I’m sure this was a successful attempt at hagiography but it really does make it sound like so much of The Artist’s mystique was at base the ability to perform “superstar” and “Minnesota Nice” simultaneously

Like the stuff about women, all these people being like “he’d be on the hunt for college girls with talent, and invite them to his pleasure palace where he’d be flirty with them, and if that worked they’d watch movies and have dinner with his parents, otherwise he’d just support their dreams”, like if the intent was for me to go away with charmed fondness towards Prince it worked