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I hate people.NEW YORK (AP) — In the sensitive post-wardrobe malfunction world, some are questioning whether a guitar was just a guitar during Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show.Prince’s acclaimed performance included a guitar solo during the “Purple Rain” segment of his medley in which his shadow was projected onto a large, flowing beige sheet…. From Jimi Hendrix’s sensual 6-string swagger to Eddie Van Halen’s masturbatory soloing, the guitar has often been thought an extension of a male player’s sexuality.Was Prince’s pose phallic?”The short answer is, of course it is,” says Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Gavin Edwards, who points out that on Prince’s “Purple Rain” tour in the mid ’80s, he performed with a guitar that would ejaculate, squirting water out of its end during the climax of “Let’s Go Crazy.”"All that said, it didn’t seem like a sniggering little puppet show,” adds Edwards…. On CBS’s “The Late Late Show” on Sunday night, host Craig Ferguson said of Prince: “He was obviously very happy to be there, wasn’t he?”Stephen Colbert reacted with mock outrage on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” Monday night: “They knew that they were dealing with a lustful, pansexual rock ‘n’ roll deviant,” said Colbert, who joked that the sheet hid (not enhanced) Prince’s “demonic guitar phallus.”In recent years, Prince has scaled down his performances, which were once renowned for their gymnastics.

I had no idea he was doing the halftime show. So when they introduced him and he walked out playing Lets go Crazy, I was feeling a little weirded out. Then, as ‘All long the watchtower’ faded, and the opening notes of another song started, Tori says, “That guitar sounds like the Foo Fighters”. 30 [...]

I humbly submit to you that, 23 years (holy shit, 23 years, really???) after it’s release, Purple Rain remains a badass movie. Just a second. Has it really been 23 years? My God. I remember having a HUGE freaking poster from a record store…it was one that was offered as a promo that covered an [...]