Music on Saturday at SXSW: Prince Played Five Encores

The day after he presented at the Grammys, I spent about half an hour watching Prince interviews on YouTube.Cheap Bugs CostumesSexy Stewardess Costumes These things happen when you don't have a day job. In one with what looked like a local TV station, he was asked what his live performances mean to him and how is still able bring it every single time after so many years. Prince took on an especially sincere tone and spoke about how at every show he plays there's someone there seeing him for the first time. How could he let them down? 

He flawlessly executed 720-degree spins, got on his knees James Brown-style, glided from one side of the stage to the other before you could turn your head and punctuated his movements with a sexy arsenal of “oohs,” “uhhs,” “ows” and “uhhuhs.” During “Purple Rain” he basically spent five minutes whimpering into the mic and the band didn't miss a beat behind him. He's also the only person I've ever known to use “boom shakalaka” un-ironically. 

For the fifth encore, Prince came out wearing one of his horn player's costume lion hat (oh, yeah: all of the horn players were wearing different animal costume hats) and an overlarge pair of orange tinted sunglasses. He still had on the velvet smock/sleeveless straightjacket he had changed into a few encores before. I'm not sure what they played,Sexy Men Costumes but it was a driving, funky jam.Sexy Maid Costumes People were clapping. Horns were blasting. Lights were flashing. The audience was livelier than it had been all night. Everyone had become delirious over the impossibility of the moment.Sexy mini bikini That Prince was still playing. That it was actually still happening. Everyone wanted the dream to continue.