Did Prince Get Away with Swearing on 'Saturday Night Live?'
Prince may have let the F-bomb slip. But if he did, he managed to elude the consequences. Though adored by his fans, the 22-year-old Prince was not yet the global icon he would ultimately become. In 1981, he was ready to make his mark on the SNL stage and enter a new, more visible phase of his career. But as he tore through "Partyup," the closing track from 1980's Dirty Mind, his energetic singing seemingly let loose a strictly forbidden word. At about the 1:16 mark in the video below, Prince appears to sing his original, uncensored lyric, "Fightin' war is such a fuckin' bore." But...
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