So I have to chime in on this whole "OMG, Prince's silhouette with his guitar looks like a giant phallus!" debate.
Do I think that the silhouette of Prince's guitar at the Super Bowl halftime show looked phallus-like when he turned to one side . . . absolutely. Do I have a problem with it? Absolutely not.
When was the last time that you heard rock and roll being associated with sex? Like, maybe 5 seconds ago? Really, rock and sex have a loving relationship that's been going on long before Elvis shook his lovemaker on national television. So when people cry out at sexual innuendo entwined in a rock performance, I'm almost speechless. The guitar has often been seen as a phallic object, and sex has gone hand in hand with its primary popular genre of music.
But I have no problem with my child watching Prince's performance with this innuendo - why? Is it because I'm a horrible parent? A left wing nut that would just as quickly show him Debbie Does Dallas as Teletubbies? I don't think so - rather, I wouldn't mind him seeing this because he's not going to see what we see - he hasn't been trained to "hunt down" such images yet. Instead, he probably sees a silly man behind a bed-sheet, playing that guitar that looks kind of like the one his Grandparents got him for Christmas. And I highly doubt he cries himself to sleep at night, wondering why Grandma and Grandpa got him a phallus-like-object for Christmas.
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Are people actually crying about this? My point exactly about the whole, going down on you in a theater line from Alanis. Anyone who would be offended by this would A)not be listening to a rock station and B)probably not know what going down is anyway. Also, that was pretty damn cool, seeing as Prince is a freaking Jehovah's witness.
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