Seriously, the media really need to knock it off. I am so sad to say I live in a society that seems to thrive on taking rumor or just anything they feel like saying and dragging someone’s good name through the mud. Prince Rogers Nelson was active in the industry from 1976 until his sudden and sad death a month ago in 2016, that is 40 years. He was active in an industry that is rife with scandal every day for 40 years and guess how many scandals he had? If you are having to think real hard about it you have the right answer. Prince had no drug scandals, no sex scandals, none of the usual things you see in the industry.
Now he was by no means a perfect person, no one is and he certainly had eccentricities, but they were nothing compared to the scandals we have seen over the years in the industry. Oh yes, since his death the rumors and stories and drama have been crawling all over the place right down to a supposed long term drug dealer who supplied a heavy habit. It is simply ridiculous. Of course, all this crap is getting laid out now because they all want 15 minutes of fame and of course The Purple One can’t defend himself, although chances are he would have just let people keep yapping their mouths and not dignified their crap with a reply. Prince was eccentric, but the man was also a class act.
I did see an amusing post on a web forum the other day which seemed to be thinking the same I was, what is with all this BS coming out? The poster then also asked for people to think of what they thought was the biggest scandal in his time active in the industry. Here are what the answers included:
– performing the “Dirty Mind” songs on stage in his underwear?
– performing “Gett Off” on MTV in assless pants? (IMO the best MTV award performance ever! Dat ass looked GOOD)
– the 1985 “We Are The World” incident, Prince’s refuse to be participating? (I got nothing but you know…not everyone has to say yes to every single thing. Even if it is a good cause. 1985 was boomtown for The Purple One and as Lionel Richie recently said “That’s just Prince, of course he isn’t going to show up in a room full of singers when we want him to.” Everyone else can call it what they want I understand the Artist side of things as to why that would not feel like a creative yay for Prince.)
– removing a youtube video of a dancing baby, dancing to “Let’s Go Crazy”? (his right to protect copyright)
– the threats and lawsuits against fansites? (Prince always was very tenacious about his copyrights there is nothing wrong with that after the way he had to fight go own his own music he had every right to be. Beyond that he loved his fans and these things were not done out of malice)
– to sue piratebay together with Village People? (Far from the only artist to ever have gone after pirate sites)
– the Lotusflower.com $77 payment fiasco? (Not his fault. It was an overall shaky thing that happened, but he was not directly running the website or the charges happening and P.S he made sure folks were refunded)
– Changing his name to a symbol (yeah, some people thought that was over the edge. Was it odd? Sure was but when you look closely at the WHY of it you really see it as something that makes sense.)
– Darling Nikki being the cause of Congressional Hearings is a pretty big scandal. (Yeah, all I could do was face palm at that one. But parents got a parental advisory warning out of it lol)
– Writing slave on his face (it goes along with the symbol thing understandable once you know more about it.)
That is it pretty much. None of it really screams scandal either most of it is just eccentric stuff. He was an interesting one of a kind person. 40 years in an industry that’s tag line is literally sex, drugs and rock n’ roll pretty tame list.
Yet now the media is all over the place, especially with the drug accusations. It is getting tiresome. Very tiresome. All of it bothers me, but what bothers me the most is the hospital in IL going on about the “save shot” given days before his death and everyone else focusing on that as well. First of all talk about HUGE HIPAA violation. Medical professionals aren’t supposed to confirm if a patient is in the hospital let alone discuss their treatment. Why does it always seem someone is willing to break that law when it comes to celebrities. Secondly the “save shot” also known as Narcan can be given if a medical professional thinks an overdose is the issue, that does not always mean that IS the issue. I will use something that happened in my real life as an example.
Many moons ago (okay like 9ish years) a dear friend of mine was visiting me in Minnesota. She got very very sick and was loopy and nearly unresponsive after several days of not feeling well. I did like a smart person should and called 911. Paramedics and fire arrived and did what they do and all throughout they kept asking me what drugs she was on. They were downright rude about it and only stopped short of calling me a liar. I told them all the medications she was on and showed them the bottles. See she has a mental illness and needs a lot of medication for it, she does not do street drugs or abuse the medications. On and on they went about what she took and then off they went in the ambulance. I found out later when I arrived at the hospital, she was given Narcan, because they were convinced she was on something and it was the course they felt they should take. Better safe than sorry right?
Guess what? Later, after the hospital ran all their tests and such, it came back that she was indeed not on any illegal drugs or overdosed in any way. Instead, her kidneys were shutting down. Causing a backup in her system and causing the confusion and other issues.
So even if Narcan was given that does not mean it was drugs. Being as he was suffering from a very bad flu and possibly other things it is not unthinkable, he was having respiratory issues due to that. Of course, none of us know what happened and whoever is supposedly talking about his treatment from the hospital is not giving much information. Surprise, surprise. So I firmly land that in the rumor category. As well as the seriously people shut the hell up about it because there are privacy laws! PRIVACY is important and it was super important to Prince, he valued his privacy imagine that kinda like oh most people do. Just because someone is famous does not mean we as a society have a right to stick our noses in every nook and cranny of their life. They deserve just as much privacy as the rest of us.
So media.. back off. Leave the man alone and most of all wait for the damn autopsy results to come back before you keep slinging mud.
and just because i can
