Thank God for that, for a moment it looked like Prince's previously reported half time show at the Super Bowl last weekend hadn't offended anyone. But NME's LA desk are reporting that some bloggers in the US are now claiming that the singer intentionally "used his guitar as an inappropriate phallic symbol". It seems that it was when a shadow of Prince and his guitar was projected onto a beige sheet during 'Purple Rain' that some viewers inferred phallic connotations. It was what might be considered a 'silhouette malfunction' I suppose. The NME quote Daily News TV critic David Bianculli as saying the performance was "embarrassingly rude, crude and unfortunately placed".
Feb 7, 2007
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So people were offended by Prince's Superbowl show
Some US bloggers claim Prince deliberately used his guitar as a phallic symbol during his Super Bowl half-time show, with Daily News critic David Bianculli calling it rude.