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It's #LPPSaturday! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: Controversy Tour • Do you love #LPP? Prove it! Join the club! Help power the project (and get BEHIND THE SCENES access and COOL STUFF) by joining #ClubLPP  patreon.com/clublpp • This is a shot I did for 'LPP: Volume One' in 2016. It's technically an #LPPClassic, but it was never posted online, until now. 😊 • From Wikipedia: The Controversy Tour marked the debut of Mark Brown, a.k.a. Brown Mark, on bass guitar, replacing the departed André Cymone, and the introduction of Prince's new bodyguard, Chick Huntsberry. At first, Prince contemplated dismissing the huge Huntsberry after only being on tour with him for a few days, as Prince thought he was too big and he scared him. Guitarist Dez Dickerson talked him out of it and he eventually became a confidant to Prince and later appeared in Purple Rain as a bouncer. This tour was also notable for Prince's new side group The Time joining him on tour and the resulting backstage drama and arising tension that developed between the two bands. • From Newsweek in December 1981, 'The naughty Prince of Rock', by Jim Miller: 'On stage he's a punk scarecrow bringing the passion of soul to rock and roll burlesque. In the studio, he's a self-taught prodigy, composing, arranging and producing a mongrel mix of creamy ballads and brittle funk, blazing rock played with rude-boy spunk. He's a prophet of sexual anarchy.' • From Los Angeles Herald Examiner's Steve Piesa in February 1982: 'Prince understands the danger he faces of being typecast as a "sex" singer, and although he still performs suggestive material from Dirty Mind and now offers 'Do Me Baby' from the current Controversy, and although he still swivels his hips and does the ultimate guitar-as-phallic-symbol routine, he does not depend on those things. His message is far more profound than the often sexist crudity of most current pop.' • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince #repost from @troygua https://www.instagram.com/p/B84GmePlFh1/?igshid=1q832dk9gqwce

It's #LPPSaturday! It's an #LPPClassic From February 2015! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua ~ Inspiration: C O N T R O V E R S Y • Do you love #LPP? Help power the project (& get BEHIND THE SCENES access and COOL STUFF) by joining #ClubLPP 👉 patreon.com/clublpp • From Diffuser.fm’s ‘365 Prince Songs in a Year’, ‘Controversy’ by Mike Joseph, 9/2/2017: “I just can’t believe all the things people say / Am I black or white? Am I straight...or gay?” ... With those two lines, Prince addressed the questions that the public had about his personal life from the moment he broke through to stardom. At a critical crossroads in his career, he delivered “Controversy”, the first single from his fourth album, also entitled Controversy, in late summer 1981. The lyrics served as a mission statement, with Prince imagining a world in which differences in race, gender and sexual orientation didn’t matter... • “Controversy” found Prince seamlessly blurring the lines between commercial star and critical artist, blending rock, funk, soul and pop in a way that would soon become his trademark... • In its expanded album version, “Controversy” became much more of an avant-garde funk/rock workout than a catchy dance single. The lyrics incorporated the Lord’s Prayer as well as a repeated chant that added an exclamation point to Prince’s worldview at the time: “People call me rude / I wish we all were nude / I wish there was no black or white / I wish there were no rules.”... • If there is one song that sums up the general Prince-ness of Prince, it’s “Controversy”. It’s virtuosic, it’s danceable, it’s a little strange, it’s sexual, it’s religious. Author @toureshow wrote in Time, “('Controversy') is an important song to build Prince as a person who audiences should be thinking about as more than just a music maker, but as a personal liberator” while Daphne A. Brooks, writing about Controversy for Pitchfork, stated “('Controversy' is about) longing to be emancipated from our most wretched and oppressive inhibitions and biases.” • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt #repost from @troygua https://www.instagram.com/p/B66MgAylBBH/?igshid=1suvvb4mmmip4

Happy #RecordStoreDay 🧿 It's an #LPPSaturday #LPPClassic #BONUS ~ 'WRECKA STOW'! Say it! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua until the sun refuses to shine! #Prince4ever #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #StagedPhotography #OneSixthScale #Miniatures #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt #Minneapolis #WreckaStow #ChristopherTracy #Parade #UnderTheCherryMoon 💜 x ∞ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ http://troygua.com/work/lppisart/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BwNHkdcFnoO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l0epjcw0nw80

It's #LPPSaturday + an #LPPClassic and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #NiceShow . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp . From princevault.com: On a day off of filming Under The Cherry Moon, Prince hired off the Théâtre de Verdure in Nice, France and had it announced on local radio that 2,000 free tickets would be available for the shoot (of the music video for America, the twentieth Prince video to have been released for broadcast it is the fourth live recording used for a Prince video, but the first live performance video shot at a show staged especially for the video.). The show was announced on local radio station Radio de la Côte a week ahead of the show and 2,000 tickets were made available, given away to local fans on 22 October. Revolution band members, with Eric Leeds and Eddie M. were flown in for the show. Footage for an interview that would later appear on Music Video channel MTV was filmed the same day, after the concert. . From mtv.com, 'PRINCE CAN'T DIE - HE DOESN'T LIVE ON THROUGH HIS MUSIC. WE DO.' By Carvell Wallace 04/22/2016 'If the movie is an imaginary world, the music is as real as it gets. Parade is the sound of a band and recording engineers who know exactly what the fuck they’re doing. Prince keeps the best psychedelic elements from the cartoonish and underappreciated Around the World in a Day but returns to the adroit classical and jazz-inspired composing that elevated Purple Rain two years earlier. Parade is full of ballads with chord progressions that take you left when you thought you were going right French lead-ins and lo-fi effects that shouldn’t be funky but still are drums replaced with buckets, snares played backward, and heavy bells treated as high hats. Other songs trade on lush, complex arrangements with horns and flutes that slowly devolve into noise, only to rise again in new, dark, serpentine melodies. By the end of the album, the sound is so unapologetically maudlin that you can’t help getting caught up. When Prince plays music for you, you are always being held close.' https://www.instagram.com/p/CQTnX2oFiOB/?utm_medium=tumblr

It's #LPPSaturday! It's an #LPPClassic! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: Making a stand • Do you love #LPP? Prove it! Join the club! Help power the project (and get BEHIND THE SCENES access and COOL STUFF) by joining #ClubLPP  patreon.com/clublpp • From The Current and Andrea Swensson's 'Prince: The Story of 1999, Episode 1: My Mind Says Prepare to Fight', November 19, 2019: . Prince left the stage during "Uptown," leaving his bandmates to finish the song alone. By the time the rest of the players made it back to the dressing room, Prince was gone. He'd not only left the venue — he was on his way to the airport to fly home to Minneapolis... . The next day, Prince's phone started ringing off the hook. He took calls from the legendary concert promoter Bill Graham — who had chastised the audience for their behavior after Prince's set — and Mick Jagger, who tried to convince Prince to return for the second show on Sunday night. . Dr. Fink: 'Mick Jagger, of course, appreciated Prince. He personally asked us to come and do that show, but — and he begged Prince to come back and do the second show in spite of the first one being as disappointing as it was.' . It was #DezDickerson who ultimately convinced Prince to return. . Dez Dickerson: 'Frankly, I don't know what Mick said to try to get him back, but "bless his heart," as we say in the South, it didn't work. So I just literally appealed to his manhood. I said, "We cannot let them do us like this. We can't let people run us out of town, because if we do it now we're going to be running forever. So you gotta come back. We gotta do this, and we just have to make our stand." And that is what clicked.' • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt • 💜  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince #repost from @troygua https://www.instagram.com/p/B8B089-lA7u/?igshid=1xymjwnj47eo2

It's #LPPSaturday! It's an #LPPClassic! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince4ever and #TroyGua ~ Inspiration: Allen Beaulieu • Do you love #LPP? Prove it! Join the club! Help power the project by joining #ClubLPP 👉 patreon.com/clublpp • From a shoot that I did back in February 2012, which I have subsequently gone back into and George Lucas’d more than once. 😊 • From Zachary Haskins' dance/music/sex/romance, ‘Controversy, Part 3: Do I Believe in God? Do I Believe in Me?’, September 28, 2018: _ ‘This collapsing of the boundaries between sacred and profane is, writes popular music scholar Rupert Till, “part of, and also a result of, a spiritual revolution resulting from the emergence of postmodernity, in which popular cultural art[i]facts are fulfilling the roles traditionally associated with religions.” According to Till, Prince’s postmodern theology “mixes and confuses religion, spirituality, physicality, sexuality, dance, music, identity, ethnicity, and commerce” (Till 76). Some of this mixing and confusing can be seen in the characteristically postmodern–and Princeian–image that adorns the poster included with vinyl copies of the Controversy album... _ Prince’s self-representation as a racially and sexually ambiguous pinup-cum-religious icon was a clear attempt to court (ahem) controversy. But it was also a succinct summary of the contradictions through which he chose to define himself: a kind of hypercondensed visual companion to “Controversy,” the song. This tension between surface shock value and profound personal meaning adds yet another meta-dimension to the multiple intersecting binaries Prince invokes and rejects throughout the song. As Touré writes, “Controversy” is on one level “a classic marketing technique”; #Prince, not yet a star, is “making you wonder about him by telling you many others are wondering about him.” But the conversations he engineers also represent “the key schisms of his art if not of his life–his race, his sexuality, and his egotism versus his humbling relationship to a higher power. These are issues he’ll hash out in his music throughout his career” (Touré 95).’ • #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaA https://www.instagram.com/p/B7eEFWcFh10/?igshid=1oo68ui1z7swe

It's #LPPSaturday! It's an #LPPClassic! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: Controversy Album Art • Do you love #LPP? Prove it! Join the club! Help power the project (and get BEHIND THE SCENES access and COOL STUFF) by joining #ClubLPP 👉 patreon.com/clublpp • Here's an EARLY #LePetitPrince photo from February 2012, just a few weeks into the project - nearly 8 years ago. • With this shot, I wanted to pay homage to, as well as employ, the newspaper headline motif used for the Controversy album artwork to reference the #LPP project, but for this re-sharing, I digitally replaced one headline here to address a recurring notion: Not a Doll: LPP is ART • From Allen Beaulieu's 'Prince: Before the Rain': The concept that Prince wanted for Controversy's cover was a tough one for Beaulieu. "I was really having a hard time with it. Prince called me up and said, 'Al, what I want you to do is shoot me on a newspaper.' All I could think of was newspaper at the bottom of a parakeet cage or something - I couldn't get a visual in my head. It was my brother (Rick) who said, 'You should come up with a newspaper, The Controversy Daily.' That's all I needed, some imagery to go with. 'So I called Prince back - and it's weird that I got a hold of him, because he was constantly changing his number to try to throw off fans - and I said, 'Hey, my brother suggests we make it The Controversy Daily, and we can have song titles or whatever, but I just need headlines...He wasn't prepared for the question, but right off the top of his head he says, 'Love Thy Neighbor, Do You Believe in God, Gun Control, Joni Mitchell,' all that." • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #NotADoll #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #StagedPhotography #OneSixthScale #Miniatures #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt #AllenBeaulieu #Controversy 💜  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince #repost from @troygua https://www.instagram.com/p/B6nv1KLHIbQ/?igshid=xmymgo92qu82

It's #LPPSaturday, and this week I present to you some #LPPClassic pics! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: Dirty Mind Tour • Do you love #LPP? Prove it! Join the club! Help power the project (and get BEHIND THE SCENES access and COOL STUFF) by joining #ClubLPP  patreon.com/clublpp • I'm going to start incorporating some earlier LPP shots into the weekly posts, as we've caught up to the timeline from LPP's first trip through the life and career of our hero. I thought it would be fun to sprinkle these between the new works, to show where we started and how we've progressed and evolved. • This trio of Dirty Mind-era performance shots were some of the first ones I tackled after working with the Le Petit Troy spin-off series taught me to begin to add lighting and atmosphere to the photos. • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #StagedPhotography #OneSixthScale #Miniatures #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜 x ∞ • ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/B3zp2Y7lNP-/?igshid=15zzkxturqkt