I am so saddened by this, I grew up listening to him, when I was a kid I remember seeing his entirely purple house by Minnetonka and demanding my room be entirely purple too.
What a sad loss for the music industry and the people whose lives he's touched but what a beautiful thing to leave the world a richer place just by being in it.
This is such a shocker. I was literally reading some gossip this morning about how he used to date Nona Gaye and then he left her for his wife(ex) Mayte Garcia, and then forward to hours later in the day, he's gone! I low-key liked his music. He will definitely be remembered.
Btw he was planning on releasing a memoir this Fall. Anyone know what's going to happen to it now that he's dead? Like will it still be released?
I often dream of heaven and I know that Tracy's there
I know that he has found another friend
Maybe he's found the answer to all the April snow
Maybe one day I'll see my Tracy again
Sometimes it snows in April
Sometimes I feel so bad
Sometimes I wish that life was never ending
But all good things, they say, never last
So what? Lemonade isn't gonna be on a major network on Saturday. Your tripping over a goddamn tv film.
Do I care about the viewers? No.
Do I worry about the success of the film? No.
It's on mother****ing HBO for crying OUT loud. It's a premium channel that you could buy on a cable provider. What the hell do you think it was gonna air at? Oxygen? NBC?
Plus Saturday's on the Big 4 networks doesn't work. So chill the **** out it's gonna do good regardless.
I've been jamming Prince's music since I saw the news. I can't think of a better way to pay tribute to the man right now, and believe me, I'm trying.
What really strikes me right now is how...numb I feel. I've only felt this way about a musician dying one other time: When Michael died. Prince was...almost inhuman in his musical ability. The man was perhaps the most naturally gifted musician in the history of popular music. In some ways, when I would watch a Prince live performance, I would just stare in awe at what I was seeing, a virtuoso at the top of his craft seemingly all the time, even at times when it looked like he wasn't trying. My mind calls back to the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony (the year Prince was inducted) and the final jam that night, where legends such as Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, and Jeff Lynne were left staring in awe as Prince performed one of the guitar solos to end all guitar solos. I unabashedly love both Petty and Lynne (as well as the Travelling Wilburys, the supergroup that featured Petty, Lynne, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, and Roy Orbison), but my god, Prince owns the stage the moment his solo begins. There's a reason why, when asked how it felt being the world's greatest guitarist, fellow guitar god Eric Clapton said, "I don't know. Ask Prince."
Most gifted musician of my (or perhaps anyone's) lifetime. There will never, ever, EVER be another Prince.
I'm so upset 
