MAY U LIVE 2 SEE THE KICKOFF: Prince has recorded a fight song for the Minnesota Vikings.
Remember that thing I said that time about how there's nothing that couldn't be improved with the addition of more Prince? I may have to walk that back now -- this is no "New England, the Patriots and We," let alone the awesomeness of 1988's "Buddy's Watching You" or these other sports team hits.
added: Simmons: "Are you kidding me? He could have changed the lyrics of 'Darling Nikki' to 'Darling Sidney' and it would have gotten the Vikes more fired up than 'Purple and Gold.' Quite simply, it's the worst sports song ever made by someone who actually has talent. ... Not since 'Under the Cherry Moon' has Prince been responsible for something this indefensible."
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ReplyDeleteNote well the extensive use of "4" in the lyrics, and all hail Purple Jesus, slayer of Cowboys!!
ReplyDeleteI lurve Prince and this song sucks. Sounds like lame "Christian contemporary" music.
ReplyDeleteI have to give a special nod to "Ram It," for a variety of reasons:
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Heh. It looks like I last involved the "any event can be improved upon by the addition of Prince" theory when he announced plans to be part of Leno's "final" Tonight Show run.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who viewed the entirety of Under the Cherry Moon, I gotta agree with Simmons on this.
ReplyDeleteWow. What's that unit that we use to measure the delta between level of anticipation and amount of suckitude? Ah yes, the PM (PhantomMenace). This was about 400 milliPM. I only found out the song was coming out 30 minutes before release, so I didn't have a lot of time to build excitment. But, come on! Prince, local genius, writing a fight song for the Vikings, my favorite sports team of all time! The team for which I can sing the full version of "Vikings, Vikiings, Vikings are coming". Awesome-squared! But yeah, epic fail. Still, go Vikes!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't a milliPM equal 1/1000th of a PM? So 400 milliPM would be 0.4 PM.
ReplyDeleteYup, that's exactly right. So 400 milliPM means I was 40% as dissapointed with Prince (relative to expectations) as I was with the Phantom Menace. But don't underestimate that value. I was REALLY dissapointed (12:01am showing opening night) with the Phantom Menace. Prince really let Vikings fans down. Although I still love Prince, unlike Lucas.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that's pretty awesome. Lou, have you ever had anything manage to get multiple PMs? Or is PM the utter maximum of disappointment.
ReplyDeletePM doesn't really have any cultural relevance for me, probably because (a) the re-release of Episode IV was about a PM for me, maybe a little less; but if I were trying to figure out recent equivalents, I suppose Studio 60 would be about a half-PM.
ReplyDeleteI believe this is going to be worthy of a separate post next week. Tim Burton's Batman is a 0 PM -- it thoroughly exceeded every possible expectation when I saw the midnight screening. The final Seinfeld was a .8 PM.
ReplyDeleteJenn, good question. PM was the first unit that came to mind, but now that I've thought about it in some detail...yup, Phantom Menace is still number one.
ReplyDeleteStudio 60: Gotta be at least .5 PM, right?
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