Prince's Penis makes a Super Bowl Halftime Apperance.

**BigRedChief** · 02-07-2007, 08:31 AM

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...ory?id=2854252
By JAKE COYLE The Associated Press
NEW YORK - 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 s******ing 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."

By enlarging his shadow, it's possible Prince intended to accentuate this aspect of his solo, but it's just as likely it was accidental. (You can find videos of the halftime show at YouTube.com.) A message left with Prince's publicist Tuesday wasn't returned.

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?"

Braincase · 02-07-2007, 08:54 AM

Prince is obsessed with the size of his penis and sexual innuendo. It doesn't take a great deal of insight to realize he has inadequacy issues. Cripes, the guy is like 5'2"... he just doesn't measure up...

Ultra Peanut · 02-07-2007, 09:06 AM

It's 3 AM in Minnesota.

02-07-2007, 09:19 AM

I think the Sears tower looks like a giant penis. I hope the city of Chicago will remove it from their skyline immediately.

**BigRedChief** · 02-07-2007, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phobia

I think the Sears tower looks like a giant penis. I hope the city of Chicago will remove it from their skyline immediately.

First things first. Take care of KC first......We have to immediately remove the Liberty Memorial. It's obscene. It even has balls.

http://static.flickr.com/97/242062640_6daadba2d7.jpg

Frazod · 02-07-2007, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Braincase

Prince is obsessed with the size of his penis and sexual innuendo. It doesn't take a great deal of insight to realize he has inadequacy issues. Cripes, the guy is like 5'2"... he just doesn't measure up...

How inadequate could he be? Dude's got more play than all of us put together. So what if he has to sit on a phone book to drive a car?

Shit, there isn't anybody on this BB I wouldn't kill for a night with Apollonia Kotera (if only it was that easy......

)

02-07-2007, 09:30 AM

How about a NSFW designation there, BRC?

boogblaster · 02-07-2007, 09:50 AM

Is this a envy thread ...

**Bowser** · 02-07-2007, 10:04 AM

This thread makes BRC ssad.

**BigRedChief** · 02-07-2007, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bowser

This thread makes BRC ssad.

I thought I was cured.

RJ · 02-07-2007, 10:11 AM

Sometimes a guitar is just a guitar.

StcChief · 02-07-2007, 10:12 AM

I saw the 'shadow' and know somebody was gonna blow a gasket. The NFL/ PC world should have seen it coming a mile away

**noa** · 02-07-2007, 10:23 AM

I thought it looked like there was a giant fishook going through his gut, not some crazy penis.

BucEyedPea · 02-07-2007, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Braincase

Prince is obsessed with the size of his penis and sexual innuendo. It doesn't take a great deal of insight to realize he has inadequacy issues. Cripes, the guy is like 5'2"... he just doesn't measure up...

I definitely took it as phallic though.

frazod, women like musicians, they're just sexier...as well as money.

Joie · 02-07-2007, 10:34 AM

He got what he wanted out of it. The halftime show sucked. He's just a washed up 80's musician, and yet here we are 3 days later, STILL TALKING ABOUT IT!

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