Prince, the rock icon whose sudden death at age 57 last week left the music industry reeling, followed his own drumbeat in his lyrics, music and lifestyle.
He also, apparently, took a narrow path in the entertainment industry on the issue of homosexuality.
Because while Bruce Springsteen and others have decided to deprive North Carolina fans of concerts because of the state’s law protecting women and girls from men in public restrooms, Prince insisted the Bible condemned homosexual behavior, and he concurred.
At Digital Music News, Paul Resnikoff concluded Prince “was a gay-bashing homophobe.”
“Prince was a fearless innovator, and known for challenging societal boundaries and gender definitions,” Resnikoff wrote. “But maybe he wasn’t so comfortable with his sexuality, after all.”
Look at the truth of the homosexual issue, in “Outlasting the Gay Revolution” or “A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been,” both at the WND Superstore.
He cited a 2008 interview by Claire Hoffman in The New Yorker that reported Prince’s social views.
“When asked about his perspective on social issues – gay marriage, abortion – Prince tapped his Bible and said, ‘God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough,’” the reporter quoted him saying.
The singer, producer, songwriter and showman was found dead at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota, last Thursday. TMZ reported the singer was treated for a drug overdose just six days before his death, according to multiple sources. The London Daily Mail said a former drug dealer claimed the superstar was on opiates for much of his last 25 years, spending some $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches.
The 2008 New Yorker story said Prince had “moved to L.A. so that he could understand the hearts and minds of the music moguls.”
“I wanted to be around people, connected to people, for work,” he was quoted saying. “You know, it’s all about religion. That’s what unites people here. They all have the same religion, so I wanted to sit down with them, to understand the way they see things, how they read Scripture.”
The interview noted his decision to become a Jehovah’s Witness.
“I don’t see it really as a conversion,” he said at the time. “More, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in ‘The Matrix.’”
Regarding politics, he said neither Republicans nor Democrats have it right.
“So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this (pointing to Bible). But there’s the problem of interpretation, and you’ve got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn’t. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.”
Digital Music noted Prince touched on morality in a 2013 track called “Da Bourgeoise.”
He wrote:
Yesterday I saw you kickin’ it with another girl
You was all wrapped up around her waist
Last time I checked, you said you left the dirty world
Well it appears that wasn’t the case.
Further in the song, Prince sings “a man’s only good for a rainy day” and maybe you’re “just another bearded lady at the cabaret.”
Buzzfeed reported Prince once wrote a song titled “Donald Trump (Black Version),” published on a 1990 album called “Pandemonium” by the R&B group The Time.
Prince Rogers Nelson
Earlier this month, Prince Rogers Nelson, known simply as Prince, said he wasn’t feeling well, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and canceled at least one concert in the city.
Some days later, he took the stage in Atlanta to perform. After that concert, the singer’s plane made an emergency landing to take him to the hospital with what a representative said was the flu.
He was treated for three hours at the Moline, Illinois, area hospital and then released. Prince later told fans he felt fine, but one source said at the time of the hospital treatment the superstar was “not doing well,” the Daily Mail reported.
According to TMZ, though, “Multiple sources in Moline tell us, Prince was rushed to a hospital and doctors gave him a ‘save shot’ … typically administered to counteract the effects of an opiate.
“Our sources further say doctors advised Prince to stay in the hospital for 24 hours. His people demanded a private room, and when they were told that wasn’t possible … Prince and co. decided to bail. The singer was released 3 hours after arriving and flew home.”
On Thursday, a forensics team and medical examiner responded to his home, and members of the Carver County Sheriff’s Department confirmed there had been a death.
The Carver County Sheriff’s Office said Prince was found in an elevator at Paisley Park. They performed CPR but were unable to revive him. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 10:07 a.m. Central Time.
The musician, born in Minneapolis, published 39 studio albums. The 1984 “Purple Rain” was perhaps his best-known, spawning a movie of the same name. His net worth was reportedly over $300 million.
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Prince, who changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993 to express frustration with his record label, Warner Bros., sold more than 100 million albums and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for “Purple Rain” in 1985.
In 2000, after the media had habitually referred to him as “the artist formerly known as Prince,” he changed his name back to Prince, around the same time his contract with Warner Bros. expired.
Prince’s top 10 hits included “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Let’s Go Crazy,” “Kiss” and “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.” His songs also became hits for others, among them “Nothing Compares 2 U” for Sinead O’Connor, “I Feel for You” for Chaka Khan and “Manic Monday” for the Bangles.
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