THE DEATH OF PRINCE IS ALSO THE CONTINUANCE OF AN ERA OF SEXUAL AND SOCIAL ENLIGHTENMENT

PRINCE… THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

No popular musician had dared to openly discuss homosexuality, to celebrate and mock marital infidelity and to exalt pure, unbridled eroticism with the unashamed, simple eloquence of Prince. His lyrics shattered the Victorian code of silence that muted the world allowing everyone to be proud of their sexuality.

In many ways Prince became the self-crowned king of the sexual revolution and the lusty courtesans he launched into pop stardom became his gleaming knights, evangels of his matter-of-fact brand of sexual realness!

“SEXUALITY IS ALL YOU’LL EVER NEED,  SEXUALITY JUST LET YOUR BODY BE FREE…”

He conveyed his message in the most accessible language, the way we really think,
“AND SHE SAID ARE YOU GAY? IT TOOK ME BY SURPRISE, DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I LOOKED HER IN THE EYE AND SAID, ‘NO ARE YOU ?’”.

Everyone wanted to be like the sexually free, happy and empowered icon embodied in Prince’s “Naughty Boy” persona. He made it hip to be self-consciously erotic and even vulnerable… his Royal Badness molded nasty into a cool, comfortable chic.

His eighteenth century clothing recalled endless nights of orgiastic revelry and circus in the Paris salons infused with the naïve, rebellious and enlightened passion of egalitarianism seething in the thirteen young American colonies. He personified the ironic spirit of the first moment of real social change and transplanted it to the social stalemate of the late twentieth century. Even those who had no inkling of the symbolic meaning implied by his invention, “Prince And The Revolution” understood that this man’s music had literally changed the world…

Prince’s foppish extravagance not only roused the heterocentric world to wonder if he was gay it also forced them to wonder if they were not missing something fundamentally essential to their sexual, spiritual and emotional happiness. At this he was very much the Scarlet Pimpernell of his time heroically rescuing a jaded world from sentient paralysis whilst masquerading as a pop star. Those of us who allowed ourselves to become fully immersed in his satirical ablution understand how spiritually cleansing realness can be!

So goes another artistic genius leaving his heavy footprint upon the very face of humanity… to say he will be missed by the generations he touched and taught is a thing of fact and to say how and if he will be remembered is a volatile prophecy subject to the caprice of time… I will say of this unpredictable man that but for his untimely rudeness my life should certainly have not been the sexually and humanely rich and broad one I like to imagine it has been… for that I thank him and I do pray that his brilliant spirit is yet somewhere continuing to improve all that it touches…

By Bigdaddy Blues