>Am I an asshole for not liking Prince? More than just not liking him, but for not getting it at all.
I hope not, because I don't really get it, either.
I was born in the late '70s (yes, I'm old) and somehow lived through the entire '80s without having much familiarity with Prince. I can only recall a few songs off-hand. 1999 I'd recognize immediately, of course. I Wanna Be Your Lover I'd probably get, too. I know OF Purple Rain and When Doves Cry, but I don't remember them specifically and couldn't even have told you Prince sang the latter until I looked up his discography. I wasn't especially a fan of any of them. I didn't especially like Madonna or Michael Jackson, either, though. To be honest, for most of the '80s, Lionel Ritchie and Stevie Wonder were more up my alley. And then the '90s came and I was into grunge and pop was dead to me, so...yeah.
The only Prince song I liked isn't one he even sang (nor did I know he wrote it until recently). It was this '80s staple:
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But that's me. I'm not gonna shit all over him, because a lot of people liked him and he was obviously talented. He just wasn't my cup of tea.
