I can’t be entirely sure of this, but I think I have Prince to thank for being born. I have a sneaking suspicion that my parents fucked to the Lovesexy album as the timing matches up of when it came out. I’m sure a lot of late 80's children are like 15% Prince’s children.

I was something like 13 or 14 when the son of one of my parents friend’s got married. This family was so Catholic and conservative that two of their children became nuns. The son went a very different direction. At his wedding reception, the first dance he and his new bride got down to was Erotic City. A highlight of…

My parents were strict about what movies and music we could listen to. My sister was grounded for the first and only time in her life for sneaking out to see Purple Rain and buying the album. My mom still cracks up at her saying “But it’s Prince!”

As a small girl growing up in the South in a very, very religious southern baptist home, Prince really did change my life. I didn’t know how to categorize him and I loved it. I didn’t understand the intensity of the things he sang about, but I needed to learn and experience them immediately. He gave me hope that I…

Just finished up dancing my ass off to the whole “The Very Best of Prince” record. My kids left a wide berth (though my youngest let me sway him around the room a bit during “Purple Rain”) until the end and they all kinda huddled around and took some seriously sweaty hugs (then the oldest poured me a glass of rose).

Bummer about the homophobia. I’m going to call this now: As a Jehova’s Witness, Prince would have refused blood transfusions and any medicine containing blood products (plasma, platelets). That might have killed him.

This is a sad, sad day for music and our culture. I am devastated, which is weird because I obviously didn’t know him. But, I did get to dance onstage with him at a show at Madison Square Garden once. He even took me by the hand and walked me to the front of the stage before handing me the mike to sing a line from…

2016 IS A HORRIBLE YEAR AND SHOULD FEEL BAD BECAUSE FUCK THIS SHIT. Bowie, Alan Rickman, Merle Haggard. FUCK THIS YEAR SO HARD.

AND EXPLAIN ITSELF. I’M NOT MAD. JUST DISAPPOINTED. AND MAD.

Just came out of a meeting at work to this news. He’s local to me (I live in St. Paul) and a big hometown hero. I would like to go home and cry now. Instead I’ll share this video from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, with his amazing guitar solo at the end.

I NEED 2016 TO SIT THE FUCK DOWN

I'm still grieving Leonard Nimoy, whom I mourned more than members of my own family.

If Prince is dead, 2016 gets a huge fucking BYE FELICIA from me.

SAME. I’m having a heart attack at my desk rn. Bowie and Prince are two of my favorite all time artists, I don’t think my heart could take it :(

If it is Prince, shouldn’t we all be considered next of kin? WHY WON’T THEY TELL US?

I swear to god after Bowie my heart can’t take these types of news stories without going into crisis mode

I hate to hope death on anyone but please for the love of everything don’t let this death be Prince

FUCK EVERYTHING