I am sorry this is the most retarded thing I ever read in my life! But you
know what? I silent called this as soon as I saw it!
I even joked with V over the net that I was waitin' for him to pull his
thing out. Seriously folk need to get over themselves.
Didn't they pull a poster a few years ago for this same reason?
Controversy raised over Prince performance
/ Associated Press
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6447016?print=true
NEW YORK (AP) - In the sensitive post-wardrobe malfunction world, some are
questioning whether a guitar was just a guitar during Prince's Super Bowl
halftime show.
Prince's acclaimed performance included a guitar solo during the "Purple
Rain" segment of his medley in which his shadow was projected onto a
large, flowing beige sheet. As the 48-year-old rock star let rip, the
silhouette cast by his figure and his guitar (shaped like the singer's
symbol) had phallic connotations for some.
A number of bloggers have decried "Malfunction!"
including Sam Anderson at New York magazine's Daily Intelligencer. Daily
News television critic David Bianculli called it "a rude-looking shadow
show" that "looked embarrassingly rude, crude and unfortunately placed."
CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said Tuesday that the network has received
"very few" complaints on Prince's performance. CBS last aired the Super
Bowl in 2004 when Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's "wardrobe
malfunction" sparked criticism and a subsequent crackdown on broadcast
decency from the Federal Communications Commission.
But this time, it was the NFL that produced the halftime show (MTV had in
2004). Spokesman Greg Aiello said the league has received no complaints.
"We respect other opinions, but it takes quite a leap of the imagination
to make a controversy of his performance," Aiello said. "It's a guitar."
The majority of the reaction to Prince's performance has been laudatory,
including positive reviews from The Associated Press, the New York Times
and USA Today
all of which noted the lack of controversy in this year's halftime show.
AP Entertainment Writer Douglas J. Rowe wrote: "He delivered one of the
best Super Bowl halftime shows
ever."
For decades, the electric guitar, by nature, has been considered phallic.
From Jimi Hendrix's sensual 6-string swagger to Eddie Van Halen's
masturbatory soloing, the guitar has often been thought an extension of a
male player's sexuality.
Was Prince's pose phallic?
"The short answer is, of course it is," says Rolling Stone magazine
contributing editor Gavin Edwards, who points out that on Prince's "Purple
Rain" tour in the mid '80s, he performed with a guitar that would
ejaculate, squirting water out of its end during the climax of "Let's Go
Crazy."
"All that said, it didn't seem like a sniggering little puppet show," adds
Edwards. "I think it was one of those things because a guitar at waist
level does look like an enormous phallus."
The late-night shows have taken notice. On CBS's "The Late Late Show" on
Sunday night, host Craig Ferguson said of Prince: "He was obviously very
happy to be there, wasn't he?"
Stephen Colbert reacted with mock outrage on Comedy Central's "The Colbert
Report" Monday night: "They knew that they were dealing with a lustful,
pansexual rock 'n' roll deviant," said Colbert, who joked that the sheet
hid (not enhanced) Prince's "demonic guitar phallus."
In recent years, Prince has scaled down his performances, which were once
renown for their gymnastics. His mini-concert at the Colts-Bears game in
Miami included parts of "Purple Rain," "Let's Go Crazy," "Baby I'm a
Star," Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," the Foo Fighter's "Best of
You" and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary."
The Minnesota native has attracted controversy before. Tipper Gore
launched a campaign to place a warning sticker on his 1984 album "Purple
Rain" because of the lyrics to the song "Darling Nikki." Though his
musical style has been expansive, he's best known for funky, sexually
charged songs like "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "Get Off."
Prince's previously most talked-about performance came at the 1991 MTV
Video Music Awards, where he donned yellow, butt-baring pants, (a stunt
later spoofed by Howard Stern). Always eccentric, he famously changed his
name to The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, then to simply a symbol and
finally back to Prince. He also became a Jehovah's Witness in the
mid-'90s.
But Prince's halftime performance, though celebrated, came in a much
different cultural environment, where even the fleeting outline of a man
and his guitar could, for some, suggest shaded depravity.
"If people want to be hypersensitive, they can be hypersensitive," says
Rolling Stone's Edwards. "Those trombones are phallic, too. What are you
going to do?"
Derek
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