Prince Yay or Nay?

[BigBucs]

Eh, I don't know man, but if anyone could compete with MJ it'd be Prince. Prince is a GOAT no doubt but when you look at what MJ has done in the music industry, his first 4 songs with the JAckson 5 hit #1 in the country and he had what? 5 #1 singles on the Bad Album alone? Not to mention Thriller is the best studio album of all time, and before he died. Not none of this Tupac/Biggie "lets sell 10 million records after we die" mess. I think Bad hit #1 in 9/10 major countries.

Numbers dont mean shit to mean. Yea, MJ may have been more popular but I enjoy Prince music way more than MJs therefore

Prince > MJ

[jeffx]

In terms of fans and record sales, Prince can't compare with Michael. But I'll take Prince's music over Michael's anyday(even though I like Michael's stuff pre-Bad).

[Houston]

And you've been with more 13-year-olds than most men have. What's your point?

That means nothing, was he 13 when he was with these girls?

[nflman2033]

Raspberry Beret
Little Nikki
Little Red Corvette (took 5 times listening to that song to realize what he was actually singing about)

5, shit it took years for me, but then again I first heard it when I was like 5.

As far as Prince vs. MJ.... it’s not even close. How many instruments could MJ play and who wrote better songs both musically and lyrically? The only thing MJ has on Prince is album sales and we all know how important that is.

[jeffx]

2nd.

i only have Dirty Mind, but it is fantastic, i still want to get the others

Radio pretty much ignored 'Dirty Mind', but it's on Rolling Stone's top 100 LPs of the 80s list. It's a combination of new wave, electro-pop/funk, rock & roll and plenty of sexual innuendo(the best song on the alum is 'When You Were Mine'). Prince didn't fit radio's stupid idea of what a "black artist" should be - they didn't know what to make of his music. Like Sly Stone before him, Prince can take elements from different styles and make it work.

[jeffx]

Little Red Corvette (took 5 times listening to that song to realize what he was actually singing about)

Only Prince can make a hit about a song describing a bitch's private parts. He did the same with Sheena Easton's hit "Sugar Walls".

[nflman2033]

Radio pretty much ignored 'Dirty Mind', but it's on Rolling Stone's top 100 LPs of the 80s list. It's a combination of new wave, electro-pop/funk, rock & roll and plenty of sexual innuendo(the best song on the alum is 'When You Were Mine'). Prince didn't fit radio's stupid idea of what a "black artist" should be - they didn't know what to make of his music. Like Sly Stone before him, Prince can take elements from different styles and make it work.

you know what sucks about Dirty Mind?

its too short

[SHOGUN]

MJ sucked ass. I don't give a fuck how many records he sold.

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