You can’t choose a style while dying, sure you can do it while living. So, talking on a luxury oriented site , the real luxury is to build up a personal identity in the universe and, consequently, an icon. We are talking about Prince, the singer who has marked a generation, mine included. This is not the place where get lost in tearful celebrations but maybe the best one to understand what he has left with his death. In such a circumstances, everyone vies to dispense fake stories (we have red some of them very terryfing), but nobody lingers on the celebrity, nobody speaks about the empty place he has more or less left. Obviously Prince leaves a musical vacuum, but this one will be filled up by his posthumous albums –
considering the material that has been found in his wonderful bunker and of which everyone knows – in the hope of avoiding the usual fight among true and presumed heirs. But Prince leaves an empty space for what he has became during his career, started among nudes, dirty words and provocations (but the most worthwhile artistic time) and finished in the sublimation of religious poetry. And if we can go past on his way of dressing (his 1.57 m forces him to wear embarrassing heels and mise to stand out from the banality), sure it’s in symbols, rather in the Icon that at the end he captured the spirit of his part. That logo, fusion of male and female sex that for a while it has been his fictional name and that it has became
himself. It was his guitar, it was his alter ego, it was his being. Male or female that it has nothing to do with his sexuality: Prince wasn’t gay (“Even if I have lots of gay friends and with them we read the Bible”) but above all he was a real lady-killer, which means that in those 1.57 m the energy exhaled was extraordinary. So he was not beautiful, neither he was trendy, but he was an icon: his icon. So now it doesn’t matter how he is died, almost certainly knowing he was going to die, but it’s important to understand which is the real luxury to live a life as his life, even not being Prince. And probably the solution is in one of his verses: “ It’s necessary to live a life to understand a life. Tourists only pass through.
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