You are Prince’s valet, Jerome. (Prince stole you from Morris Day). You’re alone with Prince post-Super Bowl, holding his purple Samsonite luggage, waiting to throw it in the back of the limo. “Damn, Prince,” you exclaim. “You look and sound exactly the same as when we were playing First Avenue in the ’80s and Wendy and Lisa were trying to get you to hear their new song. What’s your secret?” High on crowd love, Prince turns to you and whispers it into your ear before transforming into a dove and vanishing. The limo arrives. You get inside, find a pen and write down Prince’s secret to never aging/sucking. What does your note say?
Lunchtime Poll: What Is Prince’s Secret
2/5/07, 12:00 pm EST
Comments
Kelsea | 2/5/2007, 12:08 pm EST
Well, his secret to never sucking or out-dating himself would be pure talent. The man is a genius, with a vault of a million unrealesed songs. The secret is just doing his own thing, which has worked for him for 30+ years!
RushFan | 2/5/2007, 12:23 pm EST
He is very good at what he does…
too bad I think what he does sucks (mostly).
EastonMike | 2/5/2007, 12:39 pm EST
Good for you, dummy….rumor has it Geddy Lee is singing the National Anthem before tonight’s Canucks game.
Don’t ever underestimate Prince’s talent….thinking this ends up being his fifth or sixth comeback now. Has any other musician approaching fifty ever been as consistently vital or relevant?
Ford Maxwell | 2/5/2007, 12:48 pm EST
Prince is not 50! He is 21 in music years, and he’s been that way for the past, what, the past 25 years?
jill hives | 2/5/2007, 1:00 pm EST
“drink lots of water.”
jay | 2/5/2007, 1:07 pm EST
backup vocal tracking..and intrumental backing
skerr | 2/5/2007, 1:09 pm EST
Prince told me when you suck from the start, people don’t notice your increasing levels of suckage as you age.
Stacy | 2/5/2007, 1:14 pm EST
The secret is that he’s a musical iceberg, and we’ve only yet seen the top 10% of him. I can’t wait for him to reveal the remaining 90%!
Merrr | 2/5/2007, 1:14 pm EST
Prince tells me, “Well, a few years before 1999, I hopped in my little red corvette and drove down to a club on Alphabet St. I met this lady in a raspberry beret who said “Let’s Go Crazy” and was a sexy dancer all night. Finally we went outside and she gave me a kiss in the purple rain before transforming into a guitar strap made of diamonds and pearls. I haven’t gone wrong since.”
Uncle Tom | 2/5/2007, 1:23 pm EST
Three things: he’s black, makeup + Botox
captaincrunch | 2/5/2007, 1:57 pm EST
Real music by a real musician
RushFan | 2/5/2007, 2:03 pm EST
Hey “EastonMike”:
So I’m a “dummy” because I have an opinion? Did you get hit in the head with an Easton bat?
Bunny | 2/5/2007, 2:11 pm EST
His secret to not sucking or aging is that he must have cleansed his soul in Lake Minnetonka…just kidding. I’m a Minnesotan and it seems to me that anyone who is famous and talented from here is always under 5′5 (Prince, Dylan, etc.)…maybe it’s something in the water.
Tim | 2/5/2007, 2:12 pm EST
captaincrunch is 100% correct.
Real music by a real musician.
Prince | 2/5/2007, 2:19 pm EST
“I’m very small”.
Jim | 2/5/2007, 2:27 pm EST
Straight up musical genius, devotion to his craft, plays from the heart, demands perfection of himself and his band.
Prince | 2/5/2007, 2:29 pm EST
“I buried Paul”.
tbone | 2/5/2007, 2:34 pm EST
Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
Th e scream gets the bad humours out. And prune juice.
Josef Rabid Fox | 2/5/2007, 2:39 pm EST
Prince’s secret is that he never does ‘cranium anal inversion’.
NY Nate | 2/5/2007, 3:15 pm EST
This isn’t on the “secret” tip, but I read an interview with Prince in Modern Drummer magazine where he was explaining that before he got his first record deal, he actually had to audition on every single instrument before they would sign him. This was because he wanted total artistic control over his songs – to the point that he wanted to record every single track entirely by himself!! Dudes like that are awesome! He knew what he wanted so he took it upon himself to get what he wanted – entirely on his own! Obviously other musicians wound up on records with him, but the majority of everything you’ve ever heard by the man is him doing it all.
ching tsu | 2/5/2007, 3:23 pm EST
i think prince is britney’s baby daddy. ooops. i let cat out of bag.
Mike | 2/5/2007, 3:49 pm EST
Skillz and soul, son. Skillz and soul.
Quite possibly the baddest man to ever pick up an axe…yes, including Hendrix.
Want proof?…go to YouTube. Type in Prince Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and watch him burn the house down.
Ouroboros | 2/5/2007, 3:50 pm EST
Having for breakfast: starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam, butterscotch clouds, a tangerine and a side order of ham.
J | 2/5/2007, 3:55 pm EST
“Jesus, son, Jesus”
Jon B. | 2/5/2007, 4:24 pm EST
I am inclined to agree with this “Jim” character. Prince knows what he is doing. He is just naturally brilliant and multi-talented. As far as the “age defiance” goes? God only knows.
jungleland | 2/5/2007, 4:31 pm EST
Prince was the MVP of the Superbowl without a doubt. And he plays the shit out of the guitar. I’m sure he spends some time at the beauty shop, it kinda goes with his image.
…or he is a vampire
Zach | 2/5/2007, 6:28 pm EST
Chuck Norris has granted me the power to rock and defy age. I am his and Oprah’s illegitamate son. Me and my brothers, Keith Richards and Pete Towmshend, will never die, as we have Chuck’s ability to defy age and death. We shall rock til the end of days, whether you like it or not. Deal with it.
charliemapleton | 2/5/2007, 7:01 pm EST
Spanish fly,Alize,and a soulful 12″ inch collection(Teddy,Chaka,Babyfac e,Aaliyah…you know the greats).
cara elizabeth | 2/5/2007, 8:05 pm EST
his note says “be perpetually stuck in the year 1981″
My uncle jerry had a purple leisure suit quite similar to the one that prince wore last night, that he wore probably every day of the year 1981.
btw: Zach, you rule. I would gladly have Keith Richards and Pete Townshend never die, rather than Prince.
this | 2/5/2007, 11:37 pm EST
I heard he plays quite a bit of basketball these days.
Jen | 2/6/2007, 1:45 am EST
Prince never sucked?!?!?
Most of his albums since Purple Rain have sucked. Notice he only did Purple Rain hits and covers.
C’mon, the guy can play guitar, but as a songwriter, he was always challenged.
Kevin The Robot | 2/6/2007, 8:15 am EST
Somebody Bring Me a Mirror! Oh wait, that’s what Morris Day would say to Jerome.
Whalespoon | 2/6/2007, 1:09 pm EST
That’s easy…play live only once in a blue, er purple, moon and everyone will think you’re wonderful.
Lindsay | 2/7/2007, 2:17 pm EST
Prince is a lyrical genius. No doubt about it. Although I don’t thikn this split with The Revolution was a great move, he still came out with some pretty awesome album, but they don’t compare to the Purple Rain album, or his real glory days in the ’80s.
Joe | 2/8/2007, 5:23 pm EST
He siphoned Carmen Electra’s mojo when he had her in the hyperbaric chamber in his Paisley Park mansion back in the dizzay.
fuego phallus | 2/9/2007, 2:04 pm EST
frequent colon cleanses and cooks with olive oil.
Martin | 2/10/2007, 7:26 pm EST
“Stay out of the sunlight” (insert campy Bela Lugosi clip from appalling Ed Wood film here).
Come to think of it, that lil’ sucker would make a great vampire. Next Big Fashion Juggernaut: Purple Capes (too late … the Emo’s beat me to it !)
ipnsu ichmo | 12/10/2007, 5:57 pm EST
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