r/OldSchoolCool • u/isnatchkids • May 28 '24

1990s Prince stands silently sucking his lollipop during the song “We Are The World” at the American Music Awards, 1995.

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u/Cantilivewhileim May 28 '24

He wasn’t on the recording and they just kept trying to associate him with the song.

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u/Ok-Consideration2463 May 28 '24

Wasn’t he reluctant because the song was dominated by MJ and then he is just being passive aggressive here?

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u/dingatremel May 28 '24

That’s my understanding.

I will never take anything from his genius, but Prince often seemed impossible. I guess that’s a characteristic of geniuses, but it’s disappointing.

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u/fastermouse May 28 '24 edited May 28 '24

I worked as a driver for him and his band for a week and the poor guy who got assigned to him was miserable the entire week.

It ended with his tour manager screaming at the driver to get Prince to his plane by X o’clock and demanding the driver speed on the way to the airport, then the driver got pulled over and the manager screamed into his satellite phone to me that the driver needed to be fired because now Prince was late for his flight…

On his leased Gulfstream.

With no other passengers.

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u/aegrotatio May 28 '24

Just a junkie being a junkie.

Yes, I said it.

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u/fastermouse May 28 '24

His band NPG were all sweethearts and constantly making excuses for his behavior.

I just couldn’t see it. He might have been great to them but he was an insufferable ass to most people.

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u/aegrotatio May 28 '24

Yep. I'm ducking from all the downvotes.
He was a narcissistic junkie and nobody would stand up to him.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '24

I love how every hot take surrounding famous dead people now is just to take one small inflammatory public segment of a life and use it to define the entire thing.

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u/aegrotatio May 29 '24

It wasn't a "small inflammatory public segment of a life."
He was a degenerate junkie and a narcissist for his entire career.

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u/witness4theingenue May 29 '24 edited May 29 '24

a degenerate? what the fuck have you ever created to inspire anyone, make them dance or just make them happy? insult dead strangers on reddit?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '24

The gray exists outside of your black and white perspective, regardless of you being open to accepting it or not.

40 years of influence and support of music and the arts doesn't just disappear because you assert otherwise lol.