Brokeblog Event: The Week Formerly Known as Prince

I am going to write frankly and honestly about Prince. I didn't know him in any real sense of the word and i never actually sought after his music to listen to him but seeing as how his passing has affected so many i feel like not talking about him would be a disservice to this legend.

You are probably wondering why i would write anything at all considering i don't know anything at all about this person but what i do know is enough to to realize that we lost something special. My earliest memory of the purple one dates all the way back to 1989 when my father somehow acquired a bootleg of the Batman movie and had me watch it with him before he took a hammer to it out of fear of the police tracing it (he was a crazy type). But i remember the music to that movie and i'm not talking about the score but the actual music that accompanied Jack's Joker in the art gallery or the parade float. Being a kid and watching Batman alone should have been enough but when those scenes happened the movie felt...alive? like for the first time i realized that Yes this was a movie but these are real people doing things to recreate a story that was written. It was very jarring as a kid to have a song give you a sort of a young existential thought crisis but here i was realizing through the absurdity of these couple of songs that a movie was a production with moving parts.

My second only memory of Prince came in the form of a cartoon called Animaniacs and i will never forget that joke. Yakko, Wakko and Dot were looking for clue and Yakko tells Dot to " Dust for prints near the piano" and so she goes off the screen and something else happens and Yakko asks "any luck?" we cut to Dot who is carrying Prince in her arms and says "yup, just one". Now, i know these couple of memories seem dumb to you but this is how i remember him. He always seemed like a classical composer to me based on his appearance and if there is any small amount of light at the end of this story it's that i want to give his music a chance now. Now that he isn't here anymore, i wish i could've been a true fan and a true Minnesotan but i am not. i am more of a fan of all the people he has inspired or touched because that is the true mark of a legend. he'll be missed and i have some songs to listen to.

-Blog