prince did in fact want the audience to reflect the MTV/white American teen demographic. It was his plan in a way, Purple Rain was not by any means an album for black America and neither was Around The World In A Day but, you can hear black elements in it. He didn't try to shed or hide his blackness, he understood how blackness was treated and if he wanted to progress any further he had to steer clear of anything that could lump him into the "Black" box.
I'm a Black 65 year old and back in the day, we listened to some of every thing...Frampton, Led Zeppelin, Ohio Players, Sly and the Family Stone, etc.
check out the MTV purple rain movie premiere
If he didn't write Purple Rain, who did, cuz they should be the ones praised
Oh yea! It was a real thing… a lot of the black people didnt Get Prince and since it wasn’t R&B it wasn’t as accepted and Prince was on the fringe…. He wasn’t mainstreams in R&B or Rock genres. People
Didn’t know what to do with him.
I think purple rain, along with the movie, made black people accept him more. I know it did with me.
That's not true. Black people knew he was eccentric like Bootsy Collins etc and that he wanted to be more mainstream. Black poeple did get Prince and loved his music. It was white people who didn't get him because they couldn't stereotype him. He was a huge pop artist. So they had to play his videos on MTV and in those days MTV didn't like to show any black artists on their channel. Michael Jackson and Prince were the first black artists they showed on MTV. Before that Herbie Hancock had to make a music video where he couldn't be seen before MTV would play it.
I don't get "shy" from Prince; he's more introverted or a talk-on-his-own-terms type of person.
Oh yea! It was thing… a lot of the black people didnt Get Prince and since it wasn’t R&B it wasn’t as accepted and Prince was on the fringe…. He wasn’t mainstreams in R&B or Rock genres. People
Didn’t know what to do with him.