vingu

4mo

are you talking about s*** prince said about his own music or just about random s***? because i’d disagree in the former case but otherwise yeah he could say some silly stuff lol. wouldn’t call him overall pretentious though

vingu

4mo

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im not assuming at all, you’re not following me. you’re calling it pretentious, which is a form of invalidation, just like these imaginary fans you have in your head are insulting and belittling other music you presumably like. nice job addressing literally anything else i said btw

XCX Spice

4mo

ure just yapping bitterness cuz i dissed ur s***

vingu

4mo

bro cant deny anything i said so he resorts to all he’s got, stale memes

vingu

4mo

im not assuming at all, you’re not following me. you’re calling it pretentious, which is a form of invalidation, just like these imaginary fans you have in your head are insulting and belittling other music you presumably like. nice job addressing literally anything else i said btw

rather late

4mo

Prince was super pretentious but he made amazing music. Those are not mutually exclusive

vingu

4mo

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what does that have to do with anything i said… we were talking about death grips…?

also you’re gonna have to tell me what exactly you’re referring to because i really don’t see prince that way at all, not even on stan s*** like he was really down to earth for most of his life so he was just passionate about s***

vingu

4mo

what does that have to do with anything i said… we were talking about death grips…?

also you’re gonna have to tell me what exactly you’re referring to because i really don’t see prince that way at all, not even on stan s*** like he was really down to earth for most of his life so he was just passionate about s***

rather late

4mo

Down to earth???? Prince???

vingu

4mo

i mean yeah. idk what to tell u i’ve seen a lot of prince interviews especially from early in his career. he was mostly playing a character and being provocative but the ones where he’s being genuine he’s being genuine. i guess you’re talking about those but that’s not pretentious to me, that was part of his image

pretentious is an extremely overused word, it doesn’t apply to like 95% of cases

rather late

4mo

I’m talking about the stories of how he treated people behind the scenes man lmao. He was not like terrible or anything, but he definitely bought into his own hype to the extend that made it sometimes impossible to work with. Thats not a knock on him, because he really was him. But thats what it is man

rather late

4mo

I’m talking about the stories of how he treated people behind the scenes man lmao. He was not like terrible or anything, but he definitely bought into his own hype to the extend that made it sometimes impossible to work with. Thats not a knock on him, because he really was him. But thats what it is man

vingu

4mo

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anything i don’t like is pretentious

no it isn’t, and you don’t know what the word pretentious even means, clearly, and don’t care to find out. but people who celebrate and revel in their own ignorance and self importance like you are actually pretentious.

you call everything pretentious because you think it’s beneath you, the most pretentious possible way to be. simple as. cry about it bozo

Nort

4mo

He was a little terrible though when talking about the Mayte situation

vingu

4mo

i mean yeah. idk what to tell u i’ve seen a lot of prince interviews especially from early in his career. he was mostly playing a character and being provocative but the ones where he’s being genuine he’s being genuine. i guess you’re talking about those but that’s not pretentious to me, that was part of his image

pretentious is an extremely overused word, it doesn’t apply to like 95% of cases

Tomorrow

4mo

Was he playing a provocative character when he groomed that 16 year old girl?

vingu

4mo

no nigga damn im talking about interviews where he says funny s*** and acts like a provocative weirdo

rather late

4mo

Yea i was mostly referring how he treated workers at the venues he’d preform at. Not really clued in on the abusive partner stuff

Nort

4mo

The first artists that comes to mind is Jaden Smith and Prince (massive Prince fan here).

Lyrically, they both had this tendency of saying the most surface level bullshit and acting like they’re tapped into a higher frequency of knowledge. Real goofy stuff to me.

X7JQ9L2MF4A8Z

4mo

Prince is one of the greatest songwriters ever, his lyricism is a pretty decent portion as to why

Nort

4mo

He was a bit of an a******, for sure. But that’s not why I consider him pretentious — it’s his old head takes. He acted like hiphop was beneath him, then made hiphop himself. He talked down on those who used samples or wrote lyrics with curse words in it. He wanted you to believe a lot of modern music is low-class degeneracy, compared to himself.

vingu

4mo

it’s an unfortunate part of his legacy and he thankfully didnt have that perspective his whole life, but yeah that is definitely textbook pretentiousness.