"Prince's Super Bowl prancing was downright pornographic!"

[Bluebear]

Prince's Super Bowl prancing was downright pornographic

Dear Editor, I watched the Super Bowl Sunday night and awaited the halftime with expectation.

What? Prince?

It was raining, his group sang, danced frenetically and the Number One Marching Band was barely shown.

But Prince ... It was his last number. He took his fancy guitar, the one with the weird shape. Then a curtain went up to show his silhouette. Did people miss it? The camera proceeded to show his "tail" sticking out a la devil from his behind.

Oh wait, that's not enough.

Then he turned the guitar around to show off a frontal view resembling a big, how can I say it delicately, phallic devilish symbol. Then the curtain came down, he ended it with an evil look of I did it and got away with it, what are you going to do about it?

Morality? Primetime entertainment for all! I don't think so. The powers that be should realize that this is not just adult entertainment. It is for all ages. We have enough junk out there. How about some respect and better screening? This was not wardrobe malfunction but done intentionally.

Yvonne Harrell

Yulee, Fla.

http://www.tribune-georgian.com/articles/2007/02/09/news/opinion/letters/04letter2.9.txt

[Cheap_Trick]

1. some people really need to get a fucking life

seems like you can't even breathe anymore without offending SOMEONE.

[datadiva]

2. Ha Ha

I loved the performance and could care less what miss or mr righteous think about it. Prince rocks!

[City Lights]

3. Better screening? I thought the "screening" made the show...eom

[InternalDialogue]

4. That whole letter is true and heartfelt, except the last paragraph.

What Yvonne meant to write was, "And I fucking loved it! It was so hot! More more more!"

[MADem]

10. Oh aren't YOU the naughty one!!!

Well DONE!!!!!!!

[sarge43]

5. As usual with the Miss Prissys, she seems to have paid

very close attention to the performance.

Ah Yvonne sweetie, recent technological breakthrough: It's called the Off switch; every remote now has one.

[MADem]

6. That pathetic little twitch had the thing TIVO'd eh? Pause, rewind, pause, rewind!!!

Probably watched it ten or twenty times, at least. What a putz!!!

This cretin has a REMOTE...she should USE it.

[originalpckelly]

7. Yvonne sounds like an expert on devilish phalluses.

:P

I wonder if it is from personal experience?

[Kajsa]

8. Yvonne, don't even think of going to a Jethro Tull concert.

Yes, they are still around.

Ian Anderson takes great delight in being "naughty", on stage.

They're great!

[dogday]

9. Pull your undees out of your ass-he rocked on nt

[LWolf]

11. Apparently I missed something.

<sigh>

I guess I should have watched the halftime show, lol. I keep hearing about Prince, and I never even saw him.

The super bowl halftime show: a never ending smorgasbord of scandal. Nipples, phallic symbols, what's next?

:rofl:

[Momgonepostal]

54. His performance is on YouTube if you're curious

I missed the Superbowl too, but caught Prince's half-time show on Youtube because a friend was talking about Prince's "Dick Guitar." I was curious, so made it a point to watch..lol.

[ghostsofgiants]

56. Here, it starts at about 1:13...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAXpanj8UU0

[Virginia Dare]

12. Remember when they said that about Elvis...

50 years ago? :eyes:

[Pyrzqxgl]

13. Yeah theres lots of dirty stuff anbd they show football too.

[Nikki Stone1]

14. I miss Janet Jackson

:evilgrin:

[Sal Minella]

15. So did somebody TELL Yvonne what a devilish phallus looks like? Or how does she know?

[Chan790]

34. Actually it looked in no way devilish...

as middle-ages Christian mythology tell us that the devil has a forked schwanz...a double-header, if you will.

[Raine]

16. "prancing" hmmmmm

what is that some kind of buzzword for unmanly etc. x(

[The Straight Story]

17. So they were offended? Can't we just accept their view and respect it

where's the flame suit emoticon?

[donco6]

20. Jeebus. So her "offense" is equivalent to .. .

oh never the fuck mind.

[Bluebear]

22. You just can't let this go can you?

:)

[LeftyMom]

35. So uptight sexless fundies get to be offended, gay people don't?

:updates score card:

Do go on...

[jonnyblitz]

39. please don't encourage him.

:eyes:

[JackBeck]

44. When you get a few minutes...

http://www.thequeereye.com/Be_on_the_Show/

[RetroLounge]

50. Oh give me a fucking break...

:eyes:

RL

[AlCzervik]

18. she's offended a week after the event?

[Bluebear]

23. She had to watch it a few dozen more times.

You know, just for outrage sake.

[AlCzervik]

25. of course, she has to file her report to the righteous indignation dept.

by monday no doubt.

[Cheap_Trick]

26. reminds me of Porky's 2

The boys were caught with a stag film, and the Principal said "I watched every disgusting frame of this film....twice."

[Dean Martin]

62. LOL!!

Yeah.....for outrage sake. Yeah, that's the ticket!

[ComerPerro]

19. Price? a borederline-pornographic show? Who would have thought?

[opiate69]

21. Pornographic? No... Sloppy? Yes...

[Rex]

24. Must be a moran.

Took him/her a whole week to figure out what we were talking about on DU that night! :rofl:

[lamp_shade]

27. I must be getting old

I watched the whole thing and never once saw the "symbolism" until I heard about it the next day in the media and read about it here. I thought it was neat.

[Bluebear]

28. Nah, here's what happened:

She was only half watching, or maybe at Bingo because she could care less about football unless it's Mighty Mighty Crusaders football - her grandson's junior high team. But around Thursday someone at church called her to sign a petition about this, because the preacher heard it from the janitor who heard it from his buddy who read it on the internet. So she wrote this hot letter to the editor about how upset she was.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Wonder what she thought of 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights'

[LibDemAlways]

30. My 84-year-old dad enjoyed the show, just

said he kept waiting for Janet Jackson to appear. Think he was hoping for another wardrobe malfunction. LOL

If that woman is so concerned about morality, she ought to be writing to the paper complaining about the immorality of the Bush crime family, but I'd be willing to bet she proudly voted for the bastard.

[xchrom]

31. yvonne sounds like she worked up a sweat watching prince.

[Orsino]

32. Fear of a black planet.

With all the very real violence on field, the writer is worried about sexual symbolism in a performance by one skinny, middle-aged man.

That's America, baby.

[Left Is Write]

33. Better hope she doesn't listen to the lyrics of some of Prince's songs.

"Head" would send her straight to her smelling salts.

[wildhorses]

36. she sez it like its a bad thing--

oh wait a minute--violence is acceptable--i keep forgetting:banghead:

[lildreamer316]

37. It's called "Fuck the FCC" dear.

Get a life.

Oh; I'm such a bitch.

[Sanity Claws]

38. Violence, not sex, is the real pornography

I'm offended by the needless deaths of our soliders and Iraqis, all to glorify that chicken hawk installed in the WH.

[Zookeeper]

61. Bingo!

:thumbsup:

[SPKrazy]

40. A Tail?

a "phallic devilish symbol"

Whacko alert

Yvonne

get a grip


:evilgrin:

[Mary Tyler Moore]

41. I think we could all use a tad bit more...

phallic symbols in life.

Long stem mushroom anyone?

[SPKrazy]

43. ROFL!

your 13% just dropped to 12%

:rofl:

[Mary Tyler Moore]

45. Just wait...

90% dirty bird is just right around the corner.

Slippery slope and all that...

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. And the more I watched, the more I was aroused by that sweaty, wet black man

with his thin waist and tight buns, until I couldn't stand any more hot throbbing and I had to go to the bathroom and release myself in a wall of painful ecstacy, unlike anything my Christian husband ever gave me.

It was disgusting, what that man did. Because of him, I had an orgasm, and that's not Christian.

[Mary Tyler Moore]

46. Dang

Maybe you could introduce Prince as your hubby's wingman...

[philosophie_en_rose]

47. Throw Prince in jail!!

Isn't shadow puppet pornography illegal?!?!$ It's the most explicit, degrading, alarming, corrupting porny porn ever.

:sarcasm:

[Seabiscuit]

48. I'm with you. It was stupid, stupid, dumb, dumb disgusting.

And basically gives parents with small children watching the Superbowl the finger. Symptomatic of our Bush culture where decency and civility and respect for others no longer exist because we have a Pretzeldent who gets away with anything and just smirks at us the way Prince did on Super Bowl Sunday after he pulled off his spoiled-rotten-twisted-little-shit tasteless stunt. Appropriate for an off-the-strip Vegas show? Perhaps, for those adults who go for low-life cheesy sleazy junk culture (like most of the posters in this thread). For the Superbowl? No way.

Oh, and a rousing "fuck you too" to all your smartass asshole detractors in this thread.

[RetroLounge]

51. Did you forget your sarcasm smilie?

:eyes:

RL

[Name removed]

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[RetroLounge]

57. Yeah, he's no Perry Como...

:eyes:

and about those stools, sorry you're such a tight-ass...

RL

[Seabiscuit]

59. I'm not the "tight-ass" - I used the image to illustrate a point -

-that Prince sounds like he's either singing through his arse, or squealing his nasal pitches as if he's trying too hard to excrete a hardened clot.

Guess some tight-ass disliked that image so much they ran off squealing like stuck pigs to the mods to get my post deleted. Pathetic.

[RetroLounge]

63. Violate the rules, get deleted...

Pretty easy to understand.

Sell millions of albums, huge fan base, sell out concerts, make movies, etc. vs. a tight-ass opinion?

Uhm, You lose...

You may return to your vic damone albums now...

:eyes:

RL

[Name removed]

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[Deja Q]

58. Bush didn't start it, but he's allowing it to continue and prosper...

Directly or indirectly, the nation's morale could be a factor in the amok selfishness going on these days.

And when somebody wants to put up a punishment system, everybody cries "FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!"

And that happens on both sides, which is the scariest aspect of them all.

Now even I, with my variable crudity, keep a solid line drawn. of course, I also 'live in the 70s'; it's no shock many find parts of my sense of humor to be dim or trite; it can be quite passe. (but maybe I should get with the times and emulate Sarah Silverman, Trey Parker, Dave Chappelle, or Seth MacFarlane... skeet skeet skeet... :eyes: )

With freedom comes responsibility. Or maybe I watched "Spider-Man" one too many times... :shrug:

And I will submit: I have NOT seen Prince's supposed naughty incident at the end. I do know he played a 25 year old song, one that wasn't nearly as good done live as it was when recorded 25 years ago (I did try watching it but after 2 minutes, I said "this is naff" and closed the browser window... I'll spare the MPAA rant for another day.)

But I will also admit; Prince has done some dim things before. And deserved every lampooning he got in response. (I frequently post a sketch of 'In Living Color' from youtube featuring that Prince parody of an incident he got away with ~17 years ago... it's sick, admittedly funny, but also points out a sad truth about the guy and our society in general. But what used to be lampooned is now commonplace. Just like The Lion King being lampooned as a stageplay in "The Critic" (1994) and is sadly now a real stage play, sheesh... that desperate for money, are they?!)

[Seabiscuit]

60. Happy to hear you seem to get my drift. :)

[nickgutierrez]

49. Um... if she was expecting a show from Prince...

...and didn't expect this, just what did she expect to see?

[Deja Q]

55. Oooh, I know! I know!

She was expecting Prince and Madonna to croon that utterly popular Mary Poppins song, "Go Fly a Kite"?!

I don't think so!!

With tuppence for paper and strings,
you can have your own set of wings.
With your feet on the ground,
you're a bird in flight!
With your fist holding tight,
to the string of your kite!

Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite!

When you send it flying up there,
all at once your lighter than air!
You can dance on the breeze,
over 'ouses and trees!
With your fist 'olding tight,
to the string your kite!

Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite!

[Deja Q]

53. Doesn't she understand that sensationalism sells?

Should the thing formerly known then renamed himself as Prince be held accountable?

Or the suits who knew full well he'd be doing something 'tastefully questionable' because it's going to bring in sponsors and big bucks?

I miss the day when nudging the envelope was vogue (the 1970s). These days it's well past even pushing the envelope (80s and arguably early 90s), it's putting the envelope through the shredder.

And once the envelope is gone, what's going to attract the masses? /rhetorical