It is interesting that you considered my comments “rude”: I merely expressed the opinion that this event wasn’t worth the wall-to-wall coverage that it was getting. Whatever musical contributions he gave, to me it wasn’t worth the emotional intensity I saw.
I served in war. I saw a year and half’s worth of our young guys killed and many more of the enemy. I came back from that experience with a different perspective on life and youth. I never again had interest in pop music, nor sports, nor other fascinations that popular culture seems to consider important. Reality for me was and is the 58,000 dead and the quarter million wounded (I am one of those) of my war. The death of an entertainer, any entertainer doesn’t register to me. Well, OK; I actually did mourn the loss of Martha Rae but not because she was any great shakes as a singer but because she dropped in on us during one of our patrols in a forward area and we were thrilled to have our own personal USO show from her.
Some entertainers have greater gifts than others and I understand that. I can also understand how Prince’s music is tied to your memories of
your youth. But from my perspective, the young lives we lost in combat died specifically to protect all the rest of us, a considerably more valuable loss.
I understand that Prince was important to you and that’s fine. I have a different perspective and I always will.
It IS rude. There’s no “consider” about it. To go into an area where the people are mourning somebody, and calling into question that mourning IS rude. It is the most basic definition of rude. It is the dictionary example.
Your “perspective” does not matter here. This is a discussion where people are mourning him, and if you don’t like that DON’T CLICK ON IT. It’s very simple. When there’s threads on dead people that don’t interest me, I don’t click on them, you know why? Because I don’t want to be rude to people in mourning. It’s a simple concept that oh so many just refuse to understand.