They came for Prince and I said nothing.
BET is trying to trick me into watching it again (IT WON'T WORK!) by honoring Prince tonight at their music awards. Remember last year around this same time when BET tricked us into watching their awards because they said they were going to do a "tribute" to Michael Jackson as he had just died and all we got was Jamie Foxx in highwaters, drunk Ving Rhames, Zoe Saldana announcing that the original Uhura was incontinent and Ciara warbling "Heal the World?" Yeah. Fool me once!
Anyway, part of me wants to see how badly they'll screw up Prince. I'm sure it's not a coincidence that the year after they (dis)honored MJ they would give ol' Prince a-go. Both MJ and Prince were two very different sides of the same funky coin, drawing lots of influence from the Godfather of Soul, James Brown but spinning it in different directions. Michael was about mass appeal. Prince is more of an acquired taste. But once you get a taste for it, dear God, insatiable becomes your name!
I keep trying to imagine what they would do to honor someone as multitalented and wonderfully bizarre as Prince, but outside of having Alicia Keys sing "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore" for old times sake and digging up Ginuwine to bust out his 90s version of "When Does Cry" I seriously don't know how they're going to pull this off. I bet Prince doesn't either. I bet Prince, like me, is going to watch with anticipation just so he can have something to flame about later. And I bet Prince is all, "If you don't get the whole show to be performed by Beyonce in drag while Lenny Kravitz and Slash wail on their guitars featuring Janelle Monae doing the beat box AND the Mash Potatoes in a robot costume, I'm walkin' out!"
Anything below this would be an insult.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 2:00PM 
