I’ll paraphrase the better and funnier tweeters:

His music, like the Beatles for my mom’s generation, was the music of my life. There has been at least one song every five years since I was 11 that has become an emotional touchstone. Some current, some old but all wonderful.

this. just too soon to get into speculation, at least for me. :(

this just doesn’t line up with prince as we saw him publicly. he never seemed out of control - always strong, confident, collected, witty, sharp. you never heard anything about him stumbling out of a club or anywhere else for that matter. i just can’t believe he was using drugs. it had to have been an accidental…

Me neither. I’ll wait for the official coroners report and continue to listen to Purple Rain on repeat until then.

Not today Satan

Jehovah’s Witnesses do not refuse standard medical care. The only procedures they refuse are blood transfusions. I was raised as one.

This constant flow of information is one of the reasons I hate TMZ.

How about we just wait for a bit before wildly speculating on the cause of death and enjoy remembering what an amazing artist he was....

I’m not ready to accept this.

“the 4th time he visited this week—indicating his health was far worse than the simple flu.”

Agreed. I am feeling oddly protective of an artist who was so conscientious of his privacy. He was at the Dakota Jazz Club on Tuesday. He was out visiting record stores on record store day, this weekend. We just don’t know how he died yet.

They have already insinuated that he od’d on an opiate and needed a “save shot”. I am hoping with everything in my heart that someone at the hospital gave them false info and this is the nail in that garbage coffin that Levin is destined for. Prince and drugs, let alone Prince and Opiates has never been a thing. Not…

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t really want to know how he died. I don’t even believe in God but I’d prefer to think he just shed his earthly body and ascended to wherever artistic geniuses go. I don’t need the gory details. Can’t we let him be mysterious and magnificent in death as he was in life?

Trust TMZ to take the sleaziest, least dignified angle on any news story. The bottom line is that he was being stalked by paparazzi the day he died. If he was very sick, it might come out later from trusted sources. Or it won’t.

Compared to Scheana Shay my cat is an addiction expert.

She then, upon seeing that it backfired, tried to make it someone else’s fault for the rest of the season.

Also the risk of losing your job if they do testing; possibly getting arrested, jail, a record, etc. Jeff Spicoli was funny as hell but I have no desire to be him at 44.

I’m a Gen Xer (on the older side of, but within the spread), and it just seems immature to me. Plus, simple possession is still illegal where I live, so my SO, if s/he smoked pot, would have to never bring any into the house or car. ‘Cause I’m not being put at risk just because you wanna live like you’re fifteen.

I have yet to meet an adult pot head who just occasionally gets high. Instead you will make plans with them for dinner or a movie and they’ll show up high. They’ll make plans on the weekend around the times and places they can get high. Its boring and obnoxious, so although I don’t care if people smoke pot, do I want…